Dance
performance - 'There's No Need To Go Outside'
"vibrations of blood pulsing in the city
the information bomb
the stare of lucid strangers was never left
unchallenged
until she kisses me.
We play in the ground cinema of an ancient
union."
A dance performance exploring the conflict and
struggle between individual
consciousness and a mass culture with its finger
constantly on the fast
forward button.
Title: 'There's No Need To Go Outside'
Choreographed by: George
Chua, Indera Tasripin
Performed by: George Chua, Indera Tasripin
Zizi Azar, Dennis Cheok
Dates: 9,10,11 March 2001
Location: Plastique Kinetic Worms
199 A/B South Bridge Road
Singapore 058748
Time: 8pm
Ticket: $7/-, purchase at the door (max.
to 30 audience per night)
For further information, please contact the gallery at
324 3221.
CONCEPT:
DANCE
A non-linear dance performance that aims at
emphasizing "bodies" in
expression and movement. The philosophy and vision in
the dance is very
much attuned to the sensibilities of the Japanese
Post-War dance movement
of ankuko butoh. In that, the performance is heavily
impressed by butoh's
sense of stretching and pushing the physical
limitations of the body.
Hence, the body is subjected to sometimes
uncomfortable and unconventional
stances, extreme and dramatic expressions and extreme
slowness in speed.
The dance also abides to the overriding significance
of vocabularies and
contents in expression versus the opulence of form or
technique. In that
sense, the performance wishes to focus on what
thought, logic, instinct and
feeling the body can resonate in all it's nakedness
and formlessness.
Apart from the butoh sensibilities that comes through
the dance, we are
also inspired to bring into the performance other
influences that we see as
primary influences in our dance. Hence, we are much
more interested in
redefining what dance means for us and interpret from
the myriad of
influence what is defining of our identity.
This would mean that the dance will also engage in
moments which are(other
than primal) contemporary. We are heavily induced by
the spontaneity that
captures such of contemporary dances such as
Afro-American Hip Hop (cf.
Bill T. Jones), Lindy Hop and even the fervour of rave
and club culture
among young people. We are also interested in
transforming quotidian
expression into dance. Hence, gestures and expressions
such as walking,
sitting, smiling and frowning become a part of an
all-encompassing dance
performance.
The performance is an overall search for identity in a
postmodern
environment. Combining the primal and the
contemporary, the influences of
the east and the west, the vision in this dance is
basically the impulse to
search, define and redefine for an identity and
form. In the process we
are hoping for an honest reflection of what and who we
are in this society
that is already in the thick of globalizing itself.
MUSIC
The performance will be driven by the musical
arrangement and composition
of George Chua. George is a maker of electronic music
that aims to explore
fragmented music rhythm and odd-time signatures
influenced by ideas from
the musique concrete movement (cf. John Cage).
Apart from the digital sounds, George will be
incorporating compositions
with the Chinese wind-pipe instrument; the hu lu si.
VISUAL COLLABORATION
The performance will also be a visual collaboration
with visual artist,
Zainudin Samsuri whose works are focused at bringing
out the stark and the
minimal. He will be executing the set design for the
performance.