Category: Dance

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Musicians Making Waves in April

Local music is picking up speed. Several venues such as The Pigeonhole, Home Club, BluJaz, and – soon - C.H.I.J.M.E.S are generously filling their spaces with homegrown talents. April has surprised us with fascinating gigs and a plethora of musical choices. Come on, take a chance on local music - check out the following peeps.     ANECHOIS Image: ANECHOIS Facebook Page ‘AN-ECHO-IS’, or their favourite hokkien line, ah neh kuan (translated: ‘is this so?’) is simply Read more
Posted: 16 April, 2012 Music Shortlink
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Nabillah Jalal, 20, Pianist.

Local Love is a monthly series on local, up-and-coming creatives and artists in Singapore. It is proudly brought to you by Sistic. The heavy, sonorous notes of  Brahms' Rhapsody no 2 in G minor resonated through the quiet HDB block in Tampines. Its soulful piano score, which lingered on crests then cascaded into a torrent of melodies, was punctuated by the high-pitched shrieks of children playing nearby. The song followed me through the void deck, up the lift, to where I eventually found Read more
Posted: 2 April, 2012 Music Shortlink
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Must-sees At The Studios Season

“Truth in theatre” is what is promised by the Esplanade in the presentation of the upcoming seasons of The Studios. And so “Truth”, an elusive construct marred by subjectivity, sets the stage this April with five riveting performances that promise to be, well, unconventional, multi-modal and gratifying to your subjective consciousness. The theme of this year’s Studios season is PRISMS. Read in the most literal way, it is the refraction of a single field into a spectrum of possibilities Read more
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Indie Gems

Music lovers need not trudge through the boundless bed of gems on cyberspace – be it YouTube, SoundCloud or MySpace - to uncover the most lulling and obscure indie music talents. The Mosaic Festival has sieved out some of the finest, distinct indie treasures for the local audiences. Here are our top picks. #1 Craft Spells Retro dream-pop music lovers will love the stark traces of‘80s synth pop in Craft Spells’ music. The modest charm of this shoe-gaze quartet coupled with their sentimental Read more
Posted: 13 March, 2012 Music Shortlink
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Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni 24, 25, 27 and 28 February @ 8pm Esplanade Theatre Classical opera is very often conveniently perceived as a profound, exclusive genre adored by serious music aficionados. However, the dramatic plot of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and librettist Lorenzo da Ponte’s Don Giovanni, based on familiar themes of love, lust, vengeance and violence, is otherwise more intriguing than modern-day television drama. Audiences will be kept on the edges of their seats as they follow the lecherous Read more
Posted: 24 February, 2012 Music, Theatre Shortlink
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Dream Makers, Music Makers

"Most of us don't intend to be professional musicians," says the president of The Orchestra of Music Makers, Ying Hao, who is currently a student at Singapore Management University. That might strike you as alarming, but Chan Tze Law, Associate Professor at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music and conductor of the group is quick to chip in: "But most of them have been trained for many, many years. It is also heartening to note that two of our musicians, who did not have intentions to embark on Read more
Posted: 10 February, 2012 Music Shortlink
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Make Way For Laneway!

ST JEROME'S LANEWAY SINGAPORE 2012 SUNDAY, 12TH FEBRUARY 2012 FORT CANNING ANNA CALVI ~ AUSTRA ~ CHAIRLIFT ~ CULTS ~ FEIST ~ GIRLS ~ LAURA MARLING ~ M83 ~ THE DRUMS ~ THE HORRORS ~ THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART ~ TORO Y MOI ~ TWIN SHADOW ~ YUCK In less than a week, we'll be witnessing a slew of bands on the Laneway Festival stage. Fort Canning is THE place to be on 12th February 2012. It's a Sunday and I have a feeling there will be alot of mcs and "sorry I'm on leave" on Monday. Joke. Folks Read more
Posted: 6 February, 2012 Music Shortlink
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Heartthrob Hartono

Tonight's the big day - and we at Muse managed to squeeze in a quick Q&A with the very cute Nathan Hartono before he makes his debut on the musical theatre stage. The fresh-faced 21 year old is fronting local theatre group Pangdemonium!'s brand new musical, Spring Awakening, about the trials and tribulations of a group of teenagers. Glee-esque, you say? Bring it on. So.. are you nervous? Very! I didn't think the reality would hit me so much but every 5 minutes or so, I get hit by the Read more
Posted: 3 February, 2012 Music, Theatre Shortlink
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Usher in the New Year with Huayi

Most of the shows are already sold out - but if you can beg, borrow, or steal tickets - you should definitely head down to Huayi Festival of Arts this weekend & next. Some of the biggest names in the Chinese performing arts world will be staging masterpieces at this year's festival: apart from Huayi favourites like American/Taiwanese theatre director Stan Lai, Hong Kong experimental artist Danny Yung, and Taiwanese choreographer Lin Hwai-Min, the line-up also includes the acclaimed composer Tan Dun, Read more
Posted: 27 January, 2012 Dance, Music, Theatre Shortlink
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Faith in Art

Art lovers may tell you that the theatre is their temple. We at Muse sometimes feel like that's not too far from the truth. So it seems timely that this year's Singapore M1 Fringe Festival is themed on Art and Faith. Organised by one of our favourite local theatre groups, The Necessary Stage, the Singapore M1 Fringe Fest has always been our go-to for edgy, indie work. This year, they already kicked up a mega media frenzy with their presentation of Loo Zihan's Cane, a restaging of Josef Ng's controversial Read more
Posted: 26 January, 2012 Dance, Music, Theatre, Visual Art Shortlink