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Author: Carmen Nge

(L-R) Performers Roger Liew, Lee Ren Xin, Faiq Syazwan Kuhiri and Imri Nasution in Version 2020 (KL). Photo credit: Bryan Chang, courtesy of Five Arts Centre.
3rd April 20183rd April 2018Carmen Nge

Retrofuturism: Version 2020

Fahmi Fadzil in 'Baling'.
18th May 201618th May 2016Carmen Nge

The Final Return of the Last Communist

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"Ridhwan tidak teragak-agak menggunakan perkataan-perkataan yang ‘besar’ maknanya berbanding percakapan seharian masyarakatnya," menurut ulasan Fasyali Fadzly, "Perkataan seperti transendental, individualiti, kewujudan, kematian dan kontradiksi digunakan dengan meluas dan penuh filosofikal... Ia sebuah playlet absurd yang sangat berani, bercakap tentang hal kematian di luar konteks agama..."

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Harapan Baharu dalam Teater Kontemporari Malaysia melalui ‘Teater Modular’

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Mengikut Fasyali Fadzly, empat playlet baru dari Ridhwan Saidi ini perlu diberikan perhatian, kerana keberaniannya membincang perkara tabu denga bergaya dan elegan.

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3 weeks ago

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"As performers use their moving bodies to occupy the entirety of the set, they also begin to chart a path towards Dataran Merdeka’s destruction. Eventually they tunnel underneath the square of green carpet in an act of subterranean defiance... a mobile tent that resembles the ones used in the real life Occupy Dataran grassroots movement in July 2011, slowly springs to life..."

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Retrofuturism: Version 2020

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Carmen Nge ponders Mark Teh’s multisensory new production, which looks at how visions of the future rooted in our collective past can be undermined by individual bodies.

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2 months ago

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"...as Hema walked away from us, shedding mudras right and left, I felt, keenly, how bereft and impoverished we would be if that little flutter of the second and third finger, or that particular expanding kiss of fingertip against fingertip, vanished from the face of the earth. These gestures are as useful to us as exotic species, and just as ephemeral. Perhaps this is something that dance really can tell us about saving the environment."

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Does the Earth Dance? — A Review of ‘Ketika Bumiku Menari’

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What can dance tell us about environmentalism? At ‘Ketika Bumiku Menari’, Critics Republic editor Bilqis Hijjas finds some movement genres avoid the pitfalls of anthropomorphism better …

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