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Getting in on the act
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 04/04/2013
» March was a busy month for theatre-goers as artists apparently rushed to stage their shows before holiday-packed April arrived. Here are a selection of theatre and dance productions that were staged last month, some of which are ongoing.
Right on track
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 27/03/2013
» Author Sri Daoruang, her husband, magazine and literary editor Suchart Sawadsri and their son live by a rail track and use the train as their main mode of transport. The deep connection this literary family has with the train is well-known. And the train track figures prominently in many of Sri Daoruang's short stories.
Until death do we dance
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 21/03/2013
» Nir de Volff suggests sitting by the window in Amarin Plaza's food court because he wants to gaze at the streets of Bangkok. The Israel-born, Berlin-based dancer, choreographer and founder of the Total Brutal dance company says he loves the city's energy, especially the combination of Buddhism and the state of chaos on the streets.
The European canon is here
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 14/03/2013
» The young 18 Monkeys Dance Theatre, with dancer-choreographer Jitti Chompee at the helm, constantly finds new directions forward. For his last production, Muet, and the upcoming Lieber Adzio, Jitti collaborated with Berlin-based dance composer Dirk Haubrich, marking his first time working with original compositions and experiencing a new creative process as a choreographer.
The game of parenthood
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 07/03/2013
» Nophand Boonyai's work always excites audiences with the various ways it throws out the rules and conventions of theatre. Last year, he brought together art therapists and actors in Therapy (After The Flood), where we got to see the therapists treat the characters created by the performers. Each unscripted show was a progression from the previous show, like actual therapy sessions.
Adopting ideas
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 21/02/2013
» Up-and-coming writer-director- performer Nophand Boonyai is back with another playful creation for the stage. Like his highly successful Therapy (After The Flood) last year, Adoption is a largely improvised show featuring three couples competing to adopt one child.
Beyond the dancing doll
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 07/02/2013
» First we saw a body part, an arm perhaps, bent into a triangle, and the rest was darkness. The lights went out. The performer moved, and another body part was lit up. As the performance moved from obscurity into brightness, Sujata Goel continued to move in the same pattern, changing from pose to pose until the spotlight covered the entire stage as if opening up the possibilities of what this dancing body was and could be.
Catch this disease
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 17/01/2013
» It comes as no surprise that after having studied and observed medical researchers working to combat tropical maladies, B-Floor Theatre sided with the diseases.
Fusion and Confusion
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 06/12/2012
» This year, the International Dance Festival programme features, for the first time in 12 years, nothing but young and promising contemporary companies from Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, India, and the UK. And the quality of the performances they've brought shows a marked improvement from previous years. This past weekend alone, there were at least two productions worth exploring.
The price of free speech
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 11/10/2012
» Pridi Banomyong Institute has always been an art venue of the smaller voices _ a refuge of sorts for the young, struggling artists, especially the politically minded ones. Theatre-goers know all too well that the venue is also home to two theatre companies, Crescent Moon Theatre and B-Floor Theatre, and their tiny rehearsal and performance spaces, Crescent Moon Space and B-Floor Room.