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  A rather fruity affair

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 24/12/2015

  » The second edition of Wonderfruit, a four-day festival of arts, ended late last weekend. And now there's already a common saying: "You have to be rich to get drunk at Wonderfruit."

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  The shape-shifting form of protests

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 06/10/2015

  » The streets remained empty and all was quiet when thousands of people gathered last Wednesday night to protest against the government's Single Gateway proposal. Protesters weren't, however, down at major landmarks like Asoke or Ratchaprasong intersections, but simply in front of their computer screens. By merely punching the refresh button, these protesters let their resentment known to the authorities by crashing at least six government sites, including the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology.

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  The politics of love

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 08/09/2016

  » Thanapol Virulhakul, critically-acclaimed stage director and choreographer, has a way of giving space a certain significance. His take is usually minimalistic, the stage bare and his actors assigned with limited set of movements, and it is the relentless repetition of those elements that would slowly make up the storyline and become part of the blow in the end.

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  A monthly column rounding up the best of the capital's art scene

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 22/10/2014

  » The opening of WTF Gallery's current exhibition "Monday 2 Monday" earlier this month might have been missed by a few. That could partly be explained by the exhibition's title and the fact that the opening was actually on a Friday. In addition, the gallery is closed on Mondays. But this is all beside the point.

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  Let's talk about sex

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 02/04/2015

  » In her bold and honest solo performance, One Night Stand, dance artist Vidura Amaranand begins by talking about sex — that raw, insuppressible animal desire — but ends by contemplating the act of making love: pure, sentimental and soulful, almost to the point where the carnal surrenders to the spiritual.

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  Stage whispers

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/05/2015

  » The artistic career of Thanapol Virulhakul, director of the critically acclaimed contemporary dance performance Hipster The King, is a work-in-progress. It started out with a thesis project at Thammasat University's Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication, in which he made Buddhist amulets out of chocolate, sold them on the street and filmed reactions of passers-by and amulet experts.

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  Blue-blood gets a taste for your blood

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 09/02/2016

  » When Chulachak Chakrabongse speaks, he rarely looks your way. He could be drifting or struck by sheer boredom, but you are never offended. You're busy wondering what to make of his presence: as teen star that he once was, as a father of two, as great-great-grandson of King Rama V, as 34-year-old blues rock star "Hugo", who was with Jay-Z's Roc Nation label. Or now, in a rather unexpected turn of career path, as Count Dracula in a stage play production of Bram Stoker's classic.

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  An experimental sensibility

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 28/10/2015

  » This month's Art Matters begins with rather worrying news for H Gallery. After a visit to a photography show by Kornkrit Jianpinidnan, which just opened last Saturday at Bangkok Citycity Gallery, one fact hit me hard: Tam, H Gallery's dog in residency, may not be the only contender for the cutest canine in the capital's art scene.

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  For your new eyes only

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 30/10/2015

  » From stage plays, contemporary dance, pantomime and lakhon chatri (traditional Thai folk dance-drama), to many other genres of performing arts, the 13th edition of Bangkok Theatre Festival returns under the theme "New View, New Eyes" on Tuesday until Nov 15.

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  Curses, solitude and desire

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 11/09/2014

  » As soon as the rain stops, the nightmare begins. Despite the vibrant lights of River City on the other side of Chao Phraya River and the boats that pass by in the background, the five dancers in Jitti Chompee's latest work Little Room In Etienne Marcel manage to take the audience to a very dark place of solitude and filthy desire.

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