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    Dancing on urban landscapes

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 25/06/2015

    » The city and its rhythms inspired two upcoming dancer-choreographers in "Urban Templates", a double bill of contemporary dance programmes that was staged at Creative Industries last weekend.

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    From the inside, out

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 18/09/2014

    » Sasapin Siriwanij stood defiant in the rain. In front of her was the shallow circular pool of Pridi Banomyong Institute courtyard, surrounded by shoes — boots, heels, flip-flops, sandals, trainers, flats, pumps. The actress was clad in a blood-red dress, her head crowned with a wig of the same shade. On top of the wig was a flimsy structure from which she slowly unfurled a scroll containing a collage of texts, in Thai and English — poems, song lyrics, official guides, government propaganda and campaigns — on beauty, especially female beauty. As she read the words, Sasapin went around the pool, placing her feet inside all the mismatched shoes. Her struggle was apparent, but it only made her actions and voice more defiant. She even fell into the pool, only to get up and continue her act until the end.

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    Big-hearted big head

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 26/09/2013

    » When the actors, noisy with child-like enthusiasm, streamed out of the theatre into the foyer of Democrazy Theatre Studio to surprise the audience before the show started, I began to worry that I would have to sit through a play that had a bunch of grown-up performers acting like over-enthusiastic, screeching kids. Thankfully, that was not the case with Pisat Hua To (Big Head Monster). And a few minutes into the play, I could feel how the show was made with a lot of love and a lot of joy.

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    Dancing on graves

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 06/09/2012

    » Despite sustaining an injury while performing in B-Floor's Lear And His 3 Daughters a few months ago, Ornanong Thais-riwong refuses to let her pain stop her from documenting the country's current social chapter, which is laden with stories of censorship and violation.

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    Furniture comes alive

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 01/02/2012

    » The planet Earth and her strange inhabitants, a cinematic adventure of a dysfunctional family of apples, and a little girl's terrifying music lesson _ all these emerged from the confines of your standard set of a table and a chair.

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