Fri, 30 April 2010

Do You Wanna Dance // New Contemporaries

Ang Song Ming has two left feet and two sweaty palms, but he would like to dance with you. And that’s all he wants to do. With you, and you, and you. Come with your friends, show a move or two, and enjoy some free booze.

Do You Wanna Dance is an artwork that takes the form of an event. Conceived by Ang Song Ming as a way to establish a connection with the audience through music, this work sees the artist challenging himself to perform something he cannot really do – dance. Having transformed the ICA gallery into a makeshift ballroom/discotheque through the installation of a mirror ball in the centre of the gallery, he now invites the public to come and dance with him.

About the Artist
Ang Song Ming makes art revolving around the social aspects of music and sound, exploring what can be produced by temporary communities, amateur efforts, and interactions with systems.

Time: 1900

Venue: ICA Gallery 2, #B1-06, LASALLE College of the Arts

Admission: FREE

source: LaSalle

Pop wind ensemble

Can music take you on a magic-carpet ride? FG Ensemble will certainly try! This group of young musicians are enthusiastic adventurers when it comes to breaking musical boundaries and experimental sounds. Let them show you what they call music.

Flute: Sin
Violin: Kathleen, Tze Chuan
Viola: Jonathan Koh
Cello: Lenard
Guitar: Joe
Saxophone: Jonathan Lim
Oboe: Justin Chew
Piano: Aaron
Vibraphone: Kiong Wee
Double bass: Felix
Percussion: Lin Chow

Time: 7.15 – 7.45pm & 8.15 – 8.45pm

Venue: Esplanade Concourse

Admission: FREE

source: Esplanade

Amarcord

Dir: Federico Fellini
1973 / Italy, France / 126 min / 35 mm / M18
In Italian and Greek with English subtitles

Amarcord is the phonetic translation of the Italian words “Mi Ricordo” (I Remember) as pronounced in the dialect of Emilia-Romagna, the birthplace of Fellini, and the setting of his warmly nostalgic and bawdy chronicle of daily life during the reign of Mussolini. Partly told through the eyes of the teenaged protagonist, Titta, who is a composite of Fellini himself and his childhood friend, Luigi “Titta” Benzi, Amarcord captures a backward community still living under Victorian emotions.

In the film, bored teenagers dream about exotic beauties at the Grand Hotel, marrying their high school sweethearts under Mussolini’s staring eyes, fantasizing about La Gradisca and Volpina – the town’s twin objects of desire – and rowing out into the Adriatic to hail a passage on the Rex, a transatlantic steamer that incarnates the technological prowess of Il Duce’s regime.

Time: 2100h

Venue: National Museum, Gallery Theatre, Basement

Tickets: S$9 BUY

source: National Museum

HERE

HERE follows the journey of He Zhiyuan, a middle-aged man who has lost the will to speak. Interned at Island Hospital following the death of his wife, he is selected for an experimental treatment, which forces him to confront the devastating truth behind his past, present, and future. There he meets the strident kleptomaniac Beatrice, and forms an inexplicable bond. Meanwhile, a filmmaker visits Island Hospital to document the lives of the staff and the patients.

About the director: Ho Tzu Nyen is a filmmaker and artist born and based in Singapore. His projects traverse the fields of film, visual arts and the performing arts. His works, including Utama (2003), Singapura (2006), Lucky 7 (2007), and Newton (2009) have been presented at major venues around the world. He is currently developing his second feature film, Endless Day.

Time: 1915h

Venue: The Moving Image Gallery, SAM at 8Q

Admission: FREE

source: SAM

Rafta Rafta (All In Good Time)

Rafta Rafta (All In Good Time) is an English comedy that centers around a newly-wed couple and their respective sets of meddlesome parents.

As young newly-weds, Atul Dutt (an Indian lad) and Lisa Lim (his Chinese wife), are financially strapped and agree to live with Atul’s parents until they are able to afford a place of their own. However, Atul’s father, the Bhangra dancing, whisky drinking, pompous ass, Eeshwar, is a force to reckon with. This, along with the constant and unending stream of interruptions from various family members, prevents Atul from performing his manly duty. Six weeks later and Atul and Lisa’s marriage is still not consummated. If that’s not bad enough, the couple’s parents hear of this and attempt to intervene before their respective communities hear about the humiliating secret.

Time: 2000h

Venue: DBS Arts Centre – Home of SRT

Tickets: S$62 BUY

source: SISTIC