Saturday, June 4, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Singapore Dance Week 2011 - Light Painting Workshop result
This is the result of the Light Painting Workshop on 25th May 2011
Charlie Lim painted the dancer dancing in the dark with his "brush".
Charlie Lim is now offering $250 with one light painting for one pax with a 10x12" canvas print (no frame).
Please print this page and present it to Charlie Lim Photography
@0190 Lower Delta Road, Tiong Bahru Industrial Estate #02-08
to experience this at the discounted rate.
This offer is only valid from now till 28 Nov 2011.
One outfit only. Exclude make-up and hair-styling. Advanced booking required.
Check it out at www.chipixel.com
Singapore Dance Week 2011 Closing @ ION Orchard 5pm-630pm
Getting ready for SDW2011 Closing
Arrival of our performers from ChongZheng Primary School
Media Covering our event
By-passers Stopping by watching the performance
Audience dancing with our performancers
Here is the link to watch the last performance
by Attri Dance Foundation
Watch out for our post event POST and TRAILER coming up soon!
THANKYOU for for joining US!
We will see you in Singapore Dance Week 2012!!!
Mass Dance Workshop (Pop Cultural - Popping, Bboy & Locking) @ T-Net Club 27th May 2011 4pm-7pm
T-Net CLub members warming up.....Getting Ready!!!!
T-Net Club Members Popping with Michael
T-Net Club Members Bboying with Edwin
T-Net Club members taking group photo with Instructors, Edwin & Michael
Thursday, May 26, 2011
SDW 2011 Programme Line Up for Closing
Following our Opening Event and a week of Satellite Events, we are now getting geared up for our Closing event on Saturday May 28th at 5pm at ION Orchard. Here is the programme line up for the Closing of SDW 2011:
5pm -
Hip Hop Mass Dance by Hwa Wei-An followed by
Welcome Address by Nirmala Seshadri, Chairperson SDW 2011
5.20pm -
Performances by:
M.S. Srilakshmi
Chongzheng Primary School
Evergreen Primary School
Kanaka Sabha
Bedok View Secondary School
PAYM
Attri Dance Foundation
6.05pm-
Bollywood Mass Dance by Bollywooddance
6.15pm-
Presentation of SDW 2011 Signature Mass Dance by Wen Ye & Wei An with students of Evergreen Pri Sch and Bedok View Sec Sch
6.30 pm-
Closing of Singapore Dance Week 2011
The SDW 2011 Signature Mass Dance was created on-the-spot at the Opening Event at One Fullerton on May 21st by Anuar, Jackey & Wen Ye along with Cheryl Lee, dancers from Theater Tari Era and Kanaka Sabha. It was taught to dancers and guests present at the event, including Guest of Honour NMP Viswa Sadasivan. The dance comprises simple moves from diverse genres, namely Hip Hop, Malay, Indian and Chinese dance forms. The dance was taught on May 26th to students at Evergreen Pri Sch. Team SDW 2011 felt that it would be an apt closing to Singapore Dance Week 2011.
Closing Venue Sponsors: ION Orchard & Orchard Road Business Association
Dance Day - Evergreen Primary School - 26 May 2011 8am - 130pm
Dancers Jackey, Elizabeth, Wenye teaching
SDW2011 Signature Mass Dance to
students and teachers of Evergreen Primary School.
Dancer Jackey, Elizabeth, Wenye sharing aspects of
their dance training at NAFA with the students.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Words of encouragement....
"I must say I was very impressed with the program of the launch of Singapore Dance Week. On the whole it represented at the best almost the whole spectrum of the young people across our society and yet acknowledged the pioneers who were the trail blazers.
It was good to have RI presenting a dance. It truly shows that they are after all, young, energetic and believe like any other young person that there is life beyond good grades.
Thank you for including OLN in the picture...."
Ms Agnes Chew, Principal, CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity
Students of CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity not only performed at the Opening event, they also created two impressive sculptures for presentation to our Dance Pioneers - Ms Rose Eberwein & Mdm Lee Shu Fen.
Title of the Sculptures: "Just Dance"
Artist Statement:
Dance.
Move with the beat.
Enjoy the moment
Just Dance.
"Just Dance" is a series of cement and wire sculptures done by 11 year olds from CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity.
It was good to have RI presenting a dance. It truly shows that they are after all, young, energetic and believe like any other young person that there is life beyond good grades.
Thank you for including OLN in the picture...."
Ms Agnes Chew, Principal, CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity
Students of CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity not only performed at the Opening event, they also created two impressive sculptures for presentation to our Dance Pioneers - Ms Rose Eberwein & Mdm Lee Shu Fen.
Title of the Sculptures: "Just Dance"
Artist Statement:
Dance.
Move with the beat.
Enjoy the moment
Just Dance.
"Just Dance" is a series of cement and wire sculptures done by 11 year olds from CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity.
SINGAPORE DANCE WEEK 2011 – A Very Memorable Opening
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| Little children from Leap Schoolhouse opened the performance segment with a piece that was "adorable and completely spontaneous with some contemporary elements of stillness!" to quote our MC Chan Sze Wei, who kept the audience regaled with her inimitable brand of spontaneity and wit. here is the video from Leap Schoolhouse http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2093654298412&oid=110898125646296&comments |
Signature Mass Dance:
The creation of the SDW Signature Mass Dance opened the evening. Jackie Lee and Wen Ye coordinated this very special piece that brought together various dance forms – hip hop along with ethnic forms practised in Singapore. Dancers from the different genres lent their talents in creating this piece. Everyone joined in to learn and perform the piece together – GOH included! Over the week, the piece will be fine tuned, shared with school students and will be presented in its evolved state at the Closing at ION Orchard on May 28th.
Guest of Honour & Dance Pioneers:
Viswa Sadasivan encouraged us with his words: “… this has been essentially a ground-up initiative spearheaded by WDAS with active, enthusiastic participation from several dance groups. This sends the right signal – that dance belongs to us, the people”, admitting at the end of his speech that this occasion has given him, a 'closet dancer', a chance to dance! WDAS took the opportunity to honour two dance pioneers of Singapore, Ms Rose Eberwein and Mdm Lee Shu Fen, for their valuable contribution to Dance in Singapore. In appreciation, they were presented sculptures created by students of CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity by the Guest of Honour.
Performances:
The performances that followed by dancers from various dance groups, diverse genres, amateurs, professionals, young and older…. all reflected the vast landscape of Dance in Singapore. The common thread through it all was the Joy and Passion that each dancer brought to the space. It was touching as well as uplifting. The Singapore River providing the perfect backdrop, boats passing by in the background seemingly moving to the strains of the music, dance unfolding in the foreground… traditional dances, hip hop, contemporary Asian, street dance, Bollywood. The Marina Bay Sands as a silent yet imposing witness to it all.
There was this great sense of perfection - of being at the right place, at the right time and with all the right people. Dance brings joy and connects people in ways that nothing else can!
Nirmala Seshadri
As I write this the morning after, there are satellite events happening – an Open House at Nrityalaya and at the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan. I just might make my way to Studio Up to try out Bellydance!
Performing at the Opening event were:
- Leap Schoolhouse
- Teater Tari Era
- Jyoti Unni
- NUS Ilsa Tari
- Raffles Institution
- Studio Up
- Kanaka Sabha
- CHIJ Lady of Nativity
- Maya Dance Theatre
- T-Net Club Ang Mo Kio
We thank also our Opening Venue Sponsors, Fullerton Heritage, for believing in us and our cause enough to step forward and support us for the second consecutive year. Thank you, Team Fullerton!
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Singapore Dance WeeK 2011 Satellite Events continue from 22nd - 27th May 2011
ONLINE REGISTRATION( only for Workshop by 3 choreographers, Light Painting & Movement , Contact Improvisation) , PLEASE CLICK HERE
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFl0Y3BYOGJmX0Vta3NiOFB4RHFwUHc6MQ
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Studio Up
Date: 21st – 24th May 2011
Venue: Studio Up 79B Tanjong Pagar Rd, 3rd floor
Come learn the basics of Argentine Tango, Bellydance and salsa!
For more information, please contact Jason at 97973212.
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Nrityalaya Aesthetics Society- Open House
Date: 22nd May
Time: 0900- 1800
Venue: Dance Studios, Nrityalaya Aesthetics Society
Stamford Arts Centre, 155 Waterloo Street (Ph: 6336 6537)
Enter the dance studios of Nrityalaya and get a chance to watch classical Indian dance being taught
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Open House- Chinese Ethnic Folk dance in Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan Arts and Cultural Troupe
Date: Sunday, 22 May 2011
Time 1500-1700
• Chinese Ethnic dance workshop 3-4pm
• Open Rehearsal 4-5pm
Venue: Dance Studio 04-09
Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Association
397 Lorong 2 Toa Payoh
Singapore 319639
Please wear light clothing. Only dance shoes are allowed in the studio.
To register, kindly email your name, contact number and occupation to: shhkact.dance@gmail.com
by 20 May 2011.
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Lecture- Demonstrations & Workshops by
Mdm Lim Moi Kim, Osman Abdul Hamid and Nirmala Seshadri
Date: 24th May 2011
Venue: Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Campus 3, Dance studio C6-38
Time: 1830 – 2200
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Light Painting and Movement Workshop
Date: 25th May 2011
Venue: 1090 Lower Delta Road
Time: 1430 -1800
Painting in the dark. Join us in the workshop to find out how to create publicity photos for your events with light painting.
For more information please call 62782309 or email your enquires to enquiry@clipixel.com
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SAAS Dance Camp
Dates / Time:
• 1st cycle: 23 & 24 May(Mon & Tue) 9am - 1pm
2nd cycle: 26 & 27 May (Thu & Fri) 130pm - 530pm
•Venue:
St. Andrew’s Autism School (a service of St. Andrew’s Autism Centre)
1 Elliot Road
Singapore 458686
St. Andrew’s Autism School and Griffiths Primary School are collaborating once again to organise a
dance camp to benefit their students with special needs as well as celebrate Singapore Dance Week
2011.
Participating students will experience different dance genres at the camp and learn to create a mini
show. The camp also hopes to cultivate the joy of dancing together with peers and new friends from
another school.
This 2-day dance camp will take place at the end of May and will be held at the premises of St.
Andrew’s Autism Centre which operates the School.
Visitors are invited to the mini showing on 24 May & 27 May respectively. To register, kindly email
your name, contact number and occupation to: soo_leng@saac.org.sg by 20 May 2011. There are
limited seats and you are encouraged to register early.
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T.H.E Dance Company- Open Rehearsals
Date: 23rd May 2011
For more information, please contact Ms Pamela Leong at info@the-dancecompany.com
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Contact Improvisation Workshop by Lee Yeong Wen
Date: 26th May 2011
Venue: T-Net Club Sembawang
Time: 1930 – 2130
Entry Fee: $10
For More information please call Mdm Wong Yok Sim at 67553333.
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Dance Day – Evergreen Primary School
Date: 26th May 2011
Venue: Evergreen Primary School
Time: 0800-1300
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T-Net Club Dance Workshop
Date: 27th May 2011
Venue: T-Net Club Ang Mo Kio
Time: 1930 - 2030
For more information please contact Ms Liao Xiao Jun at 64587507 or Mdm Wong Yok Sim at 67553333 or refer to: http://www.tnetclub.org.sg/latest/event.php?id=20
PLEASE NOTE THAT ADMISSION TO SATELLITE EVENTS IS FREE UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFl0Y3BYOGJmX0Vta3NiOFB4RHFwUHc6MQ
Singapore Dance Week Opening @ One Fullerton Sea View Channel 5pm - 630pm
Opening Signature Mass Dance
Caught the Preschoolers rehearsing behind....1st time in their life performing in the public
People stopping by watching the performance
When our Dance Pioneers meet - Rose Eberwein & Lee Shu Fen
Our Dance Pioneers - Lee Shu Fen & Rose Eberwein
Friday, May 20, 2011
Exhibition Banner for Dance Pioneer Rose Eberwein & Lee Shu Fen
Come meet them at One Fullerton Sea View Channel, 5pm!
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Singapore Dance Week 2011 – Connect…Share…Experience!
A Celebration of Dance organised by the World Dance Alliance Singapore
COME JOIN US AT...
the Opening on Saturday, May 21st 2011 at 5pm at One Fullerton
SDW 2011 will be officially launched by NMP Viswa Sadasivan
Singapore Dance Week, a week long celebration of Dance will open this Saturday, May 21st 2011 with "Connect…Share…Experience!" As the name suggests, Singaporeans will get up and experience the joy and verve of Dance. The venue for this opening event will be One Fullerton. This will be followed by a full week of dance happenings in various parts of the island in schools, community centres, dance studios and institutions etc. Singapore Dance Week 2011 will close on May 28th 2011 at ION Orchard.
For us Singapore Dance Week is a platform for connecting, sharing and experiencing dance together. The seed of this idea first found expression as International Dance Day in 2008. Each year, the idea has been developing – in 2009 WDAS celebrated International Dance Week. In 2010 the event morphed itself into Singapore Dance Week and was organised on a much larger scale than the previous years. This year, the event has received even more support from various segments of the community. We at WDAS look at Singapore Dance Week as an annual event which we see moving closer and closer each year towards the vision of taking Dance to the community.
It gives us great pleasure to have you join us in celebrating Dance at the Opening event this Saturday!
Warm Regards,
Nirmala Seshadri
Chairperson
Singapore Dance Week 2011
COME JOIN US AT...
the Opening on Saturday, May 21st 2011 at 5pm at One Fullerton
SDW 2011 will be officially launched by NMP Viswa Sadasivan
Singapore Dance Week, a week long celebration of Dance will open this Saturday, May 21st 2011 with "Connect…Share…Experience!" As the name suggests, Singaporeans will get up and experience the joy and verve of Dance. The venue for this opening event will be One Fullerton. This will be followed by a full week of dance happenings in various parts of the island in schools, community centres, dance studios and institutions etc. Singapore Dance Week 2011 will close on May 28th 2011 at ION Orchard.
For us Singapore Dance Week is a platform for connecting, sharing and experiencing dance together. The seed of this idea first found expression as International Dance Day in 2008. Each year, the idea has been developing – in 2009 WDAS celebrated International Dance Week. In 2010 the event morphed itself into Singapore Dance Week and was organised on a much larger scale than the previous years. This year, the event has received even more support from various segments of the community. We at WDAS look at Singapore Dance Week as an annual event which we see moving closer and closer each year towards the vision of taking Dance to the community.
It gives us great pleasure to have you join us in celebrating Dance at the Opening event this Saturday!
Warm Regards,
Nirmala Seshadri
Chairperson
Singapore Dance Week 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Singapore Dance Week 2011 Publicity Trailer with Interviews of Dance Pioneer from our Dance Industry
watch out for more trailers with interviews of Satellites event partners and the community.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Singapore Dance Week 2011 Bollywood Mass Dance @Opening in One Fullerton
Learn our Bollywood Mass Dance prepared by Apsara-Asia, choreographed by Arvin Naidu. Come Dance with us on 21st May 2011at our Opening in One Fullerton, Sea View Channel. See you there!
Watch out for more details coming up soon!
Watch out for more details coming up soon!
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
SDW Signature Dance!
March 27th....
It's truly amazing what connecting and chatting with various people in the community can result in. Evergreen Primary School is celebrating Dance - as a part of SDW 2011 - by devoting one day on their school calendar to Dance! May 26th will be that day. That day, the entire school will experience dance through learning a community dance with simple moves from diverse dance genres that have been practised in Singapore. They will also view dance through performances by dance groups in Singapore as well through a short dance film.
I met up with the teacher in charge, the HOD of Aesthetics at Evergreen Ms Helen Shin, a few days ago. I was so taken by her interest and commitment to the concept of Dance Week. It is so heartening to listen to people like Helen and what they are doing to take SDW forward. It makes me feel that somewhere, somehow, what we are doing is right.
Anyway, Helen came up with this idea of a community dance and asked if our members at WDAS could help choreograph and teach it to their students. It was during our conversation that the possibility of a special signature SDW dance piece came to mind. That the piece that is taught to them can be the very same piece that opens and closes Dance Week this year. In any case Team SDW 2011 was working on having mass dances at the opening and closing events. So, why not this???
This special piece will be created on the spot at the Opening event at One Fullereton. It will be danced to the music of Singapore's very own fusion music group, Gammarays. By the way, Gammarays partnered us last year as well - a wonderful group of young and committed musicians who are not rejecting of their ethnic forms of music and yet daring in their explorations and compositions.
In the meantime, the Bollywood Mass Dance which will also be presented at the Opening event will soon be ready for public viewing on this very site.
More updates soon....
Nirmala Seshadri
It's truly amazing what connecting and chatting with various people in the community can result in. Evergreen Primary School is celebrating Dance - as a part of SDW 2011 - by devoting one day on their school calendar to Dance! May 26th will be that day. That day, the entire school will experience dance through learning a community dance with simple moves from diverse dance genres that have been practised in Singapore. They will also view dance through performances by dance groups in Singapore as well through a short dance film.
I met up with the teacher in charge, the HOD of Aesthetics at Evergreen Ms Helen Shin, a few days ago. I was so taken by her interest and commitment to the concept of Dance Week. It is so heartening to listen to people like Helen and what they are doing to take SDW forward. It makes me feel that somewhere, somehow, what we are doing is right.
Anyway, Helen came up with this idea of a community dance and asked if our members at WDAS could help choreograph and teach it to their students. It was during our conversation that the possibility of a special signature SDW dance piece came to mind. That the piece that is taught to them can be the very same piece that opens and closes Dance Week this year. In any case Team SDW 2011 was working on having mass dances at the opening and closing events. So, why not this???
This special piece will be created on the spot at the Opening event at One Fullereton. It will be danced to the music of Singapore's very own fusion music group, Gammarays. By the way, Gammarays partnered us last year as well - a wonderful group of young and committed musicians who are not rejecting of their ethnic forms of music and yet daring in their explorations and compositions.
In the meantime, the Bollywood Mass Dance which will also be presented at the Opening event will soon be ready for public viewing on this very site.
More updates soon....
Nirmala Seshadri
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Countdown to Singapore Dance Week 2011
March 16th…. The countdown will begin soon. Singapore Dance Week 2011 here we come! First let me share some glimpses, fond memories of SDW 2010. Looking at these images, looking back… brings on the goose bumps. I cannot forget the magnificent setting. Merlion Park. May 22nd 2010. The first edition of Singapore Dance Week. What an evening. Each person who came to dance was simply amazing. The whole atmosphere was filled with excitement and passion for Dance. And as each group came on to dance, the sun slowly began to set. To the left, the Merlion… in the background the water and the imposing MBS. The setting sun. It was one of those ‘proud to belong to Singapore’ moments.
Fullerton Heritage has stepped in once again to sponsor the Opening event. They are not just our venue sponsors… they have become our friends. Just as so many others have. This is the thing about Dance Week. It connects dancers with people, people with dancers. And everyone to Dance.
Okay, here’s where we are now…Singapore Dance Week 2011 opens on May 21st at One Fullerton from 5- 6.30pm. Will tell you more about what we have planned so keep visiting us here. The week will be filled with activities in various places on our sunny land. And guess what, we’ve just fixed up the closing venue. ION ORCHARD on May 28th. Phew! Yay!
That’s it for now.. will be back with more SDW news.
Nirmala Seshadri
(Chairperson, SDW 2011)
Also introducing the rest of the SDW 2011 core team – Teresa Pee, Siri Rama, Pamela Leong, Shirley Pee, Tan Hwee Bin & Charlotte Marn.
Credits:
Photography by Koh Sze Kiat, Pic Hour Photography, Singapore
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