Performance Lab: The Performance Art Programme of The Substation
This programme gives practitioners of theatre, dance, and performance art the space and time to explore, research, refine their craft and develop new work. Expect to see physical theatre, text-based drama, cross-disciplinary collaborations, performance art, work-in-progress showings, workshops and forums.This programme gives practitioners of theatre, dance, and performance art the space and time to explore, research, refine their craft and develop new work. Expect to see physical theatre, text-based drama, cross-disciplinary collaborations, performance art, work-in-progress showings, workshops and forums.
For PerformanceOpen Call 2010,The Substation has selected RE:gina is Dead! by Melissa Quek, Elizabeth de Roza and Gilles Massot to be presented at The Substation Theatre.
A dark Theatre. Rustling sounds set the nerves on edge. In the blackness shapes are barely visible, but it feels like paper is everywhere. Somewhere a chalk outline.
Is that Regina? Why is she dead?
That’s up to you to decide in this interactive performance that defies categorisation. Part Installation part performance, the more you act, the more you’ll see.
Thumbprints, artifacts and bodies – images and symbols that point to one thing. You decipher the clues.
Dates: 16, 17, 18 September 2010
Time: 7pm to 7:45pm (First Session), 8:15pm to 9pm (Second Session), 9:30pm to 10:15pm (Third Session) Matinee on 18 September 2010: 3pm to 3.45pm (First Session), 4.15pm to 5pm (Second Session)
Price: $10 (concession) $15 Maximum: 15 people per session
To get/reserve the tickets, call the Box Office at 6337 7535 (weekdays only from 2pm to 8pm) or email: chris@substation.org
Conversations 2010 #2
Performance Lecture by our Associate Artist: diskodanny
Friday 1 October, 7:30pm
The Substation Theatre
Free Admission
Can absence be enacted, captured… in fact seen in a film? Can the viewer see what is there but not apparent, fill in the gaps for himself and construct his own movement from memory?
In his presentation, diskodanny goes in search for liminal spaces that elude us because they exist as empty gaps. These spaces are found during the enactment of a movement. They cannot be seen explicitly but they exist so obviously that we take them for granted.
Diskodanny is an Associate Artist of The Substation.
Ziarah + Cerita Cinta (Visit + Love Story)
A double-bill written and directed by The Substation’s Artistic Director Noor Effendy Ibrahim
Thursday 14 to Saturday 16 October, 8 pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $20 and $15 (student concession), available at The Substation Box Office
In Malay with English surtitles
The double-bill Ziarah + Cerita Cinta is the final revisit and reworking of Effendy’s old Malay scripts both written and first performed between 1992 and1995. Both plays quietly examine the emotional and psychological struggle within domestic Malay settings where communication and love often fail each other. The double-bill will be performed by Anwar Hadi, Izad Omar, Mish’aal Syed Nasar, Suhaili Safari, Saiful Amri and Siti Khalijah Zainal.
Supported by The National Arts Council, The Substation, Arts Fund and Lee Foundation.
Friday 29 October, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Free admission
Ang Gey Pin is a Singaporean theatre performer and instructor currently working in Europe.
During this event, Ang will demonstrate her creative processes and engage the audience in a conversation about how she develops her works. Focusing on particular fragments of her performance, Ang will introduce a body of research on interweaving text and songs into performance, and her investigation into an approach to develop and deliver these performance elements. Ang will also discuss the impulse behind her creations, how the various performance elements build a montage and flow in a ‘creative stream’, and her relationship with her work.
Thurs 12 August, 8pm (60mins)
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $15 (concession for students and senior citizens) and $20
To buy tickets, please call 63377535 or 6337800
Presented by The Substation
In Transmitter, choreographer/dancer Jacki Job explores the weight of life through a unique dance language.
Deliberately slow and featuring highly sculpted movements, Transmitter will be performed to the sounds of the wind and sea of Cape Town. Layered on top of that will be fragments of rhythms that will serve as a metaphor for memories, thoughts and emotions.
The Substation presents Performance Open Call 2010, a new instalment of The Substation’s annual Open Call programme.
The Open Call programme was first initiated in 2008 as a visual arts platform to support and realise strongly artistic, critical and rigorous visual arts proposals. The new Performance Open Call expands upon the current focus of the programme by inviting artists to submit proposals with a strong performance element. One proposal will be selected and realised at The Substation Theatre from 16 – 18 September 2010.
This video is uploaded for those who have missed mux’s wonderful performance on 7 November in The Substation Theatre. Click here to view a longer version of this clip
A performance by mux
Saturday, 7 November
The Substation Theatre
8pm
Admission by donation (minimum $10)
people without people is a narrative performance based on a thought experiment. It is centered on a main protagonist who has, for the longest time, been in the same place since he could remember. there are no inconsistencies and changes in anything. for the sake of keeping things interesting, something happens.
the performance is motivated by themes related to an absolute. purity that sits in various mediums such as sound, music and language.
For Performance Open Call 2010, The Substation has selected RE:gina is Dead! by Melissa Quek, Elizabeth de Roza and Gilles Massot to be presented at The Substation Theatre.
