Happy Together
Dance Performance by Elysa Wendi
Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 February 2012, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $20 & $10 (concession)
available from the box office
Contact mishaal 6337 7800 / boxoffice@substation.org
This is an OpenHouse event 
The idea of Happy Together came about after an encounter with a group of elderly musicians from the Traditional Southern Fujian Music Society. This music group comprises of a vocalist, flute player, pipa and 2 string players. Their lives revolve around the playing of melancholic ancient music which provides a link to their ancestors. After the initial meetings, the different artists would gather every Sunday to listen to their weekly playing while following temple rituals like keeping a long-term promise to old friends.
As a contemporary artist, one seeks for new understanding of such ancient music heritage and its relevancy in contemporary art-making. Striving to comprehend the interpretation of this music, dance artist Elysa Wendi and traditional arts researcher Wang Tian Yu have been exchanging perceptions and ideas in meeting after meeting, in order to decipher the beauty of Nan Yin whilst making connections within their own creative processes.
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SPAM
Saturday 17 December 2011, 2pm–2am
The Substation Gallery
Admission: Free (donations welcome)
This is an InHouse event 
SPAM is an artist-run platform which aims to encourage the practice, feedback and showcase of performances by emerging artists. At every monthly practice session, artists explore various modalities of performance in order to investigate unfamiliar situations and test themselves, and their reactions. Audience members are encouraged to comment and participate in the discussion. SPAM aims to sustain and encourage artistic skill and talent in order to develop more compelling, complex and complete artistic works.
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Dia Di Atas Sana
By Panggung Arts and The Substation
Thursday 24 (preview) and Friday 25 November 2011, 8pm
Saturday 26 November 2011, 3pm and 8pm
Sunday 27 November 2011, 3pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $20 and $18 (concession) available from the box office,
contact Mish’aal 6337 7800 / boxoffice@substation.org
Rating: No persons under 16 / Performed in Malay with English Surtitles
This is an InHouse event
“Where is God?”
Man has been asking, and has been asked this particular question ever since he was introduced or some would strongly believe, re-introduced, to the concept of the higher being. The higher being, God, Elohim, Jesus, Gaia, Vishnu, or Allah has led Man to spend his existence approving or disapproving. In the name of a particular God, beliefs have been forced and reinforced, to be embed in the hearts of Man and then reiterated in blood. But, those dramatic episodes in Man’s history, most probably start with that one simple question. ‘Where is God?’. That same question gradually spawns an entire variation of itself; ‘Where is my God?’, ‘Where is your God?’, ‘Where are you God?’, or ‘Where the hell are you God, in times when I needed you the most?’.
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TUAH
By The Substation and Teater Kami LImited
Friday 11 and Saturday 12 November 2011, 3pm and 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $20 and $18 (concession) available from the box office, contact Mish’aal 6337 7800 / boxoffice@substation.org
Performed in Malay with English Surtitles
Two close friends are required to submit weekly reports to the “people up there”, a report of society’s problems and solutions on how to address them. If their report is accepted, they will be given a better future. They have four weeks left. One of them falls in love with one of the “people up there”, an act which is strictly prohibited, and begans to neglect his reports. The two friends now have individual agendas. One seeks love. The other seeks freedom. They have four weeks to decide.
Decimal Points: 0.01
Friday 4 and Saturday 5 November, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $20 and $15 (concession) available from the box office
Contact Mish’aal 6337 7800 / boxoffice@substation.org
This is an InHouse event
Please note that this production is sold out. Thank you for your support.
Conceived by David Lee, the second experiment in the Decimal Points series is 0.01, a quest for perfection that eludes. A tiny piece in a puzzle that seems forever missing. A small voice that echoes…all is lost, all is lost. Colliding dance, performance and drawing deep inspiration from the conceptual world of visual design, 0.01 seeks to create an illusionary world, at once tragic and fantastic, where the inhabitants reach for pure, unadulterated liberation in the face of imperfection, glorious and monstrous.
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The Lecher of Art, Lecture 6:
A Guide to Walking: Convening the Singapore Psychogeographical Society
By Debbie Ding
Thursday 27 October 2011, 8-9:30pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: Free (donations welcome)
This is an InHouse event
Singapore is a small, flat and largely man-made country constantly changing in shape with the reclamation of the coastline, and experiencing rapid demolition/construction within the city at all times. In a hypermodern city where little of the natural geography remains, most Singaporeans seem apathetic towards this, Debbie Ding will talk about the practice of walking, map-making, and disorienteering in Singapore.
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Aakanksha: A Tale of Desire
Solo Kathak Performance by Pallavi
The Substation Theatre
Saturday 22 October 2011, 8pm
Admission: $30, please call 6336 6537 / nas@pacific.net.sg
This is an OpenHouse event
Kathak was how ancient Northern Indian storytellers retold scriptures through hand gestures and facial expressions. Over the years, practitioners of kathak worked at refining its dramatic and rhythmic aspects, delighting the audience with their mastery over rhythm and stylised mime.
Aakanksha is purely traditional repertoire. Aakanksha means desire. Desire for love, happiness and harmony. Through dance, artists try to reach salvation. The performance is divided into sections, starting with the vishnu vandana, the teentaal vilambit laya, the ashtnayika—portraying eight heroines through facial expressions—and the tarana, a type of composition Indian classical music in which Persian and Arabic words are applied alongside the tabla. Maithili Sharan Gupt’s poetry Yashodhra, about the wife of Gautama Buddha and her pain of separation from her enlightened husband, will also be featured. The fast paced teentaal will close the performance with rapid footwork and a paran of 21 rounds.
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Dance, Tree. Dance
Preview: Thursday 15 September 2011, 8pm
Friday 16 – Saturday 17 September 2011, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $25, $15 (concession) and $10 (preview) available from the box office, contact Mish’aal 6337 7800 / boxoffice@substation.org
This is an InHouse event
In celebration of The Substation’s 21st anniversary on 16 September 2011, several alumni from The Substation’s Associate Artist Scheme (2002-2010) will present a multi-disciplinary project to celebrate 21 years of process and experimentation at The Substation. Inspired by Kuo Pao Kun’s iconic The Silly Little Girl and the Funny Old Tree, the project is a collaborative rereading and reinterpretation of the original text. The list of collaborators include filmmaker Sherman Ong, music artist Bani Haykal, writer Verena Tay, performers Raka Maitra, Beverly Yuen, Jacklyn Kuah, and Vincent Chia, interdisciplinary artists Elizabeth De Roza and Rizman Putra.
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Loop Theory
By Sherry Tay and Ho Wen Yang
Thursday 22 – Sunday 24 Saturday 2011, 8-9pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $15 available from the box office, contact Mish’aal 6337 7800 / boxoffice@substation.org
This is an InHouse event
Set in a game world where performers are avatars with special abilities, where sound is generated by motion-sensor technology, and where the audience directs part of the production, Loop Theory is a genre-bending, experimental dance performance. Exploring the notion of feedback (through sound, dance and interaction), Loop Theory uses technology as a platform for experimentation.
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