Seni Tiga #06: 11:11 A Tribute to Loving
Inspired by the funeral party of Singaporean dancer and choreographer Aaron Khek Ah Hock, who is a dear friend of the performers, the performance brings forth a joyful dance journey about forbidden and unconditional love, in dreams and in reality.
Seni Tiga #06: 11:11 A Tribute to Loving
Running time : 60 mins
Performance date : 18-20 Jul 2019 (KongsiKL, Malaysia)
Artists
Executive Producer : Glen Goei
Creative Producer : Ix Wong
Director : Gavin Yap
Movement : Foo May Lyn, Hiroko Tamura (JPN), Ix Wong, Lim Kay Siu (SG), Loke Soh Kim, Neo Swee Lin (SG), Nirmala Seshadri (SG), Scarlet Yu (HK/DE)
Installation : Ix Wong
Sound : Chua Sek Khim
Volunteers
Producer : Loke Soh Kim
Assistant Producer : Low Pey Sien, Mah Jun Yi
Photographer : Low Pey Sien, Geink Noise @ Geinkmorphik
Videographer : Low Pey Sien
Graphic Designer: Low Pey Sien
Usher : Gan Wan Qi
Crew : Alice Wong Yieng Zhu, Jerry Leung, Lee Bee Hui, Moch Jack Zhong
Presented by Kongsi Petak
Venue sponsored by KongsiKL
KongsiKL is a project supported by KakiKongsi and EXSIM Group
Acknowledgements: KakiKongsi, MSR Sdn. Bhd., SB Tape International Group
Artist Profile
Wong Thien Pau
creative director
WONG THIEN PAU, Ix, Hockix 1974, Sabah, Scholar graduated from Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts 1997. Danced professionally with the City Contemporary Dance Company(HK) (1997-2000). Rehearsal Director and dancer with Singapore Arts Fission Company (2000-2002) Ix found AHPY with his partner Aaron Khek and since has been producing, choreographing works that the duo creates together. Spring 2016, together with his partner and two other Singapore established Artists, Nirmala Seshadri (multi-discipline Artist) and Leslie Tan (Cellist) started a laboratory called L3 - Lalu Lalang Lab Ix is also an accomplished self-taught tailor.
Gavin Yap
director
Gavin Yap is an actor, writer, theatre director and award-winning filmmaker.
He served as Director-In-Residence at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre from 2005 to 2008.
Gavin’s feature film directorial debut, ‘Take Me To Dinner’, was released in Malaysian cinemas in March 2014.
His film, ‘The Incredibly Strange Tale Of The Man Who Lost His Love But Bought It Back With A Packet Of Duck Rice’ picked up the Blencong Award at the 2015 Jogja-Netpac International Film Festival.
His next film, ‘Dendam Pontianak’, co-directed with Glen Goei, will be released in 2019.
As an actor, Gavin has performed in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, London, Macao, Australia and New York City.
Some of his theatre credits as an actor include ‘Importance Of Being Earnest’, ‘Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me’, ’Fat Pig’, ‘Red’, ‘Tribes’, ‘Lord Of The Flies’ and ‘Hand To God’.
Foo May Lyn
movement artist
Foo May Lyn was trained in children’s theatre at the age of 13 (Teater Kanak-Kanak Experimental Malaysia). She danced for a short spell with Marion D’Cruz and Dancers, before leaving for Europe where she worked in a story telling company. Having not performed in decades, she’s here for Hock and Ix.
Happy
movement artist
This is Happy. This is his first show.
photo: Taka Chang
Loke Soh Kim
movement artist
Loke Soh Kim started performing in 1982 in Penang with the renowned Tan Wei Ping, and has toured and performed in countries such as China, Canada, Japan, Singapore and the United States. She is a former dancer of the Singapore People’s Association Dance Company and the Hong Kong City Contemporary Dance Company. She was also one of the founding members of the Hong Kong South ASLI Dance Workshop.
Over the years, she has travelled as a solo artist to places across the United States and many countries in Asia. Apart from being a professional dancer, she is also an outstanding stage lighting designer and dance choreographer. In 1997 she participated in the International Artists Programme run by the Northwest Asian American Theatre in Seattle. In 1998, through a generous grant from the Asian Cultural Council, she was in New York on a five-month residency observing and studying contemporary dance and choreography. Also in 1998 and sponsored by a second ACC grant, she attended the 65th Anniversary American Dance Festival in Durham, NC.
She has been a guest choreographer with Singapore’s Frontier Danceland since 1996. Based in Malaysia, she is Artistic Director of P’nang Dance Station, which she co-founded with Choo Tee Kuang in 1992. She also lectures in dance at the Akademi Seni Kebangsaan since 1999 to 2006.
She received the 1st Annual Boh Cameronian Arts Awards 2002 for Best Choreographer and Best Lighting Design in Dance, 3rd Annual Boh Cameronian Arts Awards 2004 for Best Lighting Design in Dance as well as the 15th Annual Boh Cameronian Arts Awards 2018 for Best Choreographer in ad Mixed Bill.
photo: Eugene Soh dude.sg
Neo Swee Lin and Lim Kay Siu (SG)
movement artist
Swee Lin & Kay Siu have only recently learnt to play the ukulele. They are theatre actors, who met on stage 33 years ago, after which Swee Lin trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, while Kay Siu trained as a director at the Central School of Speech & Drama in London. They have appeared together in numerous film, television and theatre productions at home in Singapore, as well as internationally. They have been married for 27 years. Since they first met & worked with Hock&Ix in the musical “Man of Letters” in 2006, professional and personal friendships blossomed. Their last production together was the musical “The Great Wall” in 2016. They are inspired by the Hock&Ix philosophical and loving axiom: “Together Forever, Always Apart”.
Nirmala Seshadri (SG)
movement artist
Nirmala Seshadri is a dancer and researcher who seeks to recontextualise her classical dance form, Bharatanatyam. Her social justice perspective leads her to use the body and performance space to interrogate existing inequalities, problematizing boundaries of time, place, gender, and caste, among other social constructs. Her quest for autonomy and sensorial perception led her to Butoh. Her present practice and research focus is the intersection of Bharatanatyam, Butoh, Breathwork and Yoga. Drawing from these elements, she works at creating her movement approach – Antarika, upon which her practice and teaching now hinges. She graduated with a Masters degree in Dance Anthropology from the University of Roehampton, London. Nirmala is an associate member of Dance Nucleus, Singapore and an artistic collaborator at the Lalu Lalang Laboratory.
Scarlet Yu (DE/ HK)
movement artist
Born in Hong Kong, living in Europe. Her work involves Dance and choreographing one on one performance working on transformative potential and political dimension of autobiographical material and memory. Her recent collective work IsLand Bar was commissioned by Taipei Arts Festival 2018 and creating a new version of Rockbound Museum Shanghai this year. Since 2014, Yu has collaborated with Xavier Le Roy in Temporary Title 2015, For The Unfaithful Replica, For Performance as well as Retrospective by Xavier Le Roy (Singapore, Beirut, Taipei, Mexico City edition), and Still Untitled at Sculpture Projects Münster 2017 and Tanzkongrass 2019. In early 2010, Yu collaborated with theatre director Haris Pasovic, as well as with Teatro de los Sentidos, Ming Poon on The infinitesimal distance between two bodies… at Singapore Da:ns Festival, and with the Hong Kong filmmaker Maurice Lai on Rite of City – Reminisce a dance film selected for the Cannes short film corner. She is a grant recipient from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and Arts Network Asia. Yu was a jury member for Tanzplattform Germany 2018, artist in residency at Hombroich Summer Fellows and Asia Discovers Asia Meeting (ADAM). She obtained an M.F.A in Dance from The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts in 2015.
photo: Taka Chang
Chua Sek Khim
sound artist
Khim is an interior design graduate. In 2006, he formed the duo IKA with singer-songwriter Aki Huang and had toured around Malaysia. In 2011, Khim has formed the Team In-Fest with artists from Melaka. He's currently a full time guitar instructor, interior designer, sound designer and bike enthusiast and participates in several art and cultural events.
