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Eulogy for the Living
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Eulogy for the Living is a large-scale performance, a spectacular and soulful finale to the festival, directed by Tony Yap, danced by festival artists, and with live music, and stunning projections. Eulogy for the Living is a kind of devotional work for making our way in the world, an internal journey into the memory of body and soul. Here artists and audience transform and reconnect a deeper part of ourselves, within the fleeting transience of contemporary life. We the living both preserve the past and allow things to pass – we eulogise ourselves in each moment. Life goes on... (Sun 20 Nov 8pm @ Site 1, St Paul’s Church)
Sound & video images:
Mathew Gingold
Installation: Pia Interlandi
Direction/choreography:
Tony Yap
Choreographic assistant: Brendan O’Connor
Performers: Collaborating performing artists from MAP Fest.
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Cerita Pendek 1
(Short Works)
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Cerita Pendik brings dance, music and performance works from artists from around the world together in a unique program of short works over two nights at the majestic St Paul's Church. Stay for as many or as few as you like! (Fri 18 Nov 8pm @ Site 1 St Paul’s Church)
Program 1
> Xiang Yin Kao Gu
– The Classic Accent (20 min)
> Elements (5 min)
> Thought/Action:
The Straits of Time(30 min)
> Kuih Muih (7 min)
> The Chisel of Mataora
(20 min)
> The Dionysus Molecule #1 (15 min)
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> Xiang Yin Kao Gu – The Classic Accent by Chong Keat Aun & Hao Yen
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An environmental piece, inspired by the Melaka Granny’s Classic Accent and Cerbera Manghas.“Maritime Silk Road, Sultan, Heroes,
Beauties, Fires, God and Ghost, emerging and sinking, appearing and disappearing…The land will be desolate, lives come and go, why my melancholy?”
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> Elements by Tina Evans
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| Elements is a unique exploration of our own lifecycle and our connection to nature through the four elements of Air, Water, Fire & Earth. Through dance, projected visuals and soundscape this visual, aural and physically sensual feast is a reminder that we are intrinsically connected to our environment. |
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> Thought/Action: The Straits of Time by Frank van de Ven & Peter Snow
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In The Straits of Time we propose to look at how
experiences of temporality and displacement interconnect with intensities of place and of belonging. |
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> Kuih Muih by Suhaili Micheline
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Quirky, playful and risky on movements, based on the taste, colour and texture of Malaysian delicacies.. also based on children's excitement, reaction and addiction to the first bite of a 'kuih' and the next and the next...
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> The Chisel of Mataora by Soufiane Karim
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Go deep into tha Maori Myth of MATAORA who bring the Tattoo“TA MOKO” in the living World from the other world...spirits and unliving
natural strenght.
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> The Dionysus Molecule #1 by Tony Yap & Brendan O’Connor
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Without Contraries is no progression. The presence of contrary elements is an impetus for unleashing imagination to exploit inherent
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Cerita Pendek 2
(Short Works)
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> The Journey by
Gerald Veltre |
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Cerita Pendik brings dance, music and performance works from artists from around the world together in a unique program of short works over two nights at the stunning St Paul's Church. Stay for as many or as few as you like! (Sat 19 Nov 8pm @ Site 1, St Paul’s Church)
Program 2
> Forestories (30 min)
> Mobile Phone OrchestraVer 1.2 (15 min)
> The Journey (20 min)
> Mountain, Water and Flowers (10 min)
> Padi Complaining (20 min)
>Mémoires Futures-Future Memories (20min)
> Forestories by Sam Burke &
Domenico De Clario
... home (his story) ... aspettaci (their story)
... love (everyone’s story) ... only a
weathercast warning (her story) ...
> Mobile Phone Orchestra Ver 1.2 by Ng Chor Guan
Exploring through sound and music to enable us as individuals and collectively to still progress while protecting the environment. The development of Melaka sees the disappearance on the sound and songs of nature. Playing a role in the Mobile Phone Orchestra evokes all participants on the importance of how every single individual could contribute in protecting and preserving the nature.
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A man dances his way through a world of
chaos, possibilities and obligations. This can not last forever... don’t talk about the journey say no more of the path one must take (Rumi)
> Mountain, Water and Flowers by Kiea Kuan Nam
From the scene, you may see strange visions, which is the incredible life. Because of the unknown, because of the inexplicable, therefore, there is a speechless beauty. Choreographed by Lee Swee Keong
> Padi Complaining by
Agung Gunawan
Padi Complaining is a reflection on the connection between the cycles of human and mother nature as symbolised in the ritual significance of Rice. It is also a kind of lament - for when processes of industrialisation impinge on spiritual life and when we become more concerned with political mechanisms than the cultivation of the soul.
> Mémoires Futures – Future
Memories by Mic Guillaumes
At 62, I have the desire to build my future. Identity is a big part of culture. Outside, culture is what covers the inner being, existentially. Dancing is just away from his culture, extrude its culture, extimate reveal his deep work for his identity to come. |
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Visual Arts
- Sifting the Debris –memory, esilience and renewal
We are pleased this year to be able to present artists from Malaysia, Singapore and Australia, working across painting, photography, installation and video. In again working with the National University of Singapore and Badan Warisan Malaysia, we have two key venues – the Tun Tan Cheng Lock Centre for Asian Architectural and Urban Heritage and No.8 Heeren Street Heritage Centre.
This visual arts platform allows this diverse grouping of artists to present collectively, giving space for the individual’s voice and also the emergence of shared concerns.
At this point in time, more than ever, we are privately and collectively confronted with an overload, be it environmental, bodily, financial or cultural. Increasingly we are tested in our ability to absorb, reorientate and ultimately go
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forward through discovering new ways of doing. The paradox of this overload is its difficulty yet opportunity for growth. These artist tap into this paradox and filter it into their work, channeling a private dilemma into an insightful voice for all.
Azliza Ayob: For Our
Daughters - installation (Tun
Tan Cheng Lok Centre)
Using discarded mineral water bottles, Azliza Ayob meticulously crafts radiant red flowers, transforming the unwanted into the precious as a gesture of possibility and female sensitivity. Fields of these Bunga Telur-like flowers pay tribute to the immeasurable worth of the female – to the wives, mothers, sisters…and to the daughters.
Liew Kwei Fei: Survivors
- painting installation (Tun Tan
Cheng Lok Centre)
The work of painter Liew Kwai Fei is a perpetual work in progress, with each painting suggesting |
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the next. Filtering the every-day and linking chain-like through spaces over time, they fuse folk culture, personal history, the colloquial and the artist’s immersion in friendships and an ongoing joke. .
Trevor Flinn: The Throbbing
Gristle Experience -
installation (Heeren St Heritage
Center)
Housed in a small semitransparent
white tent made
from bed-sheets, the artist’s
remake of Brion Gysin’s lowtech
‘Dream Machine’ offers the grand possibility of a shift
in perception and
consciousness. Downstairs,
the cowboy-clad artist offers brewed coffee, chili beans and conversation – contemporary
shaman meets Broke Back
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Anthony Pelchen: Stay or Go – video (Tun Tan Cheng
Lok Centre)
Filmed during the drought in 2010 on the vast, empty Lake
Hindmarsh in SE Australia, Stay or Go references this new
official bush-fire warning mantra as a metaphor for bigger questions of occupying body and land. The culmination of a decade of land and body dysfunction, the artist plays out the vulnerability,
disorientation and near-lunacy of existence.
Minstrel Kuik: The Weaver –
installation (Tun Tan Cheng
Lok Centre)
This austere installation draws
heavily on the Maternity Home history of this Heeren Street
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embedded in both
memory and body …It is a movie, I know. It is not real, I
know. It is Death
Cheo Chai-Hiang / Cecily C. Cheo – installation (Tun Tan
Cheng Lok Centre)
Artists-in-residence at Tun Tan Cheng Lok Centre, Cheo Chai- Hiang and Cecily Cheo, share
their recent near-miss experiences of domestic architectural collapse, as well as their current research in progress – inquiry into the visual phenomenon of disappearing cultural heritage in Melaka. |
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 > Tun Tan Cheng Lock Centre, 54-56 Heeren Street
 > No. 8 Heeren Street Heritage
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Bands
>> Endah N Rhesa
Endah N Rhesa is a musical duo comprisingacoustic guitar, bass and vocal.
The musical nuance that Endah N Rhesa tries to bring
out is folk, jazz, blues, rock and roll, and ballads.
Endah Widiastuti and Rhesa Adityarama started to play together in 2004.
Part of MAPPING Program @ Site 1
>> Second Band
A second Band will be announced. Please check website |
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FIlm Festival
Curated by Amadeo Marquez-Perez
Program 1
A collection of unique stories form the award winning Youth Documentary Project (YDP) that seeks to engage young adults in positive modes of selfexpression and creative investigation through the creation of short documentaries.
This colection is a 45 min program showcasing a collection of films that deal with skating obsession to meeting Maria, a deaf teaching that wants to help young people communicate.
> Our Refugee Journey
3:50 & 5:13
> The firfighters on mentone
Concrete Jungle 5:00
> SPORT 5:07
> The Heidelberg School 4:35
> PRIMO 3:52
> My Name is Maria 5:13
Friday 18 November 1pm
 > Zheng He Tea House
3 Jalan Kampong Kuli, Melaka
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Program 2
Amal
Drama, 101 mins, India
Director: Richie Mehta
Producer: Steven Bray, David Miller
Autorickshaw driver Amal is content with the small, but vital, role he serves - driving customers around New Delhi as quickly and safely as possible. But his sense of duty is tested by an eccentric, aging
billionaire, who, moved by Amal's humility, bequeaths him his entire estate before passing away. With only one month to
discover and claim the inheritance, Amal's struggles with duty and wealth are threatened by all those around him - from a young injured beggar girl and a lovely store merchant, to the danger of the old man's upper-caste friends and siblings, all seeking to claim their share of the riches.
Saturday 19 November 10am
> Zheng He Tea House
3 Jalan Kampong Kuli, Melaka |
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Dance Workshop
& Forum/Discussion
>> Forum/discussion/Q&A
A panel of festival artists will discuss therelationship between traditional and
contemporary practices as revealed through the festival program.
Sun 20 Nov @ Tun Tan Cheng Lok Centre 11am |
>> Dance Workshop
Body Weather: From Touch & Manipulation to Performance & Dance
Frank van de Ven (Netherlands)
Body Weather is a comprehensive training
and performance practice that investigates the intersections of bodies and their environments. Bodies are not conceived as fixed and separate entities but are - just like the weather - constantly changing.
In this short workshop we will focus on some aspects of touch. Touch has always
been a key element in the survey of the dancing body. Touch makes us aware of the world inside and outside of us. To touch is to be touched. We will explore touch and some possible ways it can lead to dance.
Friday 18 Nov @ Site 1, St Pauls hill 10am |
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