The Night Festival, the annual landmark event for the Bras Basah Bugis precinct is here once again. This year, it is renamed the Singapore Night Festival.
Special thanks to the National Heritage Board for the invitation to the media preview of this weekend’s Singapore Night Festival, I had the pleasure to witness snippets of some of the highlight events of this festival.
Here is a sneak preview of some of the highlights for this coming weekend (Fri 23 Aug and Sat 24 Aug):
| Onmoonbeings by Singapierrot. Photo courtesy of Jinha Kim Photography. |
Onmoonbeings
by Singapierrot
Fri 23 and Sat 24 Aug 2013
7.30 p.m., 8.45 p.m. and 10.00 p.m.
Armenian Street
If a whimsical and poetic touch of romance is what you may crave for, be sure to make time to watch two soulful Singaporean jesters Roy Payamal and Ng Xi Jie‘s performance, Onmoonbeings. The duo will be dressed in plastics. They simply looked like the modern incarnations of Pierrot play.
The storyline is essentially about two jesters descending from a crescent moon and exploring the land. Witness how the jesters create meaning as they explore the wistful dark corners of our soul. I was drawn to the primitive, whimsical yet playful mood of the performance.
For the lovers of live music, this performance is very likely to delight. The performance of Onmoonbeings will be accompanied live by gypsy-swing jazz duo So Ma Fan.
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Vertical Extraction
by Compagnie Retouramont
Fri 23 and Sat 24 Aug 2013
8.15 p.m., 9.30 p.m., and 10.45 p.m.
National Museum of Singapore facade
| Vertical Extraction by Compagnie Retouramont. Photo courtesy of Jinha Kim Photography. |
Light projections, shadows play and aerial dancing on bungee cords combined in a mystical way in Compagnie Retouramont‘s Vertical Extraction. In this performance, acclaimed local artist and film-maker Victric Thng will collaborate and complement Vertical Extraction with a special video that he has produced.
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More of my personal recommendations for this weekend’s Singapore Night Festival and a sneak preview of the festival can be found on my blog here: http://oceanskies79places.blogspot.sg/2013/08/a-sneak-preview-of-singapore-night.html
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