The Italian Restaurant, August 26th & 27th, 2017

The Italian Restaurant, August 26th & 27th, 2017

The Italian Restaurant is an existential tale telling of a chance meeting between a woman and a man in a restaurant and the forging of their destinies as their hearts become entwined. Provocative symbolism and metaphor creates the tranquil yet chaotic forward...
Hakanai, August 18th and 19th 2017

Hakanai, August 18th and 19th 2017

In Japanese, the word “Hakanai” means ‘impermanent, fragile, evanescent, transitory, and fleeting’, somewhere between dream and reality. Digital art directors Claire Bardainne and  Adrien Mondot have undertaken to illustrate this ancient Japanese...
Ballet Illuminations, May 12th-14th 2017

Ballet Illuminations, May 12th-14th 2017

  Singapore Dance Theatre, the country’s premiere professional dance company, returns to Penang for the fourth year running with its wildly popular Ballet Illuminations. Three choreographic works will be presented, and the annual Master Class...

Moved by Padi, August 27-28

Honouring green swaths of paddy might seem to be clutching at straws as a basis for a performance act. But, if you think about it, it holds more meaning than may appear at first glance. In East and Southeast Asia, paddy fields and their crop – rice – are an integral...

Triptyque, August 26th and 27th

If you like Cirque de Soleil you will like this. Seven artists juggling, dancing, prancing, hanging from ropes, balancing on hands and heads … Canadian  troupe Les 7 Doigts de la Main  perform mind-boggling tricks that blur the lines between contemporary dance and...