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Front Row

Don’t be afraid of the arts. You too can enjoy it! Don"t believe us? Tune in to Front Row to find out about the best shows and exhibitions that will recharge your brain and restore your spirit, as told by the producers, performers and artists themselves.

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31:09

A Language of their Own, play

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2017/03/22

A Singapore-play that explores how people in relationships with each other develop a language of their own. A kind of code. A shorthand for subconscious language; a language where words are not necessarily articulated. We read their minds, we understand their body gestures and we watch their tone of voice. The producer and actor tell how this latest reincarnation, the third time in KL, is different.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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25:45

Polos, A Devised Play

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2017/03/21

This is the third locally-devised play being staged this year, manifesting a desire to tell local stories and in the vernacular, The performers share the devising process and also tell about the differences between acting in English-language plays and vernacular ones. They also give some insights into gamophobia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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23:04

Aphrodisia: An exhibition challenging perceptions

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2017/03/17

The ‘Aphrodisia’ exhibition is questioning the unrealistic and unhealthy beauty standards portrayed within the media. The paintings challenge viewers come face to face with their own interpretations and perceptions of the ‘food and figure’ theme. We talk to Artist Alya Hatta and Curator Nazreen Abraham about how they are breaking the mold.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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28:42

Marrying Traditional Native American Singing to the...

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2017/03/16

Our guest who hails from Canada is a member of the Walastoq First Nation. He shares with us his digging in the Museum of Canadian History in Gatineau, Quebec to reclaim his culture and language and now to promote it so that they won’t die. He comments on the need to engage the young with the traditional, and then to evolve the traditional to embrace modernity.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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24:49

The Fortunettes, A Musical

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2017/03/15

When a show that goes from the stage of a singular secondary school onto a professional stage with performers from many schools and universities, what happens then. Our guests tell about the performing arts in secondary schools and hint on the parents’ receptivity to things which are considered not academic like mathematics and science.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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10:01

The Tyagaraja-Tansen Music Festival 2017

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2017/03/14

Our guests, besides telling us about the offerings in the latest installment of the classical Indian festival, share their perspective on the local growth and development of Indian classical music, and how Malaysia and Malaysian-ness influence music from the Indian subcontinent.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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27:12

Playing with Therapy

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2017/03/14

For its third outing, the theatre company, EJA Productions has decided on a devised play which focuses on ‘the talking cure’. With the help of a clinical psychologist, and a graduate in ‘theatre and psychology’ who functions as the assistant director, the company explores the usefulness of discovering, with a professional, our own emotional landscape in order to better navigate our real-world lives.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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31:36

Amorous Delight

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2017/03/10

The success of ‘Amorous Delight’ has given life to a second staging and Ramli Ibrahim tells about talent in the country, where there is plenty and where the dearth is pronounced. He also paints a landscape in which dancing and the other performing arts can thrive.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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34:24

Work x Play, an Art Exhibition

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2017/03/08

The mentor describes the two artists when they first started in the Sembilan Art Residency last August, and then points to their transformations. The two artist share how being under the same roof for a period, talking about, breathing and eating art, they influenced each other.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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38:13

Talking Throne of Thorns

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2017/03/07

‘Throne of Thorns’ was recently staged in ASWARA, the national performing arts school, but with a cast and production crew coming from the University of Wollongong, Australia. We find out from the director herself, who now teaches theatre at UiTM, on her process of creating this work, which has been described as a modern play with practices and elements of the Malay traditional theatre. Zalfian Fuzi, who saw the production joins in the conversation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

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30:16

18@8 Right Here! Right Now! Exhibition

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2017/03/03

The exhibition explores how artists stay relevant and current in the spaces they occupy and in the immediate moment of their lives. We hear from both the curator and gallery owner of Weiling Contemporary and from one of the artists, Ivan Lam.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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31:23

HandleBards take on Romeo and Juliet

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2017/03/02

The Handlebards have been in town twice so far, each time making an appearance in BFM’s studio. In the first two outings, the troupe presented Shakespeare’s comedies--‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, respectively. This time a tragedy with a predominantly female cast. Hear how and why the Handlebards have grown and evolved, and the challenges for an all-female cast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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31:47

Lock up Locker Art

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2017/03/01

Pretty, inoffensive ‘art’ continues to be bought-and-sold and hung on corporate walls; provocative art, either overtly or subtly goading tend to find fewer such walls. Small, private galleries often are bolder pushing the envelope. The curator and artists share their thoughts of visual depictions of the ‘pent up’.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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28:42

Eight Hands,Two Pianos: MPQ Masquerade Concert

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2017/02/28

The Malaysian Piano Quartet (MPQ) is a recently formed ensemble made up of four pianists (Felicity Thong, Chong Chooi Foong, Son Hui Ling, and Misa Yamamoto), trained in different institutions in different countries--England, Australia and the United States of America. Together, they perform pieces arranged for ‘two pianos eight hands’. Beyond hearing about the upcoming recital, hear them talk about ‘listening to each other’ to create harmonies and compelling music.See

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12:56

The Tempest Meets Mak Yong

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2017/02/24

A peek into Norzizi Zulkifli’s melding of contemporary theatre practices and the traditional practices of Mak Yong. This postgraduate project which first saw light in Australia premiered in Kuala Lumpur just this past weekend. This sneak-peek is a prelude to an interview with the creator, director and now theatre instructor at UiTM.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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11:34

Auction of Southeast Asian Art

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2017/02/24

A quick tour of the preview exhibition which will lead up to an auction in the coming week. The assistant manager tells of what on the block and highlights a few piece, including the stars of the exhibition.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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27:32

Life Sdn Bhd, Ordinary People

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2017/02/23

Life Sdn Bhd produced and staged by the Actors Studio is in its 13th year. This series has dealt with important issues like HIV, aids and human trafficking. This time it’s focusing on the very thing that has kept it alive all these years; People! The cast is comprised of theatre and non-theatre people, indulging the audience in the much-loved human experience of storytelling.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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39:17

Tribute to Sudirman

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2017/02/22

As part of the station’s tribute to Sudirman, Front Row invites two who were closely knitted to the late music star. We reminisce with them and unearth anecdotes that underscore the singer’s popularity and the kinds of fans he cultivated.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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32:03

ASWARA Dance 2017

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2017/02/21

The annual dance faculty outing. The dance lecturer and choreographer share upcoming events in ASWARA’s dance calendar. As an institution of higher learning and a dance academy, scholarship feeds into performance, and the lecturer and choreographer tell how both arms coalesce.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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32:54

Escape from the Sea, Joint Exhibition

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2017/02/17

In this exhibition about landscape as expressed by artists from Malaysia and Japan, The curator explains how the diversity of artistic backgrounds—ranging from video and installation to performance and research—promises to lead visitors down a rabbit hole of approaches to the subject matter. Our guests reveal the correlation between artistic background, artist and the manifestations as art.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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