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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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13:51

Playing Contractions in Labor Laws

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2017/08/21

The performers tell about their own explorations in Mike Bartlett’s work on labour laws which sometimes on the surface look innocuous but can a devastating effect when executed. As we often say, “The devil is in the details.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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10:58

Singing Film Songs

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2017/08/17

Our guests--the co-founders of a musical theatre company--tell about their concert which offers songs from the movies. They also offer insights into the process of reprising a character or a performance, its challenges and opportunities.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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27:14

When Site Dominates and Leads: L5-7-44

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2017/08/17

As part of the Blossom Arts Festival 2017, TheatreThreeSixty has devised a play with an ensemble of five local actors to explore the impact of history on the individual. The artistic director tells what the site offers and how the performance fit as hand-into-glove in the MCA building on Jalan Ampang.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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19:49

SEA Games Ceremonies

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2017/08/16

Getting a peek into the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the 29th SEA Games which the country will host. Our guest reveals who the artistic director of the event is and shares on the themes that will hold the performances together.This programme is brought to you by Mah Sing.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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28:55

Strictly Contemporary Dancing V: Pina Bausch

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2017/08/11

One of the most notable living contemporary dancer choreographer is Pina Bausch, credited with popularizing vignette-based performances that have no linear narrative, and performance incorporating many things that are not strictly dance.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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31:35

Beethoven’s Compassion & Hope

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2017/08/10

Beethoven is filling the air in the Klang Valley. This year, within weeks of each other, nearly half a dozen concerts bearing Beethoven have been staged. The composer is being celebrated although 2017 is not an anniversary year. Yin Qi sings the composer for his compassion and for the hope his music brings.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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29:29

Animals in a Kandang

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2017/08/08

Hear how the father and son team up again to translate into Bahasa Malayu a canonical English work, George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’. Omar Ali who is also the director reveals about the adaptation which sets the tale on our shores. The cast member tells about the rehearsal process and learning to move like farm animals.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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21:10

White Mask, The Inspiration Spirals On Itself

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2017/08/08

‘White Mask’ is an art exhibition that takes its name from a short story written by Zedeck Siew. The short story also provides the 22 participating artists with the brief to create. Interestingly, some of these artists gave the writer the inspiration for ‘White Mask’ when they took him on a guided tour of graffiti art in the city.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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31:59

Music Through Time V: Romantic Music

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2017/08/04

The fifth part in the series on the history of music. This time, the period of music history which Ludwig Van Beethoven introduces with his dramatic works whose appeal are more emotional than intellectual.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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17:18

Wet Central Market in Black-and- White

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2017/08/03

For most of us, Central Market is Pasar Seni. Not a place for fresh produce but a place for tourists to pick up souvenirs as keepsakes and mementos before they depart our shores. Our guest, Ipoh-born and Australia-based, Hari Ho, shares how in the closing days of that wet market in the 1980s, he took time out to capture the life and lives of the people there.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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13:23

Inner Space Dance: Dialogue of Dances & Dancers

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2017/08/03

Over the next three weeks, a group of born-in-Malaysia dancers will all be performing three traditional Indian dances and one contemporary dance. The questions that arise, How do Malaysian bodies interpret Indian dances? How does a body that is trained in contemporary and other traditional dances adorn one for a particular traditional Indian dance? Answers to these questions articulated in the interview are informed by the experiences of the dancers themselves.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

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28:31

Wind of Nomads--Pooling Asian & African Percussion

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2017/08/02

Two artistic directors of two percussion-based performance groups--one here and one in Burkina Faso--share on how they look at the question of evolving their troupes balancing between keeping to their core strengths and the need to keep and grow their audience base. They also detail their three-year collaboration which will culminate in performances which pool together drumming traditions and instruments. They tell a story that links Africa and Asia that tells about our migratory legacies.See

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34:06

Speak Easy 3: Poetry and Comedy

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2017/08/01

Where there has been a rise in performance poetry events there has also been an increase in stand up comedy events but it’s comedy that has been able to mainstream faster, gaining much larger audiences. The two mediums actually have a lot in common, share a history, and not just in their propensity to sometimes be funny. What can performance poets learn from stand up’s commercial success and how does comedy exploit poetry to get a few more laughs?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

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13:49

AkashA Does Ipoh

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2017/07/31

Our guest tells about the creation and the sustaining of this group of seven which is made up of Malaysians and other nationals. This group has performed in more than a hundred international festivals and will be performing in Ipoh because music must be shared.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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31:07

Understanding Visual Language III: Edo Japan &...

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2017/07/28

Talking about different art movements in the world. This week, we visit Japan of the 17th through to the middle of the 19th century. Learn about Ukiyo (the floating world) and the aesthetics underpinning the Edo mercantile culture.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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30:15

Langkau

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2017/07/27

The dance and the theatre departments of the national performing arts school collaborate to bring a hybrid experimental performance to the stage. The creators tell about the experimentation to uncover different approaches to creating contemporary interdisciplinary performances.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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29:52

Johor Bahru Classical Music Festival 2017

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2017/07/26

The festival will offer popular symphonic music from ‘Star Wars’ to ‘West Side Story’, to a sacrificial tale of a Queen, and to love songs composed by a King. Our guest, a resident of Seremban, a cellist himself--he teaches, offers masterclasses and adjudicates in competition--shares on the terrain of classical music outside the Klang Valley and what needs to be done to aid it continue to grow. Our guests are later joined by representatives of the Philharmonic Winds of

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14:23

An Overseas Music Education

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2017/07/25

When singing with a tin-cup in hand so as to be able to continue to sing. The rising number of young people seeking a career in the world of classical singing runs smack into questions on funding and, in business speake, return of investment.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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12:04

A Singer’s Appeal

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2017/07/20

Stephanie, on her way to East 15 Acting School in the UK, stops by to tell us why she thinks it is important for her to continue her education in the theatre and honing her skills within an academy rather than be on stage practicing through doing. She shares her dreams and invites others to participate in it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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28:25

Remembering Lee Joo-For as Playwright

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2017/07/20

Penang-born Lee Joo-For passed away just a month ago in Australia, a country he migrated to in the 60’s. The world knows of him as a visual artist, yet he has left behind a corpus of plays that should earn him a prominent place in the history of theatre in our country. Sugu Kingham paints Lee Joo-For as a renaissance man who works with symbols both on his canvases and the stage, both traditional and unconventional empty spaces.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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