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29/8/2003

Suites of a stranger taste

The Substation Gallery, Singapore

Warmest greetings from The Substation, this is to announce the following collaboration between viola de gamba player Shaun Ng, who was listed as one of top ten upcoming artists in Singapore in The Arts Magazine, Cyril Wong, who has been termed Singapore's 'premier love-poet', and Bharatanatyam exponent Arul Ramiah, Associate Artist of The Substation. Hope you will help us spread the word about this one-night-only performance. Details of this intimate performance are as follows:

SUITES OF A STRANGER TASTE, BOOK 1
Co-Presented by The Substation By Shaun Ng
Featuring Arul Ramiah, Cyril Wong
& Short-Film by Tania Sng

Viola da gamba player, Shaun Ng, leaves behind the world of Baroque music and delves into the mediums of poetry, dance and film. This process of experimentation brings us on a journey of collaboration. To the poetry of Cyril Wong, Shaun performs his own compositions. To a short-film by Tania Sng, Shaun expresses the pathos of old-age. To the dance of the Bharatanatyam by Arul Ramiah , Shaun Ng goes on a journey of discovery, a three-way conversation between Arul Ramiah, Shaun Ng and Cyril Wong that reveals the genesis and growth of the artist.

About The Performers
Shaun Ng is a musician and a composer. After gaining a scholarship in 1998, he moved to Europe to study the viola da gamba and baroque violin with many of the best practitioners of early music. Over the years, his teachers include Mieneke van der Velden (Amsterdam Conservatory), Margaret Faultless and Oliver Webber (Royal Welsh College of Music) and José Vázquez (Musikhochschule Vienna). He is in great demand as a solo performer and appears regularly with his ensemble Musica Obscura (Singapore) as well as other well-known ensembles. He often collaborates with harpsichordists for his solo recitals and have appeared in many prestigious venues in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Since his debut recital at The Substation's Septfest in 2001, he has devoted much effort into The specialisation of the unaccompanied repertoire for viola da gamba. His concerts have been received with resounding enthusiasm, with favourable articles and reviews in the Arts Magazine, The Straits Times, The Business Times and other periodicals. He was featured on the x{2018}Art Nation' programme on the Arts Central Channel and was appointed an Associate Artist of the Substation.

Arul Ramiah is a seasoned dancer with over two decades of performance experience locally and abroad in both Bharata Natyam and modern dance forms. Trained both in Singapore and in India under one of the foremost Bharata Natyam dance exponents, K.J Sarasa, Arul's latest creative endeavor - a multimedia show cum photo installation entitled 'Abhinaya - My Journey of Return' was an unqualified success. Hailed as a groundbreaking approach to Bharata Natyam, the show challenged many of the conventional Bharata Natyam ways of thinking and breathed new life into the ancient art form. Recently Arul was invited to share her modern approach to an ancient art form with Singapore Dance Theatre's Mei Xin for a local documentary series called 'Go Tutu Go.' For her next show at the Substation Arul is experimenting with Bharata Natyam set to poetry and the viola da gamba. Arul hopes to continue innovating in the field of dance by working with artists from other disciplines and other cultures.

Cyril Wong is the author of three collections of poetry: Squatting Quietly, The End Of His Orbit, and Below: Absence. Internationally, his poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Santa Clara Review, Tryst, River King Poetry Supplement, Di-Verse-City, and Slope from America, Papertiger #2 and Cordite from Australia, as well as Silverfish New Writing 3 from Malaysia.
He was nominated by Prose Ax for the 2002 Pushcart Prize. Locally, his poems appeared in Capsule, Singa, Onewinged, QLRS, No Other City, Love Gathers All, From Boys To Men, Silverkris, and WOW magazine. He has been invited to the Hong Kong International Literary Festival and the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2003. In 2002, he was invited to the Austin International Poetry Festival and the Queensland Poetry Festival. He was a co-creative coordinator for Poetry In ACTION!, a segment of the Second 42 Theatre Festival started by Action Theatre on 15 Nov 2001, in which his poem "Love Poesies" was performed by actors directed by Sam Haren and Jonathan Lim. In 2002, his poem "One-Track Vision" was adapted into a short-film by Aquafire Productions. His words have been set to music by Zechariah Goh, and he also wrote the soundtrack for The Slipper Frame, a short-film by Aquafire Productions. He is a co-editor of the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, and a guest editor for The 2nd Rule.

Tania Sng runs Aquafire Productions, which is focused on merging corporate ideals with creative art forms. Her passion lies in creating experimental documentaries, and teaching and nurturing all who want to learn the filmic language. She graduated from Ithaca College as Most Outstanding Student in Cinema Production in 1999. Her most recent short film, Little Girl Shoes, premiered at The Substation's Singapore Shorts Film Festival 2001 as part of the Five Stars Project, a commissioned project by The Substation. It was screened this year at the Sarawak Millennium Film Festival and the 7th Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards 2001. She is currently completing a new short film.

Date / Time: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 (8pm)

Tickets: Pay-What-You-Want

For inquiries, do call 63377535

Venue: The Substation Guinness Theatre

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