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Back From Kunstenfestivaldesart08! What the hell!!???
2008-05-30 12:44AM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
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yes!! it certainly was cutting edged, experimental, FUNKY!!! most of it i didn't understand, but didn't stop me from having a great time. I just came back from performing at the Kunstenfestivaldesart08 in Brussels. we were part of Ho Tzu Nyen's troupe in "The King Lear Project" (look for it in this year's Singapore Arts Festival!).

okay - it's very hard to explain what this piece is all about - but basically, it's a performance lecture about power structures within an audition process and likening it to the Shakespeare's King Lear.

Here's a large part of the reason why i had so much fun....Meet the gang...

a bunch of talented young actors from Singapore. I am old enough to be the girl in the red/white checked hat's mum - except that i'm so ill behaved :) nobody would want me to be their mu - except my own darling, but then, she's got no choice;)

so, to cut a long story short - the kunstenfestivaldesart is a rather well known arts festival for experimental theatre. highly conceptual, intellectual - give you an example - here's a look at how many people stayed for the question and answer and unlike in Singapore, MANNN!!!! they sure asked A LOT OF QUESTIONS!!! some very hard ones too. luckily, our director Tzu Nyen always had a reply.

often, they just gave their views...pity we were hungry (didn't eat before the performance and this is right after) so when your stomach is growling, hard to keep up. actually, hard to keep up anyway because belgian audiences are obviously very much in touch and interested in art concepts, and dialogue.

this is us in front of the audience...if we look blur, it's because we are...

okay, so not all of us were blur - but i wasn't all there - too hungry.

and where do we go each night when we're hungry??

the festival bar!!! it was a kool place - and the festival organisers sure knew how to get their participants together for some drink, some food, some commune - nice lah - all in the name of art. i felt like i belonged. i was happy to have been there as a part of 'them'.

see the people right up in front? they're all part of the Singapore contingent. see the strings all over the place - they're tied to pencils for people to draw on huge sheets of paper on the table tops. and you know, i've found out that when pencil and paper is around - EVERYBODY CAN DRAW, AND WILL. hahha. and what they draw is very telling of who they are...

here's mine....

waddya tink? i think i subconsciously want to be an anime.

something else i liked very much about the experience - there was this lady veronique who cooked at the canteen in KVS Theatre (the foremost flemish theatre in Brussels) for people working in the place. all you had to do was write your name on the board if you wanted a meal the next day while bumping in or whatever. she'd cook the most wonderful hot meals - cous cous, sausages, lamb, salads, fruit, fresh baked cakes, cookies, ice cream, breads and some sort of potatoes for you!

best of all, only 5 euros!!! and huge portions. friday is fish day.

here's an example...

yummy!

also - another very kool and unusual thing this festival provides for all its participants....BICYCLES!!! seems it's the best way to see the city - i certainly think so, but my bum hurts cos the Brussel roads are all COBBLED STONES! hahaha

this is my fellow actor Shu An (the one young enough to be my daughter) at CYCLO when we were getting our bikes...

and yeah - in case you're wondering, she's as talented as she is cute.

bumping in to a foreign theatre is not always the easiest thing - but well, with good pals around, we can always amuse ourselves...

there're always pictures to take for blogs you're gonna write.

and finally - when all was over - we adjourned to, where else, the festival bar (which was cryptically called "Flu Power Flu". if you have any clue, pl message me :) ) and talked, laughed, into the wee hours.

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路斯明
留言於2008-05-31 11:04AM [举报]

it looks the the school in Harry Potter.
Tan Kheng Hua
留言於2008-05-30 6:55PM

thanks for reading dear! i'm most appreciative :)
charlynlim89
留言於2008-05-30 6:49AM [举报]

Glad you had fun !!!

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Tan Kheng Hua

Kheng Hua is a well-respected, award-winning player in the Singapore English language arts scene.

Since 1985, she has been intensely involved in Singaporean television, stage and film productions, of all genres – musical, drama, comedy, devised/improvisational works as well as physical theatre and dance. She also has extensive experience in Corporate Affairs and Marketing, having worked with retailers CK Tang Ltd and FJ Benjamin Pte Ltd.

As an actress, Kheng Hua has been part of such landmark Singaporean theatre productions as Beauty World (Lulu), Descendants of the Admiral Eunuch (Ensemble) and Lao Jiu (First Sister/Ensemble) for TheatreWorks. More recently, she garnered rave reviews for her performances in Dangerous Liaisons by Toy Factory (Marquis du Merteuil); Blithe Spirit (Elvira) and Animal Farm (Clover) for W!ld Rice; The Blue Room (Model/Au Pair) for Fiction Farm; Autumn Tomyam (Marge) and Pillow Talk (DBS Life! Theatre Award, Best Actress) for Action Theatre. She played the lead in a ground-breaking trilogy of plays for W!ld Rice entitled Invitation To Treat – The Eleanor Wong Trilogy and won the Art Nation Best Actress Award for 2003.

On television, she is a household name as Margaret on Mediacorp Channel 5’s hit sitcom Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd (Asian Television Award, Best Comedic Performance by an Actress). In 2002, she complemented this comedic role with a successful dramatic turn in Mediacorp Channel 5’s wartime epic A War Diary (Highly Commended, Best Drama Performance by an Actress, Asian Television Award).

Other roles include leading role on AlterAsians: Iris’ Rice Bowl and feature film appearances in 12 Storeys; Mee Pok Man and Forever Fever. She has just finished filming her first lead in a full-length feature, a US/Singaporean independent film collaboration Cages directed by Graham Streeter. Cages was selected for the Pusan International Film Festival 2006 and was the closing film for the Prague International Film Festival. It also premiered on the Hallmark Channel as its first Asian movie. She also filmed a made-for-television feature The New Home, which was broadcast on Mediacorp Channel 5 in 2004.

Kheng Hua’s first major foray into Mandarin television, playing Lan Ying in Beautiful Connection, a highly acclaimed and top rating series starring Huang Biren, Aileen Tan and Xie Shao Guang. (Nominated, Best Supporting Actress, Star Awards).

As a host, Kheng has hosted Babytalk – a parenting series, and a popular talk-radio programme with Glenn Ong on 98.7FM called The Talk Show with Kheng and Glenn for teenagers. More recently, Kheng has hosted two seasons of Food Chain – which was Mediacorp 5’s highest rated infotainment series in 2003 and produced by The Moving Visuals Co.

For her contributions to the local arts scene, she has been accorded the JCCI Award, was part of a photographic exhibition entitled 21 Remarkable Women for AWARE, was one of the 12 invited guest writers for a coffee table book on Singapore entitled Feel Singapore and is listed in the book People at The Peak – The Who’s Who of Singapore within the Singapore Theatre chapter.

The Revenge of the Dim Sum Dollies at the Esplanade Theatre marked Kheng Hua’s foray as Producer of a theatre production. It was a great box-office and critical success, playing to nearly 20 000 Singaporeans. She is also produced Dim Sum Dollies! Singapore’s Most Wanted, staged once again at the Esplanade Theatre in August 2005. This show was seen by close to 24 000 Singaporeans and was voted Audience’s Favourite Production by local entertainment magazine I-S.

Always one to try new things, Kheng conceptualized and produced her first television serial, 9 Lives, for Mediacorp TV 12 in 2005. She also produced Little Shop of Horrors starring Dim Sum Dollies with Dream Academy, and following critical acclaim for 9 Lives, has created and is executive producer of another drama for Mediacorp TV 12, directed by leading Singaporean film-maker Kelvin Tong with Boku Films, entitled Do No Disturb. This ground –breaking improvised TV drama has garnered rave reviews from the local press.

Kheng Hua is currently working on a new improvised stage musical for teens 15-19 years old, to be directed by her husband, Lim Yu-Beng and produced under their company, Spare Room Pte Ltd.

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