Listen as speakers Ke Weiliang, Lee Shu Yu, Matt Lyon, Nabilah Said and Naeem Kapadia share their thoughts about Singapore theatre in 2021, including observations and shows they found memorable.

Mentioned in this episode: ArtsWok, Brown Voices, Checkpoint Theatre, Double Confirm Productions/Sight Lines Entertainment, Drama Box, Eng Kai Er, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Fezhah Maznan, Hatch, Hasyimah Harith/Body Troubles, Impromptu Meetings, INDEX, Isabella Chiam, M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, Nine Years Theatre, NOW Festival of Women, Pangdemonium, Rupa co.lab, Salty Ng Xi Jie, Singapore International Festival of Arts, STRIKE! Digital Festival, Teater Ekamatra, The Finger Players, The Necessary Stage, The Substation, The Theatre Practice, Wild Rice

This podcast episode was streamed live as part of Year In Review 2021 which took place on December 18 via Telegram. Year In Review 2021 was co-organised by Centre 42, ArtsEquator and Channel NewsTheatre in collaboration with ArtWave Studio.

Podcast 100: Singapore Theatre Year In Review 2021

ArtsEquator's theatre podcast is back in 2022, with critics Lee Shu Yu, Matthew Lyon and Naeem Kapadia in a post-show conversation about three productions at the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2022: The Essential Playlist by The Second Breakfast Company (Singapore), Being: 息在 by 微 Wei Collective and Collaborators (Singapore) and OK Land by Circle Theatre (Thailand).

This episode is part of Critics Live!, which aired live with an online audience on Telegram on 24 January 2022 via Channel NewsTheatre. Critics Live! is a critics-led programme series to give arts audiences an insight into how critics formulate their responses to performances.

Podcast 101: M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2022

In the latest episode of the ArtsEquator podcast, theatre practitioner Adib Kosnan chats with arts practitioners Corrie Tan, Elizabeth Chan and Chong Gua Khee on the work of CITRUS practices. CITRUS practices stands for Care, Intimacy, TRaUma-informed & Safer practices in the arts.

Podcast 102: Citrus Practices

In this latest ArtsEquator Theatre Podcast, Matthew Lyon, Nabilah Said and Naeem Kapadia discuss the recent production The Glass Menagerie, written by Tennessee Williams and presented by Pangdemonium. The cast comprised Catherine Grace Gardner, Jamil Schulze, Inch Chua and Salif Hardie, and the play was directed by Tracie Pang.

Podcast 103: The Glass Menagerie

In this latest ArtsEquator Theatre Podcast, Matthew Lyon, Nabilah Said and Naeem Kapadia discuss the recent production, Tartuffe: The Imposter, written by Molière and presented by Wild Rice. The cast comprised Ivan Heng, Benjamin Chow, Pam Oei, Oon Shu An, Jo Tan, Shane Mardjuki, Brendon Fernandez and Dennis Sofian, and the play was directed by Glen Goei.

Podcast 104: Tartuffe: The Imposter

In this episode, Nabilah Said, Dia Hakim and Corrie Tan discuss the Singapore International Festival of Arts that took place from the 20 May 2022 - 5 June 2022.

Podcast 105: SIFA 2022

In our latest podcast, Nabilah Said, Naeem Kapadia and Matt Lyon discuss Boom, a production by A Mirage.

Podcast 106: Boom

Burmese artists make art in exile in Thailand, finding refuge and showcasing cross-border solidarity for artistic freedom.

Art in Exile: Burmese Artist in Thailand

Researcher Linh Le interviews artist-curator Bill Nguyễn, in a wide ranging conversation about historical and contemporary censorship in Vietnam.

Freedom for artistic expressions in Vietnam.

Smokescreens and the Art of Deniability focuses on calibrated coercion and covert censorship in the arts, using examples from Southeast Asia, Europe and beyond. In this podcast, we highlight trends and tactics that are subtle, deniable, and hard to track — and explore how artists and organisations can resist them.

Smokescreens and the Art of Deniability: A Southeast Asia Artistic Freedom RADAR Podcast

At SeaShorts 2018, which took place from 1 - 5 August 2018 in George Town, Penang, we caught up with Cambodian film director, screenwriter and producer Rithy Panh, and Park Sungho, programmer for S-Express Cambodia (a selection of Cambodian short films at SeaShorts), who's also a programmer for the Cambodia International Film Festival. We discuss their experiences at SeaShorts and some of the issues surrounding and confronting the Southeast Asian filmmaking ecology.

Podcast 45 On Southeast Asian Film with Rithy Panh and Park Sungho

Ng Sze Min, a young emerging music composer and producer, whips up a song based on Akanksha's teenage poetry, and shares about the other projects that she has worked on as part of Artwave Studio, which she runs together with her partner. The studio is interested in interdisciplinary collaborative creative practices - mingling music and sound art with other artforms such as literature and performance, aspiring to be a space "for everything sound related in the arts to convene."

Tune into the interview x songwriting session and find out more about what Artwave Studio does here: http://artwave.studio/

Image credit: Poetry Festival Singapore.

Podcast 53 Songwriter on the Spot - Ng Sze Min, Artwave Studio

“When we want to talk about tradition and contemporary …  I see it as a kind of a recalibration, a relocation of form in this time and this space. Watching Raka and her group, to my eye, it was very difficult to say here is where tradition stops and here is where contemporary begins.”

Dance Podcast host, Dr Stephanie Burridge is joined by multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, movement educator, researcher and writer Nirmala Seshadri in a conversation that challenges the accepted descriptors of  ‘traditional’ and ‘contemporary’ in their discussion of CHOWK’s recent production of Pallavi in Time.

Podcast 13: Classical And Contemporary Indian Dance

Dr Stephanie Burridge is joined by Sufri Juwahir, co-founder of Soul Signature, to discuss two shows that took place in August: Era Dance Theatre’s Tumasik – Revisiting History and Rewriting Our Story, and Dance Ensemble Singapore‘s Pulsating Resonance《鸣。鼓》. In reflecting on these performances, the conversation evolves into a larger discussion on the meeting points of the traditional and the contemporary in the context of Malay dance and Chinese dance in Singapore and how the respective groups draw on traditional form but simultaneously, contemporise their work, for example: using the traditional form to explore the many ideas of how to use space.

Podcast 26: Traditional Malay and Chinese Dance in Singapore

Dr Stephanie Burridge and dancer Chloe Chotrani recap the da:ns festival 2017 by Esplanade Theatres on the bay, sharing their personal reflections on the shows they’ve seen. Chloe discusses the relevance of Eisa Jocson’s practice to Filipin@ sociopolitics, and how this comes through in Jocson’s double-bill of Macho Dancer and Corponomy, while Stephanie shares about the passionate, fiery flamenco form of Rocío Molina’s Bosque Ardora (performed by Molina with Eduardo Guerrero and Fernando Jiménez from Spain), Benjamin Millepied’s L.A. Dance Project, and some of the festival’s Rasas.

Podcast 30: da:ns festival 2017

Podcast host Chloe Chotrani (assisted by Chan Sze-Wei) uncovers the world of voguing in Asia from legendary mother, Koppi Mizrahi, who hails from Tokyo, Singaporean drag queen Vanda Miss Joaquim and Singaporean dancer Amin Alifin. The interview was done shortly after Singapore's first vogue ball, Crystal Ball, was held on 27 April 2019 at The Projector, organised by local group Vogue In Progress. Whether you're a fan of Paris Is Burning or a newbie, you can learn more about why voguing matters, the significance of "houses" as safe spaces and why that death drop may not be a death drop.

Note: The podcast ends with a chant that contains explicit language.

Podcast 59: The Truth About Voguing In Asia

ArtsEquator speaks to Lyn Lee, Nirmala Seshadri and Soultari Amin Farid about Nanyin, Kavadi Attam and Dikir Barat. This is a follow-up on ArtsEquator's series of animated videos "10 Things", which sheds light on these three traditional artforms.

Podcast 84: Dikir Barat, Kavadi Attam and Nanyin,

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