Name: Diving (As I Stepped...) by Aik-Wee Yak
Duration: 5 min 15 s
Description: 2007, text and music, performed at Contradiction, a part of Indignation 2007. All speech that are panned to the right were spoken live at the performance.

2007, text and music, performed at Contradiction, a part of Indignation 2007. All speech that are panned to the right were spoken live at the performance.

Diving (As I Stepped...)

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Yak Aik-Wee (b.1972) is a composer and playwright born and based in Singapore. 

Original music compositions for dance productions include Water Footprints, commisioned for the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize 2009, Subtext ii Singapore and Guangzhou (Mayhem Project), GHOST (Crow Jane), FireBall (ECNAD). Theatre pieces My Beautiful Companion (Theatreworks) and Lonely Planet (luna-id). Musicals Sam's List (SouthEast CDC/Thinking Theatre) and Live It Up! (NorthEast CDC/Thinking Theatre.

Plays include Streetwalkers, which won the Best New Play award at Action Theatre's Theatre Idols 2009 and went on to receive a successful staging in August 2009; Lester's List, a 10-minute play staged at Short & Sweet Syndey 2009, Top 100; and Short & Sweet Singapore 2007, Top 20. He also wrote and directed Live The Singapore Dream and Trash Town, two 30-minute plays for produced by Creative Tree Productions, currently staged at local primary and secondary schools across Singapore.

Diving (As I Stepped...)

Aik-Wee Yak

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