Kakiseni @ Urbanscapes : Highlights A Change is Gonna Come18 Aug 2011
We were entertained by a unique performance from Five Arts Centre & Sunway University Performing Arts students. The performed in the form of reciting a poem but with a twist. They added the aspect of choreography to their performance which gave it a nice dynamic.
Generally when we think of of someone reciting a poem, we loose interest quickly but Five Arts Centre & Sunway University Performing Arts students were clever to infuse choreography into poetry. The audience and ourselves, the Kakiseni team was really entertained and we enjoyed seeing classical performing arts being blended with the ideas of the modern day.
You guys can find out more about Five Arts Centre and they things do here at their website here!
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Action Choreography!18 Aug 2011
Ever watched action movies and wondered, "Do they really hit each other and if they do, how??" Kakiseni was proud to introduce a side of performing arts that very few know about, action choreography!
Low Angle Productions are a team of martial artists and action-movie enthusiast that choreographs and structure the action screen fighting. At Urbanscapes 2011, they performed a demonstration on how it takes action and re-action to make an action scene convincing.
Audiences were once again involved where they learned how to attack and defend, no-contact sequences of course. It was an entertaining and educational performance by Low Angle Productions.
To find out more about what they're all about or to get involve with them, check them out here and visit them at their facebook page!
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Tell Me Your Secrets18 Aug 2011
We were joined by Theatre for Young People, T4YP from KLPAC at Urbanscapes 2011. T4YP performed a very interesting and interactive performance called Room of Secrets. Audiences were asked to write their deepest secrets anonymously on a piece of paper and the actors from T4YP would perform those secrets. It was a new take on impromtu acting. This was one of several performances that had audience participation which is always nice to have at an event like Urbanscapes 2011.
T4YP from KLPAC is a programme that provides a platform for young individuals to express themselves through meaningful creative theatre.
If you'd like to be apart of T4YP or find out more about them, you can check them out here!
You guys can also follow them on twitter and check out their facebook page!
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White Percussion Unit18 Aug 2011
White Percussion Unit brought a different aspect of music to Urbanscapes 2011. They weren't a drum line nor any ordinary percussion group, they were in their on words "The Percussion With Contemporary Concept"
White Percussion Unit performed a very entertaining piece where their music and rhymes infused both of modern music genre and tradisional sounds. A very interesting and eye-catching performance. The audience and the space around Kakiseni was brought to life with their sounds and beats.
For more information on White Percussion Unit do go visit their website here or you can facebook them!
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New Era At Urbanscapes 201116 Aug 2011 
We had a no-script drama piece performed by Kolej New Era students where they performed an extract from their blackbox theathre "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Its a voyage between reality and imagination, the mundance and the celestial, heaven and eath, human and spirits. This particular scene was about 3 mental institute patients having a meal.
It was an interesting piece where it tested the audience's minds to fully understand what's going on because there was no script involved. Nevertheless, it was a very entertaining performance by students from Kolej New Era.
For more information about Kolej New Era performances organised by them, visit their website here.
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Makin' Noise Drumline Style05 Aug 2011 
At Urbanscapes 2011, Kakiseni kicked off their performances for the day with a drum line from KLDC. They rocked the crowd with their loud but skilled beats and rhythms. It was a great and new exposure for us all at Urbanscapes as drum lines are rare and fairly new to the arts community in Malaysia.
For that, we at Kakiseni would like to thank KLDC for their participation at Urbanscapes!
It was really nice to see that the performers from KLDC are mostly made up of youth members. This goes to show that the arts in Malaysia is not only growing in to be more diverse but also into the hearts of the youth in this country.
KLDC's drum line entertained the crowd and brought an astounding attention to the attendees of Urbanscapes with their creative and unforgettable loud groovy beats.
For all of you out there who are interested to join them in their drum-filled adventures or just watch them live in the person, go check them out on their facebook page!
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Thank You! 18 Jul 2011
*Click on Picture above to check out more pictures on the the Kakiseni Facebook Page!
This is a quick post to everyone who made Kakiseni's presence at URBANSCAPES a success last Saturday!
In no particular order:
- Big thank you to Urbanscapes for inviting us over in the first place and congratulations for an event well done!
- Quick shout out to the peeps who came to perform between 12pm-7pm!
- Kuala Lumpur Drum Corps and White Percussion Unit providing awesome live percussion music.
- New Era College performing arts students who did an exerpt from an upcoming production.
- KLPAC's T4YP performing a audience participation ROOM OF SECRETS.
- Low Angle Productions for a cool action workshop intro.
- Five Arts Centre & Sunway University College Performing Arts students who performed a movement & text piece.
- Nyoba Kan's Buto dancers! who performed an excellent Buto dance showcase.
- Aswara Dance Company who gave a little Zapin demonstration with about 20 people and got everyone around involved!
- Projek Disko Baldi with an side splitting comedy sketches in Malay and English.
- Douglas Lim who sang a little song which was a laugh a second!
- Poetry Slammers (Elaine Foster for arranging the gang!) for enthralling us with their spoken words.
More pictures and videos will be up soon!
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Michael Chen
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Twitter: @KakiseniTweets | www.facebook.com/mykakiseni About Aswara Dance Company16 Jul 2011
ASWARA Dance Company
ASWARA Dance Company—The Faculty of Dance of Malaysia’s National Arts Academy, originally known as Akademi Seni Kebangsaan (ASK and now known as Akademi Seni Budaya dan Warisan Kebangsaan, ASWARA) was established in 1994. It has since acquired a reputation for producing exquisite dancers and innovative choreography with a unique Malaysian identity. The Faculty of Dance has established itself as a premier force in Malaysia, with a repertoire of exciting dance works, that combines new ideas with traditional dance forms and multidisciplinary collaborations. This has led to innumerable awards, residencies and grants for students and graduates of ASWARA offered by prestigious Malaysian and international bodies. With Women on Top, the ASK Dance Company is launched as a registered professional dance company.
Link to their site HERE.
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Twitter: @KakiseniTweets | www.facebook.com/mykakiseni ABOUT Nyoba Kan16 Jul 2011The following is lifted from the Nyoba Kan facebook page:
nyoba Kan. The only Buto dance company in Malaysia.
(http://www.nyobakan.blogspot.com/)
Buto was pioneered by two founders, Hijikata Tatsumi and Kazuo Ohno in 1959 in Tokyo. They searched for a way to move that fit their bodies better, a way that was distinctly Japanese without being traditionally Japanese.
Buto is a mystery. It manifests peace or violence, slow or manic, grandly spectacular or painfully intimate, freely improvised or choreographed. Buto seems to go beyond from itself, resisting definition or explanation, yet profoundly transforming those who encounter it.
Buto is more than a dance form, the dancer using Buto to explore the difference state of the body and life.
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Twitter: @KakiseniTweets | www.facebook.com/mykakiseni About KLPAC's T4YP16 Jul 2011
T4YP provides a platform for young people between the ages of 16 to 25 the opportunity to express themselves by creating meaningful theatre. Our vision is to inspire and nurture imagination, confidence and creativity in young Malaysians through theatre.
Get the latest from them:
www.facebook.com/TheatreForYoungPeople
twitter.com/T4YP
Founded
April 2008
About
We extend a warm welcome to 15 new Ensemble members.
Company Overview
Under the auspices of The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (klpac), the T4YP young people's theatre programme provides a platform for young people between the ages of 16 to 25 to express themselves by creating meaningful theatre.
Mission
The T4YP vision is to inspire and nurture imagination, confidence and creativity in young Malaysians through theatre.
Products
T4YP is made up of 5 distinct components:
[The T4YP Ensemble]
The acting ensemble of T4YP.
[T4YP Brainery]
A short-term “drama school” for the T4YP Ensemble. To be held over a week every July of each year after the first T4YP production. Classes covering topics focusing on the actor’s craft will be conducted workshop & masterclass style.
[T4YP Lab]
The T4YP Lab (Conceptual Workshops) trains young directors, designers and writers in theatre-craft via the production of a minimum of 2 full length (min. 30-minute) plays over 4 months. Workshop performances in IndiCine followed by fully-stage performances in Pentas 2.
[T4YP Sweatshop]
A platform for all T4YP Ensemble members to present their own short original writing in small-scale workshop performances in Indicine.
[T4YP Hands On] (2010)
T4YP Hands On (Technical Workshops) covers a broad range of technical theatre aspects through on-going, practical training.
Website
http://t4yp.wordpress.com
http://www.klpac.org
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For Kakiseni,
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Twitter: @KakiseniTweets | www.facebook.com/mykakiseni LowAngleProductions : Action Choreo @ Urbanscapes13 Jul 2011Check out what our friends from Low Angle Productions will be doing! You can come and join in the video which will be shot too!
Here's a little note from the peeps in Low Angle :
"Join us and Kakiseni at the coming 2011 Urbanscape this 16 July 2011 at Padang Astaka Petaling Jaya.
Our little action workshop starts at 2pm @ The Courtyard in The KLue Corner.
For more info on Urbanscapes 2011 please visit http://www.urbanscapes.com.my . See you there!"
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Twitter: @KakiseniTweets | www.facebook.com/mykakiseni Kakiseni @ Urbanscapes Media Coverage13 Jul 2011Here are some excerpts:
NST coverage -
Adrian Yap, "He says his team has taken a new approach to make this year’s festival different from its predecessors. “One of the key things we’ve done is to work with more partners rather than doing everything on our own. We still curate and programme certain elements of it with our own media brands, but we’re also bringing in other areas and partners such as Kakiseni."
“In the past, individuals would have been engaged as performers and that would be the end of the relationship. This year, we wanted to work with the different entities,” shares Yap. “We let them have their space, offer them the infrastructure, and allow them to do whatever they want within their own space.
Michael Chen, "...performer and arts activist from Kakiseni, concurs. “It’s going to be exciting. Kakiseni was approached to do something to highlight the performing arts. I’ve managed to get quite a diverse group of people, from young guys who’re just stepping into theatre to veteran practitioners like Douglas Lim. I even have a bunch of local martial artistes"
"There’ll be dance, experimental theatre, movement and text, music in the form of a drumline, youth theatre from New Era and Sunway University, comedy in the form of sketches and stand-up and even stunts all in one day and at one place. Awesome!"
"Some of the performers under the Kakiseni umbrella include Buto dancer Lee Swee Keong of Nyoba Kan, KL Performing Arts Centre’s Theatre for Young People’s “Room of Secrets” interactive theatre piece, Projek Disco Baldi, and Aswara Dance Company."
Kakiseni’s marketing manager, Michael Chen asserted that Urbanscapes helps to expand the horizons of everyone involved: “The Malaysian creative community is seemingly small, niche and segmented. But upon attending an event like Urbanscapes, one would immediately realise that the creative community is a vibrant, overlapping one, and is a lot bigger than one would imagine.”
Kakiseni at Urbanscapes 201113 Jul 2011Kakiseni has been invited to be part of URBANSCAPES 2011 and we are proud to be there. We will be within the KLUE area, so come visit us!
We will be presenting a full day of various forms of performing arts for your viewing pleasure. And if you so wish, you may participate as well.
Here's a quick lo-down of what will be presented:
         
Kuala Lumpur Drum Corp aka KLDC:
"KLDC is the 1st independent and longest running Drumline group in Asia. We will be jamming and having some fun with drums and beats"
New Era Performing Arts Students:
"Performing a short piece entitled A DINNER IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL, a play with no lines and just music accompaniment."
KLPAC's 2011 T4YP batch:
"Performing ROOM OF SECRETS" Be part of this interactive theatre piece where the secrets you have been keeping to yourself form the basis of a half-hour of eye-opening entertainment.
Low Angle Productions:
"Will be choreographing and shooting an action sequence and you can be part of it too!"
Five Arts Centre & Sunway University College Performing Arts Students:
"Performing A CHANGE IS GONNA COME" , a movement and text piece.
Nyoba Kan: "Performing a Buto dance showcase."
Aswara Dance Company: Ever take part in a "Zapin Flashmob"?
Projek Disko Baldi: Malaysian Comedy Group presenting comedy sketches ala "Saturday Night Live".
Douglas Lim: Stand-up comedian extraordinaire will be putting on a little show for you!
More will be updated here shortly.
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For Kakiseni,
Michael Chen
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