movingtextApr 20, 20221 min readFinal Presentation Day 2 - 16 March 2022Click here to watch the entire open session for the Moving Text presentation.
movingtextApr 20, 20221 min readFinal Presentation Day 1 - 15 March 2022Click here to watch the entire open session for the Moving Text presentation.
movingtextMar 19, 20222 min readSession #10 – 22 Feb 2022We embarked on a new poem After Him, originally written as part of a poem-cycle White Sails Over Blue Blue Sea. This time, we launched...
movingtextMar 19, 20222 min readSession #9 – 9 Feb 2022Moving away from Singaporean texts, we explored an American text next, but with a classical theme of Greek myth. This text is adapted...
movingtextMar 19, 20222 min readSession #8 – 1 Feb 2022We continued exploring the Descendants text by sharing our individual research on Cheng Ho as a personage. Because the text says very...
movingtextMar 19, 20222 min readSession #7 – 25 Jan 2022We embarked on a new text – a prose work this time – the opening speech from Kuo Pao Kun’s Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral. Jon pointed...
movingtextMar 19, 20222 min readSession #6 – 18 Jan 2022One metaphor in Maybe Not Me that led to a lot of discussion was the ‘body underwater’. Applying another strategy from theatre, we asked...
movingtextMar 19, 20223 min readSession #5 – 11 Jan 2022We discussed various other strategies of engaging text that have been useful in theatre and other disciplines, in particular Speech Act...
movingtextMar 19, 20223 min readSession #4 – 28 Dec 2021In this session, we continued to discuss the relationship between form and content, and how we can combine them into a complete audience...
movingtextMar 19, 20227 min readSession #3 – 21 Dec 2021We started the session by asking Aiden how he would feel about showing last session’s raw improvisation to an audience? What value does...
movingtextMar 19, 20223 min readSession #2 – 14 Dec 2022Dreaming forward, we outlined some qualities that Moving Text should have : Organic – each moment must evolve from the moment before...
movingtextMar 19, 20224 min readSession #1 – 7 Dec 2021To lay a foundation for the upcoming process, the team began by discussing how contemporary dance and spoken word differ – in performance...
