State of the Arts! April 2012! Week 1!
April 2 to 8
The biggest news last week took place not in Singapore but across the Causeway. Singapore Dance Theatre was reportedly banned from performing in Malaysia last weekend due to “indecent costumes”. The country’s Information, Communications and Culture minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim had instead rebutted that no permit application had been submitted.
In Singapore, meanwhile, it was a week that brimmed with positive energy courtesy of a slew of shows and exhibition including Ho Tzu Nyen’s theatre comeback piece The Song Of The Brokenhearted Tiger; the final part of Tang Da Wu’s exhibition trilogy First Art Council Third Chapter: Waiting; the inaugural liTHE dance series by THE Second Company; and the second minimART art fair for emerging artists.
The Substation also re-launched its much-missed conference series with a thought-provoking discussion on the idea of art audiences. Resorts World Sentosa announced that its resident theatre show Voyage de la Vie will wrap up in July after a two-year run. Wisma Geylang Serai was revealed as the new name for the new Geylang Serai civic centre, which will be completed in 2016.
Finally, there was news that the Media Development Authority has sued a couple of local subsidiaries of an Australian company for S$27.5 million over unpaid loans and undelivered projects.