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Highlights

The Rain Came Down Like Pearls The Night I Died... The New Musical - Sing & Tell - (Singing & Narrative)
Music, Lyrics and Libretto/book: Mark Chan
UCC Dance Studio
12 & 13 Mar, 8pm
$15 per person (Chairs) & $5 per person (Floor Seating)
80 pax per session
A Japanese woman, Miyumi Endo, is sent to Singapore as a spy for her country in 1938. Beautiful, charismatic, but also vulnerably passionate she makes the one unforgivable mistake, she falls in love with a Singaporean, the debonair, dashing, handsome Dr Henry Wong.

Their affair goes horribly wrong as Japan invades in 1942. Through a cruel play of fate and mistiming, they never see each other again and their secret child is lost in the chaos of war.

This is the love story of Miyumi's ghost and the two men in her life.
Crossing time and place, it moves forward irresistibly to its spellbinding conclusion where Vengeance and Happiness play out on stage. Filled with intrigue, love, murder, the revealing of dark secrets, returning ghosts, and beautiful, unforgettable songs "The Rain Came Down Like Pearls The Night I Died" with its stellar cast of singers: Jacintha, Gani Karim, Denise Tan ; and musicians : Belinda Foo on piano, Leslie Tan on cello and Joe Jeyaveeran on percussion, is a performance you must not miss!

Written by Mark Chan, one of Singapore's premier composers and songwriters, immerse yourself in this intimate and powerful 'Sing & Tell', where Mark plays storyteller.

"Sometimes love dies, sometimes love survives."

Director/Concept: Mark Chan
Assistant Director: Jeremiah Choy
Producer: Michele Lim
Production Company: Orangedot Management
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Dance

Anweshana: The search for Nalanda
NUS Indian Dance
UCC Dance Studio
05 Mar, 8pm
$8 per person
60 pax per session
Nalanda - the lotus and the giver of knowledge - was the name of one of world's first great global universities that flourished in 7th Century AD in India, bringing together thousands of students from all corners of Asia over a period of 700 years. Narrated in Bharatanatyam, NUS Indian Dance partners ISEAS (Institute of South East Asian Studies) and ACM (Asian Civilizations Museum), to explore why Nalanda remains an important Asian symbol, the excavation of which uncovers a uniquely Asian cultural heritage, that once united the people of this vast continent.
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B
Kiran Kumar
UCC Theatre Green Room
06 & 07 Mar, 8pm
$8 per person
15 pax per session
B takes a look at entertainment, performance, performer and spectator. In oder not be hastily categorized as an 'entertaining work' or as a 'work about entertainment', it is apt to recall writer, Manjula Padmanaban's response in an interview about her novel, Escape:

Its a pity that 'serious' and 'entertaining' are often viewed as mutually exclusive.

Yes...I don't know if Escape is an entertaining book, but its not scholarly either. It requires the reader to stretch his/her imagination. It offers a type of pleasure that I believe is specific to literature - not funny haha entertaining, but it tickles nerves that all of us have, but not all of us can access consciously.
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Music

Teng Ensemble in Concert
Teng Ensemble
UCC Dance Studio
06 Mar, 8pm
$10 per person
80 pax per session
The Teng Ensemble, a collective of awardwinning classical instrumentalists - Yang Jiwei (Sheng), Dr Samuel Wong (Pipa), Lim Yi Benjamin (Composition/Guitar), Gerald Teo (Cello), reinterprets folksongs and popular tunes in this lecture-presentation-concert with friends - Shane Thio (Piano), Chan Yoong-Han (Violin)and Wilson Goh (Voice). In an interactive, informative, personal and relaxed setting, the concert will break the players' classical conventions and blur the lines between traditional, popular and contemporary - the trademark performance ethos of The Teng Ensemble.
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Compositions and Brazilian Rhythms
WVC TRiO + 1
UCC Dance Studio
07 Mar, 8pm
$10 per person
70 pax per session
WVC TRiO's first album was partly inspired by the Brazilian rhythms they loved. Having heard the amazing Hamilton de Holanda in Malaysia and the States, they delved into this passionate form of music. They believed that jazz was not just about swing and blues, but a flexible genre that encompassed various sounds. This concert features the trio's original compositions as well as compositions by great Brazilian musicians such as Nelson Faria and Hamilton de Holanda. WVC TRiO + 1 are Tay Cher Siang (Piano), Benjamin Lee (Saxophone), Vincent Ong (Bass) and Adam Osmianski (Drums).
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R.O.J.A.K
NUS Electronic Music Lab
University Cultural Centre
12 - 14 Mar, 8pm
$10 per person
12 pax per session
This sonic journey through the history of Singapore is presented in a sprawling soundscape installation that mixes ingredients from colonial times, Eastern tradition, postwar expressions of independence, through to the globalisation of the present day. R.O.J.A.K. is a curated tour through unexpected locations, where installations allow the audience to experience and interact with objects, sounds and music of different eras, as interpreted through the lens of original electronic processing. The tour culminates in a performance that blends old and new, East and West, electronic and acoustic, sounds and melodies, that reflect the international melting pot we live in. Playing an array of computers, electronic instruments and interfaces, EML tops off R.O.J.A.K. with music unusual yet highly appetising. Come and enjoy R.O.J.A.K., you'll find it to your taste.
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Screenings

Art-ifacts: The Durian Complex (Installation cum film screening)
nuSTUDIOS Film Productions
UCC Theatre Green Room
19 Mar, 8pm & 9.30pm 20 & 21 Mar, 3pm, 4.30pm, 8pm & 9.30pm
$8 per person
15 pax per session
Film, as an art form or popular entertainment, is generally a passive medium, requiring the viewing of a completed work rather than an artistic process. This installation aims to allow audience interaction with film by creating a space for audiences to view a single film in different components, forming an impression based on its parts before watching the film as a whole. This allows the audience to appreciate film as an art form in closer proximity, moving beyond a two dimensional space to one that enables the use of all senses.
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