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Favourite Thai Festival Returns   Thailand, 1 September 2010:  Dance enthusiasts have less than three weeks to secure bookings for their favourite shows at the "Bangkok 12th International Festival of Dance & Music" happening between 11 September to 24 October 2010. As always, the festival is packed with operas, symphony concerts, ballets and dances by renowned troupes from around the world, providing a rare opportunity for Thai audiences to experience arts and culture of international level.  Celebrating the festival's first circle anniversary in Thailand will be a total of 17 performances at Thailand Cultural Centre on Ratchadaphisek Road.  Read more about the dance performances here. Dance Malaysia:  Our Culture in Pictures   Malaysia, 31 August 2010: A PICTURE is worth a thousand words. To commemorate Merdeka, photographs are usually used to encapsulate the nation’s memory and reflect its aspirations. Exhibitions displaying the photographic legacy of the nation have been ubiquitous, demonstrating a consistent and collective effort at remembering the streams of nationhood in it’s many dimensions.  Hosted at the concourse of Bangsar Shopping Centre is “Dance Malaysia: Our Culture in Pictures”, a photo exhibition that captures the history and evolution of dance in our country through the decades. Scheduled to run until Sept 16, the photographs demonstrate the diversity of styles and traditions extant in the nation’s dance heritage, while reflecting the “becoming” of a dance tradition that can truly be called its own.  Read more here. Dentyne ConfiDance Movement Grand Finale Malaysia, 20 August 2010:  The Dentyne® ConfiDance Movement drew to a close with an explosive showdown as the top 10 Dentyne ConfiDance Movement finalists battled it out with their fancy footwork during the Grand Finale in Sunway Pyramid, PJ.  The grand finale saw the group Votion Force emerge as the champions having danced their way into the hearts of the judges and bagging the 1st prize of RM10000 in cash.  The competition was stiff as they were closely followed by 10 10 10 10 group that nabed the 2nd prize of RM6000 in cash and ECX group that took home the 3rd prize of RM4000 in cash.  All the contestants did not stop short of putting on an incredibly energetic performance that got the crowd going wild.  Read more here. DanDancvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Malaysia 4 September - Irama Padang Pasir 4 September - Aladdin Musical Dance Drama 4 September - Ya Sallam 5 September - Fire Poi with Charmer Singapore 4 September - Sg.Bboy Champs 2010 & Intl.Bboy Champs 2010 Philippines 3-5 September - September Gala India 23 August - 23 December - Dance Theatre workshop Japan 3-5 September - Tri_K Workshops & Talk Session China 3-5 September - 2010 WOW Linedance Spectacular - Shanghai Got Dance Events? Get them listed here for Free! Got Dance News? Send us your press release and  photographs. Need to Advertise? Get exposed to Asia's largest dance community here!  Highlight your events, festivals, classes,auditions, recruitment,  and other announcements.  Contact us today at:  asiadancechannel@ pixaruscommunications.com   Join us in vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Advertise here! AsiaDanceChannel Magazine:   Now available in Malaysia  and Singapore! The Jun-Nov 2010 issue comes with Singapore's Official Dance Directory,  free! www.asiadancestore.com  Singapore Singapore Arts Festival New experiments sometimes work and sometimes don’t but it’s always welcomed especially in the arts field where creativity holds the audience enthralled wanting for more. The Singapore Festival 2010 entered its 33rd year with a fresh outlook to create connections between people and art through its new theme Between You and Me – By Visithra Manikam Nijinsky Siam is No Tribute A century ago when Siam's Bud Mahinot Dance Company performed across Europe, the great Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky was so inspired that he created a solo called La danse siamoise. In slide projections, Pichet Klunchun showed Singapore what St Petersburg and Paris watched more than a century ago, and for those who understood classical Thai dance, it looked nothing more than an intercultural mishmash.  Cultural exchange between Asia and Europe has become more two-way than it was in the days when transportation was slow, but it's still far from balanced. Asians were always more interested in Europe anyway than vice versa.  Pichet's research is valuable as a reminder that, in an era of arts festivals and other forms of global cultural exchange, we need to understand what it is we're borrowing – By Pawit Mahasarinand  Malaysia Adam the Musical Adam the Musical is an uncommon love story with a twist.  Filled with objections for the bold and faithful love towards a HIV-infected person, it is a story that focuses on a couple-to-wed, both of them from different background, culture and religion: Adam, is a simple “Kampung” Muslim who works for the Malaysian AIDS Foundation. Slivia on the other hand, is a naive Catholic – By Michael Yao On Anxiety The keyboard and phone line are extensions of our lust. Pens and paper give birth to secrets. In this office, everything becomes so extraordinarily empty, even words fail. The performers were the stars of the night with their many expressions and elegant dance moves. Bravo to the Kwang Tung Dance Company for producing such a brilliant performance! – By Geraldine Choong Raghava, Yadhava As I was ushered into the MAS Auditorium by one of the students to my seat, she remarked that I must be lucky to get to watch all these shows. I told her well it depends on the show, if the show was bad I have to contemplate how to write the review to which she answered, “You won’t have to worry about that, this show will be amazing!” – By Visithra Manikam         Korea Changmu International Dance Festival 2010 The quality of the choreography by young choreographers that I was privileged to watch was refreshing. Can there really be new themes anymore? Art, Film, literature or dance continuously evolve around the same themes since the Greeks, but the challenge is to present it in “new” ways – By Joseph Gonzales India Arts for Change: Taking the Arts to Centre Stage  Dr Mallika Sarabhai, co-director of the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, offered a talk illustrated with video on the socially-engaged work of Darpana. Speaking autobiographically, Sarabhai spoke of her introduction to the idea that art could address social issues from watching rehearsals of a 1963 work created by her mother, the famed choreographer-dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai, on the theme of dowry death - By Dr Mallika Sarabhai and summarised by Dr Matthew Cohen