Melangkori - a work-in-progress showing

Saturday 9 May @ 7:00pm
Northcote Town Hall, High Street, Northcote

First of the Buddha Body series, experience this work-in-progress showing focussing on Malaysian shamanistic trance-practice.

Melangkori (melancholy) as a poetic beginning, arising from the sense of loss of someone or memory of a past.

Melangkori's relationship to emptiness in the sense of the overall theme of Buddha Body Series.

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Buddha Body

The triptych Buddha Body 1-3 will be comprised of three separate aspects that are the centrepiece for the concept of a virtual temple at the third stage.

The first part, Melangkori (Melancholy) will developed in April/May 2009 and a showing will presented on,May 9th Northcote Arts Centre Melbourne,

Buddha Body 1 - Melangkori;

Buddha Body 2 - Rasa;

Buddha Body 3 - Sayang

Buddha Body Series will draw on issues of trance, migration and identity as well as the language of emptiness and fulfilment in spirituality.

It will be a transposition of a language out of its original religious context and put it into a contemporary dance and theatrical context; creating a poem of what still reigns true and mythic in a complex era of metanarratives.

Ground work has been done for the investigation to capture the grammar of the shamanistic practices in Malaysia, Indonesia & Vietnam.

Through reflection and rehearsal, the artistic team will create a new choreography, music compositions, visual installations and Video digital work to culmulate into a cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural production; adding discourse to and diversify theatrical-dance languages employed in Australia.

We shall not look to simply imitate or even translate these practices.

Artists

Choreography/performer: Tony Yap
Dramatugy/Creative Collaborator: Ben Rogan
Musicians/Composers: Tim Humphrey & Madeleine Flynn
Visual Installation: Naomi Ota
Video artist: Bambang Nurcahyadi

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More Information

For more information contact Multicultural Arts Victoria www.multiculturalarts.com.au.