Tony Yap Company in association with Multicultural Arts Victoria presents the Australian premiere of

Rasa Sayang - Buddha Body Series @ fortyfivedownstairs

Thursday-Sunday 22 - 25 April 8pm
@ fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

Rasa sayange... rasa sayang sayange
Eeee lihat dari jauh rasa sayang sayange
Feel the love... feel the love
Look from afar feel the love

Rasa Sayang is a new interdisciplinary performance work, part of a series of productions developed by long term collaborators director/dancer Tony Yap, musicians/composers Tim Humphrey and Madeleine Flynn, visual artist Naomi Ota, and creative collaborator Ben Rogan.

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Toy Yap's latest bucked the trend with a deep investment in emotion...demonstrates how dance can be as powerful a mediam of raw feeling as narrative-based theatre... John Biley - The Sunday Age.

The space brims with latent engery..despite its tiny scale, this work has an epic vibe that is driven by Yap's ability to sustain his trance-like state from start to finish...Four Stars. Jordan Beth Vincent - The Sunday Age.

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Rasa Sayang

Rasa Sayang is the result of Tony Yap's two-year Fellowship from the Dance Board Australia Council of the Arts.

Highly prestigious and awarded only to established artists, a Fellowship is an opportunity awarded only once in an artist's lifetime.

Tony has deeply researched Indonesian and Malaysian shamanistic and trance dance traditions, melding them with his practice in Butoh and Grotowski Theatre, and his background in visual arts, to produce a unique approach to contemporary performance-making.

Sayang, meaning 'love' in Tony's native Malaysian, is the name of his mother, the inspiration for the work. Rasa Sayang will bring together traditional spiritual themes from East and West in a contemporary visual architecture.

Tickets & Bookings

The Rasa Sayang visual and sound installation is open free of charge from 6pm to 7.30pm each night, when audience members are invited to witness the preparations and pre-performance rituals of the artists.

The performance will take place at 8pm nightly. Audience members are encouraged to attend more than one performance, and special discounts are available.

$30 full, $25 concession; Bookings Ph (03) 9662 9966

Buddha Body Series

Rasa Sayang is part of Tony Yap Company's Buddha Body Series, an investigation into the idea of emptiness. The first in the series, Melangkori ('melancholy') was show in Melbourne in 2009, and the film version has screened in festivals in the UK, Amsterdam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia, to critical and audience acclaim. 'Emptiness' is loosely translated as the transient nature of vanity. In Eastern traditions such as Buddhist philosophy and Taoism, emptiness (Sunyata) is a realised achievement: a presence of absence.

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Tony Yap Company creates performance experiences that are visceral and spiritual, deep and simple at an elemental level, resonating for audiences on multiple levels, and crossing cultural, social and economic divides. Since 2008 the company has performed in Indonesia, China, Vietnam, Japan, Malaysia and Korea, as well as having a strong following in Melbourne.

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Supporters

Tony Yap Company is supported by Multicultural Arts Victoria and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.