Rasa Sayang in the Press - Buddha Body Series
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Reviews
Toy Yap's latest bucked the trend with a deep investment in emotion...demonstrated 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 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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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.
