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2009
August (20-23 August)
> The Buddha My Body – A Palimpsest – an international collaboration more...
June (19 June)
> Difficult Majesty – a collaborative mix-medium installation with visual artist Anthony Pelchen and film maker, Sean O'Brien. Difficult Majesty will be performed in Ballarat at the Gold Exchange Gallery.
June (6-7 June)
> Project 2222 – A collaborative dance theatre in collaboration woth Lequyduong company, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. This was presented at the Shanghai International Experimental Festisval.
May (9 May)
> Buddha Body 1 - Melangkori – As part of Tony’s fellowship with the Dance Board of the Australia Council, one of his primary goals is to enrich his professional skills in the tradition of Javanese dance and vocal work. In September last year, Tony studied under the master, R.Ay Sri Kadarjati Ywandjana (Ibu Kadar) and make further investigation into trance dance practices as a major preperation for the first creative development of Buddha Body Series. This series will draw upon issues of migration and identity as well as the language of ‘emptiness’ and ‘fulfilment’ in spirituality.
Melangkori (melancholy) as a poetic beginning, arises from the sense of loss of someone or memory of a past. Melangkori's relationship to emptiness is the sense of the overall theme of Buddha Body Series. This work continues the long term collaborative project of Tony, Madeleine Flynn, Tim Humphrey and Naomi Ota as the core members of TYC. Bambang Nurcahyadi and Ben Rogan joins the artistic team in this process of development. more...
April (5-11 April)
> Edge – an installation/performance with visual artist, Anthony Pelchen, Palimpsest Festival, Mildura Victoria more... www.pulserooftop.com
April (17 April)
> Difficult Majesty – a collaborative mix-medium installation with visual artist Anthony Pelchen and film maker, Sean O'Brien. Difficult Majesty will be performed in Mildura as part of the Palimpsest Biennale Festival.
February-March (25 Feb-8 March)
> Past Caring – a collaboration between TYC and TNS (The Necessary Stage, Singapore) will season at The Necessary Stage, Singapore more...
Inspired by the title of a poem by Australian writer Henry Lawson, Past Caring is an inter-disciplinary theatrical collaboration involving artists from Singapore and Australia.
Urgent issues of adoption, displacement, family, land and journey will be weaved together into a complex and contemporary presentation of text, music, multimedia and movement.
In a year-long process, the project involved artists making field trips, conducting interviews and creating and presenting nascent works in Singapore and Melbourne.
2008
December (12-14 Dec)
> The Buddha My Body -Palimpsest will be performed at ARKO Theatre, Seoul, South Korea more...
November (14-16 Nov)
> The Buddha My Body -Palimpsest International collaborative development with Nottle Theatre Co. Sth Korea, Paguyuban Seni Surya Kencana Indonesia and Tony Yap Company will be performed at performed at Taman Sari (Water Palace), Jogjakarta, Indonesia
September
> Sen Siao (Fellowship Program) Dance Film development with Sean O'Brien and masterclass/choreographic development with Ibu Kadar, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
2007
December
> Palimpsest International collaborative development with Nottle Theatre Co. Sth Korea, Paguyuban Seni Surya Kencana Indonesia and Tony Yap Company (see repertoires/projects)
November
> E1 Presentation at BIWAKO BIENNALE, Japan
http://www.arts.australia.or.jp/english/events/0711/tonyyap/
Tony Yap Company (tyc) will be participating in a cultural exchange residency for two weeks at the 3rd Biwako Biennale (Oumi-hachiman city, Shiga, Japan) - [the performance is scheduled as the biennale's closing event on 18th November 2007.] Biwako Biennale 2007 is themed Spirit of Place: Genius Loci where the uniqueness of (a) place in an increasingly mass produced and globalised world may be addressed. Biwako Biennale will bring together in this unique place artists from all over the world and provides a great opportunity for artistic creations, collaborations and intercultural exchange. The genius loci theme of The Biwako Biennale fitted closely with E1.
> BB07 - Beyond Butoh Festival. Co-curators Tony Yap & Yumi Umiumare in partbership with Multicultural Arts Victoria and Ausdance Victoria. 8 & 9 November 2007 at Reading Room, Fitzroy Town Hall @ 8pm
BB0# series has been directed, curated and facilitated by Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare since 2001 to provide the local Butoh communities an opportunity to investigate, explore and stretch the limits of what we understand as the intrinsic meaning of Butoh. The long-term vision for this series is a grander scale festival encompassing all idiosyncratic interpretation of Butoh in performance from local and International artists.
In BB07, Tony and Yumi will curate ten selected short works of 7minutes in length. This event will be performed in the very intimated space at Reading Room in Fitzroy Town Hall.
This year’s BB07 will focus on the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’.
August/September
> E1 (solo version) Presentation at The Centre for Professional Training and International Exchange in Performing Arts, Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam. Seven-day workshop.
> Interactive workshops with dancers from Amrita Performing Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
June
> E1 Presentation at Asian Arts Market, Singapore, 3 june Esplanade, Singapore Website: www.esplanade.com or www.asianartsmart.com
March
> IMPROV LAB
FortyFive Downstairs Fri-Sat 9-10 March @ 8pm and Sun 11 March at 5.00pm
Web: http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/sections/whats_on/boxoffice/event_details.asp?EventID=1897&sm=1&ss=1
> The Crossing Presentation at Loch Island, Murray River, Mildura, 16, 17, 18 March
THE PROJECT SUMMARY:
The Crossing is a performance event on Loch Island, Murray River, Mildura inspired by local stories about the island, the river and untold histories. This is a collaborative work which is a poetic and ritual performance about spirit expressed through dance and evocative cameos of new and untold stories gathered, translated and performed by the local Koorie dances and musicians and invited Victorian Butoh dancers. The work seeks to articulate shared histories in a marriage of both local and international performance art forms by re-presenting a history of the under represented past and present. It is a contemporary expression of the spirit of place that will symbolically weave and acknowledge overlapping histories.
The artistic objectives are to make a new performance artwork in creative collaboration with The NSW Tafe; Koorie Unit, The Victorian College of Koorie Education and the performance artist, Jill Orr. The work seeks to communicate to audiences and participants alike, through the earthed energy of dance and music in both Aboriginal and Butoh dance forms. Both forms focus on highly centred and emotionally charged energy, which is different and complementary enabling the creation of potentially powerful image making. The distinct dance forms will create the physical language used to articulate a culturally different historical and contemporary experience.
January-February
> RIAU Cross-cultural, cross-medium collaboration in Gwangju, Sth Korea (Little Asia Creators Meeting) 21 Jan-11 Feb
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