Click to download (9.9MB) - Updated 4 Sep 2021

Contents:

• Your Roots Are Showing: Asian Dramaturgies and (Hi)stories
• Tracing a Story/Line
• The Role of Dramaturgs in Asia
• Attending to the 'Offensive': Dramaturgical Work in Theatre and in Life
• On Dramaturgy and Body Politics
• Ongoing Mapping

Join us on 4 October 2021, 8PM SGT, for an online discussion of ADN Re/View (Vol. 2)! Practitioner-dramaturgs Gee Imaan Semmalar, Janice Poon, Helly Minarti and Kok Heng Leun engage in discussion as they respond to and unpack key points brought up in Vol. 2. < CLICK HERE TO REGISTER > GEE IMAAN SEMMALAR is an activist, writer, theatre artist and filmmaker. He completed his postgraduate studies in Arts and Aesthetics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He cofounded Panmai Theatre group along with Living Smile Vidya and Angel Glady in 2014. The debut production of Panmai theatre, Colour of Trans 2.0, which was devised by the founders based on their own lives as trans people, toured many cities of North America and India. Gee directed one of the first films on trans men in South India, Kalvettukal [Sculptures] in 2012. In 2015, he co-directed and acted in a stop motion animation film, Won’t the Real Transformers Please Stand Up?. In 2016, he acted in a road trip experimental film called Naked Wheels which covered the issues of trans people. His most recent performance was a collaborative piece with Raju Rage (London-based artist) and Aryakrishnan R (Kerala based artist) at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018. He uses art as a tool to explore identity, history, citizenship, caste and political action. JANICE POON is Senior Lecturer (Playwriting and Dramaturgy) and Academic Project officer at the School of Drama, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She is also the Artistic Director of Hong Kong Dramatists and a veteran theatre artist and cultural practitioner engaged in play-writing, directing, dramaturgy, curating and theatre-making with specific focus on contemporary dramatic text and dramaturgy in cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural theatre making. Her works have been presented in major cities in the UK, Europe, the US, Canada, China, Taiwan, Singapore and other regions in Asia. And Then, I Float was awarded four major awards, nominated for the best play award at the Hong Hong Theatre Libre (2014), and also invited as part of the cultural exchange project at the Schillertage festival in Mannheim, Germany (2015). Small Waisted (2016) won the Multi-cultural Short Plays Competition organised by the International Theatre Institute of UNESCO. Her curated project Dramaturgy and Beyond - Dance Dramaturgy series was nominated Outstanding Service Award at the Hong Kong Dance Award 2019. HELLY MINARTI lives in Yogyakarta, independently working as scholar/curator with focus on performance, rethinking radical strategies to connect practice and theory. Her main interest is historiographies of choreography as discursive practice vis-á-vis the eclectic knowledge that infuses the intricate understanding of human body and nature. She has been engaged in various curatorial projects in Indonesia and overseas, the most recent was Jejak-旅 Tabi Exchange: Wandering Asian Contemporary Performance (2018-2021). Helly earned a Ph.D in dance studies from University of Roehampton (UK) and has been invited to guest-lecture in Indonesia and abroad whilst pursuing her own research. KOK HENG LEUN is a prominent figure in the Singapore arts scene, having built his artistic career as a theatre director, playwright, dramaturg and educator. He is known for engaging the community on various issues through the arts, championing civic discourse across different segments of society. Having begun his work in the theatre almost 30 years ago, some notable directorial works include Drift , Trick or Threat, Manifesto and Underclass. His explorations with multi-disciplinary engaged arts has produced works like Project Mending Sky (2008, 2009 and 2012), a series on environmental issues, Both Sides, Now (2013, 2014 and 2017-2019), a project that seeks to normalise end-of-life conversations and It Won't Be Too Long, which touched on the dynamics of space in Singapore. His most recent work Tanah•Air 水•土：A Play In Two Parts was about the dispossession of the indigenous Malays and Orang Seletar of Singapore. Heng Leun's contributions to the arts have landed him awards from the Singapore National Arts Council – the Young Artist Award in 2000 and Cultural Fellowship in 2014. He also served as a Nominated Member of Parliament from 2016 to 2018, representing the arts sector.