a series of dance performances

last week was a series of dance performance from fri to sun, as an audience. 

on friday evening i went to a black box performance at a very secluded area in woodlands to support my dance friend fionna. i can never imagine that there is a dance studio/black box in this bird dun lay egg place. and the cost is quite affordable! 15 dollars per hour to rent the dance studio! glad to meet kenneth, peter and angelene who were also watching on that day. 

fionna is the one in white dress with paint stains. i first got to know her in 2014 when she came down to the previous workplace as a dance instructor for the mass dance programme. got to know her better in jan 2015 when we were involved in a performance at JB. on the day when we had to go to JB she was late for 2 hours because she took the wrong bus from eunos, and as a result we went into JB during the peak hour and was stuck in the car for more than 2 hours, so we had nothing to do but to TALK, TALK and TALK. 

on saturday i painted the new house together with my in-laws. MIL can already be considered a professional painter because she always paint the house. i painted one of the bedrooms for our future child. darling wanted stripes so i spent at least half a day making measurements, drawing lines and pasting the masking tape, and finally doing the paint job. 

here's the outcome! 

not too bad for a first timer right? hahahaha. 

and in the evening i travelled from the north back to the east to watch guofeng's dance performance at goodman arts centre. this performance was done by sigma contemporary dance, and guofeng is the artistic director. he collaborated with this lady from indonesia (who was formerly from T.H.E), and i must say this performance was very well done. one of the nicest modern contemp performances i have watched so far. i love the incorporation of the drone in the performance! super cool. 

photos taken by jingkai, and this photo was featured in the straits times! congrats jingkai. :)

i know guofeng through 新艺. totally have no idea who was the one that invited guofeng to dance in the mongolian item (i am thinking that it was peter). from strangers initially to become beer brothers later on makes me realise how wonderful dance is in making new friends. guofeng look really good in dancing mongolian and i always look at him throughout the performance because of my poor memory in dance steps. hahahahaha. 

finally, on sunday, went to hokkien huay kuan with darling to watch Emergence 2016. xuehong and michael choreographed for this performance. dancing in xuehong's item are sandra, regina and viv. dancing in michael's item are zhunian and bin gege. 

love xuehong's concept in his item, in which the theme was the sense of hearing, and he used music from different eras and dancers wearing costumes from different eras to allow the audience travel to the past and back to the present. 

as for michael's item, i will never forget this signature move that uses the palm. hahahahaha. 

with the cast and audience from both NUSCD and 新艺。 i know i said this many times, but i am really thankful to xuehong for pulling me into NUSCD. if it wasnt for that, i wun have known so many friends, and wun have such an enriching experience as a performer. 

sunday was also our 111th month anniversary! we got together on 24102006. that day was 24012016. we celebrated our anniversary by having a wonderful and filling lunch at carousel. :)