Performances by Singapore Dance Theatre

[squadron]

Hi all - encouraged by the multiple-page review of Singapore Dance Theatre's (SDT) in October 2018's issue of Dance Europe, various folk and a current thread on Performances in the USA, I've finally decided to start a thread on layman audience reviews of SDT's performances. Brief history: SDT was started by the late Anthony Then, and Madam Goh Soo Khim (who was in the first cohort of students at the Australian Ballet School, and is the sister of the late choreographer Choo-San Goh); it has, in its repertoire, works by the likes of Balanchine, Choo-San Goh (of course), Edwaard Liang, Nils Christe, etc.

 

I note with trepidation the Guidelines regarding making the forum a conduit for one's own blog, but it's not a good idea to paste my reviews here as they are rather detailed (read: wordy), being meant both as a record for myself and for people who missed out on the performances.

 

Hence, I'll just leave the links to the performances reviewed by Dance Europe (October 2018). Hope they'll be of interest to someone here!  

 

https://balletbelatedetcetera.wordpress.com/2018/07/29/singapore-dance-theatres-30th-anniversary-gala-part-1-double-contrasts-and-the-configurations-pas-de-deux/

 

https://balletbelatedetcetera.wordpress.com/2018/07/29/singapore-dance-theatres-30th-anniversary-gala-part-2-linea-adora-and-sync/

 

https://balletbelatedetcetera.wordpress.com/2018/08/05/singapore-dance-theatres-30th-anniversary-gala-part-3-sync/

 

If there are any issues with this post, please do let me know. I have noted the Guidelines on flooding and if this post is allowed, I will only update the thread as and when there are reviews, if anyone is interested. Thank you!

[Sim]

Hello Squadron, and welcome to the forum!  We are very happy to allow links to reviews to be posted here, especially regarding companies such as SDT with whom many of us are unfamiliar. Although you say you have put the links to the Dance Europe reviews up, you have actually linked to your blog.  That is absolutely fine, but just pointing it out in case you want to add the DE links too.

 

We look forward to hearing more!

[squadron]

1 hour ago, Sim said:

Hello Squadron, and welcome to the forum!  We are very happy to allow links to reviews to be posted here, especially regarding companies such as SDT with whom many of us are unfamiliar. Although you say you have put the links to the Dance Europe reviews up, you have actually linked to your blog.  That is absolutely fine, but just pointing it out in case you want to add the DE links too.

 

We look forward to hearing more!

Hi Sim, thank you for your very kind words and welcome! Thanks for highlighting - I am so sorry, I didn't express myself clearly; I meant that I was linking my own reviews to the same performances that Dance Europe had reviewed because I believe the DE reviews are not available online. The link to the contents page is here - the review starts at page 42:

 

https://www.danceeurope.net/store/catalogue/issue-232_170/

 

Would love to edit the post above to clarify... Hopefully someone has also seen other versions of any of the works mentioned, and can share their thoughts too

[Sim]

Ah ok....that makes sense!  I will look forward to reading your blog tomorrow.  Please keep them coming!

[squadron]

17 hours ago, Sim said:

Ah ok....that makes sense!  I will look forward to reading your blog tomorrow.  Please keep them coming!

Thank you, Sim!