NUS Arts Festival 2008

NUS Arts Festival 2008
Arts + Entertainment
15Feb - 23Mar
www.nus.edu.sg/cfa

The annual NUS Arts Festival (NAF) is back!

Every year, NAF showcases the arts through creative partnerships with the various faculties within NUS and also external industries. This year, CFA has injected a unique medical focus into the festival and some programmes marry Arts + Medicine.

Over the 6 weekends during NAF, NUS talents from all our 21 CFA groups will put up a series of events - performances, workshops and film screenings!

We shall introduce them one by one here! Feel free to click on the posters!

Hip-Hop Nite 08 by NUS Dance Blast!

Watch as teams battle it out in this exciting and electrifying annual hip hop competition to win up to $600 worth of Fila products! Do not miss performances from the vibrant and talented NUS Dance Blast! A night of thrill and fantastic dancing!

Varsity Voices 2008: Temptations by NUS Choir
The apple symbolizes temptation, which represents the theme of the concert as the NUS Choir explores Man's greatest desires and temptations. With a potpourri of pieces from various parts of the world, each reflecting on Man's longing for love, peace, freedom and fictory, the NUS Choir presents a tempting musical feast to your ears and soul.

Bharata Culture 2008: Mahabaratha by NUS Indian Instrumental Ensemble (IIE)
Led by Music Director Rajendra Vadivale, IIE will present a musical drama this year, for the very first time. IIE will be bringing you through one of the most important and well-known Sanskrit epics of ancient India, The Mahabaratha.

_ _: 59 by NUS Dance Synergy

The precision of time guarantees a multitude of emotions and experiences that life has to offer. Just as there is a time to weep, to laugh and to mourn, there comes a time to dance. Join NUS Dance Synergy in this exploratory production as they reflect upon times past, seize the present and contemplate the nebulous future that awaits.

GENUS 2008 by NUS Guitar Ensemble
Enjoy a night of passionate guitar music with the NUS Guitar Ensemble, led by Music Director & Conductor Dr Robert Casteels, as we present to you Classical, Spanish and Italian guitar music at its best. Come with us as we guide you through the streets of Cadiz and brace yourselves to be swept away by the fiery heat of Tango music.

Thall - The Rhythm of Life by NUS Indian Dance

In this performance, watch how the Indian Dancers create rhythmic patterns that are choreographed in five different kinds of rhythmic cycles which make up the traditional formation of Pauchai Nadai.

Touch 2008 by NUS Piano Ensemble
Be enthralled by a unique blend of repertoire and style across time and place. Within a short two hours, Touch 2008 will unravel the richness and versatility of the piano repertoire from the American jazz-influenced twentieth-century pieces of Gershwin, across the Romantic era in Russia and Germany, and finally to the delicacy and lyrical quality of composers from the classical era.


Soirée 2008 by NUS Harmonica Orchestra

This year, together with renowned harmonica master, Yasuo Watani as guest player, and Evergreen Harmonica Ensemble as guest performing group, the orchestra led by Ms Josephine Koh will serenade you with pieces like America (West Side Story), Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid), Toledo, and Jewish Folksong.


The Flame in the Night by NUS Symphony Orchestra
Let NUS Symphony Orchestra serenade you into a night of acclaimed pieces that includes Stravinsky’s The Firebird Suite, Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C Minor. Cellist Elizabeth Tan from Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music performs as soloist with the Orchestra led by Maestro Lim Soon Lee.

Film:Treatment by nuSTUDIOS Film Productions [English]
1 Mar, 8pm, UCC Courtyard
Experience a night of medical related local short films produced by nuSTUDIOS Film Productions. In Our Own Words is a 20-min documentary about a quest of two young kidney patients on a mission to change societal perceptions. Other films that will be featured include Cyprus, AIDS Re-Education and Paint Me a Colourless Rainbow. Get a chance to meet the stars and filmmakers during the dialogue session after the screening.

Bumi Mekah Langit Membelah by NUS Ilsa Tari
Accompanied by live music, this unique dance performance unveils in its finest artistic nature, the different traditional medicine used amongst the Malay community. Be exposed to an array of moves that will bring you to a greater height in understanding the Malay culture. Culture is rich in this intense display of energy through various traditional and contemporary moves.


《塔尖。吸血鬼》by NUS Chinese Drama
Through two seemingly unrelated short performances, the actors attempt to make you aware of how all of us can be trapped in our daily interpretation of life’s standards and ideals. This double-bill will make you ponder, through reality and imagination, the conflict of values and the perceptions of life.


Evocation by NUS Dance Ensemble
Since the poster is of low resolution: 7Mar 8pm, 8Mar 3pm & 8pm, UCC Theatre. Free Admission.
Enjoy NUS Dance Ensemble’s varied talents through original works by its budding choreographers during Evocation. Led by resident choreographer Zaini Mohd Tahir, NUS Dance Ensemble has established a reputation for its impressive versatility and repertoire.


Psyche by NUS Chinese Dance
Explore mental health issues and life‘s daily stresses through contemporary Chinese dance. See how our dancers expose these internal struggles through expressive body movements in a way that you may relate to your lives.

Fiesta Rondalla by NUS Rondalla

Led by Dr Joseph Peters, founder and Music Director / Conductor, NUS Rondalla will present a documentary-style concert showcasing best works from its line up of composers and arrangers, including newly trained student arrangers. Come and be part of the revival of this rare form of music making in Singapore with exotic instruments like the bandurias, lauds, octavinas, mandolas, mandolins all in consort and combinations with guitars, double basses and assorted percussion. The thirsty audience can expect a surprise for the finale – drinks will be served, on the house!

PressPlay 2008: Potion by NUS Electronic Music Lab
It is said that music can heal – NUS Electronic Music Lab puts that to the test by merging the worlds of music and medicine in this unique performance experience where concepts and sounds normally associated with medical labs, hospitals and clinics will be used to create original electronic music works.

InTempo 2008 by NUS Wind Symphony
Celebrating its 40th Anniversary, NUS Wind Symphony brings you a memorable experience of music from the past and present. The first half of the concert sees the band revisiting pieces from their previous repertoire. The band looks ahead, in the second half, with Singapore’s premiere of Johann de Meij’s new awardwinning Symphony No. 3, Planet Earth. Be enthralled with a spectacular range of orchestral colours as well as dazzling electronic sound in this monumental 50-minute symphony.

Kids' Day Out - Lion Dance Workshop by NUS Lion Dance
16Mar, 2-4pm, UCC Courtyard, $5 (Register at nusartsfest@nus.edu.sg)
Learn all about lion dance in this one day workshop - the difference between the Northern and Southern Lion dance, the techniques of each move and the instruments played. Have a whale of time with the drums, cymbals and gongs!

Melodious Affinity 《三月天：缘》by NUS Chinese Orchestra
Celebrating its 35th Anniversary, the NUS Chinese Orchestra (NUSCO) presents an evening of music with talents from within and beyond the orchestra. Featuring vocal soloist, NUS Professor Koh Khee Meng; Suona soloist, NUSCO tutor Wong Chee Kong; Erhu soloist, NUSCO member Dai Da and collaborations with the Zheng Professionals and performance by the Universiti Teknologi Petronas Chinese Orchestra. Led by Mr Lum Yan Sing, the concert highlights include 《天山盛会》 and the 《满江红》erhu concerto.

Soul Remedy by NUS Jazz Band

A swinging concert featuring funk and jazz standards like City, Car Wash, Feeling the Funk, Chicken Scratch, The Way You Look Tonight and Georgia On My Mind. In tune with the arts and medicine theme this year, the spirited NUS Jazz Band remedies your soul with a musical showcase of popular jazz and contemporary songs as a finale. Be part of this experience uplifting the soul through the spirit of music.

Posters: from various CFA groups