AMKSS Dance Club: “Status Unknown” Detailed Description

Scene 1.1 – MEMORIES UNFOLD / BIRTH

• Opens with scenes of the racial riots – Media used: projection
• Dancers running in and out in fluid movements to trigger each character’s memories
• Development of a foetus into a baby – Media used: projection of short video
• Both scenes will be shown concurrently to portray the contrasts
• Dancers act as moving tableaus as the images are projected on them

 
Scene 1.2 – GLORY

• Highlighting Singapore’s achievement – moving from a rural landscape into a progressive ‘Little Red Dot’
• Developing from a little baby to a young adult
• Images of the country’s pride (such as the Esplanade) will be projected on the dancers
• In terms of movements, dancers progress from small steps into simple movements like mimicking birds etc

 
Scene 2.1 – SYSTEMATIC / STRUCTURE ?

• Point to ponder: Does receiving education translate into being educated?
• Dancers – move in a synchronized robotic sequence
• Things are done quickly but are they effective/of any value?
• Projection: Words which are contradicting in meaning thrown out

 
Scene 2.2 – CONTRADICTION / INCONGRUENCE ?

• Solo dance item – to reflect the predicament of the older generation (with voiceovers)
• Significance: Do they get left behind due the progress of society? DO they get lost in the process?
• Emphasis on the importance of keeping abreast with changes without eroding one’s cultures/values system
• Do the senior citizens/old folks get marginalized as a result of modernization

 
Scene 3 – WHICH STEPS TO HEAVEN

• Finding one’s inner tranquility
• Knowing and recognizing our own limitations
• Dancers – stepping on paint (a metaphor of leaving one’s footprints behind)
• Walking out with lit candles
• What have you done today that will leave an impact on the country that we live in?

 

Synopses for the Humanities Project Strands

Please note that the synopses for the Project Strands headed by the Humanities department have just been submitted and have now been uploaded onto the project strands page.

The two projects are:

1. An Oral History of Singapore in the 1960s

2. Mapping Ang Mo Kio – Ang Mo Kio from pre-1965 to the present day

To view the updates, please visit this link:

https://amkssnomad.wordpress.com/project-strands/

 

CS11: Product Ideas for the Development of Souvenirs for NOMAD 2008

Please find below a collection of product ideas that might be ultimately developed into products for sale during the course of NOMAD 2008.

We like the vibrant eye catching colours, the psychedlic fonts and comic strip type graphics.

Any other further suggestions are also appreciated!

 

Student Designs for NOMAD Publicity Poster

In keeping with tradition, we try to involve students in every aspect of the production of NOMAD.

Here are two examples of poster designs that were chosen by the Art Director, Ng Siew Kuan, together with Creative Director, Ng Tian Hui, as posters containing design elements that we felt best met the publicity requirements of the festival

Poster Design by Natalie:

 

Drama Pieces for NOMAD 2008 Finale

I’ve included a list of Drama works including the IAP Drama Pieces that we are considering to be included in the NOMAD 2008 finale on 3rd – 5th July 2008.

Although this consists only of a list at the moment, the page will be continually uploaded and will eventually be a central summary of all work relating to drama.

Please follow this link:

https://amkssnomad.wordpress.com/drama/

 

 

Site Photographs: Ang Mo Kio St 22 Blk 207a

Site Photos for the Film Screening at Blk 207 Ang Mo Kio St 22 on the 27th of June 2008.

 

Artiste Profile: Noorlinah Mohammed

Noorlinah pursued a Master of Arts in Performance Studies at the New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. Noorlinah has performed and toured extensively since 1988 with companies like TheatreWorks, Action Theatre, The Theatre Practice and The Necessary Stage. She has also performed with Wild Rice and Toy Theatre factory Ensemble. Some of her stage experiences include Trojan Women, Longing, Mortal Sins, Lear and Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral. Since her return from New York, her performances include Under The Last Dust (2000/TNS) Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2001/TheatreWorks), where she filmed and directed video documentaries that formed part of her performance, Beginning of The End (2002/TNS), The Visit of the Tai Tai (2004/Wild Rice) and Dangerous Liaison (2005/Toy Factory Ensemble).  Noorlinah holds a teaching diploma in Speech and Drama from Trinity College. She also has extensive experience in planning and conducting drama education in the curriculum for both Primary and Secondary levels. She has received grants from the NAC Artist-in-School scheme for her drama education work in Mayflower Primary School (since 2002), CHIJ Katong Convent Secondary School (2001-2004), Tampines Primary School, Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School and Ang Mo Kio Secondary School. She is presently lecturing Theatre History at LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts’ B.A. programmes and trainer of voice and theatre with the National Institute of Education. Noorlinah is an advocate for the professional development and needs of actors and drama educators in Singapore. She co-founded two professional bodies – the Association of Singapore Actors (Secretary) and Singapore Drama Educators Association (President). In 2004, she co-founded Arts Without Limits, a non-profit network of Visual Artists and Theatre Practitioners working in prisons such as Kaki Bukit Prison School and Changi Women’s Prison.

 

Invitation to South Zone S-1 Cluster Schools

This announcement goes out to all S-1 School. It is extracted from a welcome email sent out by our Principal, Mr Tan Chee Siong on the 31st January and subsequently forwarded by the Cluster Superintendent to all S-1 School Principals.

Ang Mo Kio Secondary School would like to warmly welcome our fellow cluster schools in the S-1 Cluster to take part in our bi-annual Arts Festival NOMAD 2008.

Interested schools should get in touch with AMKSS if they would like to join us.

 

the moment

This is the moment where we initiate things and shift things from the realm of the physical to that of the internet.

This blog is created with the intention to document the complex but fascinating process of putting up such a large scale collaborative effort involving so many different artists.

It is my intention that as the production evolves, that we will be able to bring on board interviews of the artists involved and get their take on the production.

Naturally there will be a section where i capture reasons why the performers feel that people should come and watch the production. We hope this also serves as a starting point for the ambitious oral history project that the school will be embarking on to document the history of our home and community, Ang Mo Kio via the memories and impressions of the people who have inhabited it.

Here’s to what will no doubt prove to be an exciting 2008 for staff and students of Ang Mo Kio Secondary School, and our home Ang Mo Kio.