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And the winners are ...
As the Opening Festival of the Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay
wraps up after 22 days of 70 productions and 600 free events
by 1,300 artistes from 22 countries, Life! presents its list
of awards to commemorate some of its more remarkable moments
By Clarissa Oon and Ong Soh Chin and Ong Sor Fern and Tan Shzr
Ee and Suhaila Sulaiman
The What No-Smoking Rule? Award
PHOTO/OVER THE MOON: Reminiscing The Moon had the whole works
with sand and streams of water splashed on stage.
To Cesaria Evora and the Batsheva Dance Company
When the Barefoot Diva from Cape Verde island in West Africa
casually took a break halfway through the concert, she sat at
a small table centrestage and lit up a cigarette while her
band played, as if she was part of the audience in a smoky
bar, and not the star performer.
In the exhilarating Anaphaza by Israel's Batsheva Dance Company,
a lone female dancer on the darkened stage, illuminated by a
screen projection of images on her naked back, turns her head
to the side to fire up a cigarette, adding forbidden and
smouldering visual accent.
The Cocktail Dress Award
To Ohad Naharin
In a festival of many colours and cultures, the most elegant
outfit was to be found in Anaphaza - on a man.
The gorgeous red turtleneck gown with a thigh-high slit, was
fit for Joan Crawford but looked just as fab on the 50-year-old
Israeli director of the Batsheva Dance Company, Ohad Naharin.
Teamed with Doc Martens and an electric guitar slung across the
shoulder, it was a look that screamed rock chic(k).
PHOTO/STRINGING ALONG: Kazue Mizushima and her band from Japan
were like hyper-active flies rubbing against strings in Stringraphy
Tapestry.
The Spider-Man Award
To Stringraphy Tapestry
Zapping in between silk skeins arranged to form a giant zither,
Kazue Mizushima and her three-man band from Japan were a veritable
team of hyper-active flies tugging, plucking and rubbing against
very long strings to play Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and Princess
Mononoke, among other fancy pieces.
The Seeing Double Award
To Esplanade CEO Benson Puah and Yue Minjun's Silly Laughing Men
The 25 statues of the China artist's Silly Laughing Men, which were
dotted around the Esplanade, inspired one visitor to ask: 'Are they
meant to represent Benson Puah?'.
The World's A Balloon Award
To the inflatable octopus outside and the suspended sculptures
by Yu Gao in the atrium
Air is free, so why not use it to produce art? While the giant
yellow octopus outside the Esplanade Concourse delighted kids
and adults alike, the hanging conceptual blobs by the China
artist served as conversation starters for many befuddled
patrons rushing into the auditoriums.
The Esplanade Diet Plan Award
To the overflowing and under-staffed eateries at the Esplanade
Many arts-lovers who spent most of their time attending the
three-week opening festival have lost weight.
This is because it was near impossible to get a meal before
the performances. All its restaurants at the mall were over
-patronised and under-staffed.
PHOTO/EN-CHAN-TING: Kit Chan was all steely womanhood as
Empress Dowager Cixi in Forbidden City.
The Esplanade Diet Plan Thwarted Award
To the choc-covered strawberries at Chocolate Box
Hungry patrons resorted to filling their tummies with these
scrumptious delights. At $5 for seven strawberries, this was
a meal that helped sweeten the sour demeanours of those who
could not get a table at any of the eateries before shows.
It also ensured that some arts-lovers even gained weight.
The China Dolls Award
To Emma Yong, Kit Chan, Wu Bixia and the female leads of Raise
The Red Lantern
They didn't have China Doll haircuts, but they played up the
Oriental Miss allure, some ironically, others faithfully.
Yong was a humorous Chang E, spiralling around on a pushbike
with a moon-shaped lantern as she dispensed White Rabbit sweets
to the audience at Cabaret: A Single Woman.
Chan was all steely womanhood as Empress Dowager Cixi in Forbidden
City while Wu was a sweet-voiced Princess Blue to Marco Polo.
Raising more than red lanterns in their beautiful, high-slit
cheongsams were dancers Zhu Yan, Zhang Jian and Wang Qimin,
who each took the role of the young, tragic third wife on
different nights.
The National Geographic Award
To Reminiscing The Moon, Anaphaza and Marco Polo And Princess Blue
PHOTO/SINGAPORE SURPRISE: The WDR Big Band had a folksy,
Singaporean surprise in its encore.
Nature and its elements invaded the hallowed halls of art in
several productions, threatening at times to overshadow the
humans on stage.
Fireworks featured in both Anaphaza and Marco Polo And Princess
Blue, while the Singapore Dance Theatre's Reminiscing The Moon
went the whole hog by splashing the stage with sand and streams
of water. All that was missing was the beach bar.
The Singapore Tourism Board Brochure Award I
To Marco Polo And Princess Blue
In a hackneyed gesture to the commissioning party of Singapore,
China composer Liu Yuan went out of his way to incorporate the
Singapura theme and myth into a would-be love affair between
Italian explorer Marco Polo and the Mongolian Princess Blue on
this 'pretty island, set in the sea'.
The fictional lovers were welcomed, no less, by a pair of mock
-Malay drummers, sashaying down the audience aisles in sarong
kebaya and baju kurung to reach a stage lined with - you guessed
it - orchids.
The Singapore Tourism Board Brochure Award II
To WDR Big Band and Stringraphy Tapestry
Music speaks in any language, as the WDR Big Band from Cologne,
Germany, and Stringraphy Tapestry from Japan proved. Both groups
pulled out a folksy, Singaporean surprise in their encore.
WDR Big Band played an accomplished rendition of the Malay folk
tune Burong Kakak Tua, rearranged for big-band stylings with a
hypnotic bassline introduction and perky horns.
Stringraphy's encore was a crowd-pleasing version of Rasa Sayang.
The What Taxi Stand? Award
To taxi drivers lurking near the Esplanade
Concert-goers may line up dutifully at the official Esplanade
taxi stand located opposite Marina Square. But taxis are nowhere
to be found after concerts as exasperated would-be passengers have
discovered.
One taxi driver's defence: There is no lit taxi sign indicating
a taxi queue. To which one frustrated passenger retorted: What
do they want, a red carpet?
Despite the shortage of drive-in taxis, however, there was a
mysteriously rich supply of taxis responding instantaneously
to calls from impatient theatre-goers.
Now, whoever says Singaporeans are not entrepreneurial should
learn from those canny cabbies.
The Cough Syrup Award
To the audience members at the New York Philharmonic and London
Philharmonic
They certainly made full use of the breaks in between movements
to clear their throats loudly or have serious coughing jags.
Symphony-loving people must have tremendous will power to be able
to suppress such involuntary acts until appropriate lulls in the
programme.
The X-Files Award
To Biosphere
Music programme Biosphere had to be the strangest gig ever for
ambient music fans.
Instead of a club or the outdoors, Norwegian ambient maestro Geir
Jenssen was placed on a proscenium stage with the audience facing
the sound artiste and his computer as though he was the London
Philharmonic Orchestra. Talk about awkward.
Also, it started at 7 pm and ended at 8 pm - too early an hour
for tuning in, chilling and zoning out.
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