Working collaboratively, level 3 Diploma in Fashion students responded to and created costumes in conversation with the personal choreographic explorations of level 3 Diploma in Dance students. Taking the concept of ‘folding’ as a starting point and expanding it through the technique of origami, the students rooted their solo choreographic performances with the visual, sensorial and kinetic embodiment of the designs inspired by the theme of ‘Minimalism’.
Now Map is a solo, for many
Now Map is built of form, function and repetition and repetition
Now Map was written by another body, before he passed on the map
Now Map hopes to disappear the choreography to notice the person
Now Map can see you seeing
Now Map can feel the warm damp air around it
Now Map is taking a reading
Now Map has fixed the what of the act, but loves the how
Now Map doesn't demand you to witness it, but enjoys your company
Now Map might happen anyway
A sound education in the arts should nurture your passion, push you beyond the boundaries of your creative excellence, and lay the groundwork for future career and personal development. At LASALLE College of the Arts, a cutting-edge contemporary arts and design education and international curriculum awaits students who seek both growth as an artist and leader, steeped in realworld working experience.
The Body and Performance is a series of lectures-demonstrations-performances which seek to enhance the learning of students from LASALLE's School of Dance & Theatre through philosophical/theoretical discourses, by drawing roots from disciplines within performing arts and framing them into a larger scope. Breaking away from formal structures normally encountered, this series encourages and promotes new ways of articulating dialogue.
This is a story of how things can be different. How you can make a change. A transformation story from nothing to social media stardom. A “grim, unsettling yet all too familiar examination of the abject meaninglessness that rests at the heart of our Instagram-filled, image-orientated society” (WhatsOnStage). Get on that treadmill. Put the work in! Improve absolutely everything and become something magnificent. Something beautiful. Something expensive. Someone we respect.
The graduating cohort of Diploma in Performance present Jim Cartwright's Road, a searing observation of class struggle and the human will to endure. Set in a poverty stricken area of Northern England in the mid 1980s, the people, their circumstances, challenges, hopes and sacrifices are familiar around the globe as a search for meaning and purpose in an unforgiving world. Adapted by Verena Tay, the play is directed by Hamish Pritchard.
Why is there ‘something’ and not ‘nothing’? Level 1 Diploma in Performance students craft and perform their own stories, under the expert guidance of celebrated theatre director, Samantha Scott-Blackhall. This challenge is not for the faint hearted. With nothing but themselves to reply upon, they will transport the audience’s imagination through the twists and turns of their own experiences. Join us for an enchanting evening, creating something out of nothing.
‘Found object’ puppetry explores the relationships between form and meaning. What shapes, colours and textures describe character and how do those characters enable stories to unfold? Level 2 Diploma in Performance students will scavenge for materials to upcycle into astonishing puppets. Epic tales of love, jealousy, truth and lies will be performed with refuse!
Aida is an epic tale of love, loyalty and betrayal. With music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice, and book by Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, and David Henry Hwang, it went on to win 4 Tony Awards in the year 2000.
The musical rock opera was originally based on Giuseppe Verdi’s and Antonio Ghislanzoni’s opera of the same name. With an unforgettable score, featuring soaring ballads and rousing choral numbers, Aida is a modern crowd-pleaser that embraces multicultural casting and exuberant dancing, staging and singing.
Into the Dawn is the springboard from which LASALLE’s Dance programme launches its graduating students into the world. Over the last three years the graduands have slowly begun to find themselves and you are invited to join us for this fleeting moment of transition before they take the leap. This is a repertoire that will challenge them physically and expressively with a wide range of works from eclectic Artists such as Theo Clinkard (UK), Liz Roche (Ireland), Jacky Yu (Hong Kong), Olé Khamchanla (France/Laos) and Kuik Swee Boon (Singapore).
