Siapah?
Many more coming, but for now … here’s a taste! Remember, many of our artists will install an art project, perform, facilitate workshops and manage the organisation of the festival over the entire week, so some people not listed here will appear under performance or elsewhere! Such is GRASSROOTS! Explore and enjoy!
Project Connect (Malaysia) – a group of young emerging artists from various artistic backgrounds who continued as an independent collective after a year-long arts exchange programme, which comprised local training and development and a 3-week stint in the UK with York Theatre Royal, Pilot Theatre and Soho Theatre. They do workshops and have performed a series of devised cross-cultural performances in 2008 at York, London and the Big Youth Theatre Festival, which were also based on an exchange of boxes. They aspire to create art that is honest and accessible, and to inspire a love for the arts in the younger generation. Facilitators include artists Fairuz Sulaiman and Tan Hui Koon, and theatre-maker, Patricia Low.
http://project-connect.blogspot.com/
Elaine Pedley – Having performed professionally for two decades, Elaine Pedley is now an accomplished actor, presenter, dancer and facilitator.
Her many theatrical performances include Family (performed at the Berlin Arts Festival 1999), Manchester United and The Malay Warrior (performed in Manchester in conjunction with the Commonwealth Games 2002 Cultural Festival), Spring in Kuala Lumpur (collaboration with Japan-based theatre company Pappa Tarahumara), Cameronian Arts Awards winner of best play, Spilt Gravy on Rice, Datin Marion D’Cruz’s Bunga Manggar Bunga Raya and the latest, Cuckoo Birds.
She has also worked intensively in the film industry as well, having acted in a movie, telemovie, vcd series and sitcoms, as well as choreographed for and acted in ads.
She was the choreographer and presentations consultant for the Miss Malaysia Fitness 2004 pageant, the Miss Asia Pacific Woman Fitness 2004 championships, the International Fitness Women’s Championships 2005 and Fitkid International Championships 2007. She choreographed for Malaysian Idol 2004, Audition 2005 and So You Think You Can Dance 2008.
Her performing arts experience has taken her to Paris, Cannes, Noumea, Beijing, Shanghai, Berlin, Manchester, Bangalore, Singapore and Bali.
She was nominated for Best Featured Performer, Cameronian Arts Awards 2007 and 2009, Best Group Performance 2008 for both theatre and dance categories, and won Best Ensemble for Dance in 2002.
Dean Linguey -
Dean’s artworks may involve sound, video, sculpture, performance and/or paintings. Hailing from Melbourne (Australia), Dean has been based in Malaysia for the last 18 months. He has exhibited in Australia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia.
George Wielgus is a community arts worker, writer and spoken word artist from the UK who has been resident in Malaysia since 2007. During that time, he has worked with marginalised groups creating arts advocacy units to create access and involvement for those normally excluded from the mainstream. Using theatre and poetry, he aims to promote inclusive attitudes within normally elitist art forms.
Naima Dell’Ava is a MusicArtsTherapist and performer from Italy, her works join visual arts with music, dance and theatre. She used to work with children, handicap people, victims of torture of war, victims of sexual abuses in different realities like slums, refugee and gipsy camps, south american’s favelas. She performed in different contexts in festival and streetfestival around Italy, France, Spain, U.S.A., Argentina and India and she is a member of the companies “The Living Theatre” and “Malamurga” .
