17 August 2012, Singapore – The Singapore Night Festival 2012 returns this August where arts and culture will spill into the streets of the Bras Basah and Bugis precinct over two weekends. Happening over two weekends on 24, 25 and 31 August and 1 September 2012, the Bras Basah Precinct will be transformed into a nocturnal extravaganza.
You can expect a spectacular aerial performance from Argentina called the Fuerzabruta, ‘We The People’ facade projection at the National Museum of Singapore as well as music, dance and installation artworks by local talents.
Singapore Night Festival 2012 Video Highlights
This year’s Night Festival sees record number of partnerships from within the Bras Basah.Bugis Arts and Heritage precinct community, a wider are from Armenian Street to Cathay Building as well as a wider variety with more local participation as 74 acts take to the streets.
As in previous years, Singapore Art Museum will present Night Lights – an outdoor light installation showcase.
One of the highlights of the festival would have to be Fuerzabruta by Ozono Producciones from Argentina which will be showcased on 31 August and 1 September 2012 at Singapore Management University Green and Armenian Street.
Fuerzabruta by Ozono Producciones<br >Mylar| 845pm 945pm 1045pm SMU Green<br >Corredoras | 830pm 930pm 1030pm SMU Green<br >La Argentina | 830pm 930pm 1030pm Amrmenian Street
Visit www.brasbasahbugis.sg/nightfestival for more details.
Check out a preview of what’s happening during the first weekend of the Singapore Night Festival below.
We The People by Brian Gothong Tan<br >National Museum of Singapore Museum Facade<br >2425 31 Aug and 1 Sept 2012 | 730pm to 2am
CIRCUS SWINGAPORE<br >24 25 August Circus Kids<br >31 August 1 September Circus Swingapore Performers<br >730pm 830pm 930pm 15 minutes per show<br >National Museum of Singapore The Platform
Witness an aerial spectacle as Circus Swingapore makes its Night Festival debut with performances featuring the Circus Kids and Circus Singapores performance team Circus Swingapore is Singapores only School of Circus Arts with students ranging from 7 to 50 years old
Catch various performances at Singapore Management University Green Located between National Museum of Singapore Singapore Art Museum<br >24 25 August 830pm to 1130pm<br >Tarian Hati | 9pm Contemporary dance blending traditional dance drama folk mask dance incorporated with a 100 year old gurindam poetic verses by Raja Ali Haji<br >Bhangra Dance | 930pm Four Bhangara dancers four drummers beat up a storm amongst the audience and dance their way right onto the stage<br >LED Dragon Dance Shuffling LED Lion Dance | 945pm Creative mix of unique dragon dance performance followed by high energy shuffling lions grooving to current dance moves<br >The Tabla Man The Umbrella Man | 10pm A unique performance combining different cultures and skills<br >Line Dance | 1030pm Mass participation from audience along grid lines to a set of steps following a particular song on stage<br >Mambo Dance | 1045pm Move your body to the mambo music with young and old dancersSingapore Night Lights 2012 Distorted Forest by Stephane Bianquet<br >Queen Courtyard Level 1 Singapore Art Museum
Singapore Night Lights 2012 Mimoїd II by Stéphane Bève Milosh Luczynski Philippe Rizzotti<br >Check out the constant evolving architecture of a building where each transformation is based on the buildings history and structure as it goes into the anticipation of paradise and the unknown The Mimoids are wave formations of hundreds of thousands of pixels and have a particular fondness for all human artifacts and they imitate and give variations on the theme of a given object Music is specially mixed by local sound artist Jeffrey Yue with music composed by Vuk Krakovic<br >Singapore Art Museum SAM Facade
Night Watch by WOKmedia Fish Tank at No 8 by Stephane Masson<br >SAM at 8Q<br >Night Watch Look out for the 30 giant pairs of quirky animal eyes modelled after those of birds fishes and reptiles as they peer out from the corridors of SAM at 8Q illuminating the night sky<br >Fish Tank at No 8 Virtual Aquarium with giant fishes A site for contemplative entertainment
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