The annual Singapore Night Festival sees itself into it's 8th year running for the year of 2015. Organized by the National Museum of Singapore, this yearly event offers the public a smorgasbord of artistic extravaganza in a night-time setting. Our LittleRedDot have been wowed by visual displays of lights and colours and music and street performances throughout the years, but for RaRa and Reddy, this was our first experience and judging from what we saw? This will definitely not be our last! Well.. the crowd WAS a bit overwhelming, but that only goes to show how successful the event was :) Here's to our first, and more to come!
Prelude.....
The Armenian Apostolic Church of St Gregory the Illuminator was one of the many venue for art installations that made up the Night Festival. This light installation entitled "Hanami" by Cie Mastoc Production (France) was inspired by the Japanese tradition of celebrating the blooming of the cherry blossoms each spring. It would have been prettier come night time, but this would suffice, just to get away from the crowd. Hehe
Walked further up towards the National Museum to catch a special animation work of epic proportions - beamed right onto the facade of the historical museum as a backdrop.
Anooki comes to Singapore! Anooki is a timeless and simple but wild and wacky world. The Anookis are dreamful little Inuits; Nooki is the world smallest Inuit boy who live in the North Pole while Anook is the world smallest Inuit girl.. Nooki is cheerful, jolly and kind, but gets completely out of control if he does not eat on time! Haha! Nooki spends nearly all his time with his gal pal, Anook. She loves to make snow angels and lap up snowflakes.
Nooki and Anooki, they are the brainchild of 2 French graphic designers. The Inuits were initially created as their avatars and were used to animate their website and screensaver. they now have since have a life of their own.
This was actually an accidental shot done on panoramic mode. Not too bad indeed. Managed to capture almost the whole transition of colours in one frame!
Ta-dah! Grand finale! Happy 50th Singapore!
This was one of the many displays in and around the vicinity. This was called "The Little Nyonya's Dreams" by Brandon Tay (Singapore), Stephanie Ronzon (France) and Fred Multier (France). This depicts the journey of The Little Nyonya's dreams through a pop-up projection mapping that appears as an "open book" in a dark room. It's pretty, but could have been better if the lights in the exhibit area was dimmer to enhance the visual display.
The show we been waiting for, the show we braved the mega crowd for - THE Grand Finale.
Mother Nature set the perfect tone for the night, the sky was clear and the moon was at it's full glory.
Presenting - Garden of Angels by Theatre Tol (Belgium). Inspired by the paintings of Marc Chagall, this spellbinding performance merges the realms of nature, people and fantasy into one. The show actually started off with a parade but we were late and unfortunately missed it :(
Extraordinaire
Opera on stilts. Dramatique!
Spectacular aerial carousel of angels descending from the heavens showering "gifts" to the people.
As dramatic as dramatic can be. Fireworks!!!!!
Theater Tol is an international music theater based in Antwerp, Belgium. They create performances with no spoken words, and with only the use of visual and musical language. What sets them apart is their knack for staging performances in unconventional venues.
"Drawn In Light" by Ralf Westerhof (Netherlands). Ralf Westerhof is known for his 3D line drawings made of bent wires.
Le Desir Et La Menace by Cedric Le Borgne (France). A collection of 3 bird wire sculptures perched on the branches of the imposing Banyan Tree. A surreal little "Alice In Wonderland" moment where everything seemed so too big to be true.
No, No, this was not part of the Night Festival but this restored building (not sure of the name though) had so much charm and oozed timeless elegance.
RaRa and Reddy thoroughly enjoyed our first visit, although the crowd did get to us a bit. But hey, what's an event without the crowd right? And psst... we can't wait for next year!!
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