Straddle is a new platform by Five Arts Centre, that fosters artistic exchange between Kuala Lumpur and other cities. Straddle #2025 connects artists from Kuala Lumpur and Montreal in a four-day exchange of performances, discussions, and improvisations. This year’s focus: identity—how it’s cultivated, inherited, and reshaped through dance. We speak to producer June Tan and dancer/ choreographer January Low to find out all about it.

Straddle is a new platform by Five Arts Centre, that fosters artistic exchange between Kuala Lumpur and other cities. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.cloudjoi.com/venues/five-arts-centre">Straddle #2025</a> connects artists from Kuala Lumpur and Montreal in a four-day exchange of performances, discussions, and improvisations. This year’s focus: identity—how it’s cultivated, inherited, and reshaped through dance. We speak to producer June Tan and dancer/ choreographer January Low to find out all about it.

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Straddle #2025 - Holding space for dance works from KL and Montreal

What happens when identity slips, and the body moves between showing and hiding? Body For Nobody sits in that quiet, in-between space, using movement, sound, and ritual to invite us to slow down and pay attention. Joining me to talk about this new full-length dance work is its creator, choreographer and dancer Ethel Deidre, developed through the REFLEKT Residency by Goethe-Institut Malaysia.

What happens when identity slips, and the body moves between showing and hiding? <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.cloudjoi.com/shows/4805-body-for-nobody">Body For Nobody</a> sits in that quiet, in-between space, using movement, sound, and ritual to invite us to slow down and pay attention. Joining me to talk about this new full-length dance work is its creator, choreographer and dancer Ethel Deidre, developed through the REFLEKT Residency by Goethe-Institut Malaysia.

Body For Nobody

Opera doesn’t have to be intimidating, and klpac’s Classical For Kids concerts prove it. With floor seating for children, interactive storytelling, and an orchestra up close, families can enjoy Mozart’s The Magic Flute in a fun, relaxed way. Joining us are YiLing Chaing, the Music Director and Founder of Fiamma Opera Studio, and Lee Hai Lin, the concertmaster, to talk about what children and families can expect from this experience.

Opera doesn’t have to be intimidating, and klpac’s Classical For Kids concerts prove it. With floor seating for children, interactive storytelling, and an orchestra up close, families can enjoy Mozart’s <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.cloudjoi.com/shows/classical-for-kids-the-magic-flute-with-the-klpac-orchestra">The Magic Flute</a> in a fun, relaxed way. Joining us are YiLing Chaing, the Music Director and Founder of Fiamma Opera Studio, and Lee Hai Lin, the concertmaster, to talk about what children and families can expect from this experience.

Classical For Kids: The Magic Flute with The klpac Orchestra

Into Still Life is a performance that invites us to slow our pace and notice the quiet relationships between stillness and movement. It looks at how tension, balance, and presence shape our experience of the world. We hear more from the artists behind it, Aiwei Foo and Kent Lee, from the Shaman Tearoom.


Image Credit: Shaman Tearoom

<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.cloudjoi.com/shows/4743-into-still-life">Into Still Life</a> is a performance that invites us to slow our pace and notice the quiet relationships between stillness and movement. It looks at how tension, balance, and presence shape our experience of the world. We hear more from the artists behind it, Aiwei Foo and Kent Lee, from the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://linktr.ee/shamantearoom">Shaman Tearoom</a>. Image Credit: Shaman Tearoom

Straddle #2025 - Holding space for dance works from KL and Montreal

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