Friday, May 22, 2015

JUNE PROGRAMMES: TOCCAPOLY KIDS! / POLKA DOT PLAYGROUND / 2020


Who can participate?
Children aged 4 – 6 years old. If your child demonstrates interest in the arts: be it theatre, music, painting, or dance, this is the course to enroll! 

Course Content
TOCCAPOLY is an immersive four-day program focusing on arts appreciation. Learn about the different artists and art forms from different regions in varying periods in history. This course takes a lighthearted and hands-on approach to exposing the students to the arts and offers guidance in terms of creativity and expression. 

Aims of the Course
To expose and introduce the arts to young children and foster a healthy attitude for art and its appreciation. Children will be encouraged to observe and formulate their own ideas about art, and finally, make art themselves. 

Date/Time: 1/6/2015 - 4/6/2015 (9am - 5pm daily)
Venue: Space.Toccata

For more information please call/text 016-3618504/014-8770388 or email etoccata@gmail.com




Polka Dot Playground is an interactive audio-visual performance featuring percussionist/drummer Jimmy Zhai, composer and Thereminist Ng Chor Guan, and Alubakhan Chen, who plays guqin and the didgeridoo. 

Date/time: 5/6/2015 (Friday) 8.30pm, 6/6/2015 (Saturday) 8.30pm 
Venue: Space. Toccata 
Admission by minimum donation of RM30

Join us in this wonderful venture into the world of improvisational music! 
Call/text 016-3618504 to reserve your seats now!





Toccata Studio is presenting a new multidisciplinary performance featuring two prominent Malaysian artists of differing fields: composer/musician Ng Chor Guan and dancer/choreographer Steve Goh. This is an ongoing project with the first phase debuting in the second half of June. A marked departure from their last collaborative work, this piece takes a turn for a narrative of the speculative nature. Using accessible concepts such as time travel, the multi-verse theory, and the relativity of time, Ng and Goh, are attempting to grapple with the currents and rapids in both their immediate worlds and those they are embedded within. Interestingly, the artists, hailing from separate and different backgrounds, are often mistaken as brothers, even twins. Ng and Goh have always wanted to exploit this unique physical commonality in a collaborative work, and in this piece, alongside the aforementioned themes, they will explore specifically, with regards to their physicality, illusions of sameness, sight, and change. 

What this piece aims to do is - instead of speaking of an indeterminate future - to discuss an imminent ‘tomorrow’; a deliberate teasing out of the anxieties the human race has always had for the future. After a long and difficult discussion, the artists, with the approval of its production team they have chosen the working title ‘2020’, a specific time merely five years, 60 months away. 

Ng and Goh are internationally acclaimed artists in their respective circles and specialize in the creation of collaborative contemporary works probing the deep recesses of human nature. They wish to create poignant works resonating in their audience, works that will inspire and catalyze change in hearts and minds. 



Date/Time: 27/6/2015 (8.30pm), 28/6/2015 (3pm)
Venue: Space. Toccata
Inquiries: 016-361 8504 / etoccata@gmail.com


Dance=Music Series #11: Netizen


Dance=Music Series has returned! This 11th installment features dancers Nuur Faliza Saad and Mohd Fauzi Amirudin, members of Aswara Dance Company, both young and passionate dancers in the vibrant KL dance scene. The music side of the equation features Ng Chor Guan, esteemed composer and musician born and bred in Kuala Lumpur. 

Date/time: 23/5/2015 (Saturday) 8.30pm, and 24/5/2015 (Sunday) 3pm 
Venue: Space. Toccata,SS2
Admission by minimum donation of RM30 


Call/text 016-3618504 to grab your seats now!