{"id":607,"date":"2012-09-04T00:18:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T16:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2012-09-04T22:52:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T14:52:13","slug":"fuerzabruta-night-festival-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/fuerzabruta-night-festival-2012","title":{"rendered":"Fuerzabruta @ Night Festival 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8306\/7894792886_43076e4ba9_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La Argentina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After 4 days of nocturnal activities over 2 weekends, the 5th Singapore Night Festival drew to a close on 1 Sep 2012. This was the first time I attended the festival and though I did not have time to cover all the events, I concentrated on a few and had fun.<\/p>\n<p>The most impressive of them all has got to be <em>Fuerzabruta<\/em> by Ozono Producciones from Argentina. This is a set of 3 performances titled <em>Corredoras<\/em>, <em>Mylar<\/em> and <em>La Argentina<\/em>. I had the opportunity to watch and shoot La Argentina during the media preview which I was invited to (thanks Belinda!)<\/p>\n<p><em>La Argentina<\/em> features a female dancer standing, and at some points of time hanging by a cable at the end of a crane&#8217;s boom. The human-operated crane swings around to a very upbeat and catchy sound track while moving along Armenian Street. Accompanying the sound track and performance are a group of drummers providing the beats to the music &#8220;live&#8221;. Without the presence of the public audience, we were able to get up close to shoot this impressive feat.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8303\/7894799482_4eb54790ba_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La Argentina&#8217;s crane moving along Armenian Street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8296\/7894801890_25a88419a7_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drummers beating out the rhythm for La Argentina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8174\/7894802664_4aa5e01d0a_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The leader of the drummers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8445\/7914248270_76337db6cc_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The beautiful dancer of La Argentina.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short excerpt of the performance shot during the media preview.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tbIXRJPICSw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Corredoras<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In <em>Corredoras<\/em>, 2 ladies are suspended from cables while they perform\u00a0athletic\u00a0feats across a silver curtain shimmering in blue, red and yellow lights. Right after Corredoras is a performance by local band <em>Shelves<\/em>. Not being a rock music fan and with <em>Mylar<\/em> supposedly starting in 15 minutes, I make my way to the stage where it&#8217;ll be performed. I was disappointed that <em>Shelves&#8217; <\/em>performance went on until 9pm, all while blasting their music over the horridly loud sound system with a nauseating bass, I couldn&#8217;t wait for them to finish so <em>Mylar<\/em> can start. I can tell that the audience isn&#8217;t very keen on their music either, as on the 2nd night which I attended the performance, the emcee asked the audience if they wanted more when <em>Shelves<\/em> finished. The answer was an ubiquitous &#8220;NO&#8221;. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8176\/7914158840_a6d741e89f_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corredoras<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8459\/7914215146_4805aab06a_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Running horizontally across the silver curtain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8445\/7914228260_8611363af0_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Embrace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8459\/7914239740_2d5264958e_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Run!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video recording of Corredoras.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5O4jzt7e--c?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mylar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Mylar<\/em> features a 15-meter pool suspended high overhead the audience. Four dancers slosh around in the pool which slowly descend, creating ripples and patterns in the water while the pool slowly descends till it&#8217;s inches above. Combined with the electronic music and coloured lights, it makes for a rather surreal experience.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8454\/7914166182_1af68cfa8c_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mylar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8438\/7914175152_1a6901cab7_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mylar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8313\/7914180108_071d084c17_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joining hands<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8173\/7914182416_30d8fe218d_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mylar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8319\/7914164638_4b73a1f60e_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Up close and personal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8308\/7914148532_6e9d978fab_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The beautiful performers of Corredoras and Mylar at the Singapore Night Festival 2012 posing for a shot during the media preview<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I had lots of fun watching and shooting the performances at the festival. It&#8217;s a pity it only lasted 4 days. Now I am looking forward to next year&#8217;s event. Hopefully it&#8217;ll be even better and span over a longer period too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 4 days of nocturnal activities over 2 weekends, the 5th Singapore Night Festival drew to a close on 1 Sep 2012. This was the first time I attended the festival and though I did not have time to cover all the events, I concentrated on a few and had fun. The most impressive of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/fuerzabruta-night-festival-2012\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fuerzabruta @ Night Festival 2012<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[242,240,241,243,244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}