KL Dance Watch

Perhaps I should call this blog KL Dance DO. It’s tough to be an observer as well as a participant; it makes one open to all sorts of knock-back criticism. But someone has to do it! And I think, in the last analysis, I make a better observer, facilitator, initiator, than I do a practitioner.

Nevertheless, I run my amateur dance company, Balletbase (http://www.balletbase.org), trying to keep it on track with two major performances a year and training new contemporary dance hopefuls all the time. And I run the dance programme at Rimbun Dahan (http://www.rimbundahan.org) which mostly involves finding talented young choreographers from Australia, Southeast Asia and Malaysia who are interested in staying at Rimbun Dahan and making new work. And I’m trying to get something up and running for the Creation and Presentation network of MyDance Alliance (http://www.mydancealliance.org/), with workshops, classes and performances.

I like to think of myself as a professional amateur, with my fingers in many pies (including a pie about pies, or rather, a blog about pies, no, about food and the like: mudpies.wordpress.com) and I feel privileged to have the luxury to devote myself to my hobbies, and to have a city like KL in which to do it.

– Bilqis Hijjas