Day 1 - Wednesday, 21^st Sept 2011

2.00pm–4.00pm                  Registration at the Royale Bintang Hotel Kuala Lumpur

4.15pm–9.30pm                  Welcome Reception & Performance by KESUMA (University of Malaya Cultural Group) at Rimbun Dahan*

Travel Schedule to Rimbun Dahan

4:15pm                                  Participants gather at Royale Bintang Hotel Lobby
4.30pm                                  Participants depart by bus for Rimbun Dahan
5.30pm                                  Buses arrive at Rimbun Dahan
5.30– 6.30pm                       Tour of Rimbun Dahan
6.30pm                                  Dinner
7.30pm                                  Performance by KESUMA, University of Malaya Cultural Group
8.30pm                                  Participants return to Royale Bintang Hotel by bus
9.30pm                                  Arrival at Royale Bintang Hotel

* Rimbun Dahan is the home of architect Hijjas Kasturi and his wife Angela. Set on fourteen acres outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the compound of Rimbun Dahan is a centre for developing traditional and contemporary art forms. It features buildings designed by Hijjas Kasturi, as well as a 19th-century traditional Malay house from Perak and a heritage Anglo-Malay house from Penang, in an indigenous Southeast Asian garden environment.

Day 2 - Thursday, 22^nd Sept 2011

8.30am–10.00am               Registration at the Royale Bintang Hotel Kuala Lumpur

10.00am–10.30am             Official Launching of APIDC 2011 by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Malaya

10.30am–11.00am             Coffee Break

11.00am–12.00pm             Session 1: Keynote 1

Chair: Urmimala Sarkar

Dynamic Dialogues: Writing Dance as Tradition, Contemporanity, and Fusion

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler

12.00pm–12.30pm             Official Book Launch: Routledge Publication

                                             Sponsored the Australia-Malaysia Institute

Sharing Identities: Celebrating Dance in Malaysia

Shaping the Landscape: Celebrating Dance in Australia

12.30pm–2.00pm                Lunch Break

2.00pm–3.30pm                  Session 2: Researching Hybridity

Chair: Gisa Jähnichen

Panel 1: Tracing Hybridity in the Traditional Norwegian Halling

Egil Bakka (Norway)

Halling on the Ballet Stage in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1786

Anne Fiskvik (Norway)

Halling Meets Freier Tanz and Creates A Hybrid Dance in Oslo, Norway, 1948

Gediminas Karoblis (Norway)

Hybrida or Hybris

Siri Mæland (Norway)

Halling at the Competitions, Bergen Norway 1898 to Seljord, Norway 2011

3.30pm–5.00pm                  Parallel Session

Session 3: Performing Hybridity

Chair: Patricia Matusky

Marina Roseman (Ireland)

Have the Movements Changed? Forest Movements Danced to Hybrid Musics

Naomi Faik Simet (Papua New Guinea)

Hybridization for a National Dance Repertoire in Papua New Guinea

Shrinkhla Sahai (India)

Mediatized Movements: An Exploration of Multimedia in Contemporary Indian Dance

Session 4: Performing Hybridity

Chair: Julianti Parani

Leng Poh Gee (Malaysia)

Gamelan and Lion Dance: Experimenting Malaysian-Chineseness

Gisa Jähnichen (Germany – Malaysia)

Fonbepsonphau and the Four Levels of Educating Minority Cultures in Laos

Basilio Esteban S. Villaruz (Philippines)

Tracing and Re-Tracing the DNA of Dance: The Ur in UrbaNation

5.00pm–5.30pm                  Coffee Break

6.00pm–7.00pm                  Free

7.00pm–7.45pm                  Travel by Monorail from Bukit Bintang Station to Bukit Nanas Station and a short walk to the Malaysia Tourism Centre (MATIC) in Jalan Ampang

8.00pm–10.00pm                 International Artists’ Showcase, MyDance Festival 2011

                                             (Admission Tickets Only)

Tunku Abdul Rahman Hall, Malaysia Tourism Centre (MATIC), Jalan Ampang