Music | Dance | Visual Arts | Poetry | Improvisation

Following the success of their previous collaboration and as part of the À TABLE! programme, Alliance Française de Singapour and Neill’s Jazz Lab present Reflections in Red, the fourth iteration of NOESIS – Spontaneous Composition, a rare combination of multidisciplinary performance and improvisation. 

Led by award-winning French drummer Neill Gautier, the performance brings together French, Dutch, and Singaporean artists — musicians, dancers, poets, and, for this new chapter, a visual artist whose live interventions become an integral part of the composition. Sound, movement, words, and image emerge and transform in real time, guided by intuition rather than structure.

Rooted in the colour red, the show explores ivresse as exhilaration, that heightened state where sensation overflows, boundaries dissolve, and creation unfolds freely. Flowing with intensity and loss of control, the performance aims to echo the sensory experience of wine itself. Art mediums intertwine in a shared momentum, inviting moments of rupture, harmony, and unexpected beauty.

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In English with a French touch!

90min

Location: Alliance Française, Theatre

About Neill Gautier

About Karst de Jong

Karst de Jong (piano) is a Dutch pianist, improviser, and music theorist. He is internationally recognised in the field, and has published research on music theory, improvisation, and collaborative music creation. With 35 years of teaching experience, he has held positions at top institutions in the Netherlands and Barcelona. Since 2023, he is a full-time professor at NUS YST Conservatory in Singapore.

About Khaitama

Khairul Anwar Fazlur Rahman, also known as Khaitama, is a rhythm-weaving, symbol-bending visionary who transforms chaos into creation. Part drumming shaman, part art alchemist, part myth-chasing philosopher, he pioneered Playnting - a sensory-rich artform blending drumming with painting. Drawing from spiritual traditions, cultural mythology, and intuitive artistry, his work fuses sacred symbols, contemporary abstraction, and playful ritual. From mandalas to mythic storytelling, Khaitama bridges the ancient and avant-garde, inviting collective reflection and co-creation. A world-builder with a liberating heart and a visionary's fire, he turns chaos into colour, tradition into innovation, and symbols into symphonies of unity.

About Eric Tinsay Valles

Director of Poetry Festival Singaore, Eric Tinsay Valles explores themes of home and exile. He won a Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing prize for After the Fall (dirges among ruins), forthcoming in Spanish and English (March 2025). His works include A World in Transit and award-winning anthologies A Given Grace and Finding God in All Things. He co-edited Get Lucky, Sg Poems 2015- 2016, The Nature of Poetry, and The Atelier of Healing.

About Carole Bocquet

Carole Bocquet is driven by two inseparable passions: literature and music. A double bassist and bassist, she has also been a professor of classical literature (French, Latin, and Greek) for over twenty years. Throughout her career, she has skillfully woven connections between these two worlds, cultivating what she calls a “virtuous balance.” She passionately shares the richness of literary heritage, bringing these timeless texts to life with a contemporary voice. Deeply convinced that oral transmission is a bridge to both emotion and understanding, she revives ancient languages and makes them resonate in today’s world. 

About Tony Makarome

Tony Makarome teaches at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music. He studied with Robert Spano, Miroslav Vitous, Herb Pomeroy, K.R. Shyama, T.R. Sundaresan, Chettiharaveetil Sreekanth (SIFAS), and R. Karthikeyan. As mridangist, he received the Vadya Visharad Award from SIFAS in 2019 (and recently performed in concert with Grammy nominated vocalist Varijashree Venugopal). As composer, his recent premieres include Echoes from the Heartland (June 2025, Singapore, Hongkong, Macau and Shenzhen), The Jewel of Srivijaya for Chinese Orchestra (May 2025), Kuanzhai Xiangzi for percussion quartet (2022), The Jewel of Srivijaya for SSO (2019), Rain Konnakkol (2018, Baltimore), What Pattern? (2016, New York), Shiva (for soprano, tenor, mridangam, and piano, 2015), Scifi Lounge (Bangkok), Name with No Street (Shanghai). As bassist, he performed with Louis Bellson, Tony Bennett, and Quartet West. He has been an award-winning teacher of solfege at the Walden School (USA); and also published a popular article on konnakkol in the Malaysian Music Journal.

About Janelle Tan

Janelle Tan studied at the School of the Arts, Singapore (SOTA) majoring in dance. Alongside formal training in ballet and contemporary dance, she also studied choreography and dance theory, developing a keen interest in choreography. She has created classical and contemporary works, exploring various themes and movement vocabularies. Her work, “In Trying Times, You Should…” explores the concepts of humour as a coping mechanism in confusing situations and how different states of mind inform decision making. This is inspired by her inquiry in how exactly movement conveys expression and functions as commentary.