Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it.
Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” – Harvey Mackay

Time is a relative concept of the human mind
Yet it dictates every aspect of our lives
How we interact with each other …
Commute from one place to another …
Consume our daily existence
We set our lives around it
Yet never around our life

Stop and Smell the Roses exposes the irony of our relationship with time.
In our constant searching for material bounty, we negate the one thing that is limited …. Time
It’s only when the whole world shuts down and we are forced into temporary lockdown that we realize its true value.
Do we feel restless when presented with an abundance of time?
Imprisoned in a cell? Bored in the house?
Or do we indulge in this newfound luxury to stop and smell the roses?

16 dancers come together in a screen dance to highlighting the importance of taking time to enjoy our lives!
To stop & smell the roses.

Cast

Artistic direction: Kavitha Krishnan
Producer: Imran Manaff
Choreography and concept: Shahrin Johry
Film Director/ Concept: Yahssir M.
Poetry: Aishwarya Prithviraj
Music Composer: Kailin Yong
Voice Artists: Peni Candrarini (Indonesia)
Bharatha Natyam vocal bols: Ajith Bhaskaran Das (Malaysia)
Marketing: Dawn Lim
Publicity: Vidya Sree
Dancers: Kavitha Krishnan, Subastian Tan, Eva Tey, Shahrin Johry, Sufri Juwahir, Sheriden Newman, Bernice Lee, Lavanya Dave, Gino Babagay, Li Ruimin, Sharul Mohd, Shruti Nair, Iswarya Jay, Charmain Ho, ScRach MarcS
Post production: Millenia Motion Pictures

Video Trailer

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