Leow Puay Tin creates texts for performance through writing original pieces and/or using extracts of text culled from published and oral sources such as transcripts, articles, stories, songs, etc. Her way of working as a writer has moved over the years, from devising to writing and to text curation. She started out as a performer of self-devised texts by working first with director Chin San Sooi, and then with director and critic Krishen Jit who introduced her to the concept of using chance to generate a performance in their first project together called Tikam-Tikam: And Her Grandmother Said (1983). Krishen, who passed away in 2005, directed all her solo performances, with the last one in 2003 (Woman Ice-Seller), as well as her three major performance texts (Three Children, A Modern Woman Called Ang Tau Mui and Family). His search for the truth, whether to be found in a performance text, performance, or casual chat, his natural curiosity about people and his respect for the quirks and complexities of life had made a deep impression on her and her work as a performer, writer and educator. In 2017, Puay Tin took leave from Sunway University in Malaysia to spend six months in Japan on an Asia Center fellowship looking at site-specific performances by way of developing and clarifying her thoughts on using site as a starting point for the creation of performance and texts for performance which are grounded in reality.
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