We continued to explore and incorporate Bharatanatyam into the body. It is a really crash course for Jo and Farah, and I think a new way of working for Ruby combining text and the dance. With the end goal as the presentation in 3 days time, the learning curve is really high; everything is being […]
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This is a story of Medea This is a story of Medea by Euripedes This is a Greek story in Singapore This is a story of Medea in Singapore This is Medea This is an actor Medea is an Actor An Actor is Medea This is a story of an actor in Singapore. This is […]
Read more "Finding Medea"“Ritual is part of preparation to mark the special moments of life, and we move from moment to moment, until the final moment.” – William Teo on why the sense of ritual is important in theatre.
Rising Son is set during the Japanese invasion and occupation of Singapore between 1941 and 1945. 18 year-old Sunny (Tan Shou Chen) is enlisted as an ambulance orderly when the bombing starts, and does his best to protect his naïve, but headstrong, younger sister Ruby (Seong Hui Xuan) from the horrific realities of war. When […]
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So much of the city is our bodies. Places in us old light still slants through to. Places that no longer exist but are full of feeling, like phantom limbs. Even the city carries ruins in its heart. Longs to be touched in places only it remembers. -excerpted from Phantom Limbs, a poem by Anne […]
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Tan Shou Chen 