Photo by Bernie Ng
“This year’s edition looks back into its rich past performances and brings forward critical works from different seasons.”
- Ezekiel Oliveira
Ezekiel’s highlights for this year
Shows
Adele Goh
DiverCity | 3 & 4 July | 8pm | $25 / $18* / $10^
Esplanade Annexe Studio
*Concession tickets ^ Standing Mezzanine
I look forward to seeing Adele Goh’s work on stage with DiverCity. I have followed her successful career for the last five years with Frontier Danceland, and I am always surprised by how she continually reinvents herself with utter determination, embodying ideas and movement from other choreographers with absolute perfection. With her chameleon-like approach to performance, she can quickly look like an underground animal, a humanoid or float above the floor like a weightless feather.
- Programme A 18 July 2019 8pm
- Programme B 20 July 2019 3pm
- Programme C 20 July 2019 8pm
Choreographer and writer Bernice Lee has been working on Ghosting: Indelible in the Hippocampus for quite some time and I remember seeing the beginnings of this intensely personal performance a year ago – go watch. (20 July, 3 PM).
I am curious about Hemabharathy Palani in Trikonanga, and Ignoramus by Kim Hoyeon and Lim Jungha with rising-star Hwa Wei-An. (20 July 8 pm).
“M1 Open Stage encompasses the spirit of a fringe festival to the fullest, presenting three distinct programs with four different pieces/artists each night. Pick your favourite or go to all.”
- Ezekiel Oliveira
Ghosting: Indelible in the Hippocampus.
Photo by Jeff Low
Trikonanga. Photo by Arvind
Ignoramus. Photo by Crispian Chan
Michelle Lim.
Photo by Kurt Csolak
Syimah Sabtu
Off Stage unleashes new names in the dance arena, it’s refreshing to see new faces making choreography. Michelle Lim, a graduate from The Juilliard School, presents H O M E S I C K and Syimah Sabtu presents H A S E R.
Mr. Sign by Kim Jae Duk with T.H.E Dance Company returns to the festival. You have probably seen the company in previous editions, the dancers are always refreshing, fierce and determined. This time, taking the stage with a score arranged by Kim featuring a peculiar ensemble of influences from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and Indonesian gamelan to traditional Korean trot music.
Mr. Sign is also a featured programme as part of Esplanade’s Feed Your Imagination (F.Y.I) 2019, a dedicated series for schools.
Mr. Sign. Photo by Bernie Ng
Ezekiel’s highlights for this year
Classes & Workshops | Intensives
Photo by Bernie Ng
Photo by Matron
Keep an eye out for Billy Keohavong’s class and contact improvisation with Shintaro Oue.
Zunnur Zhafirah will be running a Hofesh Shechter Company Intensive for those who like to groove and move to distinct beats of Schechter’s own musical compositions and repertoire.
