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Esplanade Presents
da:ns focus
Having transformed from da:ns festival to da:ns focus in 2023/24, da:ns focus continues with an exciting year-round season of four themed weekends in 2025/26, each focusing on a particular theme or genre. Each weekend connects dance to important facets and expressions of our lives, with programmes, experiences and activities that offer focused explorations and opportunities for counterpoints, dialogues and perspectives.
Connect Asia Now
Dance
U>N>I>T>E>D
An Esplanade Co-Commission
Chunky Move
(Australia)
26 – 28 Sep 2025
Singtel Waterfront Theatre at Esplanade
Honouring technologies and rituals both ancient and contemporary, this otherworldly performance synthesises body, machine and spirit.
Dance
Chapter 2
An Esplanade Commission
Pichet Klunchun
(Thailand)
27 & 28 Sep 2025
Esplanade Annexe Studio
A known provocateur in Asian dance, celebrated dancer and choregrapher Pichet Klunchun confronts AI in this bold, new solo work that examines how the human body can coexist with its machinic other.
Dance
SoftMachine: The Return
An Esplanade Commission
Choy Ka Fai
(Singapore/Germany)
26 – 28 Sep 2025
Esplanade Theatre Studio
Interdisciplinary artist Choy Ka Fai weaves together a decade of experiments in dance making through the lens of five leading Asian artists.
Dance
VECTOR#6: The Sound of Intimacy
Presented by Dance Nucleus
In Collaboration with Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay
Begüm Erciyas and Hee Suhui / Anise, with da:ns LAB 2025 participants Albert Garcia, jee chan, Sarah Aiken and Sun Phitthaya Phaefuang
(Various Countries)
25 & 26 Sep 2025
Esplanade Annexe Studio
VECTOR#6 explores intimacy through performance, sound, and technology—blending solitude and togetherness across installations, live works, and da:ns LAB showings.
About da:ns focus
Having transformed from da:ns festival to da:ns focus in 2023/24, da:ns focus continues with an exciting year-round season of four themed weekends in 2025/26, each focusing on a particular theme or genre. Each weekend connects dance to important facets and expressions of our lives, with programmes, experiences and activities that offer focused explorations and opportunities for counterpoints, dialogues and perspectives.
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