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Sloth Canon
This co-production between T.H.E Dance Company and Company 605 explores the fragility that arises when ambition collides with reality, building and breaking in constant tension.
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Sloth Canon | cont·act Contemporary Dance Festival 2025 — Paths That Bind Us | Paid | Anthea Seah, Josh Martin, T.H.E Dance Company, Company 605 | A co-production by T.H.E Dance Company &amp; Company 605 | <p>Presented by The Human Expression (T.H.E) Dance Company</p> <p>In Collaboration With Esplanade &mdash; Theatres on the Bay</p> | Event

Sloth Canon

Presented by The Human Expression (T.H.E) Dance Company

In Collaboration With Esplanade — Theatres on the Bay

A co-production by T.H.E Dance Company & Company 605 (Singapore, Canada)
cont·act Contemporary Dance Festival 2025 — Paths That Bind UsDance
20 – 22 Jun 2025
Esplanade Theatre Studio
Approx. 1hr (Intermission: None)
Tickets from $30
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Photo credit: Crispian Chan

Synopsis

This bold new creation—envisioned and choreographed by Anthea Seah (T.H.E Dance Company, Singapore) and Josh Martin (Company 605, Vancouver)—brings together a creative team of performers and collaborators from both cities in a meeting of voices, seeking out what it means to build and to break.

 

A fragmented team is determined to “keep it together” as their bodies are launched into an alternate realm, propelled by unnatural momentum and shared delusion. As their bubble of fantasy drifts towards the spike of reality, we are thrown into an unstable world of compulsive magical thinking.

 

What happens when collective imagination exceeds capacity? When our wildest ambitions threaten to burst under the weight of their own making? When the sin of slowness collides with the pressure to produce? Sloth Canon unfolds as an absurdly fragile scenario, hellbent on building forward while simultaneously falling apart.

 

Co-produced by: The Human Expression (T.H.E) Dance Company (Singapore) / Company 605 (Vancouver, Canada)
Co-created and Co-directed by: Anthea Seah / Josh Martin
In collaboration with performers: Brandon Lee Alley, Haruka Leilani Chan, Chang En, Billy Keohavong, Rebecca Margolick
Original Sound / Composer: Matthew Tomkinson
Lighting Design: Adrian Tan
Costume Design: Loo An Ni

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