About
About the residency
Contemporary Performing Arts Research Residency. As part of the residency, each resident is invited to present at least one public programme of their choosing, developed in conversation with the Esplanade residency team.
Events
6
a place we could not name
An experimental performance that crosses worlds, thresholds, and in-between states. Post-show discussion follows.
Lucifer: the Dissolution
A performance lecture/a story about the mistranslation of “Lucifer” and an artist’s search for a genreless performance language.
Time To Heal
Time to Heal explores, through movement, how stem cell research and traditional medicine practice understand body, memory, and time differently.
Iridescent Objects Under the Shade
Iridescent Objects Under the Shade explores beauty, opacity and camouflage as strategies of care, resistance, survival and protection.
Find Your Long Lost Auntie
Using the familiar figure of the “auntie” as a starting point, theatremaker Trà Nguyễn invites audiences to explore how strength, labour and survival are embodied.
The Silent Crackers
In this public programme, artist Jung Chen shares about her performance-led research project on labour and migration, with Singapore as the central observation point.