Esplanade Presents

Dance | Roving

para para

Chew Shaw En

14 – 22 Mar 2026

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30mins

(Intermission: None)

Forecourt Garden, Concourse, Courtyard

Free
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Synopsis

A surging band of bodies and percussive sounds, para para is a celebratory rumpus that explores rhythm with movement and sound.

 

A parade but smaller. The smallest. Make it two, in accompaniment of one another. A hand reaching out, a hand reaching back. “Para” a cute sound. para para

 

A rousing of the transient public spaces in and around Esplanade, para para blurs the lines between performer, participant and onlooker. This performance is a task in search of collective movement and joy. 

 

By Chew Shaw En 

 

Performing Artists:

Adele Goh Ee Lee  

Dawn Lim Gin  

Tai Chun Wai  

 

Costume Designer:

Aida Sa’ad 

Language: English
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Artist Information

Chew Shaw En

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Shaw is an artist, facilitator and performer who works from the perspective of the body. Her multidisciplinary practice spans different and overlapping contexts, ranging from medium-specific to socially engaged. She works with performance score, task-based devising and improvisation. In spaces where she directs and choreographs, Shaw draws upon fiction, the vernacular and her experiences on the ground within community spaces, in order to evoke imagery, metaphor and concepts that guide her creations. She is interested in the rehearsal as a practice that allows us to explore new ways of being with a group of people. 

Aida Sa’ad

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Aida Sa’ad is a visual artist who works in the realm of illustration, graphic design, mural painting, creating art installations and art direction for advertising. Her style is playful and fun, often characterised by bold compositions, bright colours and patterns. She also loves making things with her hands—sewing, painting, textile-printing, costume and prop-making for funzies. 

Adele Goh Ee Lee

Adele is a Singapore-based contemporary dancer, teacher and choreographer, working in various contexts and with diverse bodies, including dancers with disabilities. Adele’s movement practice is constantly evolving, but has strong influences from Gaga and Flying, two somatic-based techniques. She enjoys improvisation, spontaneity and play. In recent years, she has created, collaborated and performed for different platforms including M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival, Arts in Your Neighbourhood, ArtScience Late at Home, da:ns festival and Odoru-Akita Dance Festival. From 2013–2018, she was also a company artist with Frontier Danceland.

Dawn Lim Gin

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For Dawn, embodiment is a practice of resistance, integrity and alive-ness in the flurry of today's algorithmic and surveilled world. With a writing and performance art practice, they inquire into the strange in the familiar and the familiar in the strange. They have performed and devised for independent theatre productions of May the Land (2021 and 2025). Dawn cares about bringing back wonder in the worlds they build between bodies.

Tai Chun Wai

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Chun Wai is a movement artist, percussionist, street artist (stage name: WaaiwaiiDrum), and arts educator. His artistic journey began with the 24 Festive Drums, a Malaysian drumming culture based around the lunar festival calendar. He has toured widely with theatrical and performance groups throughout Asia, Europe and Australia. Deeply passionate about West African traditional percussion (African rhythms), improvisational dance, physical and theatrical performance, Chun Wai is currently exploring the theatrical potential of rhythm and the body.

Date & Time

14 Mar 2026, Sat

10.30am

Esplanade Forecourt Garden

2pm

Esplanade Forecourt Garden

4.30pm

Esplanade Forecourt Garden

15 Mar 2026, Sun

12pm

Esplanade Forecourt Garden

2pm

Esplanade Forecourt Garden

4.30pm

Esplanade Forecourt Garden

20 Mar 2026, Fri

12pm

Esplanade Forecourt Garden

2pm

Esplanade Forecourt Garden

4.30pm

Esplanade Forecourt Garden

21 Mar 2026, Sat

10.30am

Esplanade Forecourt Garden

2pm

Esplanade Forecourt Garden

4.30pm

Esplanade Forecourt Garden

22 Mar 2026, Sun

12pm

Esplanade Forecourt Garden

2pm

Esplanade Forecourt Garden

4.30pm

Esplanade Forecourt Garden
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