WORKS
STRAWBERRY MOON IN 4 ACTS
16 - 31 Oct 2020 | The Future Stage
Presented by
The ARTS FISSION Company
STRAWBERRY MOON IN 4 ACTS is a community outreach performance of the annual Moonstruck Series that marks the celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The title is inspired by the last full moon in June coined as the “Strawberry Moon” in reference to strawberry season in early summer.
Combining Augmented Reality (AR) and choice-based options, Strawberry Moon comprises four modular narratives where viewers can freely enter in and out of each act. The four lunarscapes highlight the elements of water, sand, cloud, and wind with surreal characters in titles like Chang-E’s Mirror（雨湿月）, Pavane on Moondust （踏沙行）, Rabbit Dreaming （云筑梦）, and Lunar Wind Chasers （风逐花）.
GARDEN•UPROOTED
19 May 2018 | 8 PM | Esplanade Theatre
Presented by The Philharmonic Orchestra &
The ARTS FISSION Company
The performance is helmed by Cultural Medallion recipients Maestro Lim Yau and Choreographer Angela Liong, and supported by an inter-generational cast comprising senior citizens with dance students performing alongside professional dancers from Arts Fission and musicians from The Philharmonic Orchestra.
garden•uprooted contrasts the idea of garden as a sanctuary with the upheaval of diaspora in modern times. The performance features works by acclaimed Japanese Composer Toru Takemitsu (1930 – 1996), whose music took great inspiration from nature and the traditional Japanese garden.
FUTURE FEED
17 & 18 March 2017 | 8 PM | Victoria Theatre
A multidisciplinary dance performance
on food, land, and collective memories
What to eat?
Not just to feed the body but also fill the soul?
FUTURE FEED reflects the artists’ premonition of depleting arable lands that would ultimately lead to the loss of collective memories and broken human connections. FUTURE FEED invites you to hear the laments of empty rice bowls and feel the sodden dance steps at the shadow of the paddy fields.
The performance offers a spread of dance, live music, soundscape, film, and set design to contemplate on the issues of food source and consumption in our modern times.
FIRE MONKEY
9 & 10 December 2016 | Melbourne Arts Centre Lawn
A Singapore and Australia dance collaboration between The Arts Fission Company and choreographer Victoria Chiu presented by Multicultural Arts Victoria as part of Mapping Melbourne 2016.
Staged at the iconic Art Centre lawn, this site specific piece embraces the energy of Melbourne’s arts epicenter and ties it to the Chinese animal zodiac with 2016 being the Year of the Monkey under the element of Fire. Fire Monkey also involves different communities in Singapore and Melbourne by asking participants to use 3000-year old Chinese oracle bone script to create hand-dyed fabric strips as modern text messages across oceans. The colorful strips made by community members are incorporated in a spectacular installation at the performance site.
IN THE NAME OF RED THE SCROLL OF NANYANG INK
4 - 6 December 2015 | 8, 9, 10 PM | National Gallery Singapore
Two site-specific performances by The ARTS FISSION Company
For the official opening of The National Gallery Singapore
In The Name of Red is a site-specific performance that takes inspiration and pays homage to the red hues and objects found in paintings under the different Southeast Asian collections of the National Gallery with dancers in red scaling the two grand staircases at the Padang Atrium.
The Scroll of Nanyang Ink visualized the idea of layering space and time through different movement scenarios along the 36 m long green corridor that serves as the unique performing space in the format of a Chinese handscroll at the Supreme Court Terrace.
THE MAZU CHRONICLE (妈祖航志)
Crossing the Maritime Silk Road
The Mazu Chronicle is an innovative symphonic dance-theatre performance featuring orchestral and choral music by Singaporean composers that pays homage to Asian folklore and the maritime pioneers of Singapore.
Inspired by real-life stories of early seafarers of the Maritime Silk Road and the legend of Mazu, the patron goddess of the sea, The Mazu Chronicle presents the visual spectacle of a stage transformed into a vessel that traverses the landscape of memory and imagination.
This special one-time only performance is helmed by Cultural Medallion recipients, Maestro Lim Yau and Choreographer Angela Liong, the artistic team behind the successful sold-out production in 2013, The Rite of Spring: A People’s Stravinsky.
Presented by The Philharmonic Orchestra & The ARTS FISSION Company
In Collaboration with Esplanade Theatre by the Bay
30 August 2015 | 5 PM | The Esplanade Concert Hall
MAKE IT NEW
30 January - 8 February 2015
National Design Centre | The Arts House | library@esplanade
Make It New is a 10-day event featuring diverse programmes at different locations. This concept enables Arts Fission to share with the public and let them experience the multi-faceted contemporary dance through Arts Fissionʼs own creative journey in the span of 20 years.
Make It New celebrated and marked 20 years of Arts Fissionʼs presence in the contemporary dance scene in Singapore since its inaugural performance at the Asian Performing Arts Festival in 1995.
Not intending to just dwell in the past and present a retrospective, Make It New is forward-looking in spirit by re-examining past works of Art Fission: the themes, ideas, concepts, and performance stagings in order to recreate new dance inspirations, initiate stimulating dialogues, reconnect with past collaborators, and engage with new audiences from there.
INDEX OF PAST PERFORMANCES
2021
Where The Wild Beasts Feed
4 -31 January
SISTIC Live
2020
Strawberry Moon in 4 Acts
16 - 31 October
The Future Stage
The Secret Room of Bestiary
5, 6, 12 & 13 September
The Great Summons
7 July - 10 August
National Museum of Singapore
2019
Curious Fish
4 - 8 November
Drama Centre Black Box
Moon Musing
6 - 15 September
Jurong Lake Gardens
8-immortals Hackaton
June
8-immortals Public Sharing Research and Exploration
March
2018
Paradise Aloft
October, November
Fire Monkey
October
Garden Uprooted
19 May
Esplanade Theatre
2017
Theatre of Trees
4 - 6 December
National Gallery Singapore
Moonstruck
September, October
Shaman/Peasants of Barefoot Guardians
July
FUTURE FEED
17 & 18 March
Victoria Theatre
2016
Fire Monkey
9 & 10 December
Art Centre Melbourne Lawn
Remember Elephants
12 & 13 November
Drama Centre Black Box
Mirror of Clandestine Blooms
29 September
ArtScience Museum
2015
In The Name of Red & The Scroll of Nanyang Ink
4 - 6 December
National Gallery Singapore
Serenading Pangolins
October
The Mazu Chronicle
30 August
Esplanade Concert Hall
The Sandbox
23 & 24 April
ARTS FISSION's Garden Studio
Make It New
30 January - 8 February
National Design Centre
2014
Follies for é Bird
22, 23, 29, 30 August
National Museum of Singapore's Fashion Gallery
To Beat The Butterfly's Wings
17, 18 & 19 April
artspace@222
2013
The Locust Wrath
27 & 28 September
Artspace @ Helutrans Gallery
The Rite of Spring: A People's Stravinsky
22 June
Concert Hall, Esplanade Theatres by the Bay
7 Dance Fictions in an Ice Room
15 & 16 March
School of the Arts, Studio Theatre
2012
Eat a Bitter Bloom
7 & 8 September
Drama Centre Black Box, National Library
The Folly of a Garden
13 & 14 January
Drama Centre Theatre, National Library
2011
Flowers of Lamentation 2: Petals in the Crowd
19 & 20 August
National Museum, Gallery Theatre
The Last Lumiere
4 & 5 March
Esplanade Theatre Studio
2010
Flowers of Lamentation: Poppy Tears
19 - 21 August
Drama Centre Black Box @ National Library
Graffiti of the Celeste
5 & 6 March
Esplanade Theatre Studio
2009
Interview with Palace Ghosts (Feb 2009)
27 & 28 Feb
Esplanade Theatre Studio
2008
1000 Camels
21 & 22 March
Esplanade Theatre Studio
2007
Bleu En Rouge
31 August & 1 September
Esplanade Theatre Studio
Dreaming of Kuanyin Meeting Madonna
in collaboration with Mark Chan
1 & 2 June
Victoria Theatre
Singapore Arts Festival 2007
Ghost Exchange
23 & 24 March
Esplanade Theatre Studio, Singapore
World Premiere
30 & 31 March
European Premier at MU Theater, Budapest, Hungary
2006
Touch-Me-Not
9 & 10 June
Esplanade Theatre Studio
A Flower Appointment
24 & 25 March
UCC Theatre National University Singapore
In Partnership with NUS Arts Festival 2006
2005
Scarlet’s Room
A Co-Production Of The ARTS FISSION Company (Singapore)
and Yvonne Ng/tiger princess dance projects (Canada)
21 & 23 July
Esplanade Theatre Studio
In Collaboration with Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay as part of THE STUDIOS series
12 SMS Across The Mountains
14 & 15 June
Victoria Theatre
Singapore Arts Festival
Intimate Letters
6 - 8 May
Guinness Theatre Substation
2004
Shadowhouses
9 & 10 July
Jubilee Hall, Raffles Hotel
Little Lee II : “ Is today really yesterday”
13 & 14 February
Jubilee Hall – Raffles Hotel
2003
Siau Ling - Timeless Living
3 & 4 December
Esplanade Theatre Studio
Little Lee I : “ The Forgotten Journey Home”
11 & 12 January
University Cultural Centre (Theatre) National University of Singapore
1996
Flower Eaters Tetralogy
19, 20, 21 April
Guiness Theatre, Substation
1, 2, 3 June
Singapore Art Museum
25 July
Graha Bhakti Budaya – Taman Ismael Marzuk, Jarkata
27, 28, 29 October
1995
Mahabharata - A Grain of Rice
4 & 5 June
The Drama Centre
