Beginning in 2022, the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) introduced a virtual venue and creation platform hosted on the official festival website. This platform showcases digital art, as well as creative responses to the SIFA performances, which expand, organise, and deepen the ideas and artistry radiating from each edition of the festival. This year, […]
Picture a dance. Let's call it the "Romeo", after Shakespeare's young lover who, in ignited enthusiasm, believed he could conquer death. Picture this dance, which would be known all over the world, although no one would know when and where it was created. A large-scale piece for a dozen performers, Trajal Harrell forges a speculative […]
ANGELA (a strange loop) by Susanne Kennedy & Markus Selg (DE) is a programme under Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) 2024. ANGELA (a strange loop) is a close-up of a woman's life as she struggles to make sense of her existence. Join her in a thought-provoking journey as she navigates everyday situations: illness and […]
The Prose and the Passion takes E.M. Forster, one of the greatest English novelists of all time, as its starting point, and is inspired by his letters, his life, and his novels A Passage to India and Maurice. Multiple timelines converge and diverge, bound together inextricably by the characters that populate Forster’s novels, and consumed […]
