Umbilical explores the social and emotional ripples resulting from division and transformation, drawing poignant parallels with the looming uncertainty that was experienced by the people who lived through the separation of Singapore from Malaysia in 1965.  A dynamic blend of movement, music, visual projections and AI integration, Umbilical is an immersive performance that delves into […]

In the second chapter of his trilogy on love, Lebanese choreographer Ali Chahrour draws from his own family history and in torn-up Lebanon to weave a tapestry of poignant stories. At the heart of it, a mother, Leila, clings to her child Abbas, striving to shield him from the fate of martyrdom. A little further […]

On stage, a house appears from nothing. It goes up fast, choreographed like time-lapse photography. Residents move in, move out, get evicted, burn it down, loot it, rent it, remodel it, get married and divorced in it, grow up in it, die in it, haunt it. And all the while, they leave and live among […]

A vandalised artwork. An enigmatic painter forced to create wartime propaganda. A desperate act of love.  As Emma, an art conservation student restores a portrait of a Japanese woman, Mizuki, she finds herself transported deep into the heart of Syonan-to—Japanese-occupied Singapore. There, Emma stitches together the lives of Mizuki, the artist, Huang Wei and the […]

Man. Father. Fool. In this dark and claustrophobic world, Lear is the all-powerful patriarch, but he is also his own fool. Being a fool is one thing. Having power and being a fool is quite another. What happens when the power we hold is taken away? “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow!” This […]

Vampyr is a mockumentary about stubborn shapeshifting creatures—half-dead, half- alive, half-animal, half-human, half-earth—that refuse to obey the mandate of the nature/culture divide. Living in unregulated wind turbine parks in Chile, these indeterminate beings exist sometimes as disoriented bats, and sometimes as exhausted night-shift workers. A piece about energy and exhaustion, work and rest, Vampyr is […]

An old theatre on its last night. Two actors, A and O, find themselves sharing the stage. They bicker, they compete, they create, they wonder, and they wait… and wait, and wait. “We exist because they exist.” “Every play has a beginning / And an end / Life is the same.” But will the audience […]

A spectacular journey through Singapore’s arts scene. Join the OG Singapore Boy Hossan Leong in an extraordinary theatrical experience that weaves four decades of artistic evolution through the eyes of someone who lived through it all. This performance of song and storytelling is inspired by Hossan’s personal journey—which mirrors Singapore’s own cultural awakening—from church pianist […]

Diverse dancers from Southeast Asia and Japan create the imagined world of a colony through dance and movement. Each expressing their personal challenges and aspirations beyond their limitations and comfort zones. They live in enforced proximity in an urban tenement, yet exist as disparate entities distanced by prejudice, ignorance and fear. They struggle to make […]

久唔唱歌忘記歌 (A long time without singing, you forget the song) Has all my revelry now stung me blind Whose now am I, if here no longer mine But of the whims of winds and ghosts and rivers A hundred mouths in breath in width and bigger Than life. I lie beside myself, both quiet, still […]

More Than Ever, we seek dialogue. In 2025, Singapore marks its 60th year of independence. How has our cultural identity evolved, and what can we learn from the evolutions of other cultural narratives and strategies? This conversation series reflects on these questions through the lens of SIFA. How do we take the measure of the […]