da:ns festival 2015 SoftMachine House Programme

Festival Commission and Residency

A Surjit Nongmeikapam India Rianto Indonesia 17 Oct 2015, Sat, 3pm 18 Oct 2015, Sun, 8pm

by choy ka fai Singapore / Germany

17 Oct 2015, Sat, 8pm 18 Oct 2015, Sun, 3pm

Esplanade Theatre StudiO 1hr 20mins, no intermission

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B Xiao Ke x Zi Han China Yuya Tsukahara Japan

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festival message Where has the time gone? da:ns festival turns 10 this year and it seems like only yesterday when we presented our first edition.

At da:ns festival, our sense of time shifts. As we watch bodies move on stage, or as we ourselves dance, time as we know it, is suspended, and we become attuned to time driven by the body and its unique rhythms in movement. Over the years, we hope the festival has given you several experiences and memories that have expanded your sense of movement, and opened you up to different expressions of dance.

The festival team has had the pleasure of creating this dedicated event, growing a myriad of platforms in our festival that support the development of dance. To encourage more people of all ages to try dancing, we have worked with Singapore dance studios to provide fun and easy dance lessons that everyone can enjoy both inside our rehearsal studio, outdoors along our waterfront and around Singapore. Last year, we welcomed over 28,000 participants to these sessions and the overall da:ns festival has doubled in audience size since it’s first year.

To support the creation of new dance works, da:ns festival commissions, co-produces and provides residencies for artists. This has led to long-lasting relationships with artists we deeply admire for their dedication and creativity, and enabled 23 new dance creations, the majority from Asian dance-makers.

So this year, for our special 10th anniversary, we have invited several of these artists to celebrate this special occasion with us, some of whom are marking significant milestones in their own personal careers. We host the legendary Sylvie Guillem, who returns to da:ns festival with her final world tour before retiring from 35 years of dancing, while Singapore choreographer Kuik Swee Boon creates a work that brings together leading dance-makers in their 40s back to the stage.

The festival would have not been possible without our supportive audience of dance lovers, the dance-makers who continually inspire us, our festival sponsors and partners who have shared our belief in the significance of dance in our lives, and our group of dedicated festival volunteers—the da:ns Kaki Ambassadors.

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synopsis The SoftMachine project investigates the contemporary status of dance through a research across Asia to inspire a new series of choreographic experiments and creations.

Since 2012, Choy Ka Fai has travelled to 13 cities in 5 countries to meet and interview contemporary dance makers. Through these encounters, he has collected an independent archive of video interviews with 88 choreographers, dancers and curators.

The project unfolds in 2 parts. The first is an exhibition of video interviews and dance documentaries that map dance-makers in China, India, Indonesia, Singapore and Japan. The second part is a series of documentary performance portraits, of choreographers whose poetics and biography mark them as different from their peers.

The SoftMachine documentary performances series is a collection of fragmented encounters, conversational choreography and discussions about contemporary dance in specific Asian cultures. This performance series is an intimate collaboration with the individual choreographer, where from their individual point of views, interprets and speculates about the choreographic minds of the present future.

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SoftMachine :

Surjit Nongmeikapam Photo by Choy Ka Fai

Surjit Nongmeikapam is a young contemporary dancer from Manipur, India, who has learned various forms of classical Indian dance and martial arts. He is one of the first few dancers in Manipur to engage with contemporary dance forms and seeks to promote its development beyond the traditional conservative Manipuri cultures. The documentary performance will present the process of creating a new dance performance for the consumption of the European audience, revealing the artistic strategies, marketing ideologies and the precarious attempt at exoticizing oneself.

SoftMachine :

Rianto

Photo by Choy Ka Fai

Rianto is a dancer from Banyumas, Indonesia, who specializes in the traditional erotic dance of Lengger, while being equally versatile in other Javanese traditional dance forms. Rianto also performs and collaborates with many contemporary choreographers. Since moving to Tokyo in 2003, he has developed different choreographic practices, deriving and departing from his traditional beginning. The documentary performance explores the tensions between choreographic practices of the traditional vs contemporary, the masculine vs feminine, and the urbanist vs ruralist.

SoftMachine :

Xiao Ke x Zi Han Photo by Choy Ka Fai

Xiao Ke and Zi Han make collaborative works exploring the body in its extremity of expressions, reflecting on the social and political context of China. The documentary performance with Xiao Ke and Zi Han explores the short history of contemporary dance in China and traces the generation gaps before and after the decade-long Cultural Revolution in China. The performance experiments with the symbolic tendencies of Chinese dance-makers, exploring its limitations and imitations of contemporary dance.

SoftMachine :

Photo by Choy Ka Fai

Yuya Tsukahara

Yuya Tsukahara is the founding member and leader of Contact Gonzo, a contemporary dance unit based in Osaka. Contact Gonzo composes a unique dance form in which dancers strike one other while keeping their movements aligned with their partners. Their performances experiment with the possibility of sharing conflicting feelings at the same time, such as love and pain, instinct and temperance, and violence and dance.

The documentary performance attempts to decode the oftenmystified logics of contact gonzo and to become one of them.

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Biographies Keigo Mikajiri

PERFORMER

Singapore/Germany

Japan

Choy Ka Fai is an artist, performance maker and speculative designer. He is inspired by the histories and theorizations that together contain the uncertainties of the future. Ka Fai graduated in Design Interaction from the Royal College Of Art London, with the Singapore National Arts Council Overseas Scholarship, and was conferred the Singapore Young Artist Award in 2010. He is the artistin-residence at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin from 2014-2015. His works have been presented worldwide in major festival, such as ImPulsTanz, Vienna(2015), Tanz Im August, Berlin(2015 & 2013) and the Singapore Arts Festival (2012).

Keigo Mikajiri is one of the earlier members of Contact Gonzo and has been working with the collective since 2008. He has performed in the group projects in the last 6 years.

Tang Fu Kuen

Dramaturg

Singapore/Thailand

Tang Fu Kuen is an independent dramaturg, curator and producer of contemporary performance and visual fields, working in Asia and Europe. He was the sole curator of the Singapore pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, presenting artist Ming Wong, receiving a special jury mention. He produces and manages for contemporary Asian dance and performance makers: Pichet Klunchun (Thailand), daniel kok (Singapore), Choy Ka Fai (Singapore) and Eisa Jocson (Philippines). He continues to collaborate with artist Ming Wong (Berlin).

Yuya Tsukahara

Performer/Choreographer Japan

Yuya Tsukahara is the founding member and leader of Japanese performance collective, Contact Gonzo. Founded in 2006, Contact Gonzo is an improvisational performance group based in Osaka, Japan. Contact Gonzo has been presented in Japan, Singapore, New York, Moscow, Rio de janeiro, ReykjavĂ­k, Zurich, Budapest and Ljubljana among other places. In recent years, Contact Gonzo became the focus of increasing attention in both the performing arts and contemporary art scenes that led to participation in international exhibitions, arts and dance festivals around the world.

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Rianto

dancer/Choreographer Indonesia

Rianto is a dancer from Banyumas, Indonesia, who specializes in the traditional erotic dance of Lengger, while being equally versatile in other Javanese traditional dance forms.

Rianto is the artistic director of Dewandaru Dance Company in Tokyo. He graduated from the Academy of Dance (ISI), Surakarta, and had performed internationally with other choreographers and directors, including Akiko Kitamura (Japan), Sen Hea Ha (Korea) and Chen Shi Zheng (China).

Surjit Nongmeikapam

dancer/choreographer India

Surjit Nongmeikapam (Bonbon) was born in Manipur and studied B.A in choreography from Natya Institute of kathak and choreography.

He was a contemporary dancer at Natya Stem Dance Kampni, Bangalore, India, and traditional dancer of Natya Maya, Bangalore.

He also performs with other international choreographers and directors as a freelance dancer. His work had presented his work at Theater Spektakel Zurich (2013), Monsoon at Bozar, Brussel (2013) and Somarts, San Francisco (2014).

Photo by Choy Ka Fai

Choy Ka Fai

Director/Artist/Performer

Xiao Ke

Zul Mahmod

Dancer/Choreographer

Sound Artist

China

Singapore

At the age of six, Xiao Ke began her Chinese traditional dance education and training, which lasted for twelve years until she was enrolled in Fudan University, Shanghai, from where she studied contemporary dance by herself. In 1998, she founded her own dance studio, XK Dance Studio. In 2002, she started collaborating with contemporary artists. In 2005, together with Zhang Xian, she co-founded ZuHe Niao Physical Theater Collactive and won ZKB Award in Zurich Theater Spektakel in 2006.

Zulkifle Mahmod is one of Singapore’s leading sound sculptors, making caldereque sculptures that often evoke industrial sounds. Zul has cut a reputation for integrating 3-D forms with ‘sound constructions’ and ‘sound-scapes’, often crossing genres and collaborating with other artists. Zul represented Singapore at the Singapore Pavilion of the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007.

Xiao Ke and Zi Han started work together from 2011, and their works had been presented at festivals such as JULIDANS in The Netherlands, TPAM performance meeting in Yokohama and Rencontres Choregraphiques Festival in France.

Stage “LIVE”

Zhou Zi Han

Sound Artist/Performer China

Zhou Zi Han is a performance / audiovisual artist started his creative career as a photographer and founded CANART, an independent contemporary art institute, with friends in Shanghai from 2008 to 2010. In 2010, Zi Han joined Zuhe Niao, an independent artist collective in Shanghai. He continues to engage in comprehensive visual art and live music for theatre performances.

Andy Lim

Lighting Designer Singapore

Andy Lim is a lighting designer who has worked extensively in and outside of Singapore for theatre and dance productions, art installations and films. He has designed for artists and directors such as Edwaard Liang, Ong Keng Sen, and Ho Tzu Nyen. His work has been seen locally and in major international performing arts festivals, including Kunsten Festival Des Arts (Belgium), 54th Venice Biennale (Italy) and the Mori Arts Museum (Japan).

Yap Seok Hui

Production Manager singapore

A freelance practitioner, Seok has toured with theatre and dance productions to Asia & Europe, undertaking various production, technical & stage management roles.

Selected credits include: Ten Thousand Tigers (Ho Tzu Nyen), Macho Dancer (Eisa Jocson), The Gay Romeo (daniel kok), SoftMachine (Choy Ka Fai). More recently, Seok works with Singapore-based art installation company ARTFACTORY on exhibitions at the Centre for Contemporary Art (Singapore), Singapore Art Musuem (Singapore), 2nd Kochi-Muziris Biennale (India), 56th Venice Biennale (Italy).

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Interview with

Choy Ka Fai

Choy Ka Fai in conversation with Karlien Meganck from deSingel, Antwerp at Tanz im August, Berlin 2O14.

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What led you to contemporary dance and performance?

Can you elaborate on your process of work for SoftMachine ?

I was trained in video art in Singapore.

But already during college – starting from about 2004 - I started working with performance and collaborated a lot with dancers. I also got into a physical theater training. I became associate director with Theatre Works in Singapore and for about 3 to 4 years I produced my work under that name. In 2009 I decided to go to London to study design.

I started in Japan, in Dance Box (Kobe) where I got a residency and started talking to artists. I already had some background knowledge on Japanese performing arts before I started because I myself actually decided to become an artist after seeing a performance by Dumb Type; they were very famous in the eighties. So for Japan I decided to work around the topic ‘Anxiety of Influence’. Butoh on the one hand and Dumb Type on the other hand have a very strong influence on Japanese artists until today.

So the interviews with the Japanese artists always included a biographical background of the artist and then a conversation about what happened in the past 10 years in the dance scene.

Can you explain about your recent project SoftMachine?

SoftMachine is a dance research project that studies contemporary dance in Asia.

It is actually part of a trilogy. The first part was Prospectus for a future body, where I looked at technology and alternative ways of how we document and archive dance movement. I used electrical stimulation and muscle sensors to copy dance movement into a digital form. In that way a dancer could – let’s say 10 years afterwards - dance a work of an iconic choreographer.

This resulted in a work Dance fiction.

Then I asked myself what’s next? What I did before was basically just looking at the body. After that I became curious about what the choreographer was thinking.

And this is how the idea of SoftMachine started. SoftMachine is the title of a novel

by William Burroughs. He made a novel by cutting and pasting different novels. I see the body also as a SoftMachine that cuts and pastes and becomes a new machine by itself. The body is full of all kinds of technology that humans still have to explore fully.

There was also something else. In Sadlers Wells in London in 2011, there was a series, Out of Asia. The future of contemporary dance. They made a 5-minute long promotional video for that programme and when I saw it I was disturbed and intrigued at the same time. Out of like 10 artists, only 2 artists were actually from Asia.

A lot of artists were like Akram Khan, who is of Asian descent but is actually British.

I became anxious. I wanted to find out what is actually inside Asia, not what came ‘out of ‘ Asia. The Western perception of what is Asian, does not interest me so much. I remember Akram Khan saying the Asian body is inherently spiritual. So immediately I asked myself “ what do you mean by the ‘Asian body’?” There are more than 48 countries in Asia! This also triggered my expedition throughout Asia.

For each country I spoke to about 20 dance makers. And I mostly went to secondary cities, not the capital city. Because in capitals you often see artists who actually came from somewhere else, whereas in secondary cities you find more artists who are from that city itself. So in Japan I chose for Kyoto and Osaka, instead of Tokyo. As countries I included Japan, China, Indonesia, India and Singapore.

What will this research result in?

My first idea was to make a performance in every country. But in the process I started to realise more and more what I was doing.

I saw an importance in talking to all these different people and decided I wanted to make an independent archive with all this information. I decided to put them on an online platform. Every interview is about 40 to 60 minutes. All these interviews will be online. On top of that I make a performance for each of the five selected countries.

Also every performance comes with a documentary about the artist who is in the performance.

As a conclusion one final question. What does this the term ‘contemporary’ mean to you? (laughs) I asked this question to all the artists I interviewed! Every city and country has its own culture in terms of relating ‘contemporary’ to dance. My own idea is as simple as this: ‘contemporary’ means ‘what is happening now, what the artist is curious about now.’

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Reflections “The process of making SoftMachine is a journey of self-discovery on my choreographic practices, allowing me to explore and understand my body in many different ways.”

– Rianto (Indonesia)

“This is a very challenging piece for me as I seldom work with humour in my work or did so much dancing in any performance. My own creation are more experimental, conceptual and closely related with social situations. There are very strong political tensions in my hometown with Mainland India.

It’s very hard for me to confront the audiences about difficult truths and situations. But the humour made them relaxed. ” – Surjit Nongmeikapam (India)

“In this piece, we cannot say that we represent the situation of contemporary dance/theatre in China.

It is a very complicated and fragmented art scene within China. We are just individuals with our own attitude to making art. We share our stories with Ka Fai and show our work on stage. We want to do something on stage with our own attitude, just “soft machine” is not enough, we must have a “hard soul”. ”

Photo by Bernie Ng

– Xiao Ke & Zi Han (China)

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“Through this piece I know more about myself and start to think more about the situation of contemporary dance in Japan. Very strange history.

Very strange consequence.”

– Yuya Tsukahara (Japan)

CREDITS Concept, Direction, and Documentary

Choy Ka Fai Dramaturgy

Tang Fu Kuen Choreography AND Performance

Yuya Tsukahara Keigo Mikajiri Rianto Surjit Nongmeikapam Xiao Ke x Zi Han

Sound Design

Zul Mahmod Zhou Zi Han Lighting Design and Technical Management

Andy Lim (stage“LIVE�)

Production Stage Management

Yap Seok Hui

Commissioned by Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay for da:ns festival 2O15

Acknowledgements The development of the project is funded by National Arts Council, Singapore, under the Arts Creation Fund 2012

With support from TheatreWorks, Singapore danceBox, Kobe, Japan Kyoto Experiment, Japan Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Bangalore, India Living Dance Studio, Beijing, China SoftMachine Digital Archives is co-produced by deSingel internationale kunstcampus

Special thanks to all the presenters and festivals providing tremendous support for the SoftMachine Project: In-Out Dance Festival, Burkina Faso Para Site, Hong Kong Critical Path, Sydney, Australia Indonesia Dance Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia Ignite Dance Festival, New Delhi, India International Theatre Festival of Kerala, India Tokyo Performing Arts Meeting, Japan ImPulsTanz Festival, Vienna, Austria Theater Spektakel Zurich, Switzerland Tanz Im August, Berlin, Germany TanzHaus NRW, Dusseldorf, Germany Staatstheater, Darmstadt, Germany Shanghai International Contemporary Theatre Festival, China 12

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