'Breath'

Nanyang Academy of Fine Art, 2020 Credits: Wang Xuedanyang

The performance reveals human imagination and creativity through the dancing body, the folding and unfolding of a non conventional garment and thoughts on sustainable clothing production projected as handwritten fragments. The dancers explore space, and the vital materialism of human body and textiles through improvisation and meditative movement from Asian Dance techniques.

The design of the garment is based on a concept Margret Wibmer has developed over a number of years under the conceptual umbrella of ‘Infinite Play'. This time Wibmer shares the projects underlying artistic research with a select group of NAFA Dance, Fashion and Fine Art students. She invites and guides them to explore her work through their own process of making, performing and reflection, resulting in the production of a staged performance.

'Breath'

'(B)LOOM'

'(B)loom'

Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, 2020 Credits: Kuang Jingkai

(B)LOOM is a response to Christina Chan's Loom from Crossings 2019. It premiered last November in the Studio Theatre as part of the NAFA Dance Alumni's homecoming programme. It does not present as the official or sanctioned sequela of Loom. As a full length dance theatre piece, (B)Loom explores the dualities of man's morality: birth vs death; myth vs reality; destiny vs self-determination. It tells the tale of a commune of unspeaking human survivors, save for a few words, in search of the water tree, a plant or organism allegedly able to quench thirst and hunger, and cure illnesses of anyone who grows it. Led by one of the last witnesses (if not the last one) of a greener world, the collective goes on a quest for this famed tree. In their search, lives are lost, bartered for some evidence of the tree's existence. Each member desperate to show proof of the tree in the hope of becoming the next leader of the pact.