Waktu Paruh serves as a metaphor for the gradual disintegration of social order, ethics, and human values. The work poses the question: when the values that sustain life are steadily eroded, what remains? How does one move forward when the very footing that once supported life is no longer intact?
Dance artist Kim-Sanh Châu leads a workshop centered on the squat, bringing together Asian and North American references. Explored as both a physical practice and a cultural image, the squat becomes a site of resilience, grounding, and empowerment.
This workshop explores how movement can emerge from the shifting weight of the body. Rather than searching for a movement form in advance, participants will follow how the body responds as weight moves from one point of support to another, paying attention to balance, direction, energy, and the impulse to move.
In this workshop, participants will harness foundations of floor-based breaking-influenced pathways, explore ideas around ‘live composition methodology’ and learn ways to generate unpredictable movement compositions using Hamilton’s unique counting system, utilised throughout his catalogue of creative works.
This session delves into the concept of dance as a living archive, exploring how bodies, movement practices, memories, and relationships serve as dynamic repositories of knowledge beyond conventional documentation.
La XXX Punk is a series through which Fangas Nayaw searches for how Indigenous dance can be in the future. It will be different, and must be different, because we are fed up with how popular imagination of Indigenous dance is limited to certain selected highlights and images.
a place we could not name is a collaborative project that began from a shared interest in tracing place, not only as an idea but as something experienced through the senses.
Fragile, dented, yet always noisy—KALENG ROMBENG! celebrates vulnerability, memory, and lived experience from a marginalized perspective. The work stems from Adrian’s personal recollections of fear, stereotypes, and experiences that leave invisible marks.
This workshop touches on the Indigenous Peoples' Basic Punk Law II with Fangas Nayaw. Central to the work of Amis choreographer Fangas Nayaw is the dilemma of how to adjust to the reality of contemporary social life, and in the face of globalization, while preserving tradition.
This workshop invites participants to explore Krump as a practice of giving, receiving and connection. Rooted in movement, emotion and presence, we will explore how energy is offered, shared and received through the body.
This workshop invites participants into an ongoing process of inquiry. Working through exploration of embodied knowledge, memory, and transmission. Through movement and experimentation, participants will discover connections between their own practices and those of others, while remaining open to unexpected encounters and new possibilities.
What does it take to create conditions in which artistic practices can grow without determining in advance what they should become? Tending What Grows brings together practitioners from different artistic development platforms to consider incubation as both a practice of care and a form of infrastructure.
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