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Choy Ka Fai’s SoftMachine: The Return captures shifting contemporary dance landscape in Asia

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SoftMachine: The Return is a continuation of a story told through the lives and creative practices of five Asian artists.

SoftMachine: The Return is a continuation of a story told through the lives and creative practices of five Asian artists.

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Melissa Quek

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An Esplanade Commission
da:ns focus – Connect Asia Now (CAN)
Choy Ka Fai (Singapore/Germany)
Sept 27, 4pm

SoftMachine: The Return is not simply restaging a work from a decade ago. It is also a continuation of the story of the shifting contemporary dance landscape in Asia, told through the lives and creative practices of five Asian artists: Rianto (Banyumas, Indonesia), Surjit Nongmeikapam (Manipur, India), Xiao Ke and Zhou Zihan (Shanghai, China), and Yuya Tsukahara (Osaka, Japan). 

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