Clad in cling wrap and clay for Frontier Danceland's rooftop show Dancers' Locker

Keigo Nozaki (right) with Konrad Plak from Frontier Danceland in a rehearsal for Ma Yueru's Imprints, part of a site-specific double bill on the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre roof garden for Dancers' Locker 2019. PHOTO: JOEL ONG
(From left) Keigo Nozaki, Sammantha Yue, Mark Robles, Tan Xin Yen, Grace Lim and Konrad Plak in a rehearsal for Ma Yueru's Imprints. PHOTO: JOEL ONG
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SINGAPORE - Keigo Nozaki is cling wrapping his dancers. With painstaking care, the Japanese choreographer, 27, swathes each one in plastic, here an elbow pressed up against a torso, there a hand clasping a shoulder.

"Can you breathe?" he checks as he pats cling wrap over faces. The dancers nod.

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