Dancing in cling wrap and clay

(Above, from left) Keigo Nozaki, Sammantha Yue, Mark Robles, Tan Xin Yen, Grace Lim and Konrad Plak rehearsing for Ma Yueru's Imprints.
(Above, from left) Keigo Nozaki, Sammantha Yue, Mark Robles, Tan Xin Yen, Grace Lim and Konrad Plak rehearsing for Ma Yueru's Imprints. PHOTO: JOEL ONG
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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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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on July 23, 2019, with the headline Dancing in cling wrap and clay. Subscribe