Technology takes centre stage at Singapore arts festival

This year's Singapore International Festival of Arts features Toy Factory Productions' reworked Kun opera, A Dream Under The Southern Bough: Reverie (left), and ST/LL (below), an interdisciplinary performance installation by Japanese art collective Dumb T
This year's Singapore International Festival of Arts features Toy Factory Productions' reworked Kun opera, A Dream Under The Southern Bough: Reverie (left), and ST/LL (right), an interdisciplinary performance installation by Japanese art collective Dumb Type, set to music by composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. PHOTOS: ARTS HOUSE LIMITED, YOSHIKAZU INOUE
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Technology takes the stage at the Singapore International Festival of Arts (Sifa) this year.

Theatre that is part virtual reality (VR) and part live performance, free dance-offs against your recorded self, and Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto improvising a musical duet to moving images were among the headline acts announced yesterday at The Arts House.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on February 26, 2019, with the headline Technology takes centre stage at Singapore arts festival. Subscribe