The Susurration of the Tree
 

"Walking along my usual path, the grass crunching with my footsteps, 

I pause to rest under the tree. Leaves fall tenderly on me,

I look up and experience the tree conspiring with light.

It whispers to me, foreseeing my future far insight."

 

In this 60 minutes' production, our award-winning duo, Artistic Director Neo Jenny and Creative Director Benedict Soh, experiments with creating Chinese Dance works that challenge both artistry and technicality of its profession in this contemporary world. Enhanced with filming effects and the creative use of space, this piece seeks to open an emotive and sensual communication between people, dance, and our surroundings.

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【Tempting Hearts】

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Inspired by clips from movies. Tempting hearts is a work of fragmentary clips of self-dialogues reflecting the inner emotions and memories of absence regarding their past relationship.

 

This new work utilises voice-overs from various movies and Chinese songs to explore the possibilities of expression in relation to the performance space by responding physically to language and sound.

 

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【The Susurration of the Tree】

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Inspired by the awe for nature,' The Susurration of the Tree', choreographed by Neo Jenny, explores the relationship between trees and man. "How often have we stopped to listen? To their murmurs so wise, so reassuring, so serene, as we hustle-bustle and lose all measures of pace." As Jenny ponders, she also revisualises that the trail to success comes with will, resilience, and determination.

 

This new work is a cross-disciplinary collaboration between Jenny and musician Yong Kailin, Dr Tan Qing Lun and Jeffrey Tan. Original music was composed, with improvisation done in reaction to the dancers' movements, with a wide range of instruments, from dizi, xiao, xun, violin, voices and other axillary instruments, enhanced with music soundscape.

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Listen closely to the resonating notes as it brings us into nature and the dialogue between the dancers and the musicians.

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