harbor

23 - 25 february 2023
uferstudios 1, berlin

tanzfabrik berlin
[ world premiere ]

drawing upon the vital connection between dance and ritual, harbor is a space where I manifest a meeting with my maternal grandmother. as a young girl, she was forced to cross a sea, fleeing a japanese invasion of her birth home in guangzhou to singapore. following her passing in 2018, I began to shift my choreographic position from one of dancing to being danced. in understanding my own body as a medium within the continuum of an extended ancestral legacy, harbor articulates the memory of displacement, migration and violence passed on through generations. a dream, a coastline, a horizon, a cry, a tremor, a ripple, a cloud, a portal.

by and with jee chan, seow mok jee, hilà lahav, chong li-chuan, stefan pente and gretchen blegen.

in co-production with tanzfabrik berlin. funded through the einzelprojektförderung of the berlin senate department for culture and europe. residency support from tanzfabrik berlin and dance nucleus (singapore). research process supported by goethe-institute singapore and the national arts council, singapore.

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