Global, local themes explored in NUS fest

CONTEMPORARY dance is about ideas, and the two ideas to be explored by the performances at the NUS Arts Festival will be a global phenomenon as well as a more Singapore-specific situation.

Ricky Hu from Hong Kong Ballet looks at smartphone addiction with his piece Look Up, while Taiwanese choreographer Chen Wu-Kang's Elephant in the Room is inspired by his reading of Kuo Pao Kun's The Coffin is Too Big for the Hole.

They're the two choreographers of Overdrive II, which is a continuation of the series started last year where NUS Centre for the Arts invited foreign choreographers to work with the university's dance students.