Breaking through borders and limits

BORDERLINE is a compelling new collaboration comprising two dances, one choreographed by Kuik Swee Boon from Singapore's T.H.E Dance Company and the other by Ross McCormack from New Zealand's Muscle Mouth. It features a strong cast of six dancers: Wu Mi, Kei Ushiroda, Anthea Seah, Brandon Khoo, Billy Keohavong and Lee Seulyi.

The production's theoretical underpinning lies in the challenging of the very idea of borderlines themselves. Especially in today's climate, the reality is that margins are rarely the distinct demarcations they promise to be. The divide between the two parts of the performance is as nebulous as the gossamer mist that shrouds its dancers, as McCormack's Area 2 blends seamlessly into Kuik's Vessel. Both are set to an atmospheric soundtrack by Muscle Mouth's Jason Wright, supported by T.H.E Dance Company's Jing Ng, that hovers somewhere in between organic and synthetic.

McCormack's Area 2 is inspired by the work of Canadian sculptor David Altmejd, whose vivid, complex sculptures erupt the boundaries between representation and abstraction, and interior and exterior. Area 2 is a montage of bodies under siege, as barriers are broken by internal and external pressures.