Global, local themes explored in NUS fest
Given the limited number of dance companies in Singapore, and thus choreographers, companies now invite overseas choreographers on a regular basis to work with dancers here - in the hope that the exchange would encourage the growth of the form.
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.
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