7 DEC 2019
Tactility Studies:
Incubated at and supported by Dance Nucleus (2018-2021)
Tactility Studies:
Soft Bodies
Incubated at and supported by Dance Nucleus (2018-2021)
Work-in-progress showing powered by
National Youth Council, Singapore
Photos from Tactility Studies: Soft Bodies (2019). Credit: Joseph Nair.
SYNOPSIS
If we think of ‘The Body-as-Theatre’, the body as a shapeshifting archive of memory and sensation, what languages do our muscles and limbs speak? What kind of fluency exists in decoding the gestures and caresses of others?
Tactility Studies: Soft Bodies proposes that tactility is a language we can all build sensitivity and fluency in, through experience and practice. In this cozy piece that builds relationships between 3 performers and audience members through touch, sound, voice and text, our skin isn’t what contains our bodies – it’s what opens out our bodies to other bodies and other encounters.
CO-DIRECTORS
Chong Gua Khee
Bernice Lee
DRAMATURG
Corrie Tan
CREATIVE PRESENCE
Joseph Nair
SET/PROP DESIGNER
Sheryll Goh
PERFORMERS