FUSE#2

SCOPE is Dance Nucleus’ open platform for artists’ informal
presentations. Associate members of Dance Nucleus as well as other
invited guests conduct discussions, workshops, jams, readings,
screenings, open studio and work-in-progress showings as ways to
articulate their practices and to foster discusive exchange.
In FUSE#2, three projects that were presented in SCOPE#3 are
featured:
Ming Poon (Berlin/Singapore) was invited to a residency at Dance
Nucleus as a collaborative effort with the Nanyang Academy of Fine
Arts (NAFA). Ming choreographed a new work with the students of
NAFA for this year’s da:ns Festival at the Esplanade. ‘Unison’, the
resultant work based in the iconic image of the Tank Man who
protested at the Tiananmen Incident, was presented at SCOPE#3 as
an exposition of Ming’s creative proposal and pre-rehearsals
preparations, while in FUSE#2, he provides here some reflections and
notes post-premiere.
SCOPE # 3
ABOUT
SCOPE#3 is Shanice Stanislaus’ (Singapore) second presentation
at Dance Nucleus this year. Over 2018, she has been developing ‘La
Mariposa Borracha’, a community performance project that sees her
collaborating with caregivers of people with terminal illness through
clowning as an interactive and movement practice, in order to
approach the idea of the ‘sick body’ in performance. In FUSE#2, she
documents her working process for the year, as she prepares to go
further with the project in 2019.
Lee Mun Wai (Giessen/Singapore) and Lee Ren Xin (Kuala
Lumpur/Singapore) reconvened to further develop ‘There is
Speficifisfety’ for SCOPE#3, a work that began in 2017 before Mun
Wai left for his post-graduate studies in Giessen, Germany. The
updated iteration of the performance work also saw a touring
presentation to the Five Arts Centre in Kuala Lumpur. Here, Mun Wai
and Ren Xin share their individual notes and reflections on their
collaborative encounter.
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