ARTS FISSION

ARTS FISSION Contemporary dance company in Singapore since 1994

The Arts Granary : art+dance enrichment program

A Contemporary Dance Company in Singapore since 1994, Arts Fission pioneered site-specific dance performance in Singapore, and is still the leading force in extending dance performance beyond the confine of conventional stage. The company has presented dance works regionally and internationally. Arts Fission not only delves into inquisitive dance work with creative fervor, but applies equal innova

tion to turning community outreach project into richly human experience. The Arts Granary and Everyday Waltzes are movement programmes/ workshops for the younger and elder generation respectively as we strongly believe that dance is for all and it is the expression of the human.

Take a Bow — the wonderful performers of Brooding Beast at curtain call.  The dance team will go into their annual hiatu...
20/01/2025

Take a Bow — the wonderful performers of Brooding Beast at curtain call.

The dance team will go into their annual hiatus to recharge. Please stay tune and we’ll be back soon.

Here’s wishing everyone a prosperous Year of the Snake with great health and resilience to scale new heights! 新春快乐🧧🧧🍊🍊🧧🧧🌸🌼🌺

📷Koh Beng Chye

First photo is the stunning end scene of the show— nature vs AI framed in a dramatic shaft of light. Enjoy the shots cap...
18/01/2025

First photo is the stunning end scene of the show— nature vs AI framed in a dramatic shaft of light.

Enjoy the shots captured perfectly by our photographer Koh Beng Chye ( ) of the beautiful intense moments on stage.

Come if you can for tonight’s final performance.

A BROODING BEAST IN THE CORNER
17 & 18 Jan 2024 | 8PM
The Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre @ Wild Rice
Get your tickets now via SISTIC!
Link in bio.

Here we go folks! When set, sound and lights are all coming together, this is where magic happens! The intimate NAK Thea...
16/01/2025

Here we go folks! When set, sound and lights are all coming together, this is where magic happens! The intimate NAK Theatre @ Wild Rice is perfectly built for contemporary performances. Come see us and be enthralled.

1 DAY TO GO!

A BROODING BEAST IN THE CORNER
17 & 18 Jan 2024 | 8PM
The Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre @ Wild Rice
Get your tickets now via SISTIC:
https://www.sistic.com.sg/events/beast0125

TO MAKE TOTAL THEATRETo present audience with an intense theatre experience, a team of meticulous theatre professionals ...
15/01/2025

TO MAKE TOTAL THEATRE

To present audience with an intense theatre experience, a team of meticulous theatre professionals are indispensable technical support-

Comprising seasoned professionals like lighting designer Tommy Wong, sound designer Varian Tan, and set designer Grace Lin Huili, here’s the team at work during the combined rehearsal before bumping into the theatre.

2 DAYS TO GO!

A BROODING BEAST IN THE CORNER
17 & 18 Jan 2024 | 8PM
The Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre @ Wild Rice
Get your tickets now via SISTIC:
https://www.sistic.com.sg/events/beast0125

“New work by Arts Fission released current angst through intense moves”化生艺术团新舞作 释放现代情绪的肢体声张Read all about Brooding Beast...
14/01/2025

“New work by Arts Fission released current angst through intense moves”
化生艺术团新舞作 释放现代情绪的肢体声张

Read all about Brooding Beast in Lianhe Zaobao’s feature preview! https://www.zaobao.com.sg/lifestyle/culture/story20250110-5699945

A BROODING BEAST IN THE CORNER
17 & 18 Jan 2024 | 8PM
The Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre @ Wild Rice
Get your tickets now via SISTIC!

(Photo by Wu Xianbang)

“New work by Arts Fission released current angst through intense moves”化生艺术团新舞作 释放现代情绪的肢体声张Read all about Brooding Beast...
14/01/2025

“New work by Arts Fission released current angst through intense moves”
化生艺术团新舞作 释放现代情绪的肢体声张

Read all about Brooding Beast in Lianhe Zaobao’s feature preview! https://www.zaobao.com.sg/lifestyle/culture/story20250110-5699945

A BROODING BEAST IN THE CORNER
17 & 18 Jan 2024 | 8PM
The Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre @ Wild Rice
Get your tickets now via SISTIC!

(Photos by Wu Xianbang)

SEE THE BEASTTrace the Trackamong dusty debris and down fathomless dark lane,see A BROODINGBEAST IN THE CORNERHow do we ...
16/12/2024

SEE THE BEAST
Trace the Track
among dusty debris and down fathomless dark lane,
see A BROODING
BEAST IN THE CORNER

How do we keep our sanity and empathy in a world of turmoil? Let this intimate dance-theatre production bring a glimmer of warmth amidst the uncertain time of fears, yearning, grief, and alienation.

A BROODING BEAST IN THE CORNER
17 & 18 Jan 2024 | 8PM
The Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre @ Wild Rice
Early Bird tickets up to 30% off via SISTIC (excluding booking fee)
Get your tickets now!
https://sistic.com.sg/events/beast0125

THE TWIN-BEAST PROJECTSWe are marking the conclusion of Arts Fission’s 30th Anniversary in 2024 with a pair of twin-beas...
06/12/2024

THE TWIN-BEAST PROJECTS

We are marking the conclusion of Arts Fission’s 30th Anniversary in 2024 with a pair of twin-beast projects!

We premiered the AMAZING BEASTS & BOTANICALS back in July this year. Barely into January 2025, we will be presenting another beast project titled A BROODING BEAST IN THE CORNER at the Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre @ Wild Rice.

Here are two iconic visuals of the twin-beast projects. Stay curious and we shall share more very soon.

[First photo:
Second photo design: ]

A 30-YEAR CREATIVE JOURNEY — EVERYDAY WALTZES for ACTIVE AGEING In our strive to become outstanding dance artists, we al...
29/11/2024

A 30-YEAR CREATIVE JOURNEY — EVERYDAY WALTZES for ACTIVE AGEING

In our strive to become outstanding dance artists, we also realise how important it is to connect what makes us as performers back to everyday people and life.

Back in 2003 we had the good fortune to meet some of the retired, early generation of Samsui Women who worked in Singapore. Angela was so inspired by the tenacity of the Samsui Women that she created the performance LITTLE LEE on the issue of ageing in the metropolis.

Everyday Waltzes for Active Ageing (EW) as a movement intervention program was developed later in 2009. The program is the pioneer arts-driven project for seniors in Singapore. It later received research commissions from AIC and NAC to further build a formal curriculum for care staff to facilitate senior facilities all over Singapore.

From 2013 - 2018, Arts Fission collaborated with The Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of maestro Lim Yau and presented large scale intergeneration performances that involved senior performers with young dancers at the Esplanade Concert Hall and Esplanade Theatre.

ARTS FISSION continues to run Everyday Waltzes, alongside intergenerational programmes like The Kitchen Table Chronicles.

A 30-YEAR CREATIVE JOURNEYArts Fission is the de facto pioneer of site-specific dance in Singapore.   As early as the ye...
22/11/2024

A 30-YEAR CREATIVE JOURNEY
Arts Fission is the de facto pioneer of site-specific dance in Singapore.

As early as the year 2000, the company pulled off an unprecedented performance at the 35th level rooftop of the Centennial Tower. The performance URBAN SANCTUARY built 4 stages out of PVC pipes on top of the gondola tracks. The stages appeared floating off the tracks with lighting installed underneath.

Centennial Tower and the Millennial Tower were the two prominent “twin towers” that stood at the marina area then. Over the span of 25 years, the waterfront of Singapore has taken on a tremendous transformation.

It would not be wrong to say that URBAN SANCTUARY was part of the historic time that marked the waterfront evolution of Singapore. Since then Arts Fission has gone from strength to strength staging site-specific performance works from Yogyakarta to Copenhagen to London to Eupen and onto Melbourne.

The three Soloists of the show:  Desert Shapeshifter Marveen; Super Gale Spirit Aisha; Tsunami Queen Andine. In the perf...
14/11/2024

The three Soloists of the show:
Desert Shapeshifter Marveen; Super Gale Spirit Aisha; Tsunami Queen Andine.

In the performance, all three conjured up various environmental challenges
for the migratory bird performers.

📅 14 Nov 2024 | 11am
📅 15 Nov 2024 | 11am & 2pm
📅 16 Nov 2024 | 2pm
📍 Drama Centre Black Box
🎟️ Tickets at $19* via SISTIC (excluding booking fee)
*Concessions, group, and school pricing available

For inquiries, email [email protected]
Link in bio.

Feathers spinning into a wind turbine; strings of bead droplets cascading into a rain curtain; soft tulle is a giant bil...
13/11/2024

Feathers spinning into a wind turbine; strings of bead droplets cascading into a rain curtain; soft tulle is a giant billowing cloud, and stretches of fabrics thrown on ground instantly turned into great sand dunes.

These are creative material to reflect the childlike imagination. They made up the vast terrains where the migratory birds have to overcome in their annual epic journey.

Nestled in the tiny Drama Centre Black Box is the gem of a little magic. Come catch —
THE GREAT MIGRATORY DANCE!

📅 14 Nov 2024 | 11am
📅 15 Nov 2023 | 11am & 2pm
📅 16 Nov 2023 | 2pm
📍 Drama Centre Black Box
🎟️ Tickets at $19* via SISTIC (excluding booking fee)
*Concessions, group, and school pricing available

For inquiries, email [email protected]
Link in bio.

REUNION AFTER 30 YEARSAn invitation from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts — University of Arts Singapore brought the two co-...
25/10/2024

REUNION AFTER 30 YEARS
An invitation from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts — University of Arts Singapore brought the two co-founders of ARTS FISSION together after 30 years!

Angela and Chandrasekaran were reunited at NAFA’s Interdisciplinary Arts Salon, “Archipelagic Imaginations,” on 18 Oct and shared Arts Fission’s inaugural performance project for an intimate group of invited guests. The multidisciplinary arts production, MAHABHARATA: A GRAIN OF RICE, with dance, music, film, and stage installations was a bold undertaking back in 1995. The production premiered at the original site of Drama Centre (now defunct) at Fort Canning Park.

Angela also presented the 2017 multidiscipline performance FUTURE FEED, (22 years later after A Grain of Rice) to show the company’s continuous thread of creative exploration of rice cultivation in Asia.

30 years in a blink of an eye — happy creation days, Arts Fission!

Artistic director, Angela Liong attended the Hong Kong Performing Arts Expo (HKPAX) as part of the National Arts Council...
18/10/2024

Artistic director, Angela Liong attended the Hong Kong Performing Arts Expo (HKPAX) as part of the National Arts Council delegates on 14-18 Oct 2024.

KITCHEN TABLE RECESSThe Kitchen Table Chronicles is our ongoing intergenerational project since 2023. We have just wrapp...
12/10/2024

KITCHEN TABLE RECESS

The Kitchen Table Chronicles is our ongoing intergenerational project since 2023. We have just wrapped up the last run of the year this week.

The project provides opportunities for animated interactions between young and old. Here the LaSalle dance students are seen chatting and gesticulating with their new-found senior friends. Sitting down for meaningful conversation and ending with tea and snacks always works the magic!

We are folding up the kitchen table for now to prepare for more delicious intergenerational fun come next year! Bon appetit!

ALONG THE LENGTH OF THE BRIDGESharing visuals of our bridge performance last weekend.  The long stretch of the Read Brid...
05/10/2024

ALONG THE LENGTH OF THE BRIDGE
Sharing visuals of our bridge performance last weekend.

The long stretch of the Read Bridge was aptly mapped out by linear movements in BLUE MOON — when magic stirs. Single file of NAFA dance students strolled past the audience from end to end of the bridge. Another student dance group used long poles to create vertical lines in their rowing actions. The senior performers sat along a single row of chairs placed inside the outline of a longboat.

The audience viewed the show from one side of the bridge through the framing of a single row of 8 vertical, heritage street lamps spaced along on the other side of the bridge.

BLUE MOON applied a galore of lateral line designs for the site-specific performance. All inspired by the unique linear feature of the Read Bridge.

📷 Koh Beng Chye

Address

126 Cairnhill Road #01-07/09 And #03-03/04
Singapore
229707

Opening Hours

Monday 10:00 - 17:30
Tuesday 10:00 - 17:30
Wednesday 10:00 - 17:30
Thursday 10:00 - 17:30
Friday 10:00 - 17:30
Saturday 09:00 - 15:30

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