2020 Programmes

2020 PROGRAMMES

52 event(s) found

Week 1 (11 May - 17 May 2020)

Curated by the Asian Film Archive (AFA) for the Singapore International Festival of Arts 2020 (SIFA), Singular Screens...

Singular Screens

Curated by Asian Film Archive

7 – 31 May 2020

Screening Room, Festival House and Oldham Theatre

Opening Film A woman in New York and her abandoned daughter in Singapore, both grappling with depression and existentialism,...

A Love Unknown (2020)

John Clang (Singapore)

7 May 2020, Thu 8pm
17 May 2020, Sun 2pm

Oldham Theatre

A transgender visual artist, Tonia, comes to New York City in 2018, where she meets her American boyfriend, the academic Franz,...

So Pretty (2019)

Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli (USA & France)

8 May 2020, Fri 8pm
14 May 2020, Thu 8pm

Oldham Theatre / Festival House

Following the death of her two children in April 1913, the legendary dancer Isadora Duncan, created a farewell solo entitled...

Isadora’s Children (2019)

Damien Manivel (France)

10 May 2020, Sun 5pm
16 May 2020, Sat 2pm

Oldham Theatre / Festival House

On her mother's grave, a college student Hinako strangely sees a flower of cosmos. Her father calls her to say that he can’t...

Tamaran Hill (2019)

Tadasuke Kotani (Japan)

13 May 2020, Wed 8pm
17 May 2020, Sun 2pm

Oldham Theatre / Festival House

An audaciously funny piece of dance-theatre, choreographer Crystal Pite and writer Jonathon Young present a stunningly original...

Revisor

Kidd Pivot / Created by Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young (Canada)

16 & 17 May 2020

Esplanade Theatre

From world-renowned composer Tan Dun, Buddha Passion is a sweeping work of imagination and a luminous meditation on the life and...

Buddha Passion

Tan Dun

15 & 16 May 2020

Esplanade Concert Hall

Belgium artists Michèle Anne De Mey and Jaco Van Dormael spin seven mini-stories around death – with dancing hands, nano-sets...

Cold Blood

Astragales (Belgium) / Created by Michèle Anne De Mey and Jaco Van Dormael / Written by Thomas Gunzig

15 & 16 May 2020

Drama Centre Theatre

Phillip lives with his mother and his eight-year-old sister in middle-class conditions. The film begins when he returns home...

I Was at Home, But... (2019)

Angela Schanelec (Germany & Serbia)

16 May 2020, Sat 5pm
21 May 2020, Thu 8pm

Oldham Theatre / Festival House

Adoptive parents Ema (Mariana Di Girolamo) and Gastón (Gael García Bernal) are artistic free spirits in an experimental dance...

Ema (2019)

Pablo Larraín (Chile)

17 May 2020, Sun 5pm
24 May 2020, Sun 2pm

Oldham Theatre

Kidd Pivot's improvisation class focuses on discovering and revealing articulations and timings in the body. The class begins...

Kidd Pivot Masterclass

17 May 2020

Dance Studio H102 LASALLE College of the Arts

Week 2 (18 May - 24 May 2020)

Curated by the Asian Film Archive (AFA) for the Singapore International Festival of Arts 2020 (SIFA), Singular Screens...

Singular Screens

Curated by Asian Film Archive

7 – 31 May 2020

Screening Room, Festival House and Oldham Theatre

A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality. We wander, dreamlike, gently guided by our...

About Endlessness (2019)

Roy Andersson (Sweden, Germany & Norway)

9 May 2020, Sat 8pm
23 May 2020, Sat 2pm

Oldham Theatre

Phillip lives with his mother and his eight-year-old sister in middle-class conditions. The film begins when he returns home...

I Was at Home, But... (2019)

Angela Schanelec (Germany & Serbia)

16 May 2020, Sat 5pm
21 May 2020, Thu 8pm

Oldham Theatre / Festival House

Adoptive parents Ema (Mariana Di Girolamo) and Gastón (Gael García Bernal) are artistic free spirits in an experimental dance...

Ema (2019)

Pablo Larraín (Chile)

17 May 2020, Sun 5pm
24 May 2020, Sun 2pm

Oldham Theatre

Rising sea levels. Melting polar ice caps. Biodiversity loss. Food shortages resulting in war, strife and refugee crises… Every...

The Year of No Return

The Necessary Stage (Singapore)

21 – 23 May 2020

Victoria Theatre

An imaginative tour de force, A Dream Under The Southern Bough: Existence is the final installation of the trilogy, a tale of...

A Dream Under The Southern Bough: Existence 《南柯一梦》之辱梦

Toy Factory / TOY肥料厂 (Singapore, 新加坡)

22 – 24 May 2020

Drama Centre Theatre

No Longer Gagok: Room 5↻ is an intimately poetic and utterly contemporary experience of a traditional Korean art form, conceived...

No Longer Gagok: Room 5↻

Park Minhee (Korea)

22 – 24 May 2020

Living Room, Festival House

In a fabulous hybrid of performance art, music, theatre and social commentary, American theatre artist, Taylor Mac performs a...

Taylor Mac (USA)

A 24-Decade History of Popular Music

22 & 23 May 2020

KC Arts Centre - Home of SRT

Playfully brash and in-your-face, Queen Blood ’s exploration of femininity showcases sharp house dance moves and a charismatic...

Queen Blood

Paradox-Sal (France)

23 & 24 May 2020

SOTA Studio Theatre

No Data Plan (2019) A voiceless narrator rehashes details about his mother’s affair as he crosses America by train. “Mama has...

No Data Plan + Distancing (Double Bill)

Miko Revereza (USA)

23 May 2020, Sat 5pm
24 May 2020, Sun 5pm

Oldham Theatre / Festival House

French choreographer and house dance extraordinaire Ousmane Sy’s artistic origins began with house dance, before gradually...

Masterclass by Ousmane Sy

24 May 2020

Dance Studio H102 / LASALLE College of the Arts

Curated by iconic Singaporean band The Observatory, Source x Audible Lands is a one-of-a-kind film and music performance...

Source x Audible Lands

Eric Lee, Migrant Worker Musicians, Otomo Yoshihide and The Observatory (Bangladesh, Singapore, Thailand)

24 & 25 May 2020

Play Den, Festival House

Week 3 (25 May - 31 May 2020)

Curated by the Asian Film Archive (AFA) for the Singapore International Festival of Arts 2020 (SIFA), Singular Screens...

Singular Screens

Curated by Asian Film Archive

7 – 31 May 2020

Screening Room, Festival House and Oldham Theatre

Curated by iconic Singaporean band The Observatory, Source x Audible Lands is a one-of-a-kind film and music performance...

Source x Audible Lands

Eric Lee, Migrant Worker Musicians, Otomo Yoshihide and The Observatory (Bangladesh, Singapore, Thailand)

24 & 25 May 2020

Play Den, Festival House

After a devastating earthquake, Nga, an old elephant and probably the last of its species, and Sanra his mahout are about to...

Cemetery (2019)

Carlos Casas (France, United-Kingdom, Poland & Uzbekistan)

25 May 2020, Mon 5pm

Oldham Theatre

Life and rehearsal blend together in this filmic portrait of The Seagull , a play that plumbs the splendors and hazards of a...

Screening: I Am A Seagull

The Chekhov Project (USA)

28 May 2020

Screening Room, Festival House

With an innovative ensemble of puppeteers and actors, this age-old Japanese ghost story of betrayal and revenge is magically...

OIWA - The Ghost of Yotsuya

The Finger Players (Singapore)

28 – 30 May 2020

Victoria Theatre

The award-winning ensembles of Singapore’s Nine Years Theatre and the SITI Company of NYC join hands to present this...

Three Sisters 三姐妹

Nine Years Theatre and SITI Company (Singapore & USA)

29 – 31 May 2020

Drama Centre Theatre

As the World Tipped arrives at an urgent time for climate change – performers act out a real life disaster movie in the sky in...

As The World Tipped

Wired Aerial Theatre (UK)

29 – 31 May 2020

The Meadow, Gardens by the Bay

Staged in over 35 cities around the world, Berlin-based performance group Rimini Protokoll’s ground-breaking 100% City series...

100% Singapore

Rimini Protokoll (Germany & Singapore)

29 & 30 May 2020

Esplanade Theatre

The SITI Company is renowned for its unique approach to theatre training, based on a symbiotic pairing of the Suzuki Method of...

Masterclass by SITI Company

30 May 2020

Dance Studio H102 / LASALLE College of the Arts

In a tribute to the natural world, Parisian group Ensemble intercontemporain make their Singapore debut in a mesmerising evening...

Ensemble intercontemporain

The Wind Quintet (France)

31 May 2020

Chamber, Festival House

Closing Film Based on the book by László Krasznahorkai, Sátántangó follows members of a small, defunct agricultural collective...

Sátántangó (1994)

Béla Tarr (Hungary)

31 May 2020, Sun 1.30pm

Oldham Theatre

Free Programmes

Week 1 (11 May - 17 May 2020)

Take a siesta, hop on a swing and make collective music in this refreshing urban installation by Canadian artists Daily tous les...

Musical Swings

Daily tous les jour (Canada)

1 – 31 May 2020

Cathay Green

Get to know our 100 cast members of 100% Singapore before they take the stage at the Esplanade Theatre, in an exhibition that...

Exhibition: 100% Singapore

Exhibition Design: Studio Juju

15 – 31 May 2020

Gallery II, Festival House

Join Tan Dun in an intimate conversation with one of the world's most fascinating and illustrious composers. With a creative...

In Conversation with Tan Dun

16 May 2020

Living Room, Festival House

Originating in Church rituals associated with Good Friday that required the singing of the Gospels by a group of individuals ,...

An Introduction to the Passion Tradition

Hoh Chung Shih (Singapore)

16 May 2020

Blue Room, Festival House

The ancient Chinese city of Dunhuang served as a gate between Eastern and Western Asia. Travellers of diverse ethnicities and...

Incense, Music, and Celebrating Dunhuang 焚香 抚琴 礼敦煌

by Chong Yuan Chien 袁旔 (Singapore, 新加坡)

16 May 2020

Play Den, Festival House

Get an insight into the integration of voice and movement in Revisor as well as Kidd Pivot’s approach to marrying movement,...

Performance Workshop by Jonathon Young and Amy Rutherford

17 May 2020

Blue Room, Festival House

Meet Kidd Pivot’s Playwright-in-Residence Jonathon Young and Amy Rutherford, one of the voice actors for Revisor, as they share...

In Conversation with Kidd Pivot

17 May 2020

Living Room, Festival House

The session explores the role of the amateur reviewer in developing a critical voice and vocabulary in talking and sharing about...

An Introduction To Performance Criticism

Khairul Nizam

17 May 2020

Blue Room, Festival House

Tang Xianzu (1550 – 1616) wrote his great plays during the late Ming dynasty, while halfway around the world, William...

Tang Xianzu: The Dreams Continue

Dr Chua Soo Ping (Singapore)

17 May 2020

Living Room, Festival House

Week 2 (18 May - 24 May 2020)

Take a siesta, hop on a swing and make collective music in this refreshing urban installation by Canadian artists Daily tous les...

Musical Swings

Daily tous les jour (Canada)

1 – 31 May 2020

Cathay Green

C reated by ArtsEquator to offer a platform for critical dialogue independent of the art makers , Critics Live! is a critics-led...

Critics Live!: The Year of No Return

ArtsEquator

22 May 2020

Victoria Theatre

Join us for this illuminating chat with French choreographer and house dance extraordinaire, Ousmane Sy. Presenting Queen Blood...

In Conversation with Ousmane Sy

23 May 2020

Blue Room, Festival House

Berlin-based Rimini Protokoll are recognised as being among the leaders and creators of the movement known as “Reality Theatre”,...

In Conversation with Rimini Protokoll

24 May 2020

Blue Room, Festival House

Traditional notions of making art have always made a distinction between the artist and the audience. While the relationship...

Panel: Public Participation and Art Making

Moderated by Producers SG (Singapore)

24 May 2020

Blue Room, Festival House

Week 3 (25 May - 31 May 2020)

Take a siesta, hop on a swing and make collective music in this refreshing urban installation by Canadian artists Daily tous les...

Musical Swings

Daily tous les jour (Canada)

1 – 31 May 2020

Cathay Green

Get to know our 100 cast members of 100% Singapore before they take the stage at the Esplanade Theatre, in an exhibition that...

Exhibition: 100% Singapore

Exhibition Design: Studio Juju

15 – 31 May 2020

Gallery II, Festival House

Join award-winning architect, academic and TV presenter Jason Pomeroy as he takes a look at the pressing issue of climate change...

Urbanisation in Southeast Asia and Climate Change

Jason Pomeroy (Singapore)

25 May 2020

Blue Room, Festival House

Can we buy our way out of environmental problems? Products with labels like carbon neutral, biodegradable, green, recyclable,...

Is Green the New Black?

Michael Broadhead (Singapore)

25 May 2020

Blue Room, Festival House

With climate change at the top of the global conversation, artists have emerged as some of the most vocal exponents for the...

The Paradox of Art and Climate Change

Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Melissa Lim, Moderated by Felipe Cervera (Singapore)

25 May 2020

Blue Room, Festival House

Points of View 2020: Critical Frames for Performance Engagement invites young performing arts practitioners to explore various...

Points of View 2020: Critical Frames for Performance Engagement

Asian Dramaturgs' Network

26 – 31 May 2020

Blue Room, Festival House

When we talk about “J-horror” the first image that comes to mind is probably that of a woman with long black hair in a white...

OIWA, Godzilla and What? The Many Faces of J-Horror

Dr Lim Beng Choo (Singapore)

30 May 2020

Living Room, Festival House

Russian playwright Anton Chekhov is considered the greatest of modern dramatists. His plays continue to fascinate and challenge...

Chekhov in Context: The Three Sisters

Professor Michael Earley and LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore)

30 May 2020

Living Room, Festival House

The ArtsEquator Podcast, a platform for regional arts reviews and news, is back again with another episode to round off SIFA...

Podcast Live: Wrap Up of SIFA 2020

ArtsEquator

30 May 2020

House Pour, Festival House

Pioneering theatre director Anne Bogart’s co-founded SITI Company with Tadashi Suzuki and a group of like-minded artists in 1992...

In Conversation with Anne Bogart

31 May 2020

Living Room, Festival House

Points of View: Critical Frames for Performance Engagement (POV2020) is a programme for young performing arts practitioners to...

Points of View 2020: Sharing by Asian Dramaturgs' Network

31 May 2020

Blue Room, Festival House

2020 concludes Gaurav Kripalani’s tenure as the Festival Director of the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA). Meet...

In Conversation with Gaurav Kripalani

31 May 2020

Living Room, Festival House

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