September 2019 (Bunker 101/ City Leaks Festival, Cologne, Germany)
December 2019 (Centre 42, Singapore)

WE LIVE IN A WORLD, WHICH PRIZES OUR LOOKS ABOVE ANYTHING ELSE.image00017

The media. Our peers, Our community, Our culture and our society places parameters of beauty on each and every one of us. These parameters are ingrained with the notion that if we look a certain way, it would lead to success and happiness. However in our pursuit of this, we create “monsters” of self-doubt and insecurities within us that slowly whisper imperfections; causing a yearn for the “Perfect Body”, that is never satisfied!

And then we get caught within this liminal space that it seems to have no happy ending.

How do we then resist the pressure to pursue this imperfect and impossible perfection?

To answer this, Maya Dance Theatre partners with our friends from IPtanz (Germany) to present this Asia-Euro inter-disciplinary dance theatre collaboration.

Cast

Artistic directors/Concept choreographers: Kavitha Krishnan (Maya Dance Theatre), Illona Paszthy (IPtanz)
Producer: Imran Manaff
Music: Andy Yang , Zsolt Varga (Hungary)
Dramaturg: Jeremiah Choy
Performers: Eva Tey, Subastian Tan, Chen Wanyi, Diana Treder, Stefanie Scwimmbeck
Installation: MiegL
Lighting Designer: Alberta Wileo
Publicity Design Art Work: Andy Yang

Video Trailer

Media

Bakchormeeboy.com: https://bakchormeeboy.com/2019/12/06/review-puffing-bodies-by-maya-dance-theatre-and-iptanz/

The Straits Times: https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/revelation-on-how-bodies-are-complicated