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Puffing Bodies (2019)

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 …

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ANWESHA-Beyond the Darkness! (2018)

December 2017 (Drama Centre, Singapore)December 2017 (Fang Mae Khong International Dance Festival in Vientiane, Laos) Beyond the darkness is inspired by an earlier work Anwesha-The Quest (2012), an unsettling physical dialogue that compelled the viewer to probe the traditional narrative of Ramayana’s Sita. The upcoming work is a continuation of Maya’s journey of social exploration. …

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Body in Motion

Video 01: Join Dexter, June, Shabirah, Jaspreet, Jiaying and Jeff to try seated movements inspired from Nature! Movements in this video: Sunrise, Sunray, Creepers, Wind, Rain Music: Charukeshi by Raghavendran Rajasekaran Video 02: Join Dexter, June, Shabirah, Jaspreet, Jiaying, Shanti, Arassi and Jeff to try seated movements inspired from Nature! Let’s try all the movements …

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Resist Resurge: Traces of Hope

Resist Resurge: Traces of Hope May 2016 (Drama Centre, Singapore)November 2016 (Action Danse Festival, Oudja, Morocco)December 2016 (Fang Mae Khong International Dance Festival in Vientiane, Laos) Resist, Resurge: Traces of Hope is a physical and emotional contemporary dance theatre piece exploring the passion and frustration behind stereotyping bodies and gender. Choreographed and co-directed by Lester …

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PANCHA-Flowers

PANCHA-Flowers EARTH PANCHA-Flowers Don’t Bloom All the Time (2018) August 2018 (Venue – Centre 42, Singapore) Home is considered a secure haven, but sometimes its security and trust are breached by those who are meant to protect! Darkness dwells in the form of Shame, Guilt, Trauma, Inner turmoil and Helplessness when we are violated by …

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PANCHA-When the flames 

PANCHA-When the flames FIRE PANCHA-When the flames blaze the caged body, I surrender my soul, I Am… (2017) June 2017 (Emily Hill, Singapore)June 2017 (ArtJog 2018, Yogyakarta, Indonesia) In When the flames blazes the caged body, I surrender my soul, I Am … Maya Dance Theatre explored the lives of two women who are not …

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PANCHA-Murmers

Murmurs-Banner WIND PANCHA-Murmurs in the Wind (2016) August 2016 (Venue – Singai Tamil Sangam, Singapore) Partial adaptation from the story of the character Gandhari, in the epic, Mahabaratha. Here, she invokes the god of wind (Vaayu) to find out the fate of her one hundred sons embroiled in the Kurushetra war. Kavitha Krishnan (artistic director) …

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SEEDS

“A SEED, THROUGH PATIENCE, INCREASES IN VALUE AND BECOMES A TREE.” – Matshona Dhliwayo (Philosopher, Entrepreneur and author) Just like a seed that embodies new life, SEEDS represent the starting point of artist with diverse abilities on their pursuit of creating a voice of their own!  SEEDs is a dance production whereby dancers with diverse …

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