PORTFOLIO
EVENTS
TRUE COLOURS FESTIVAL
True Colours Festival (TCF), an international performing arts initiative presented by The Nippon Foundation, celebrates diversity and inclusion on a global scale. Launched in Singapore in 2018, it brought together over 200 artists from across the Asia-Pacific region, fostering a vibrant cultural exchange.
The festival's innovative approach, exemplified by the inclusive Festival Village, actively engaged audiences with disability-related organizations. During the pandemic, TCF seamlessly transitioned to online platforms, producing captivating films and music videos that continued to inspire and connect audiences worldwide.
In 2022, TCF culminated in "THE CONCERT" in Tokyo, a global spectacle featuring 90+ performers from 12 countries, headlined by Katy Perry. To date, TCF has engaged a global audience of over 3.5 million.
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TCF continues to be a powerful platform for showcasing artistic talent and promoting a more inclusive and understanding world.
TOTSU- TOTSU
Dance 2023 & 2024
Totsu-totsu (TTD) is a Japanese word meaning faltering, unsophisticated, evoking the image of 'slowly wavering and hesitating'. TTD is not a dance that seeks perfect form of sophisticated physical expression, but an experimental project about day-to-day bodily communication.
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Since 2009, TTD has been bringing together workshops and performances led by dancer/choreographer Osamu Jareo and the elderly residents of Graceville Maizuru, a nursing home in Kyoto. Non-profit arts company Torindo is the producer of these activities.
It has been attracting attention as a new approach to dementia care, and work has begun in Singapore. P&PA partnered with Dementia Sg and trialled TTD in August and September 2023 as a form of therapy and emotional connection for/with people living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners and caregivers, and introduced the method to a group of Singapore performing artists.
In 2024, 5 of these artists spent an intensive week of training workshops conducted by Osamu Jareo in a dementia care setting. Work is underway to further the training, empower more performing artists and run TTD programmes.
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The Totsu-totsu Dance programme is an initiative of
GIBRAN – An Evening of Soul-Stirring Wisdom
An evening of soul-stirring poetry by the world's most well-loved poet, Kahlil Gibran.
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Join award-winning actor Remesh Panicker as he weaves a powerful journey through the poet's most universal themes of love, children, immortality, spirituality, friendship and more.
AGATHI
Narration Script
Boldly reimagined in collaboration with Wild Rice, this production poignantly shines the spotlight on the people who find themselves caught between countries and trapped in the headlines. Agathi brings storytelling to new heights through a unique fusion of theatre, poetry and Bharatanatyam, the oldest classical dance tradition in India.
PARAMA PADAM
Narration Script
The board game was created in the 10th century India and popularised by the British in the 18th century as Snakes & Ladders. Ladders allow you to ascend, just as good deeds pave the road to heaven, while snakes bring you down, like the cycle of rebirth.
MADE IN SINGAPORE!
A weekend festival presenting the best of Singapore’s singers and musicians from the 1950s until the early 2000s. Produced in collaboration with Esplanade Theatres on the Bay.
PLAY IT BACK!
Satay, big band music, five stones, military music, hymns in Latin, wayang, Elvis, corned beef – all part of life in Singapore during the first half of the 1900s. A festival celebrating the music, dance and past times of early Singapore.
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​The festival venue – Esplanade Park – was the subject of a commissioned short film that was screened at the festival.
WOMAD SINGAPORE
WOMAD stands for World of Music, Arts and Dance, expressing the central aim of the festival to bring music, dance, cultures and people together in a glorious celebration of shared humanity. Founded in the UK in 1982, the festival has to date presented more than 145 events in more than 20 countries. The Singapore edition was founded in Singapore in 1998 and was the curtain raiser for the Festival of Arts that year.
PUBLISHING
Singapore Through 19th-Century Photographs
EDITOR
A comprehensive photographic record of Singapore from the early 1840s to the 1900s. Paired with lively commentary, the more than 120 rare photographs from the National Museum of Singapore and leading institutional and private collections recreate a compelling portrait of 19th-century Singapore. Published by Editions Didier Millet.
The Chronicle of Singapore:
50 Years of Headline News
EDITING & WRITING TEAM
A dramatic overview of the successes and scandals, the victories and disasters that have shaped Singapore. An account of the nation's history from 1959 to 2009 through news coverage and headlines. Published by Editions Didier Millet.
AHAM – from the Creative Mind to Stage
PROJECT MANAGER
Documents the creative processes for 10 of Apsaras Arts' most successful and innovative original productions, some of which toured internationally several times. Providing a rare glimpse into the unseen processes, the author describes the making of each work and the research and creative conceptualization, while spotlighting the creative collaborators, press and expert reviews and stunning photographic images. Published by Apsaras Arts Singapore.