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SINGAPORE, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

The Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA), Singapore's annual

pinnacle performing arts festival presenting captivating and diverse works

across theatre, music, dance, film and visual arts, returns from 20 May to 5

June 2022. Organised by Arts House Limited (AHL), SIFA 2022, titled The Anatomy

of Performance – Ritual, marks the start of new Festival Director Natalie

Hennedige's three-year tenure.

SIFA 2022-2024 is unified by a recurring title – The Anatomy of Performance –

placing emphasis on artistic fluidity, multidisciplinary collaboration and

internationality within festival commissions and presentations in both the

physical and online space.

The addition of Ritual in the title focuses the curation to encompass nuanced

notions of Ritual - from customary rites and rituals inherent in Singapore's

diverse cultures to artists experimenting at the intersection of

multidisciplinary practice and technology responding to Ritual within the

nuances of digital language and expressiveness.

Natalie Hennedige says, "The performing arts remains an important space for

reflection, creative articulation and nuanced expression. SIFA's proposition of

performance creation from Singapore offers inspired artistic expression

emerging from within Asia into the international arena by being a platform for

rigorous artistic process and meaningful international collaboration."

SIFA 2022 aims to express the fluidity and intersections between art forms

locally and internationally, and how in practice, many artists go beyond the

conventional limits of artistic genres. This has created three layers of

festival programming:

-Creation - a platform for SIFA's prime offerings encompassing new commissions,

fresh iterations of works, and presentations by outstanding international

artists.

-Life Profusion - SIFA's virtual stage which runs parallel to the live

festival. Presenting five unique content categories: +DREAM, +EAT, +READ,

+GROW, +DISCUSS, they aim to expand, organise and deepen the profusion of ideas

and artistry radiating from the festival.

-SIFA X - marking the spot for alternative performance offerings, with the

inaugural edition oneirism helmed by SAtheCollective's artistic director, Andy

Chia.

SIFA 2022's headlining commissions are in line with the festival's commitment

to encompass diverse perspectives that signal present-day interculturalism and

global interconnectedness, as the catalyst for creative intersections and bold

artistic innovation:

Life Profusion will launch the world premiere of world-renowned science fiction

artist Lucy McRae's performance film, Delicate Spells of Mind, dissecting the

operating system of the mind.

-Opening commission MEPAAN presents an ethereal sonic and visual

nature-centered opus by Singapore Chinese Orchestra and Malaysia-based creative

agency, The Tuyang Initiative.

-Holly Herndon: PROTO by Holly Herndon, an exhilarating concert from a musician

at the forefront of today's technological revolutions, with sounds synthesised

by Herndon and her A.I. "baby" Spawn.

-The Once and Future presents an expanded cinema experience by Singaporean

filmmaker Yeo Siew Hua, paired with live music from musicians of the Berliner

Philharmoniker.

-Remotes X Quantum stems from a collaboration between playwright Eleanor Wong

and Philippines-based John Torres that marries film and installation.

-The Neon Hieroglyph by British artist and 2019 Turner Prize Winner Tai Shani

makes a new iteration of her work performed by Malaysian actress Jo Kukathas.

-Internationally acclaimed Singapore director Ong Keng Sen presents project

SALOME, starring Singaporean actor Janice Koh and Berlin-based performance

artist Michael(a) Daoud, adopting documentary film-making as an approach to

unveil the rituals of projection and self-mythologising.

-Ceremonial Enactments by MAX.TAN, Nadi Singapura and Bhaskar's Arts Academy

puts together three re-enactments of culturally specific customs and rites from

birth, to weddings.

-Devil's Cherry by Paul Rae and Kaylene Tan presents a fantastical tale of

ordinary desire, the escape it promises, and the dreams it damns, set where

urban life meets the Australian Bush.

Keeping the festival momentum going are digital commissions on-demand via SIFA

on Demand, with four key commissions that will be available digitally till 10

July – MEPAAN, Ceremonial Enactments, Bangsawan Gemala Malam, and Delicate

Spells of Mind. Tickets can be purchased at S$15 per show or S$25 for bundle of

4.

For full festival line-up and tickets, visit sifa.sg https://bit.ly/sifa2022.

Website: https://sifa.sg  

Facebook: www.facebook.com/sifa.sg

Instagram: www.instagram.com/sifa_sg

Twitter: www.twitter.com/sifa_sg

YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/ArtsHouseLimited

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/sifasgspotify

Media Contact:

Hilary Tan, hilary.tan@tateanzur.com, +65-8727 4845

SOURCE:  Arts House Limited (AHL)

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   Caption: Returning from 20 May, the Singapore International Festival of Arts 2022

features programmes spanning across physical and digital spaces; with a new

virtual venue, Life Profusion.