42nd Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) returns May 16; to showcase the best
The Singapore International Festival of Arts or Sifa returns May 16, with the aim of inspiring artists and audiences alike. It's unveiled a stellar line up of programmes, which include interactive and technological elements to draw people in. Festival Director, Gaurav Kripalani, was in studio to share more.
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Updated SIFA 2019 Festival Video
As Singapore’s annual pinnacle arts festival, the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) presents captivating and diverse works across theatre, music, dance, film and visual arts. First launched as the Singapore Festival of Arts in 1977, the festival has gone through several evolutions and inspired generations of arts lovers and practitioners. Today, the highly-anticipated festival is a high-point on Singapore’s arts and cultural calendar.
Under the helm of Festival Director Gaurav Kripalani from 2018–2020, SIFA continues its festival mission to champion the creation and presentation of Singaporean and international works. At SIFA 2019, The Arts House will once again be transformed into the Festival House. With meaningful engagement opportunities from artists talks, workshops, discussions and the festival bar—House Pour, the Festival House breaks down the walls between artists and audiences to create unique experiences and inspiring artistic encounters.
Singapore International Festival of Arts 2018
…Sodade…
By Cirque Rouages (France)
An enchanting French evening of aerial circus performed to live music.
Every stormy evening, an old man, exiled for a long time, approaches the sea side. When the wind caresses his skin, he returns into his indelible memories. A daydream of sweet nostalgia, not to ever forget, and continue to live whatever it takes.
…Sodade… is a nostalgic ode to life, a fable of love and loss in the air as told by two musicians playing and singing on a unique circus structure of huge twin wheels, each over two metres in width, between which a 21-metre long tightrope cable is strung.
A captivating French aerial circus that tells of impossible longing and remembering to survive.
Created by Cirque Rouages, a collective based in Lorraine, France that has inspired audiences all over the world with their imaginative sets and performances, …Sodade… celebrated its 100th performance in 2017 and has played in France and abroad, including in Switzerland and South Korea. An enchanting outdoor evening of live music and acrobatics suitable for all ages.
The Year of No Return by The Necessary Stage (SG)
The Year of No Return by Singapore’s The Necessary Stage seeks to unravel the complications in humanity’s responses to climate change. Do we live in an age of despair—or one of hope in the dark? Join them in this groundbreaking interdisciplinary collaboration with artists from Japan, Malaysia, The Philippines and Singapore.
For full details, visit sifa.sg.
Singapore International Festival of Arts - Sodade Cirque Rouages - France
Singapore International Festival of Arts - Sodade Cirque Rouages - France
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Note - Performance was for Singapore International Festival of Arts from 26 to 29 Apr at various locations. Event Ended. The performance in this video was captured outside Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall on 28 Apr 2018.
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About Sodade Cirque Rouages - France
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An enchanting French evening of aerial circus performed to live music.
Every stormy evening, an old man, exiled for a long time, approaches the sea side. When the wind caresses his skin, he returns into his indelible memories. A daydream of sweet nostalgia, not to ever forget, and continue to live whatever it takes.
…Sodade… is a nostalgic ode to life, a fable of love and loss in the air as told by two musicians playing and singing on a unique circus structure of huge twin wheels, each over two metres in width, between which a 21-metre long tightrope cable is strung.
A captivating French aerial circus that tells of impossible longing and remembering to survive.
Created by Cirque Rouages, a collective based in Lorraine, France that has inspired audiences all over the world with their imaginative sets and performances, …Sodade… celebrated its 100th performance in 2017 and has played in France and abroad, including in Switzerland and South Korea. An enchanting outdoor evening of live music and acrobatics suitable for all ages.
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SIFA 2016 Trailer
The Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) returns with its strongest focus yet on creating brand new works. With the attention back on the international arts scene, SIFA 2016 will present 20 productions for the main festival and 43 programmes for its pre-festival of ideas – The O.P.E.N. (Open, Participate, Engage, Negotiate), a public engagement initiative.
Continuing the journey from past (2014, Legacies) to present (Post-Empires, 2015), the future is suggested by the 2016’s season which centres on the theme of POTENTIALITIES – the potential to develop in the future and transform society. “Potentialities is the in-between state between Potential and the actual realisation. It is about this in-between state where the power of the unknown is taking shape and developing. That unknown gives forth to so many possibilities and that is the attraction,” said Ong.
About Singapore International Festival of Arts
Inaugurated in 1977, the annual arts festival went on a hiatus after 2012 and returned in 2014 under the baton of Festival Director Ong Keng Sen. With the mission to artistically reinvigorate and transform the festival, Ong renamed it Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA). He initiated The O.P.E.N., a pre-festival of ideas to engage diverse audiences with the ideas, issues and themes of SIFA. Today, SIFA is the premier national performing arts festival managed by the Arts House Limited and commissioned by the National Arts Council. It aims to inspire through great international and Singapore artistic experiences in performance, theatre, dance and music.
For more info, visit: sifa.sg
Thank you to all for making SIFA 2016 a memorable success!
Inaugurated in 1977, the annual arts festival went on a hiatus after 2012 and returned in 2014 under the baton of Festival Director Ong Keng Sen. With the mission to artistically reinvigorate and transform the festival, Ong renamed it Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA). He initiated The O.P.E.N., a pre-festival of ideas to engage diverse audiences with the ideas, issues and themes of SIFA. Today, SIFA is the premier national performing arts festival managed by the Arts House Limited and commissioned by the National Arts Council. It aims to inspire through great international and Singapore artistic experiences in performance, theatre, dance and music.
This year's theme at SIFA is POTENTIALITIES. Potentiality is the possessing of latent power or capacity capable of coming into being or action. It is an optimism that looks into the future rather than at the grimness of the present. With this as an organising theme, SIFA looks around the globe at world issues through a different lens.
SIFA 2016 broke records with attendance and sold out performances and all these would not have been possible without each and every individual involved in the festival. We would like to thank everyone for making SIFA 2016 a memorable success!
Singapore International Festival of Arts - Pop Up Duets (Fragments of Love) by Janis Claxton Dance
Singapore International Festival of Arts - Pop Up Duets (Fragments of Love) by Janis Claxton Dance - from United Kingdom
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Note - Performance was for Singapore International Festival of Arts from 26 to 29 Apr at various locations. Event Ended. The performance in this video was captured outside Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall on 28 Apr 2018.
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About Pop Up Duets (Fragments of Love) by Janis Claxton Dance
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Dressed in unassuming clothes, four lithe dancers blend in effortlessly with an unsuspecting audience, until each pair emerges to command the makeshift stage and captivate with their dynamic pas de deux of playful flirtation, passionate combat or tender love.
POP-UP Duets is Edinburgh-based dancer and choreographer Janis Claxton’s inspired endeavour at bringing high-quality dance to public places for unsuspecting audiences. In a collaboration with Scottish sound designer and composer Pippa Murphy, each of the site-specific duets is performed to an original track specifically written to the choreography — energetic, organic dance encounters that evolve from simple everyday interactions.
Viewed by over 10,000 people since it premiered in Scotland in 2016, the free series will “pop-up” in Singapore and around the Empress Lawn, against the elegant backdrop of the Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall. Hopeful spectators can track down the performances by following the aural cues.
POP-UP Duets is supported by Creative Scotland for creation and touring.
REVIEWS & PRESS
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“Short but sweet duets — romantic, playful and always well-crafted — for four fine and extremely lithe dancers.’ - The Times
A series of beautiful but fleeting moments in time....playful yet understated, captivating yet subtle, the movement feels as natural as breathing on the dancers” -The Scotsman
“This is, at every level, a richly inventive, wonderfully perceptive work, danced with a persuasive humanity to a score you want to own” - The Herald
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Singapore International Festival of Music: Interview with Singapore Soprano Victoria Li
VICTORIA’S GREATEST HITS
20 Oct | 7.30pm | Gallery II | $36 (Excl. SISTIC charges)
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Journey with Singapore soprano Victoria Songwei Li, through the various stages of love based on European legends – from innocent young love in Verdi’s Caro Nome to a young girl's discovery of the excitement of love, to the proclamation of the joys of youth and love in Gounod’s Je veux vivre .
Li is a recent graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London and recipient of Hamish Dyer Young Musicians' Scholarship.
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Singapore International Festival of Music: Interview with Singapore composer Syafiqah 'Adha Sallehin
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Portrait of a Composer / Ikan Girl
21 Oct | 7.30pm | Chamber, The Arts House
SIFOM Ensemble
Marlon Chen, conductor
Syafiqah 'Adha Sallehin, accordion
Syafiqah 'Adha Sallehin: Portrait of a Composer
Flutter (World Premiere)
Cenderawasih – I. Descend to Earth
Oasis (World Premiere)
Dance of the Merlions
Rintihan Nadim
Interval
Ikan Girl
Syafiqah 'Adha Sallehin featuring Bhumi Collective
Part I: Portrait of a Composer
In Portrait of a Composer, composer Syafiqah 'Adha Sallehin will present her latest chamber music compositions - including a work for three flutes and a String Quartet. Some of the finest young musicians from the SIFOM Ensemble will be performing these compositions.
Part II: Ikan Girl
A story of good triumphing over evil, the story of Ikan Girl reminds one of patience and kindness and the perils of engaging in evil acts especially the mistreatment of a fellow being. Inspired by a Malay ancient poem known as the Syair Bidasari, this story will be presented in the form of a multidisciplinary performance that incorporates movement vocabulary from Malay dance, Bharatanatyam and contemporary dance genres. It will also feature original music composed collaboratively and performed 'live' by classical and traditional musicians.
Portrait of a Virtuoso / Ikan Girl
23 Oct | 7.30pm | Chamber, The Arts House
Nabillah Jalal, piano
Syafiqah 'Adha Sallehin, accordion
Interval
Ikan Girl
Syafiqah 'Adha Sallehin featuring Bhumi Collective
Part I: Portrait of a Virtuoso
Aside from composing, Syafiqah 'Adha Sallehin will showcase her talent: that of a virtuoso accordionist! Teaming up with pianist Nabillah Jalal, the duo promises to charm audiences with a unique repertoire. The concert is bound to show off a multitude of traditional colours!
Part II: Ikan Girl
A story of good triumphing over evil, the story of Ikan Girl reminds one of patience and kindness and the perils of engaging in evil acts especially the mistreatment of a fellow being. Inspired by a Malay ancient poem known as the Syair Bidasari, this story will be presented in the form of a multidisciplinary performance that incorporates movement vocabulary from Malay dance, Bharatanatyam and contemporary dance genres. It will also feature original music composed collaboratively and performed 'live' by classical and traditional musicians.
SIFA 2019 Wrap Video
Thank you to everyone who have been a part of Singapore's pinnacle arts festival - the Singapore International Festival of Arts 2019. We will be back once more on 15 - 31 May 2020 with some of the best theatre, dance, music and more! sifa.sg
SIFA 2017 Trailer
About Singapore International Festival of Arts
Inaugurated in 1977, the annual arts festival went on a hiatus after 2012 and returned in 2014 under the baton of Festival Director Ong Keng Sen. With the mission to artistically reinvigorate and transform the festival, Ong renamed it Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA). He initiated The O.P.E.N., a pre-festival of ideas to engage diverse audiences with the ideas, issues and themes of SIFA. Today, SIFA is the premier national performing arts festival managed by the Arts House Limited and commissioned by the National Arts Council. It aims to inspire through great international and Singapore artistic experiences in performance, theatre, dance and music.
The curatorial theme for SIFA 2017 is “Enchantment”.
“The overall effect of enchantment is a mood of fullness, plenitude, or liveliness, a sense of having had one’s nerves or circulation or concentration powers turned up or recharged – a shot in the arm, a fleeting return to childlike excitement about life.”
- Jane Bennett, The Enchantment of Modern Life, 2001
For more details, please visit sifa.sg
Three Sisters by Nine Years Theatre and SITI Company (SG & USA)
The award-winning ensembles of Singapore’s Nine Years Theatre and the SITI Company join hands to present this multi-lingual retelling of Anton Chekhov’s classic play Three Sisters. Chronicling the sisters’ tangled relationships and ordinary frustrations。
Don’t miss this timeless play – now seen through the eyes of contrasting cultures, languages, and the actors’ powerful physicality.
For full details, visit sifa.sg.
SIFA 2018 wrap video
A recap of three exhilarating weeks of artistic adventures at Singapore's pinnacle arts festival. Featuring some of the best artists across many genres, we extend our heartiest appreciation to everyone who had been a part of the 41 year-old festival!
See you in 2019! The Singapore International Festival of Arts 2019 takes place from 17 May - 2 June. For more info, please visit sifa.sg and stay connected with us at facebook.com/sifa.sg and instagram.com/sifa_sg.
MOMMY NOT AT HOME COMMISSIONED BY SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS 2017
Would you invite 30 strangers into your bedroom? Singapore’s Open Homes project Arts festival events let you rifle through the drawers of strangers – all in the aim of promoting transparency in the famously restrictive society.
The respective residents share an intimate story to the audience, up close and personal, in their home.
I shared mine story about my art, my mom, my helper and my life over 2 days , 3 shows. The 3 shows are packed with about 60 guests. It was a wonderful experience to be involved in this project and raising awareness for the taboo disease Dementia was my utmost concern.
Mommy was at The Tiffin Gallery, together with my helper, Avegail. They were also part of the entire theatre experience!
After each show, people of similar situations spoke to me and they said they felt less alone. It was awesome to know my sharing is able to give others strength to walk down that road.
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SIFA 2018 Festival Video
Into its 41st year, Singapore International Festival of Arts 2018 presents diverse and distinctive work from Singapore and around the world that ignites the imagination, inspires myriad audiences, and provokes reflection and dialogue.
Get ready for a plethora of theatre, music, dance, literary and visual arts at the pinnacle arts festival that will happen over three weeks from 26 April to 12 May, and across over ten performance spaces, including the Festival House, located at The Arts House. See you at #SIFA2018!
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Borderlands at the Singapore International Festival of Arts
Borderlands features masters of Uyghur music playing indigenous instruments from the Xinjiang region. Among them is Sanubar Tursun, one of Central Asia's finest singers today and a star performer regarded by many as a symbol of the Uyghur people. With Wu Man’s deft performance of the pipa, Tursun’s delicate playing on the dutar (a Central Asian long-necked lute), and the hypnotic sounds of Xinjiang Uyghur Muqam* melodies, Borderlands is an extraordinary musical
experience not to be missed. - Singapore International Festival of Arts
Ong Keng Sen: Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA)
The SIFA commences soon on Aug 6th 2015..!
The theme this year being; 'POST-EMPIRES';letsthinkaloud.com spoke exclusively to Ong Keng Sen to know the idea behind the theme; the shows to look forward to in these two months & what are his plans with SIFA as he helms the festival as its DIRECTOR till 2017..!
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This is Ong Keng Sen Thinking Aloud..!’
Jeremy Monteiro - Jay Anderson - Adam Nussbaum - Just in Time - Singapore Arts Festival 2003
Jeremy Monteiro NYC Trio
Singapore Arts Festival 19 June 2003 - Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore
Just in Time - Jule Styne
Piano - Jeremy Monteiro
Doublebass - Jay Anderson
Drums - Adam Nussbaum
Video - John BT Gerald Tan
Audio - Sunil Kumar
Production Executive - Zee Soh Fun
Ong Keng Sen: Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA)
The SIFA commences soon on Aug 6th 2015..!
The theme this year being; 'POST-EMPIRES';letsthinkaloud.com spoke exclusively to Ong Keng Sen to know the idea behind the theme; the shows to look forward to in these two months & what are his plans with SIFA as he helms the festival as its DIRECTOR till 2017..!
Click to know more & make sure you get your tickets for the Singapore International Festival of Arts.
This is Ong Keng Sen Thinking Aloud..!’