Dance, Film, Visual Arts

Dancing Alone (Don't Leave Me)

Organised by: Objectifs
Performed by: Susie Wong
  • Date:
    8 Jan - 9 Feb 2020
  • Time:
    Tue - Sat: 12:00pm - 7:00pm
    Sun: 12:00pm - 4:00pm
    Closed on Mon & PH
  • Venue:
    Chapel Gallery, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film
    Chapel Gallery, Objectifs Centre for Photography and FilmChapel Gallery, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film
  • Admission:
    Free

Synopsis:

Dancing Alone (Don't Leave Me) by artist Susie Wong is an immersive video installation of solitary women dancing freely, evoking imagery of dance halls in the 1950s and 60s. Referencing a line from the film, The King and I: "no woman would dance alone while a man is looking at her," the exhibition alludes to the consumed representations of women in media that are re-enacted in the everyday. The dancers in Wong's videos evoke both the desire to be freed from these tropes and at the same time to themselves consume by reinforcing them through the culturally infusive practices of a modern society. Through dance, she is both empowered and subjugated.

Dancing Alone (Don't Leave Me)


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