Dance

Ascent to the Bamboo Forest – A Dance Travelogue

Organised by: The Arts Fission Company Ltd
  • Date:
    5, 6 Jun 2026
  • Time:
    3:00pm, 8:00pm
  • Duration:
    60 mins
  • Venue:
    Play Den, The Arts House, Level 2, 1 Old Parliament Ln, Former Parliament House and Annex Building, Singapore 179429
  • Admission:
    Early Bird: $20 (20% off till 24 Apr 2026)
    Standard: $25
    Group Purchases, min. 10 tickets: $17
    Parent-Child Bundle (x1 Adult and x1 Child between 7 to 21 years old): $35

    Concession
    - Child (7 - 12 years old): $15
    - Local / Overseas Students: $20
    - Senior Citizen (Above 5https://bookmyshow.sg/en/events/ASCENTBF5 years old): $20
    - National Servicemen NSF (Full Time): $20
  • Advisory:
    General; 7 years old and above

Synopsis:

Ascent to the Bamboo Forest — A Dance Travelogue serves as a rare window into a hidden geography of Asia: the mystical highlands of Northern Vietnam. Following a 2025 performance-lecture, ARTS FISSION dancers Aisha Lozano, Marveen Lozano, Andine Elaina, and Ignatius Sim have since distilled their initial movement vocabulary into a triptych under the guidance of Angela Liong. The work is a deeply personal contemplation of the reverence for the land, the sincerity of communal rituals, and the Traditional Ecological Knowledge gleaned from their time among the mountain villagers.

In a departure from traditional scoring, composer Chua Jon-Lin facilitates a kinetic soundscape where the dancers utilise bamboo culms, leaves, and organic materials to generate a live, rhythmic score that breathes with the movement.

Step into this transformed clearing and witness a quiet beauty—a way of life and an ancestral wisdom standing on the brink of imminent loss.