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Baby Mama Mama Bear (2023)
One day, a toddler said 我要表演 I want to perform. So mom said OK and signed up for Permisi.
In 2017, she had created Baby Baby Mama Bear with a friend, her child, and more friends, which she later came to recognise as an act of pre-mothering. Now, in what feels like a lifetime later, comes the performance-playdate Baby Mama Mama Bear.
What will we perform? Who will be there? What will the future hold?
Bring snacks*.
*To be safe, don’t bring nuts.
Baby Baby Mama Bear (2017)
Baby Baby Mama Bear explores the being of children, playing with unpredictability, responsibility, patience, and the mysterious maternal instinct. Embracing the growing needs of a child, his artist mother and artist "auntie", Baby Baby Mama Bear puts on public display the efforts taking place in private homes, as two adults find a way to make their working, dancing selves adapt to his. How can we lead creative lives together, as families, as communities? Can we be serious, philosophical, silly, and magical, together?
Performers: Bernice Lee, Faye Lim, and Ollie
Music: Kailin Yong
Performances: Work-in-progress showing at the In-Bloom Choreographic Platform (with Eva Tey)
Latest version performed at Fang Mae Khong International Dance Festival in Vientiane, Laos
Special thanks to Singapore International Foundation, Maya Dance Theatre, Eva Tey, Fang Mae Khong International Dance Festival, Fang Lao Dance Company, Rimbun Dahan Choreolab 2016, and our families.
Alone Dance
A series of improvisational events now existing as video objects. 2 performed for workshop participants, 2 open to public.
With thanks to Ming Poon for his workshop The Body Relates, and MISI.
24 June 2017 - https://youtu.be/rE7nPYUU1hw
23 June 2017 - https://youtu.be/2KM15bJ_jgI
21 June 2017 - https://youtu.be/Nr0mIAfym8U
5 May 2017 - https://youtu.be/C3WHrmQxrt4
Feminist Fight Club
I was introduced to this concept at TPS Nomad 2018 by the artist Julia Croft. A group of feminists are gathered to practise aggression in a fun, silly environment. We find our own ways of fighting without violence.
In 2018, I gathered an FFC in Singapore with Superfly Monkey Dragons, and another with Sonia Kwek at MISI.
Baby Mama Mama Bear (2023)
One day, a toddler said 我要表演 I want to perform. So mom said OK and signed up for Permisi.
In 2017, she had created Baby Baby Mama Bear with a friend, her child, and more friends, which she later came to recognise as an act of pre-mothering. Now, in what feels like a lifetime later, comes the performance-playdate Baby Mama Mama Bear.
What will we perform? Who will be there? What will the future hold?
Bring snacks*.
*To be safe, don’t bring nuts.
Baby Baby Mama Bear (2017)
Baby Baby Mama Bear explores the being of children, playing with unpredictability, responsibility, patience, and the mysterious maternal instinct. Embracing the growing needs of a child, his artist mother and artist "auntie", Baby Baby Mama Bear puts on public display the efforts taking place in private homes, as two adults find a way to make their working, dancing selves adapt to his. How can we lead creative lives together, as families, as communities? Can we be serious, philosophical, silly, and magical, together?
Performers: Bernice Lee, Faye Lim, and Ollie
Music: Kailin Yong
Performances: Work-in-progress showing at the In-Bloom Choreographic Platform (with Eva Tey)
Latest version performed at Fang Mae Khong International Dance Festival in Vientiane, Laos
Special thanks to Singapore International Foundation, Maya Dance Theatre, Eva Tey, Fang Mae Khong International Dance Festival, Fang Lao Dance Company, Rimbun Dahan Choreolab 2016, and our families.
Alone Dance
A series of improvisational events now existing as video objects. 2 performed for workshop participants, 2 open to public.
With thanks to Ming Poon for his workshop The Body Relates, and MISI.
24 June 2017 - https://youtu.be/rE7nPYUU1hw
23 June 2017 - https://youtu.be/2KM15bJ_jgI
21 June 2017 - https://youtu.be/Nr0mIAfym8U
5 May 2017 - https://youtu.be/C3WHrmQxrt4
Feminist Fight Club
I was introduced to this concept at TPS Nomad 2018 by the artist Julia Croft. A group of feminists are gathered to practise aggression in a fun, silly environment. We find our own ways of fighting without violence.
In 2018, I gathered an FFC in Singapore with Superfly Monkey Dragons, and another with Sonia Kwek at MISI.