The Blues Project by Dorrance Dance

8 & 9 May

TUE & WED, 8PM

Victoria Theatre 1h, no intermission

FEATURING DORRANCE DANCE WITH TOSHI REAGON AND BIGLOVELY CREATED BY MICHELLE DORRANCE, DERICK K. GRANT, TOSHI REAGON AND DORMESHIA SUMBRY-EDWARDS

PHOTO BY EM WATSON

MESSAGE FROM THE FESTIVAL DIRECTOR I grew up looking forward to the Singapore Arts Festival every year.

Watching shows across different genres from around the world played a big part in shaping my artistic sensibilities. Shows such as Ninagawa’s Macbeth (1992), for example, entirely changed my perception of how Shakespeare could be performed.

In 1996, I acted in Singapore Repertory Theatre’s Sing To The Dawn; it was the first time a Singaporean musical opened the Singapore Arts Festival. Given this history, I was delighted and honoured to be asked to helm the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) for the next three years.

What is SIFA’s role? Where does it fit in the cultural landscape, both at home and internationally? Who does it serve?

Where would I like it to be in three years?

As I was thinking of how to shape the festival, what I did know was that I wanted to programme a festival that would inspire young people in the same way that I was impacted 25 years ago.

With the support of the phenomenal team at SIFA, I aspired to curate a season that would showcase different art forms and perspectives from Singapore and around the world. We also strove to programme a spectrum of shows that would appeal to a variety of audiences, from the first-time festival-goer to the seasoned art lover.

We believe we have programmed artists who are game-changers in their fields.

In parallel, discussions commenced with several of the game-changers in the Singapore arts scene. One of SIFA’s roles is to commission and facilitate the creation of new Singaporean work – giving artists the time and resources to develop shows over a two- or three-year horizon. We look forward to presenting the culmination of this process in SIFA 2019 and 2020.

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Two memorable experiences from arts festivals I have attended around the world have been the free outdoor performances, and a festival ‘village’ — a place where artists and audiences can meet after a show and discuss what they’ve just seen. Both these elements can be found in SIFA 2018. The free outdoor programmes on the opening and closing weekends have some sensational performances to be enjoyed with family and friends. Over these three weeks, The Arts House will become Festival House.

It will be the heartbeat of SIFA with performances, lectures, readings, music salons and, of course, a place to just hang out and chat. Artists will give talks, conduct masterclasses or host Q&As, and hopefully we will build relationships with them that last beyond the festival.

A key initiative that I introduced this year is the $10 front-row student ticket. I want the next generation of Singaporeans to know that they matter to SIFA. My hope is that they will fall in love with the arts in the same way I did at their age.

I would like to thank Sarah Martin and the incredible team of people I work with at SIFA and at Arts House Limited. Despite the tight six-month runway to programme this festival, they have been nothing short of amazing and have worked tirelessly to produce a festival that we hope resonates with you as much as it does with us.

Most of all, thank you for your support. The scope, breadth and reach of shows in SIFA will continue to grow over the next three years. We look forward to taking you on this exciting journey with us.

Gaurav Kripalani Festival Director

MESSAGE FROM THE CEO

Festivals bring people together to celebrate causes or to mark momentous occasions. Arts festivals allow us to not only appreciate the arts, they allow us to experience and form lasting and transformative memories. It is through shared experiences that we come to form communities.

The inaugural Singapore Festival of Arts began in 1977 as a national showcase of the vibrant art forms found within Singapore’s diverse communities. In its many evolutions over the last four decades, the Festival has touched countless hearts, created invaluable experiences for many, and inspired even more to embrace the arts. From a time when Singapore was widely perceived as a cultural desert, the Festival has played an instrumental role in developing Singapore’s arts landscape and shaped the city-state into one of Asia’s leading cultural capitals.

This year, SIFA 2018 marks the 41st year and kicks off a new era with Gaurav Kripalani at the helm as Festival Director for 2018 – 2020. Condensed into 17 days of artistic adventures, it is our hope that

this exhilarating three-week format will create robust artistic engagement for a spectrum of diverse audiences. The Arts House will be transformed into the Festival House, and within its intimate spaces, there will be meaningful discourses on the various themes presented in the festival.

Built upon the foundation and achievements of those who came before, SIFA is the sum of many parts made possible by a team of many talents who has worked tirelessly and passionately to deliver the Festival Director’s vision.

I thank everyone who has had a hand in shaping the Singapore International Festival of Arts into a tradition for both new and existing audiences and making it the stalwart of Singapore’s dedication to artistic excellence.

Gaurav and the team have put together a festival of multiple layers allowing you to make up your own artistic adventures.

It is my hope that you will walk away with unique memories of the Festival.

Sarah Martin CEO, Arts House Limited

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MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR To me, Toshi Reagon is a revolutionary. But, simultaneously, she is an artist who honours and embodies tradition. Musically, she blows genre out of the water but also carries a tremendous folk, blues and spiritual music history. On top of loving her music since I was 18 years old, I wanted to work with her because she wields music the way I want to wield tap dance – by manifesting the spirit of the great American traditions. I see Derick K. Grant and Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards in a very similar light. Both were mentored by the torchbearers of tap dance’s legacy and grew up performing alongside the master hoofers of the swing and bebop eras, yet they are two of the most unique, creative, and cutting edge hoofers on the planet. These three artists have inspired the exploration of music, sound, and movement in this work – thank you for joining us!

Michelle Dorrance Artistic Director

PROGRAMME NOTES Created by the world-class powerhouse team of Michelle Dorrance, Derick K. Grant, Toshi Reagon, and Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, The Blues Project brings together some of today’s best tap artists, musicians, and choreographers in an innovative evening of rhythm, original live music, explosive energy, and raw emotion. Featuring performances by Bessie award-winning tap dance company Dorrance Dance with acclaimed singer-songwriter-guitarist Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely, The Blues Project is a creative collaboration that explores the relationship between music, sound, and movement.

As described by the Washington Post, “[the] intimate and rowdy merging of dance and music, with one disappearing into the other, hits you like a sonic distillation of a blistering American past and its perilous present, with a transcendent strength of spirit woven through.” This 60-minute production features an original score composed by Reagon, and performed live with her fivepiece band, BIGLovely. Choreography

by Dorrance, Grant, and SumbryEdwards, coupled with improvisations by the versatile dancers of Dorrance Dance, drives home the powerful conversation between live music and tap dance as its own musical score.

Winner of a Bessie Award in 2015 for outstanding production, The Blues Project brings together two dynamic ensembles for a transfixing program that expands and shatters notions about their respective art forms.

PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER DUGGAN

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THE CREATIVE TEAM MICHELLE DORRANCE Artistic Director/ Choreographer/ Dancer Michelle Dorrance is a New York City-based artist. Mentored by Gene Medler, she grew up performing with his North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble and was lucky to study under many of the last master hoofers. Career highlights include: STOMP, Derick K. Grant’s Imagine Tap, Jason Samuels Smith’s Charlie’s Angels/ Chasing the Bird, Ayodele Casel’s Diary of a Tap Dancer, Mable Lee’s Dancing Ladies, and Darwin Deez. Company work: Savion Glover’s Ti Dii, Manhattan Tap, Barbara Duffy, JazzTap Ensemble, Rumba Tap, and solo work ranging from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to Damian Woetzel’s Vail Dance Festival Projects, and a commission for the Martha Graham Dance Company.

A 2017 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow and 2015 MacArthur Fellow, Michelle is humbled to have been acknowledged and supported by United States Artists, The Joyce Theater, New York City Center, the Alpert Awards, Jacob’s Pillow, Princess Grace Foundation, The Field, American Tap Dance Foundation and the Bessie Awards. Michelle holds a BA from New York University and is a Capezio Athlete.

DERICK K. GRANT | Choreographer Derick is a performer, choreographer, and director who has an established career that spans over three decades. Under the direction of Tony Award winner, George C. Wolfe, he was an original company member and Dance Captain for Bring In ‘Da Noise, Bring In ‘Da Funk at both The Public Theater and on Broadway and starred in the role of ‘da beat for the first National Tour. Derick created the critically acclaimed show Imagine Tap! His choreography has been featured on Fox’s hit series So You Think You Can Dance; and he has performed and recorded with Grammy Award winner Dan Zanes. Derick is a recipient of the Princess Grace Award for Upcoming Young Artist, The Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Featured Actor, two Los Angeles Ovation Awards for choreography, Best Ensemble Performance in Noise/Funk, and was most recently recognised for Best Choreography for Imagine Tap! He is currently a corporate tap spokesperson for SoDanca and continues to transform and inspire dance communities around the world.

TOSHI REAGON Composer/ Musical Director/ Acoustic Guitar and Lead Vocals Toshi has been described as “a talented, versatile singer, composer, producer, and musician with a profound ear for sonic Americana— from folk to funk, from blues to rock” by critic/ blogger Eva Yaa Asantewaa of InfiniteBody.“She masters each of these genres with vocal strategies that easily spiral and swoop from the expressively sinuous to the hard-charging, a combination of warmth and mischief.”

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While her expansive career has landed her comfortably in residence at Carnegie Hall, The Paris Opera House, and Madison Square Garden, you can just as easily find Toshi turning out a music festival, intimate venue, or local club. Her dance and theater collaborations include work with Urban Bush Women, Jane Comfort and Company, LAVA, and two operas with her mother Bernice Johnson Reagon and Robert Wilson.

Toshi has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) award for Music Composition and The Black Lily Music and Film Festival award for Outstanding Performance. She is a National Women’s History Month Honoree and is the 2010 recipient of OutMusic’s Heritage Award. In 2011, she received a Stonewall Honors Award. In 2015, she was named a Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow. Her producer credits include recordings by Lizz Wright, Carl Hancock Rux, Sweet Honey In The Rock, and Climbing PoeTree. In 2011, Toshi founded the Word*Rock*& Sword: A FESTIVAL Exploration of Women’s Lives, All are Welcome. This festival takes place every September in venues around New York City. In addition to her continued collaboration with Dorrance Dance, Toshi has developed an opera based on the novel Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. Toshi is ever grateful for her band BIGLovely and feels lucky and blessed to sit in a circle of such incredible musicians.

DORMESHIA SUMBRY-EDWARDS | Choreographer Dormeshia is known for setting high standards in the world of tap dance. She was the tap coach to the late King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson, over the course of 11 years. Dormesha received a Bessie Award for her featured performance with Jason Samuels Smith & Company at The Joyce, and an Astaire Award for Best Female Performer for her featured performance in Broadway’s After Midnight. She is currently on the board as the Tap Advisor for Dance Magazine and was the official Tap Spokesperson for Capezio being featured in their international advertising campaign.

Performances include Tony award-winning productions on Broadway such as After Midnight, Black and Blue, and Bring In Da’Noise, Bring In Da’Funk; International Tour of Bring in Da’Noise, Bring in Da’Funk (dance captain/ principal dancer/ understudy to the lead role); national tour of Wild Woman Blues; and Debbie Allen’s SAMMY, about the life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. She recently performed as a special guest at New Jersey Performing Arts Center with Grammy recording artist and fellow After Midnight star Fantasia.

Dormesha was also nominated for Best Actress for the starring role in The Rise and Fall of Miss Thang (Lavender House Films) that toured film festivals nationwide. Other notable film credits include TAP with Gregory Hines; Spike Lee’s Bamboozled (Assistant Choreographer/ Actress); and The Rodgers and Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty.

Mrs. Sumbry-Edwards’ choreography has been featured on national and international stages as well as in Michael Jackson’s music video “Rock Your World”; and in weekly shows at the world famous Cotton Club in Harlem.

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THE PERFORMERS

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MAURICE CHESTNUT | Guest Artist, Soloist

A Newark, New Jersey native, he began dancing at the age of five and was an original member of the New Jersey Tap Ensemble. He was featured in My Kid’s a Star!, was a gold medalist in the NAACP Act-So competition, and was crowned “Top Dog Performer” at The Apollo Theater. At 18, Maurice joined Savion Glover’s Tony Award-winning Bring In ‘Da Noise, Bring In ‘Da Funk. He continued to work with Savion as a member of his Improvography and BareSoundz tours, and has performed in Classical Savion, Tappin’ Into Monk, Invitation To The Dancer and on Dancing With The Stars. Off-Broadway credits include Shades of Harlem, The Wiz, Bubbling Brown Sugar, Can I Hit That and the film Happy Feet 2. In addition to performing with his own band, he has performed with musicians such as Christian McBride, Cyrus Chestnut, and Thelonius Monk III, and in engagements at JVC Jazz Festival, the Playboy Jazz Festival, Birdland, as well as appearances at Carnegie Hall and throughout Europe with the Geri Allen Trio.

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JOSETTE WIGGAN-FREUND | Guest Artist, Soloist

A 2006 graduate of UCLA, Josette began dancing with Paul and Arlene Kennedy in Los Angeles. She was a member of the Kennedy Tap Company and then later transitioned to Jazz Tap Ensemble. Her career highlights include, 2001 Spotlight award winner in non-classical dance, the first national Broadway tour of 42nd Street, and performing alongside her brother in two original casts of Cirque du Soleil’s Banana Shpeel and Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour. Most currently, the duo performed in Michelle Dorrance’s curated show Tireless at Jacob’s Pillow. Josette teaches, choreographs and performs internationally while residing in Tel Aviv.

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CHRISTOPHER BROUGHTON

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Christopher began dancing at the age of 11 and has never looked back. Under the instruction of Paul and Arlene Kennedy at Universal Dance, he became a member of The Kennedy Tap Company, receiving the national NAACP ACTSO Award twice. He now travels worldwide both as a soloist and with Jason Samuels Smith’s A.C.G.I., Rasta Thomas’ Tap Stars and Dorrance Dance. Performances include New York City Center’s Cotton Club Parade, Juba! Master’s of Tap & Percussive Dance at the Kennedy Center, and Broadway’s Tony and Astaire Award-winning production After Midnight.

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ELIZABETH BURKE

Elizabeth is a Chapel Hill, North Carolina native who spent 11 years under the direction of her mentor, Gene Medler, in the acclaimed North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble. She has been with Dorrance Dance since its inception in 2010. Elizabeth pursues her own choreographic work, and teaches and performs as a soloist on occasion. She is an alumna of the School at Jacob’s Pillow and Marymount Manhattan College (BA Political Science, BA Communication Arts, magna cum laude).

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STARINAH “STAR” DIXON

Starinah is an original principal dancer of world-renowned tap company MADD Rhythms and a solo dancer. She has taught and performed at such festivals as The L.A. Tap Fest, Chicago Human Rhythm Project, Detroit Motorcity Tap Fest, and M.A.D.D. Rhythms’ own Chicago Tap Fest. She made her debut teaching and performing overseas in Brazil at Floripa Tap 2014 and has taught there annually since. She’s been featured in Dance Spirit magazine twice (Artist on the Rise and Speed Demon), The Chicago Reader and on independent film The Rise & Fall of Miss Thang starring Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards.

Starinah is currently on staff at numerous dance studios, schools and a teen programme to keep youth off the street called After School Matters. You can find her videos on YouTube under dance13star.

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CLAUDIA RAHARDJANOTO

Born and raised in Berlin, Germany, Claudia started dancing professionally at the age of 9 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Named one of “25 To Watch” by Dance Magazine in 2010 and featured on the cover of Dance Teacher magazine in 2011, Claudia has danced with and learned from Andreas Dänel, Sven Göttlicher, Dianne Walker, Ted Levy, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, Michelle Dorrance, Derick Grant, Brenda Bufalino, Roxane Butterfly, Andrew Nemr, Barbara Duffy, Jane Goldberg, Jared Grimes, Max Pollak, Michael Minery, the late Harold “Stumpy” Cromer, and the legendary Mable Lee, amongst others. She is grateful to be able to share her passion and love for tap dance through her performances and teaching worldwide.

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BYRON TITTLE

Byron has been dancing since the age of seven in his hometown of New York. Starting with tap and ballet, he soon grew to enjoy the different genres and aesthetics in the entire realm of dance. He began tap dancing with David Rider and then with the American Tap Dance Foundation’s Tap City Youth Ensemble. There, he met Michelle Dorrance and continually took her master classes and workshops. He joined the company in 2014 and has been consistently involved since. Commercially, he has danced for Janet Jackson and Nicki Minaj but feels most fulfilled on stage with Dorrance Dance.

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GABE WINNS ORTIZ

Born and raised in San Diego, California, Gabe started dancing at the age of 11. His love for the art form has continued to grow ever since. He has toured worldwide with the critically acclaimed stage show Tap Kids, and since moving to New York City, he has worked with various companies, including RumbaTap, Dorrance Dance and Swing FX. He also directs his own group called the Students of Sound, and teaches at the American Tap Dance Foundation. Television credits include America’s Most Talented Kids (2002), America’s Got Talent (2011), and FakeOff (2014).

THE MUSICIANS

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JULIETTE JONES | Violin

After years of classical and conservatory training, Juliette moved to New York City from Buffalo, New York, and established herself as a multi-genre acoustic and electric violinist.

She currently performs as a live and studio recording artist and also works extensively with bands, DJs, and solo artists. A Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) composer and songwriter, Juliette completed album projects for Ryan Leslie, Donnie McClurkin, and Donald Lawrence under the direction of Darin Atwater. Juliette has taped for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, MTV’s Unplugged, Saturday Night Live, Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, Good Morning America, The Late Show with David Letterman, and BET’s 106 & Park. She performed her solo debut with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in 2003, and has since performed with Florence + the Machine, Nicki Minaj, Kid Cudi, April Nevels, Tye Tribbett, Richard Smallwood, Hezekiah Walker, Kim Burrell, and Sheila E.

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FRED CASH | Electric Bass

A testimony by Toshi Reagon: “His list of recording and performance credits is too long to list here. He comes from Chicago, Illinois. Thank God he decided to land in New York City because the New York music scene has been made better by his participation. He is a long time member of the band BIGLovely but has created great work with Morley, Carl Hancock Rux, Alicia, Keys, Mary J. Bilge, Martha Redbone, and the late great Sekou Sundiata, among many others. This man makes everyone he plays with better.”

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SHIRAZETTE TINNIN | Drums/ Percussion

Born and raised in North Carolina, her sound resonates with jazz, soul, and many other styles of music. An in-demand drummer in New York City, she performed with Alicia Keys on BET in Black Girl’s Rock (2012), toured with Tia Fuller at the Umbria Jazz Festival, Molde Jazz Festival and the Turkish Ambassadors, while leading her own group, The Shirazette Experiment Core-Tet. Shirazette is also collaborating with numerous other artists, and is the resident drummer for the Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet. She strives to keep the motion of jazz music progressive in all of her endeavours. Shirazette is an active clinician, teacher, health coach and author, writing articles for Modern Drummer and Tom Tom Magazine. She is currently working on the release of her debut album as a bandleader, and is signed with the new record label Hot Tone Music. Shirazette endorses Canopus Dtums, Sabian Cymbals, Latin Percussion, Beato Bags, and KickPort.

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ADAM WIDOFF | Electric Guitar

Adam is a talented multi-instrumentalist who currently can be found playing guitar with Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely and also with P-Funk veterans Clip Payne, Lige Cury, and Gary Shider in a vicious unit called Drugs. He has studied Indian music extensively and was a student of sitar master Ustad Jamaluddin Bhartiya. Adam spent time as a guitarist for Lenny Kravitz during the Let Love Rule era. Other credits include Memorial Garage, Karl Denson, Mercury Rev, Marc Copely, and with David Torn on McKinley as well as many more live and studio appearances.

PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER DUGGAN

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THE PRODUCTION CREW KATHY KAUFMANN | Lighting Designer Kathy is a resident designer at Danspace Project whose work has been seen throughout the US, Canada and Europe. She is a two-time Bessie recipient and was nominated for her work on Rebecca Davis’s Bloowst Windku at Here in 2015. She was also honoured to be included in Curtain Call: Celebrating 100 Years of Women in Design at the NY Performing Arts Library and currently teaches lighting at Sarah Lawrence. More recent projects include designs for Joanna Kotze, David Parker, Eiko & Koma, Jillian Peña, Larissa Velez Jackson and Dorrance Dance (The Blues Project, SOUNDspace and ETM).

CHRISTOPHER MARC | Production Manager/ Sound Engineer Christopher’s credits include: The Kennedy Center TYA: Elephant and Piggy’s We are in a Play; National Tour: Clifford the Big Red Dog Live!; Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival; Forever Plaid, Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, The Fantasticks. Design Credits: Off-Broadway; The Black Book; Aquila Theatre National Tour; Wuthering Heights, The Tempest, Fahrenheit 451 andTwelfth Night.

DIEGO QUINTANAR | Technical Director/ Assistant Stage Manager Diego started working in theatre production as a student at the College of the Holy Cross. He was introduced to Dorrance Dance through his work with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Works & Process series as a project coordinator. Other credits include Latino Cultural Center and Wyly Theater, Dallas, TX where he worked as a carpenter and electrician; off-Broadway musical I Like It Like That as Production Manager, NYC; Shen Wei Dance Arts, NYC and Dance Heginbotham, NYC as an assistant stage manager and scenic charge.

SERENA WONG | Lighting Supervisor Serena is a Brooklyn-based freelance lighting designer for theatre and dance performances. Her designs have been seen at New York Live Arts, Irondale Arts Center, the New Ohio, and Danspace. She enjoys biking, beekeeping, and bread baking.

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THE CREATIVE TEAM The Blues Project Featuring Dorrance Dance with Toshi Reagon & BIGLovely Created by Michelle Dorrance, Derick K. Grant, Toshi Reagon, and Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards Composer and Musical Director: Toshi Reagon Choreography: Michelle Dorrance, Derick K. Grant, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards with solo improvisation by the dancers Additional African Choreography: Karida Griffith Top/Up Rocking Consultant: Ephrat Asherie Lighting Design: Kathy Kaufmann Costume Design: Andrew Jordan Dancers: M aurice Chestnut, Josette Wiggan-Freund (Dorrance Dance Guest Artists) Christopher Broughton, Elizabeth Burke, Michelle Dorrance, Starinah “Star� Dixon, Claudia Rahardjanoto, Byron Tittle, Gabe Winns Ortiz Musicians: Toshi Reagon (Acoustic guitar and Lead Vocals), Adam Widoff (Electric Guitar), Fred Cash (Electric Bass), Juliette Jones (Violin), Shirazette Tinnin (Drums and Percussion) This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Howard Gilman Foundation.

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ABOUT SIFA 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 national arts festival that will happen over three weeks from 26 April to 12 May, and across ten performance spaces, including the Festival House, located at The Arts House.

ABOUT ARTS HOUSE LIMITED Arts House Limited (AHL) is a not-for-profit organisation committed to enriching lives through the arts.

AHL manages two key landmarks located in the heart of Singapore’s Civic District – The Arts House, a multi-disciplinary arts centre with a focus on literary programming, and the Victoria Theatre & Victoria Concert Hall, a heritage building that is home to the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. It also runs the Goodman Arts Centre and Aliwal Arts Centre, two creative enclaves for artists, arts groups and creative businesses, and performing arts space Drama Centre. AHL presents the Singapore International Festival of Arts, the annual pinnacle celebration of performance and interdisciplinary arts in Singapore commissioned by the National Arts Council.

AHL was set up in 11 Dec 2002 as a company limited by guarantee (CLG) under the National Arts Council and was formerly known as The Old Parliament House Limited. It was officially renamed Arts House Limited on 19 Mar 2014.

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