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NUS Dance Synergy and Re:Dance Theatre with Albert Tiong (Choreographer)

This programme is eligible for the Tote Board Arts Grant subsidy.

It is harder to survive today especially when modern life seems to revolve around the pursuit of success and wealth. Traces compels us to re-think what makes life meaningful.

Drawing inspiration from Nobel Prizewinner Gao Xing Jian’s script The Other Shore《彼岸》, dancers from NUS Dance Synergy and Re:Dance Theatre under direction of well-known choreographer Albert Tiong invite you to examine the tensions and contradictions in human character, interpersonal relationships and societal values. While human beings value living in a community, most conflicts arise out of human contact. Life is brief, like a candle flickering and extinguishes quickly. How then should we live?

现代社会中人注重成功与财富，生存比较以往更难，你有想过这意义何在吗?《走过》不会给你确实答案，只要与你共同探索。

国大现代舞团首次与专业舞团“舞•微风荡漾”携手合作，在本地著名编舞张咏翔带领下，引发观众思考人与人之间，社会价值与人性矛盾的共生角力；人既是群居动物，同时生活最大冲突却是源自与他人的接触，在接近与挣脱间，人与他人应该如何相处？同时生命始终有限，假如角力矛盾持续，直到力气花光、能量殆尽之时，我们又会如何、又能得到什么？

演出部份灵感来自诺贝尔文学奖首位获奖华语作家高行建的著名剧本《彼岸》。

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