Little Lee I “The Forgotten Journey Home”
11 -13 JANUARY 2003
University Cultural Centre (Theatre)
National University of Singapore
Little Lee I “The Forgotten Journey Home” is a dance-theatre piece, and my participation is to produce some video excerpts and a stage installation for its finale.
Synopsis (by The Arts Fission)
“Little Lee I” is a contemporary Asian dance-theater piece, produced by The Arts Fission that casts a different look at aging in the relentless cycle of urban living. The evening length dance work juxtaposes images of personal mementos, objects, lost landscapes, and cultural dislocation in a moving performance of dance and video narrative.
Conceptualized by Arts Fission Artistic Director Angela Liong, LITTLE LEE I pays tribute to elderly women who keep their human dignity with extraordinary strength and wisdom even in the face of disease and loneliness. The choreographer’s elderly aunt, who is affectionately known as Little Lee in the nursing home where she stays, inspires this performance. It uses operatic arias to throw these “little women” into heroic relief amidst the banal, modern-day routines.
The production features performances from Cultural Medallion Recipient, Sculptor Han Sai Por. An inter-generational cast of Samsui women from Blk 89 Redhill Close, young dancers aged 8 - 10 from the Arts Fission Company’s Young Dancers’ Theatre and dancers from The Arts Fission Company will piece together a rich mosaic of collective memory that gives meaning to the perennial anxiety of aging. The performance also features the multi-media work of Chiang Jing Ying.
Presented by Central Singapore Community Development Council.