Presented by The Human Expression (T.H.E) Dance Company
In Collaboration With Esplanade — Theatres on the Bay
20 Jun 2025, Fri, 7.30pm
21 Jun 2025, Sat, 3pm & 7.30pm
22 Jun 2025, Sun, 3pm
Esplanade Theatre Studio (Singapore)
This bold new creation—envisioned and choreographed by Anthea Seah (T.H.E Dance Company, Singapore) and Josh Martin (Company 605, Vancouver)—brings together a creative team of performers and collaborators from both cities in a meeting of voices, seeking out what it means to build and to break.
A fragmented team is determined to “keep it together” as their bodies are launched into an alternate realm, propelled by unnatural momentum and shared delusion. As their bubble of fantasy drifts towards the spike of reality, we are thrown into an unstable world of compulsive magical thinking.
What happens when collective imagination exceeds capacity? When our wildest ambitions threaten to burst under the weight of their own making? When the sin of slowness collides with the pressure to produce? Sloth Canon unfolds as an absurdly fragile scenario, hellbent on building forward while simultaneously falling apart.
Co-produced by: The Human Expression (T.H.E) Dance Company (Singapore) / Company 605 (Vancouver, Canada)
Co-created and Co-directed by: Anthea Seah / Josh Martin
In collaboration with performers: Brandon Lee Alley, Haruka Leilani Chan, Chang En, Billy Keohavong, Rebecca Margolick
Original Sound / Composer: Matthew Tomkinson
Lighting Design: Adrian Tan
Costume Design: Loo An Ni