Scratch-Easy V - Movement Shorts: Parables

About the Event

Traditional stories in contemporary bodies—a scratch night of movement, dance, physical theatre and play.

A fisherman wrestles with the sea. A fox slips between human and animal. A spider bargains for all the stories in the world. A man, suspended between two tigers, tastes a strawberry.

Drawing from folktales, fables and stories of tradition from across cultures, Movement Shorts: Parables brings together an ensemble of performers exploring these old tales through movement, dance, physical theatre and play.

What happens when stories passed from mouth to mouth enter the body?

Presented by Static Metamorphosis as part of Scratch-Easy, and directed by Eugene Chow, Parables is a collection of short works in development, where ancient stories are taken apart, embodied in contemporary bodies, and given permission to enter the world in their strange manner again.

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Performers

⁠⁠Alyssa Li

Charis Lee

⁠⁠Dipeeka Shah

⁠⁠Elaine Siow

Joel Gay

Julien Kuo

⁠Lee Jasmine

⁠⁠Liu Yuening

Wing Chee

Eugene Chow

Static Metamorphosis

Static Metamorphosis is a theatre collective that began re-imagining comic strips onto platform theatre. Comics have this amazing ability to take us on a journey through landscapes, narratives and characters all just in a box, and platform theatre has that exact same capacity on just one platform. Formed by Lecoq-trained actor-director Eugene Chow in 2024, the multi-faceted group of artists is a growing collective that does everything from gestural theatre to dance to sound, bringing their talents onto performance spaces to enhance the theatrical experience of their devised themes.

The Substation

The Substation nurtures independent creative practitioners in collaborative community through the multi-disciplinary curation of contemporary arts practices from theatre and dance to film, music, literary arts, performance art, visual arts, and related fields. As one of Singapore's first…