Singapore’s COVID-19 lockdown, rebranded as a ‘Circuit Breaker’, began on 7 April 2020 and lasted till 1 June 2020. For three months, residents hunkered down, confined in their homes and accommodations, to stop community spread. Now, as the situation seems safer, a mask and tracing applications serve as our main protective barriers when venturing out in public.

In this new, wobbly reality of sharing physical space again while still juggling virtual backgrounds paired with pajama bottoms, what does it mean to open up to touching objects and meeting strangers, and how might we find new intimacies and new forms of touch in digital spheres?

In Touch You Later!, an online participatory performance for 5, we invite audiences to re-encounter their bodies and personal spaces, and to experience them as sites for performance. To unfurl and nestle, play and explore.

Date/Time
11 Dec (Fri), 6pm-7.15pm SGT / 10am-11.15am GMT
11 Dec (Fri), 8.30pm-9.45pm SGT / 12.30pm-1.45pm GMT
12 Dec (Sat), 2pm-3.15pm SGT / 7am-8.15am GMT*
12 Dec (Sat), 4pm-5.15pm SGT / 8am-9.15am GMT

*This is a family-friendly performance, although parents are welcome to attend any of the other performances together with 1 child.

Ticketing
Tickets are SGD$10 each. To purchase tickets, kindly email tactilitystudies@gmail.com with the subject header 'TYL 2020', and we will provide further details regarding payment.

Production Information
Co-Directors: Chong Gua Khee and Bernice Lee
Production Stage Manager: Lam Dan Fong
Producer: Nabilah Said
Dramaturg: Corrie Tan
Performers: Adele Goh, Myra Loke, and Bib Mockram
Music/Sound Design: SAtheCollective

Supported by: National Arts Council Singapore

The first edition of this work was co-presented by Centre 42, as part of a celebration of their time at 42 Waterloo Street.

Created by theatre and dance artists Chong Gua Khee and Bernice Lee, Touch You Later! draws from their joint long-term project Tactility Studies (2018-ongoing). Deeply responsive to the worlds we inhabit, Tactility Studies conjures performative spaces for bodies to breathe and stretch and open up, paying attention to the deep relationship between the body and the self.

In playing with how touch can be both transgressive and reparative, Tactility Studies seeks to generate new affective discourses around platonic, pleasurable, safe touch and consent. Tactility Studies has been incubated at and supported by Dance Nucleus since 2018. For more information, please visit: https://www.fb.com/TactilityStudies