KONTUR KONTUR

Kontur² is a solo dance performance by Syarifuddin Sahari, and it puts the body at the centre of a question with no tidy answer: where do cultural, racial and national identities meet, and what does that body carry? The movement pulls from Malay dance, Jaipongan of West Java and Jamaican Dancehall — three traditions that have travelled and been remade — to look at how heritage, globalisation and outside influences shape the way people see themselves and their culture. It asks, plainly, what defines the body of a Singaporean Malay male dancer in the 21st century.

This is a development stage, turning earlier choreography into a 40-minute multidisciplinary dance piece, staged in a blackbox at 42 Waterloo Street with digital multimedia mapping designed in collaboration with M. Nurfadhli Jasni. Technology here is an artistic tool rather than a backdrop: revisiting histories, questioning perceptions, tracing the shifting link between past and present. It runs Mon 16 Nov 2026 at 8pm and Tue 17 Nov at 9.30pm, tickets at S$32. You will likely leave thinking about your own cultural identity, and how tradition and present-day influence sit together in a multicultural society.