Pan-dance-mic: Dancing is not just getting up painlessly

12 Nov 2022

Commisioned by Singapore Art Museum, The Everyday Museum

Created by Irsyad Dawood

Performed by Rebecca Ashley Dass, Daisy Zhao Xiao Qing

As the pandemic took away precious opportunities for socialising in person, Pan-dance-mic aims to reinvigorate liminal spaces with spontaneous social dancing.

Responding to the theme of bodies, cells, materiality and flesh, as well as the relationship between the virtual and physical, Pan-dance-mic resituates asynchronous dancing on social media in a physical space to encourage bodies to move and interact as a single organism again.

Upon encountering and learning several dance moves from a dance-operator, audiences become participants of a self-contained social dancing event momentarily suspended in time and space, before being ushered back into reality.