May we have the next da:ns

I’ve attended every da:ns festival at Singapore’s Esplanade since the first edition in 2006, including nine of the 10 days in October this year. It’s one of my favourite festivals in the world, and I often run into Thai dancers and choreographers there.
The final weekend included the Asian premiere of “6,000 Miles with Sylvie Guillem”, which the Esplanade co-produced with Sadler’s Wells, the British dance mecca. I’d seen it during the world-premiere run in London, a fund-raiser for Japanese affected by last spring’s Fukushima disaster. It’s the kind of work I’d watch again, no matter when and where.
In the first part, William Forsythe’s “Rearray”, Guillem had Nicolas Le Riche matching her every masterful, sophisticated movement through frequent blackouts that never felt like interruptions.
The second piece, Jiri Kylian’s “27’ 52” – had no Guillem, but the technical prowess and dramatic passion of Aur