Sloth Canon
Show Details
Type: End stage; proscenium; black box; full-length
Performers: 5 dance artists (3 from T.H.E, 2 from 605)
Touring Party: 10–12
Duration: 60 minutes
About the Work
World Premiere: June 2025, Global Dance Connections, The Dance Centre, Vancouver, Canada
Singapore Premiere: June 2025, cont·act Contemporary Dance Festival, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Singapore
Indonesia Premiere: June 2025, Salihara Arts Centre, Jakarta
Envisioned and choreographed by Anthea Seah (T.H.E Dance Company, Singapore) and Josh Martin (Company 605, Vancouver), Sloth Canon brings together a creative team of performers and collaborators from both cities in a meeting of voices, seeking out what it means to build and to break.
A fragmented team is determined to “keep it together” as their bodies are launched into an alternate realm, propelled by unnatural momentum and shared delusion. As their bubble of fantasy drifts towards the spike of reality, we are thrown into an unstable world of compulsive magical thinking.
What happens when collective imagination exceeds capacity? When our wildest ambitions threaten to burst under the weight of their own making? When the sin of slowness collides with the pressure to produce? Sloth Canon unfolds as an absurdly fragile scenario, hellbent on building forward while simultaneously falling apart.
Media Quotes
"A hurricane of quirky, surreal energy."
– The Georgia Straight
"Unnerving, absurd, and darkly funny."
– Create A Stir
"A maelstrom of ideas and images that sucks the audience in."
– The Straits Times
Enquiries
For booking inquiries, tour rider, full performance video or more information, please submit the form or contact us via email at athelyna@the-dancecompany.com.