Singapore, 3 January 2026 (Saturday) —T.H.E Dance Company launches liminal, a new platform dedicated to nurturing promising mid-career choreographic voices from Singapore. Beginning in 2026, liminal presents a curated triple bill of new works by artists from within the company, offering audiences insight into the evolving trajectories of these artists while enriching and strengthening T.H.E’s repertoire and contributing to the vitality of the local dance ecology.

Reflecting on the platform, Founding Artistic Director Kuik Swee Boon shares:

“liminal exists in the space between now and what is yet to come. It nurtures Singapore’s mid-career dance choreographers—artists whose experience, intuition and artistic clarity enable them to lead new ways forward. By expanding to feature a growing range of local artists, liminal cultivates a living ecosystem where the present remains in dialogue with the future, and where local dance continues to evolve and flourish.”

The first edition of liminal brings together three artists from T.H.E—resident choreographer Anthea Seah, and Fiona Thng and Klievert Jon Mendoza, who are both dance artists with the main company. Each presents a distinct choreographic work created with the main company’s dance artists.

Anthea Seah presents Ma, a solo work that reflects on matrescence and examines how identity shifts across generations, as past and future selves surface and inherited memories are carried alongside care, fatigue and love. Following her earlier co-creation Sloth Canon, which was noted for its striking originality within the local dance landscape, Ma marks Anthea’s first fully authored work for the main company in her role as resident choreographer. 

Fiona Thng’s The Rooms Inside reflects on motherhood as an emotional terrain where tenderness, intensity, and unresolved tension coexist. Moving between two bodies, it explores how vulnerability and exhaustion are carried as the body navigates multiple demands at once.

In Klievert Jon Mendoza’s Laya, he explores the tension between desire, choice and consequence. Moving through shifting relationships between three bodies, the work navigates the fragile space between longing and freedom, where pursuit gives way to restraint and surrender. As aspirations entice, consume and reshape the self, Laya asks where alignment is found when impulse softens and desire is finally met.

liminal will be presented from 3–5 April 2026 at the Esplanade Theatre Studio. Early bird sales commence from 3 January 2026, with tickets available via BookMyShow. Tickets can also be purchased using SG Culture Pass credits.

Opportunities to collaborate on preview features and in-depth articles that spotlight the artists and the work are most welcome. For media enquiries, interview requests or reviews, please contact:

Crispian Chan
Communications Strategist (Part-time), T.H.E Dance Company
crispian@the-dancecompany.com