The Berlin-based Singaporean artist Choy Ka Fai initiated the Cosmic Wander project after a long journey across Asia, exploring and documenting dance practices, shamanism and the continent’s relationship to the supernatural. Yishun is Burning blends shamanism and voguing to create a transcendent, multimedia and multinational queer solo by dancer Sun Phitthaya Phaefuang (aka Aurora Sun). His is a trance-like passage towards ecstasy, as well as a kind of transcendence that surpasses gender attributions, cultural identities and religion. Thirty years after the iconic New York documentary Paris is Burning, this show combines the themes of a globalized world with the most ancient spiritual traditions, building in the process contemporary models of transmission and resistance.

Concept, Documentary and Direction: Choy Ka Fai

Dramaturgy: Tang Fu-Kuen

3D Visual Design and Technology: Brandon Tay

Light Design, Installation und Technical Direction: Ray Tseng

Production Manager: Mara Nedelcu.

THE THIRD PRINCE Spiritual Presence: Nezha

Gameplay and Narration: Choy Ka Fai

Sound Design and Online Performance: Betty Apple (hosted by DAC Digital Art Center Taiwan)

Costume design: Kayn Ken and Kuo Yu Ning

Motion Capture Dancer and Video Performance: Lin Su-Lien, Fangas Nayaw and Song Wei-Jie.

YISHUN IS BURNING Spiritual Presence: Kali and Kuan Yin

Choreography and Performance: Sun Phitthaya Phaefuang

Sound Design and Performance: NADA (Rizman Putra & Safuan Johari) and Cheryl Ong.

Photographer: Dajana Lothert, Choy Ka Fai

COSMIC WANDER is developed with the support of tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf, Taipei Performing Arts Center and Singapore Art Museum. Additional support for COSMIC WANDER was received from the Nationales Performance Netz (NPN) Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Germany. The research process is supported by the National Arts Council, Singapore; Kunststiftung NRW, Germany; and the VERTIGO project as part of the STARTS program of the European Commission, based on technological elements from Moving Digits. The presentation at tanzhaus nrw is supported by the National Arts Council Singapore.

Premiere - TanzHaus Big Stage 2021.08

COSMIC WANDER - YISHUN IS BURNING + THE THIRD PRINCE