| In his latest production, the director and IN TRANSIT curator, Ong Keng Sen has been inspired by Gautama Buddha, by Pico Iyer, the travel writer, and by the personalities of his collaborating artists. Playing the contemporary travellers are the Swedish actress Charlotte Engelkes; Paris-based Nigerian dancer Sophiatou Kossoko; and Pichet Klunchun who has won many glowing reviews for his innovative fusion of Thai classical royal dance and contemporary performances. They embody the material and spiritual search of Buddha. Their stories are about illumination, about airports and jetlag; about thousand-year-old Chinese Opera embodied in Zeng Jin Ping, and meditative Korean court singing by Kang Kwon Soon, within a contemporary soundscape by Toru Yamanaka from the performance collective, Dumb Type.
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