Choy Ka Fai

In the context of his project SoftMachine, the Singaporean choreographer and dancer Choy Ka Fai has researched contemporary Asian dance forms. With Rianto he presents a dancer from Banyumas, a rural Indonesian region, who since childhood has mastered Lengger mask dance, a traditional erotic dance usually performed by women. Rianto now lives in Tokyo where he collaborates with various contemporary choreographers. For Choy Ka Fai’s project he returns to his dance roots. A tantalisingly beautiful «documentary performance» between tradition and modernism.