MANIFEST: A Tribute to Christina Sergeant

PUBLISHED January 9th, 2014 01:46 pm | UPDATED May 9th, 2018 03:13 am

Presented by Jayanthi Siva-Lecolley & The Arts House

Jayanthi Siva-Lecolley, Singaporean producer, director and choreographer, together with The Arts House, presents MANIFEST, a tribute to late theatre veteran Christina Sergeant.

MANIFEST explores hybridity between traditional and contemporary art forms. Poems by Cyril Wong, Michael Corbidge and Australia’s Terry Jaensch, are woven together through Indian classical and contemporary dance forms, music, drama and voice.

Jayanthi Siva-Lecolley says about this project: ‘Tina is the reason why I do what I do today with poetry. She evoked in me this love and passion for working with poetry through various arts forms. I have been doing this now since 2000. I also met wonderful artists who have become good friends through this, like Michael Corbidge whom I have been working with from the start. Tina had this amazing ability to encourage and inspire’.

Indian classical vocalist Bhagya Murthy, actors Pavan J. Singh and Sonia Kwek, Odissi dancer Meghna Das from India, multi-disciplinary talents Linden Furnell and Elle-May Patterson, classical vocalists Cyril Wong and Sabrina Zuber, tablist G. Lakshman and Sergeant’s daughter Liz Sergeant-Tan pay an odd to by collaborating, interpreting and devising along with Artistic Director Jayanthi Siva-Lecolley.

Supported by NAC, Arts Fund and Lee Foundation, MANIFEST will donate part of the proceeds to the Singapore Drama Educators Association.

MANIFEST presents a plethora of colours and concepts through 15 independent pieces based on the poems of Michael Corbidge, Cyril Wong and Terry Jaensch. The pieces vary from themes of love and questions about life to just entertaining with pure dance and singing. Many of the poems used have a relationship to Tina. An example would be Lost in a Photograph which Tina performed a solo mime piece for Jayanthi’s production of Isolate in 2004. This poem will be inspired by Tina’s 2004 performance but presented using contemporary dance. We are applying Anne Borgarts View Points to devise another piece called Four Sides to A Ring which was the name and part of a production that Tina directed and performed in with Jayanthi, in 2002.

To celebrate Tina and how she touched so many people in the Arts, Sean Tobin, Head of the Theatre Faculty at SOTA, and Audrey Wong , Ex NMP and ‎current Programme Leader, MA Arts & Cultural Management at LaSalle College of the Arts, will be doing short speeches on different nights.

Time: 8pm

Ticket price: $23 / $17 (Concession for students, senior citizens and The Arts House members)

Tickets available at: [The Arts House Box Office](http://www.theartshouse.com.sg)