Upcoming events.
I am Finally In Love With The World
Our debut performance is finally here! Our long awaited and long prepared journey culminates in this moving performance.
SYNOPSIS
A young woman goes to her grandmother's house. There is a mountain of things. She goes inside the mountain. This production explores humanity's relationship with grief, mortality and enlightenment. Inspired by the idea that to learn how to live is to first learn how to die, the work weaves together: Traditional chinese martial arts, chinese philosophy and contemporary physical theatre techniques.
I am finally in love with the world is the debut production of WUSHIREN Theatre — This original Singaporean work invites you into a space of fleeting, luminous moments to ask: what remains after everything else has fallen away?
Developed through the Scarlet Mela Festival of the Arts (2024) and the inaugural residency at the Intercultural Theatre Institute, and co-presented by WUSHIREN Theatre and Scarlet Mela Festival of the Arts.
This project is supported by the National Arts Council and National Youth Council (YCM - Youth Heritage Kickstarter Fund).
DURATION & RATING
Runtime: 1 hour 15 mins (No Interval)
IMDA Classification : GENERAL (Suitable for all ages)
Venue: Stamford Arts Centre Black Box
Get your tickets here! https://smfa-wushiren-filwtw.peatix.com/view
Living Taiji
Living Taiji: A 3-Hour Workshop on Applying Ancient Wisdom to Modern Life
More than ever, we face rising stress, interpersonal disconnect, and a crisis of meaning in our daily lives. Many of us are looking for a way back to clarity, to connection, and to what it means to be fully human.
What if ancient wisdom could offer us a way forward?
Taiji (太極) means “great extremes.” In its philosophy and practice, we find a way to understand the natural state of being: Inward and outward attention, giving and receiving. These could help us understand “being present” or “living in the moment”.
Join us as we demystify Taiji and shed a practical lens on how it can profoundly enhance performance, relationships and love for life. This workshop explores how the principles of Taiji can help us respond to modern challenges with presence, awareness, and flow.
Sign up here: https://forms.gle/8VENPLyvBmHWCCuu5
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1. Movement practice
Through simple movement-based games and partner work, we’ll explore how principles like balance, sensitivity, and attention show up in real time.
We’ll learn to sense space, give and receive, lead and follow. These exercises help reveal where we hold tension, and offer a practical way to build a stronger body-mind connection, and more ease in how we relate to others.
2. Taiji Practice
Practicing Taiji puts the body into a spiralling motion. Doing so, we enhance the body, mind connection. Movement becomes a mirror: showing where we’re holding on, where energy flows and what enhanced connection with the body feels like.
3. DialogueDid you know you can practice Taiji in conversation? We will utilise and explore special tools to help us converse better with ourselves and with others.
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Revitalise and see the relevance of the ancient practice of Taiji
Build deeper self-awareness
Reconnect with others meaningfully
Explore presence in a fresh, embodied way
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JULIAN LOW is a theatre practitioner, traditional taiji practitioner and video maker from Singapore. He had previously studied in NUS Medical School as an undergraduate merit scholar. He is a member of the Singapore Traditional Wushu Elite team, National Champion for Traditional Taiji (All-rounder category for Youth Age Group) and is actively competing in taiji competitions in Singapore and Internationally.
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Cost:
General: $50 / Pax
Student: $25 / PaxHandout Materials will be provided
Location: WUSHIREN Theatre Studio Space 102E Pasir Panjang Road, #08-03, Citilink Warehouse Complex, Singapore 118529
Proceeds from this workshop goes towards our debut production in June 27-29: I am finally in love with the world.
Moving as a Means - Chloe Shyan
A workshop intensive for the moving maker.
'Moving as a Means' encourages performers to experience creative agency through an ecology of movement practice.
Hone your senses and kinesthetic awareness of body and space. Expand your physical vocabulary, discover complexity and flavour, and strengthen the connection between your inner and outer worlds. Learn to listen to, trust and interact with other moving bodies. Apply techniques to the development of movement pieces and discover the potential of your physical performance.
Sign up here: bit.ly/wsrexp2025
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● The performer looking to deepen / diversify their creative practice.
● The head-first actor looking for their feet, or their heart.
● The maker who desires to move, and be moved.
This workshop is recommended for performers of all levels aged 18 and over. Physical training and making can be a vulnerable process. Interested parties who feel hesitant to dive into this work are encouraged to participate in pairs to support each other. It's sometimes more fun to go on a journey with a friend.
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Physical exercises, structured improvisations
Solo / duo / group explorations & reflections indoors and outdoors
Opportunities to observe and be observed
Collaborating on a shared learning process
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Chloe is an actor and theatre maker currently based between Singapore and the UK. She holds a BA (Hons) in Musical Theatre from LASALLE College of the Arts and the MA Theatre Lab from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Outside of acting, she works in devised performance, choreography and education.
Inspired by her training locally and abroad in a wide range of forms, Chloe hopes to share her knowledge and connect with makers from all backgrounds. Her creative work lives in the body in relation to its environment, and is grounded in nature and space.
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$25 per person
How do I love?: Understanding Venus in Your Chart - Ang Kia Yee
An astrology workshop on love, desire, and conflict
How do you experience love? Is it nerve-wracking, gnarly, intoxicating, mundane, sweet, confusing, liberating?
In this workshop, we take our natal charts as personal maps to reflect on our unique ways of loving and relating. We draw upon the expansive, macro lens of astrology to look more closely at our dispositions, perspectives, approaches, strategies, and challenges when it comes to love.
Through this reflective process, you are invited to explore how you could build more intentional and meaningful connections with others. How can you love more sincerely and truthfully, as the kind of lover you are?
Sign up here: bit.ly/wsrexp2025
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What do I love? How do I express love?
What do I want in love? How do I express my desires?
How do I communicate dissatisfaction and disagreement? How do I fight? How could I fight in a loving way?
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Very basic natal chart overview: planets, signs, houses
Identifying & reading basic aspects (relationships) between planets
Venus in Signs & Houses
Moon in Signs & Houses
Mars in Signs & Houses
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Astrology enthusiasts, artists, spiritual groups, general public
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$35 for 3h session
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For this workshop, the scope of connections includes all intimate, loving, one-on-one relationships in your life.
Due to the limited time, this workshop is meant to seed meaningful questions and intentions for you to bring home and dwell on in your own time. We will not be able to go very deep and linger much together. We will not be going into synastry or compatibility. We will focus on the self by way of the natal chart.
This workshop forms one of a pair of mirror workshops on love. Its mirror, How do we love what we love?, will be offered in the future.
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Ang Kia Yee / kyatos is an artist, poet, novice astrologer, and trainee counsellor. She is the founder and artistic director of zone, a cross-disciplinary theatre company preoccupied with the symbolic, psychic, and unconscious. Her work seeds itself in healing, dreaming, re-visioning, re-narrating, and re-prophesying the world through encounters with the numinous, speculative, shadowy, spiritual, transcendent, and plural. It has spanned poetry, plays, essays, short stories, performances, audio walks, workshops, astrology readings, and video.
Taiji Yoga - Ranice Tay & Gayle Nerva
Taiji 太极 means: Great extremes. Yoga योग means: Union / to join,
Where do they intersect, and how do they differ? In this workshop, we will look at the very foundations of movement from both Yoga and Taiji such as body alignment, opposition, balance and flow. Participants will experience an original Taiji Yoga movement sequence born out of collaboration between Ranice and Gayle, as we reflect upon the embodied wisdoms of the forms and ground ourselves in the present moment.
Sign up here: bit.ly/wsrexp2025
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This is for anyone curious about the cultures and wisdoms of Taiji and Yoga.
Participant who are curious about cultivating the following:
• Inner and outer balance
• Stability, mobility and flexibility
• Expanding your coordination
• Calming your nervous system
• Improving rest and sleep
• Revitalizing your energy
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$30 (General)
$25 (Student/Artist)
Open House X Fundraiser (Present in the World)
WUSHIREN Theatre is entering a new creative chapter—a studio-warming, a beginning. On 29th March, we open our space with the hope that it will become fertile ground for artistic exploration and inquiry. In June 27-29, we take our first step onto the stage with I am finally in love with the world, an original production.
As we build towards this milestone, we are launching our open house, followed by a series of workshops at a later date to raise funds for our work—work that we believe in deeply. We are grateful to have already received the NAC P&P grant, but we are also fundraising to bridge the remaining costs
In a world where many forces pull us in different directions, to be truly present is a radical act. Present In The World begins with an open house, and follows up with a workshop series dedicated to cultivating awareness—of our bodies, our minds, our beings. It is an invitation to ground ourselves in the current moment, to listen deeply, and to reconnect with the wholeness of who we are.
Sign Up here: https://bit.ly/WSRopenhouse
Venue: 102E Pasir Panjang Road, #08-03, Citilink Warehouse Complex, Singapore 118529
Cost: Pay from the heart
As we are aiming to raise funds for our project in June, we have a recommendation for tiers of donation:
Tier 1: $35
Tier 2: $55
Tier 3: $100
Tier 4: Others
We recommend donations of 35 dollars and above. Any amount goes into the cost of our production and rehearsal spaces and allows us to provide fair compensation for our artists. Donations of 75 dollars and above contribute greatly to allowing us to realise our vision for our upcoming projects and 150 and above allows us to continue incubating future works.
If you are a student / No income source or find it hard to make any sort of donation, please do not feel pressured to do so. There are other ways to support our work and we warmly welcome anything that you are gracious enough to extend.
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Julian, a former medical student turned theatre practitioner, once saw "being present" as abstract and mythical—until he learned to experience it firsthand. He will share exercises to demystify presence, shedding a practical lens on how it can profoundly enhance performance, relationships and love for life.
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How do we remain? In this poem-manifesto-meditation, Kia Yee/ kyatos dwells, stays, persists in one place. After years of rushing herself to start and to go on, she asks: what can happen when we remain, when we don't run to the next thing? What kind of dreaming and re-prophesying can take place by being in the here and now? Come dwell with this artist, poet, and founder of zone, a cross-disciplinary theatre company.
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Sound has the power to bring us into the present moment, helping us feel more connected to ourselves and the world around us. In this session, we will explore the relationship between sound and silence; using vibrations to clear the mind, restore balance, and deepen body awareness. The session will also include a live, improvised movement and music exchange by artists Gayle and Ranice, inviting you to experience listening in a whole new way.
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What calls us to move, and what emerges from that unseen place? In this intimate sharing, Ranice reflects on her journey from away from Theatre and back to it, navigating the tension between performing and being. Through personal anecdotes and embodied exploration, she delves into the nature of craft, understanding the inner I/eye, and the impulses that led to the creation of WUSHIREN Theatre. Join us in this intersection of movement, philosophy, and identity.
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How can the principles of Taiji shape theatre-making? In this work demonstration, the WUSHIREN team shares the core tenets that define our practice and pedagogy. Join us for an exclusive insight into our artistic process.
Flowing Body (Present in the World - Gayle Nerva)
An embodied yoga and mobility immersion
for anyone looking to deepen their understanding and relationship with the self; to feel more at home, and present in their body, creating space for more enjoyment of expression and authentic experiencing.
Sign up: Click Here
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Guided meditation and reflective prompts to help
you ground yourself, set healthy boundaries, and tap
into a deeper awareness of both your mind and
body’s wisdom.Breathing exercises that teach you how to listen to
and control your breath, using it as a tool to center
yourself, trust your intuition, and expand your
awareness.Inspiration from nature’s elements – earth (stability),
water (fluidity), fire (passion), and air (lightness) – to
help you connect with your inner nature.movement and mobility practices to offer more
freedom and fluidity for the spine, joints, and
muscular connections in the body - increasing your
body’s movement vocabulary for a wider range of
experiencing and expression.
Deep listening and connection practices to cultivate
authentic relationships with yourself and others,
fostering awareness, communication, and trust.An invitation to embrace your sensitivity – tune into
your body’s senses, impulses, and resistances, and
follow their guidance with compassion.Time for body-led expression, where you can explore
intuitive movement, playful expression, or moments
of stillness, all supported by a thoughtfully curated
soundscape of music and silence – allowing you to
meet and embrace your self as you are.An opportunity to connect and be held by a
community of like-minded individuals.
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March 29
April 5
April 12
April 19
Saturdays 1 - 3pm
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Venue: 102E Pasir Panjang Road, #08-03, Citilink Warehouse Complex, Singapore 118529
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$50 per session
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Gayle Nerva is a multifaceted artist, singer, musician, intuitive mover, and
embodied wellness guide, whose creative journey spans across various
disciplines, blending Eastern philosophies, spiritual traditions, movement, music,
and art to curate soul-nourishing experiences.With 19 years of experience across diverse artistic realms, including acting,
performative arts, visual arts, singing, somatics, and teaching,Gayle brings a wealth of expertise and depth to her craft and offerings.
Driven by a profound desire to foster connection and self-expression, Gayle's
journey is fueled by her devotion to uplift, inspire, and empower others on their
path of self-love and embodied liberation.Her goal is to create intentional and sacred spaces for people to embark on their
own inner explorations - fostering deeper awareness and understanding of
themselves, and to create more meaningful connections with othersand the world around them.
i am finally in love with the world - ITI showcase
i am finally in love with the world - The developed continuation of our performance at Scarlet Mela Festival
Flutter
At night, when everyone else is asleep, the heart is unbearably loud. It pounds often, shakes sometimes, erupting into a soundscape of beats and rhythm. It beats faster and faster until it grows wings and begins to soar. Follow WUSHIREN Theatre on this magical and riveting journey 《Flutter》 into the realm of dreams.