SUARA / Oro Rua

A work inspired by the power of the voice and what voices and our breath can bring into being with 'suara' meaning 'voice/sound' in Malay and 'oro rua' in Māori meaning 'to resonate'.

SUARA / Oro Rua imagines a distant post-anthropocentric future long after the world has gone silent...until the day our fossilised voices once again emerge their aural energies breaking through

the ground like geothermal force. What worlds would those voices call into being? What might those voices declare lament or confess?

The work brings the Māori concept of Te Kore the ‘void’ that exists beyond the world of everyday experience together with the sonic history of the Earth — which tells us how hundreds of millions of

years of evolution and communication happened in silence before living creatures found their voices.

Featuring original music composed and directed by Safuan Johari and performed by Singaporean musicians and vocalists with dance/movement choreographed by Eddie Elliott and performed by dancers from Aotearoa.

SUARA / Oro Rua is commissioned by the Singapore International Festival of Arts and supported by Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa.

24 May Friday & 25 May Saturday 8pm

26 May Sunday 3pm

Duration: 1h no intermission

Venue: Singtel Waterfront Theatre at Esplanade

Tickets: $78 $58 $38

Host or Publisher Tate Anzur