13 & 14 June 2008
Esplanade Theatre
8pm

Singapore 's premier dance company celebrates 20 years with a divertissement of works featuring luminaries of the dance scene. Following its groundbreaking collaboration with three Asian choreographers two festivals ago, SDT now further extends its horizons in collaborating with three choreographers from Europe and America . Featuring the Asian premieres of Evening by Graham Lustig (USA), A Million Kisses to my Skin by David Dawson (UK) and Glow-Stop by Jorma Elo ( Finland ), Continuum is a significant milestone in SDT's ongoing passage and development. Each work is a masterpiece by its creator, and each choreographer a master of his field.  

Evening plays out like a lyrical poem, set to Benjamin Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (Op. 31 ). Expressing the limbo between sunset and nightfall, Lustig draws heavily from the evocation of light and darkness to bring out dance movements that delight the eye even as they tug at the heartstrings.  

Created by David Dawson for Het Nationale Ballet (Dutch National Ballet), A Million Kisses to My Skin is a post-classical dance work that visualises the baroque style patterns of Bach's Piano Concerto No 1. Extravagant and free-flowing movements constantly emerge and dissolve across the stage, displaying a virtuosic vocabulary that is elegant and refined. As tactile as its name suggests, the work was hailed by critics as “cerebral dancing of the highest quality”.

Created for the American Ballet Theatre, Glow-Stop has been described as "dynamic and devilish” with gravity-defying gyrations, kinetic and static from one moment to the next.  Set to music by Mozart and Philip Glass, Glow-Stop engages the audience in a breathtaking flow that is reminiscent of a light that is switched on, then off, in rapid succession, in an unfettered passion of movement that is the trademark of Elo.

A post-show dialogue with choreographers David Dawson and Graham Lustig, and Jorma Elo's Staging Assistant, Christophe Dozzi, moderated by SDT's Assistant Artistic Director, Janek Schergen, will take place after the performance on 13 June 2008.