Nodal P.O.I.N.T.S - Face(t)s

“The spaces between what we feel, what we show, and who we become.”

Nodal P.O.I.N.T.S - Face(t)s by Under The Bridge Singapore

Face(t)s explores the many surfaces of human identity; how the body speaks in layers, and how the face reveals, conceals, fractures, and transforms meaning. Today, each dancer becomes a living prism, where movement and expression refract emotion, memory, and intention into shifting states.

The choreographies foregrounds the body as a primary language. Movements move between tension and release, angularity and softness, containment and expansion. Dancers carve through space, negotiate weight, fall and recover, making the effort and vulnerability of the body visible. Each phrase, becomes a facet. Another angle through which the audience glimpses the dancer’s inner landscape.

The face, too, becomes an expressive terrain. At times it amplifies the body’s movement. The eyes widen, brows soften, jaws tighten. At other moments it contradicts what the body reveals: a calm gaze paired with forceful motion, or a subtle expression held against stillness. These tensions suggest that what we feel, what we show, and what we embody are not always aligned.

Extending beyond the individual, Face(t)s reflects on culture as a collection of interconnected facets; beliefs, values, traditions, and everyday practices that shape identity and interaction. Through movement and expression, the works reveal identity as layered and evolving, where every gesture, every look, and every breath becomes another facet of the same human presence and existence.

• Location: Multi-purpose Hall, Aliwal Arts Centre. 28 Aliwal St, Singapore 199918.
• Showtimes -1st of May, 2026: 8pm & 2nd of May 2026: 3pm and 8pm
• Show duration: 1hr 30mins (inclusive of a 10 min intermission and a post-show dialogue session)
• To note: Doors open 20mins before showtime!