Welcome to the Contemporary Circus R&D Creative Lab Showcase.
Over the past eight sessions, each artist has had about three and a half hours to explore, experiment, and shape the early beginnings of a piece. What you see today is a snapshot of their process and where their ideas currently stand.
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The aim of this lab is to support artists in discovering and shaping their individual creative processes. The works presented today originate entirely from the artists. My contribution has been facilitation rather than direction.
This sharing sits within a broader developmental process that will continue in the coming years as I research and work toward forming a contemporary circus collective in Singapore. This is stage one of a longer journey that may lead to future touring productions.
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Throughout the showcase, we will pause for short Q&A segments. Please feel free to ask questions and share your thoughts during those moments. Your engagement supports the artists’ reflection and helps them take their work further.
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Thank you for being here and for supporting these artists at this early stage of their creative journey.
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Jonathan Goh
Joshua Dean Samjaya
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Rooted in the pulse of the street, Joshua Samjaya fuses the precision of dance with the vulnerability of flight. A performer, choreographer, and storyteller, his movement speaks in contrasts discipline and chaos, stillness and fall. His practice has grown beyond the ground: through aerial straps, parkour, juggling, and skating, he explores how bodies resist and yield to gravity. Between impact and suspension, Joshua searches for meaning in motion a language of control undone and balance rediscovered.
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Skills
Juggling, Tumbling / Tricking, Acrobatics, Duo Acrobatics, Teeterboard, Aerial Arts
Dance
Hold Still, Falling
Stop.
Start
Stop.
The pulse fractures
too fast
too slow
No.
too much,
too little?
He juggles time, purpose, expectation, panic
Everything slips
The rhythm shatters
A heartbeat becomes thunder. The air tastes electric.
Another target. Another. Another still.
The world tilts off-axis; he tumbles through fragments of himself—collapsing, clawing back, gasping for balance in a storm of motion.
Emotions cascade, memory folds, meaning melts into a static. Every drop burns a question into his skin: what truly matters?
In the chaos, surrender.
In the surrender, breathe.
The reminder lingers in the air: you cannot hold it all. To let go is not to yield, but to breathe — to find balance not in control, but in surrendering to the fall.
Eugene Chow
​Eugene enjoys the time between seasons, listening to how the transitions light up his body. Eugene is a mover, actor, puppeteer, clown. He enjoys studying nature, both nature nature and human nature.​
Skills
Juggling, Clowning, Mime, Basic Acro
Dance, Physical Theatre, Visual Theatre, Directing
BAIT
It's the middle of the night when the bait bites. But what was it that bit the bait? With bated breath the fisherman barely breathes as he brings the bait in. Does he bring the bait in? The piece will show what happens when the fisherman gets more than he asked for.