[Applause]
hi everyone my name is LinkedIn and I’m
here to tell you how performance I can
change society
my parents signed me up for belly when I
was four to me that was kind of a ball
as a tomboy back then I didn’t see the
need for me to dance so gracefully it
just didn’t feel like I was in my own
skin in secondary school and junior
college I joined the modern dance clubs
I picked it up pretty quickly and I
actually enjoyed it because I had a
foundation for my ballet classes so this
is actually from my last Sol and in the
stool dance competition I was a year two
in anglo-chinese junior college and this
dance was an ethnic and Japanese fusion
style
I was actually thankful to be able to
have given the opportunity to learn this
because it was totally out of my comfort
zone and I really hate that the fact
that I looked really good dancing it but
over time I was thankful because it was
a real challenge and it actually
increased my versatility upon entering
university I joined the hip-hop dance
clubs and actually liked it so I could
see that there’s actually beauty in both
classical and Street styles so I thought
that if one could bridge them together
seamlessly
hashtag goals my first contemporary
instructor was a member of the Sangha
company of a local dance company the
dance company th is short for the human
expression under her tutelage and
watching many of their performances I
was exposed to dance and imagined dance
was beyond just choreographed steps and
Cowens it was the art of human
expression I was so drawn to movement as
a form of storytelling and more
importantly as a social commentary on
things that we couldn’t really see
outright
it might be talked about in the media or
handled by the government but dance
performance give the common people a
voice on things that they wouldn’t be
able to speak the world is plagued with
social issues and many social
organizations and spokespeople employ
various methods to get the message
across dance as a tool to move the issue
from statistics to the people themselves
is not uncommon with the advent of
social media there has been an increase
in the awareness of various social
issues and it has proved to be
successful a student-led organization
called and said was started by a senior
of mine from college the organization
was started last year and they aim to
surface social issues by marrying them
the performance at the main event was a
play title every Singaporean daughter so
what you see above that’s the poster
here’s me at the booth promoting the
cause so what they did was that they
actually wrote remarks on my body
showcasing that those were impressive
remarks women that women received on a
daily basis can have Pavan permanent
effects on our identity so my senior had
this idea to do a dance cover so it was
about relationship issues and he wanted
this dance cover to promote the play he
approached my friend and I and we got
the talking we try it around in a dance
studio and here’s what we came up with
I’m really can you sit a little bit long
don’t walk away
you don’t even care if I go not mama
don’t my but I keep taking my
chances don’t waste my time
you know father
every time
don’t waste my time
oh sorry letter don’t come back
aside my BTA something I don’t come back
for the fat won’t break yet
[Music]
[Applause]
so this was mainly a dance cover my
friend and I choreographed the steps
such that it will convey the physical
and emotional abuse through physical
movements and accompanied with the
lyrics of the song which hinted merely
at relationship abuse after the video
was posted online several people who saw
it came up to me they wanted to talk
about the concept surrounding the
choreography the conversation gradually
shifted the relationship issues and I
realized that many young people actually
have experienced some form of emotional
or physical abuse by their partners last
year I found out that my friend was
raped it was difficult to come to the
terms with the fact that someone that I
knew so well had been living in secrecy
for so long it may be wonder about how
many more of my own friends who are
going through similar situations but
have yet to seek help or speak up it had
it had been incredibly difficult for her
to deal with it because the effects was
so pronounced on every part of her life
it’s easy to label a rapist and a victim
when you don’t know them when it is
traditionally known that people are
often raped only by strangers in only
violent situations but what happens when
a girl is raped by her boyfriend well
they are in a committed serious
relationship it’s not so easy now isn’t
it it was difficult for her to come
forward to confess that all the pain
inflicted upon her was by someone she
loved so dearly sex is a taboo topic of
which the act is often associated with
shame especially in Singapore there is
also the case that survivors unaware
that they had been in such situations in
the first place or knew how to seek help
for almost nine and 10 survivors of
sexual assault the perpetrator was
someone they knew in a study done by the
weekend campaign it can be hard to
reconcile the dichotomies surrounding a
situation whereby the person whom you
thought you could trust the most
actually hurt you the most
the reality is that 70 percent of such
cases go unreported
according to statistics by the same
study the survivors are either unwilling
to report their cases because they don’t
want people to find out that they have
had sex or have been violated this is
dangerous
because this gives the perpetrators the
green light to continue inflicting
violence upon their partners
intentionally or even unintentionally
there needs to be more in-depth and
transparent discussion about sex and
consent in Singapore because the reality
is that sex is actually committed by
many young couples more than we might
think an informal survey by The Straits
Times of 60 teens and a 2003 Nanyang
Technological University study of 350
students found that one in five had sex
but youth counselors fear that this
ratio is only going to go on saving
themselves for marriage just doesn’t
seem to matter anymore said mr. Jerry
young our focus on the family a pro
abstinence group which has conducted
sexuality workshops for 17,000 students
today we need to recognize this people
do have urges we are biologically
engineered their way but it doesn’t give
us a free pass to assume that people
want it the same way that we do however
there is really much talk about consent
in Singapore talk about sex
in the national narrative exists in
mainly three categories sorry four
categories when the population control
is affecting our economy the nature of
the media to leverage upon sex to gain
viewership it comes from a very top-down
perspective from the seat from the media
to the common person let’s not forget
pornography teaching boys that goes like
it rough or that they play hard to get
propagating the expectation that a
submissive female has to be naturally
chaste pornography teaches people that
it is okay to have meaning meaningless
foreplay and sex bye-bye you don’t need
to respect the other partners wishes or
even like them as a person
lastly persuading youths to abstain from
sex to prevent ate via formal sex
education but what do you think are we
doing enough to equip the youths on
healthy sex practices we haven’t taught
on the dangers of sex and how it can
lead to sexually transmitted diseases so
the best way is to use a condom or
completely abstain from it but there are
so many more layers beyond that of
simply protection because unwanted sex
physically forced or emotionally
manipulated upon your partner can be
seriously damaging for the survivor and
no amount of condoms can ever prevent
the feeling that you have been used by
someone whom you trusted there needs to
be more education on consent definition
of abuses and ways to seek help in the
end my friends stop pursuing the matter
after a year in the meantime she managed
to heal emotionally by seeking
professional help and talking to people
that she trusted
by seeking help from various
organizations and care centers they were
able to help her negotiate her identity
surrounding the effects of her rape I
realized the importance of performance
art as a medium to give a voice on how
pronounced the effects of sexual abuse
head on its survivors and the same could
be extended to other pertinent issues
there is a strong power in dance
provoking thought on uncomfortable
social issues the nature of dance is
that it is visceral you can inform
invoke a mood or emotion which appeals
to the audience it is an effective
medium because with each individual in
the audience they perceive the same
stimuli from the stage but they do it
differently it means different things to
them therefore this increases memory
retention as the impression formed is
owned solely by them this is able to
stick in their minds more easily because
people remember how they felt at that
time more than what information they are
exposed to attitude changes have more
lasting effects than awareness does
therefore I think performance art is an
extremely creative vehicle that engages
people on an active level instead of
just reading about the issue via
pamphlet or a brochure because issues
and not just about statistics and facts
they are about people and people react
more effectively to emotions so have an
issue you wish more people would pay
attention to you don’t have to dance you
don’t even have to perform you can do
whatever things you have whatever
talents you already have in order to
spread the message in a creative and
rest
or manner sexual violence is definitely
a topic that we shouldn’t avoid along
with many other social causes we can
never be satisfied because issues will
always be evolving and resurfacing we
should continue to remain open to these
disparities even as we grow old we will
never have the answers so it is
important to find new ways to say
someone even if that person could be
yourself before I and today I would like
to demonstrate the struggle of a rape
survivor through her circumstances I
read I wish to represent all those who
have been sexually assaulted one way or
the other I hope this will leave you
with an idea of how performance can
transform the way people view about
various social issues from some from
numbers to something more emotive and
real
[Music]
sometimes forgiveness is lacking
god only knows where I love this right
for me
[Music]
last
[Music]
oh my
[Music]
No
[Music]
[Music]
No
[Music]
you
hi everyone my name is LinkedIn and I’m
here to tell you how performance I can
change society
my parents signed me up for belly when I
was four to me that was kind of a ball
as a tomboy back then I didn’t see the
need for me to dance so gracefully it
just didn’t feel like I was in my own
skin in secondary school and junior
college I joined the modern dance clubs
I picked it up pretty quickly and I
actually enjoyed it because I had a
foundation for my ballet classes so this
is actually from my last Sol and in the
stool dance competition I was a year two
in anglo-chinese junior college and this
dance was an ethnic and Japanese fusion
style
I was actually thankful to be able to
have given the opportunity to learn this
because it was totally out of my comfort
zone and I really hate that the fact
that I looked really good dancing it but
over time I was thankful because it was
a real challenge and it actually
increased my versatility upon entering
university I joined the hip-hop dance
clubs and actually liked it so I could
see that there’s actually beauty in both
classical and Street styles so I thought
that if one could bridge them together
seamlessly
hashtag goals my first contemporary
instructor was a member of the Sangha
company of a local dance company the
dance company th is short for the human
expression under her tutelage and
watching many of their performances I
was exposed to dance and imagined dance
was beyond just choreographed steps and
Cowens it was the art of human
expression I was so drawn to movement as
a form of storytelling and more
importantly as a social commentary on
things that we couldn’t really see
outright
it might be talked about in the media or
handled by the government but dance
performance give the common people a
voice on things that they wouldn’t be
able to speak the world is plagued with
social issues and many social
organizations and spokespeople employ
various methods to get the message
across dance as a tool to move the issue
from statistics to the people themselves
is not uncommon with the advent of
social media there has been an increase
in the awareness of various social
issues and it has proved to be
successful a student-led organization
called and said was started by a senior
of mine from college the organization
was started last year and they aim to
surface social issues by marrying them
the performance at the main event was a
play title every Singaporean daughter so
what you see above that’s the poster
here’s me at the booth promoting the
cause so what they did was that they
actually wrote remarks on my body
showcasing that those were impressive
remarks women that women received on a
daily basis can have Pavan permanent
effects on our identity so my senior had
this idea to do a dance cover so it was
about relationship issues and he wanted
this dance cover to promote the play he
approached my friend and I and we got
the talking we try it around in a dance
studio and here’s what we came up with
I’m really can you sit a little bit long
don’t walk away
you don’t even care if I go not mama
don’t my but I keep taking my
chances don’t waste my time
you know father
every time
don’t waste my time
oh sorry letter don’t come back
aside my BTA something I don’t come back
for the fat won’t break yet
[Music]
[Applause]
so this was mainly a dance cover my
friend and I choreographed the steps
such that it will convey the physical
and emotional abuse through physical
movements and accompanied with the
lyrics of the song which hinted merely
at relationship abuse after the video
was posted online several people who saw
it came up to me they wanted to talk
about the concept surrounding the
choreography the conversation gradually
shifted the relationship issues and I
realized that many young people actually
have experienced some form of emotional
or physical abuse by their partners last
year I found out that my friend was
raped it was difficult to come to the
terms with the fact that someone that I
knew so well had been living in secrecy
for so long it may be wonder about how
many more of my own friends who are
going through similar situations but
have yet to seek help or speak up it had
it had been incredibly difficult for her
to deal with it because the effects was
so pronounced on every part of her life
it’s easy to label a rapist and a victim
when you don’t know them when it is
traditionally known that people are
often raped only by strangers in only
violent situations but what happens when
a girl is raped by her boyfriend well
they are in a committed serious
relationship it’s not so easy now isn’t
it it was difficult for her to come
forward to confess that all the pain
inflicted upon her was by someone she
loved so dearly sex is a taboo topic of
which the act is often associated with
shame especially in Singapore there is
also the case that survivors unaware
that they had been in such situations in
the first place or knew how to seek help
for almost nine and 10 survivors of
sexual assault the perpetrator was
someone they knew in a study done by the
weekend campaign it can be hard to
reconcile the dichotomies surrounding a
situation whereby the person whom you
thought you could trust the most
actually hurt you the most
the reality is that 70 percent of such
cases go unreported
according to statistics by the same
study the survivors are either unwilling
to report their cases because they don’t
want people to find out that they have
had sex or have been violated this is
dangerous
because this gives the perpetrators the
green light to continue inflicting
violence upon their partners
intentionally or even unintentionally
there needs to be more in-depth and
transparent discussion about sex and
consent in Singapore because the reality
is that sex is actually committed by
many young couples more than we might
think an informal survey by The Straits
Times of 60 teens and a 2003 Nanyang
Technological University study of 350
students found that one in five had sex
but youth counselors fear that this
ratio is only going to go on saving
themselves for marriage just doesn’t
seem to matter anymore said mr. Jerry
young our focus on the family a pro
abstinence group which has conducted
sexuality workshops for 17,000 students
today we need to recognize this people
do have urges we are biologically
engineered their way but it doesn’t give
us a free pass to assume that people
want it the same way that we do however
there is really much talk about consent
in Singapore talk about sex
in the national narrative exists in
mainly three categories sorry four
categories when the population control
is affecting our economy the nature of
the media to leverage upon sex to gain
viewership it comes from a very top-down
perspective from the seat from the media
to the common person let’s not forget
pornography teaching boys that goes like
it rough or that they play hard to get
propagating the expectation that a
submissive female has to be naturally
chaste pornography teaches people that
it is okay to have meaning meaningless
foreplay and sex bye-bye you don’t need
to respect the other partners wishes or
even like them as a person
lastly persuading youths to abstain from
sex to prevent ate via formal sex
education but what do you think are we
doing enough to equip the youths on
healthy sex practices we haven’t taught
on the dangers of sex and how it can
lead to sexually transmitted diseases so
the best way is to use a condom or
completely abstain from it but there are
so many more layers beyond that of
simply protection because unwanted sex
physically forced or emotionally
manipulated upon your partner can be
seriously damaging for the survivor and
no amount of condoms can ever prevent
the feeling that you have been used by
someone whom you trusted there needs to
be more education on consent definition
of abuses and ways to seek help in the
end my friends stop pursuing the matter
after a year in the meantime she managed
to heal emotionally by seeking
professional help and talking to people
that she trusted
by seeking help from various
organizations and care centers they were
able to help her negotiate her identity
surrounding the effects of her rape I
realized the importance of performance
art as a medium to give a voice on how
pronounced the effects of sexual abuse
head on its survivors and the same could
be extended to other pertinent issues
there is a strong power in dance
provoking thought on uncomfortable
social issues the nature of dance is
that it is visceral you can inform
invoke a mood or emotion which appeals
to the audience it is an effective
medium because with each individual in
the audience they perceive the same
stimuli from the stage but they do it
differently it means different things to
them therefore this increases memory
retention as the impression formed is
owned solely by them this is able to
stick in their minds more easily because
people remember how they felt at that
time more than what information they are
exposed to attitude changes have more
lasting effects than awareness does
therefore I think performance art is an
extremely creative vehicle that engages
people on an active level instead of
just reading about the issue via
pamphlet or a brochure because issues
and not just about statistics and facts
they are about people and people react
more effectively to emotions so have an
issue you wish more people would pay
attention to you don’t have to dance you
don’t even have to perform you can do
whatever things you have whatever
talents you already have in order to
spread the message in a creative and
rest
or manner sexual violence is definitely
a topic that we shouldn’t avoid along
with many other social causes we can
never be satisfied because issues will
always be evolving and resurfacing we
should continue to remain open to these
disparities even as we grow old we will
never have the answers so it is
important to find new ways to say
someone even if that person could be
yourself before I and today I would like
to demonstrate the struggle of a rape
survivor through her circumstances I
read I wish to represent all those who
have been sexually assaulted one way or
the other I hope this will leave you
with an idea of how performance can
transform the way people view about
various social issues from some from
numbers to something more emotive and
real
[Music]
sometimes forgiveness is lacking
god only knows where I love this right
for me
[Music]
last
[Music]
oh my
[Music]
No
[Music]
[Music]
No
[Music]
you
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