Nell Weatherby, Kaiscott Harvey, Jasmine Springall, Carys Belle, Jiwon Oh, Alex Comben, Natalie Min, Jinyou Yuan
Creative Team:
Producer: Zidi Wu & Jiayi Fan
Choreographer: Jiayi Fan & Fifi Chen
Creative Director: Zidi Wu & Yixuan Qiu
Lightning Designer: Zidi Wu
Costume Designer: Yixuan Qiu
Sound Track: Fifi Chen & Jiayi Li
Costume Assistant: Jiaqi Huang
Makeup: Yixuan Qiu & Momo Mao
Hair: Kathy Jung
Poster Photographer: Fifi Chen
Rehearsal & Production Photographer: Musca Ni
Videographer: Brian Toh
Poster Designer: Stella Yan Q
The Wrinkled Child is a contemporary dance theatre piece that began with a simple question: how do we carry pain, and how do we begin to let it go?
We kept returning to two contrasting images—ice and fire—as symbols of pain and healing. In between, we imagined people rushing past one another in the city—wearing the same clothes, following the same rhythms. Who stops to notice the scars beneath the surface?
With six adult dancers and two children, it reflects on the emotional weight we carry as we grow up, and the small moments of softness that somehow stay with us. It's about exhaustion, tenderness, collapse—and starting again.
This is a piece for all the unspoken things. For the past we never found the words to share, but which shaped the kind of adults we became. It doesn’t try to offer answers. It simply tries to stay honest—to sit with what hurts, and maybe—through what we can do now as the wrinkled children—make a little space for healing.
Rehearsal Photos