Performance series
January 17–March 21, 2026
YDP launches Living, Rehearsing…, an evolving, genre-bending performance programme taking place throughout the building across three months.
Living, Rehearsing… was developed as a collaborative framework to test the possibilities of what YDP can be home to and how we might collectively reflect on the concept of the rehearsal as a strategy for organising, reconfiguring and reimagining our lives as we venture into the unknown each day. Over the course of three months, the programme will invite artists from the fields of visual art, performance art, stand-up comedy, dance and sound to convene across four day-to-night events where improvisation meets choreography. Each participant will offer an interpretation on the concept of a rehearsal and what it may mean to them, drawing on experiences of migration, contingency, navigating thresholds and channelling collective energies. The gatherings will also test a range of prompts and constraints set to propose different ways for audiences to explore the spaces around each performance, from simultaneous actions across multiple rooms to moving through the building and experiencing collective resonances.
After the events, some elements from the performances, including gestures, sound and images, will be remixed into installations and spatial interventions that will remain on view in YDP’s space. The programme unfolds across four chapters at three-week intervals. Soundings, Crossings and Reverberance are conceived as six-hour durational events, while Broken Score brings the programme to a close as a finissage.
Curated by Zhuo Mengting in collaboration with YDP curators Erin Li and Billy Tang
Performances
Chapter 1 Soundings: 12–6pm, Saturday, January 17, 2026
Chapter 2 Crossings: 12–6pm, Saturday, February 7, 2026
Chapter 3 Reverberance: 12–6pm, Saturday, February 28, 2026
Chapter 4: TBC
The first six-hour performance event in the series, “Soundings,” will feature Kelvin Atmadibrata, Liang-Jung Chen in collaboration with Kai Chareunsy, Hanako Hayakawa, Okkyung Lee, Jin Hao Li and Swilipino.
For more information on the performance series, please visit www.ydp.co
For media enquiries, please contact: Manuela Gressani, Sutton, manuela@suttoncomms.com
