EVENTS
Link to highlights of the E-toolkit launch week of training workshops:
A documentary of Totsu-totsu Dance workshops held in Singapore from March 10 to 11, 2026. This video features a workshop for students at LASALLE College of the Arts and another session for facility users at Dementia Singapore.
CREDITS:
Video by: MikihiroEndo
Copyright: torindo
TRUE COLORS FESTIVAL
True Colors Festival (TCF), an international performing arts initiative presented by The Nippon Foundation, celebrates diversity and inclusion on a global scale. Launched in Singapore in 2018, it brought together over 200 artists from across the Asia-Pacific region, fostering a vibrant cultural exchange.
The festival's innovative approach, exemplified by the inclusive Festival Village, actively engaged audiences with disability-related organizations. During the pandemic, TCF seamlessly transitioned to online platforms, producing captivating films and music videos that continued to inspire and connect audiences worldwide.
In 2022, TCF culminated in "THE CONCERT" in Tokyo, a global spectacle featuring 90+ performers from 12 countries, headlined by Katy Perry. To date, TCF has engaged a global audience of over 3.5 million.
TCF continues to be a powerful platform for showcasing artistic talent and promoting a more inclusive and understanding world.
TOTSU- TOTSU
Dance 2023 & 2024
TTD is a dementia care modality created by Japanese choreographer Osamu Jareo.
By design, it shakes up the nature of relationships between "caregiver" and "care receiver" and creates different ways for each to relate to the other. It opens the door to new ways of non-verbal communication and connection. Because when an individual changes the way he/she interacts with others, his/her world changes as well.
Since 2023, PPA has worked with Japanese arts non-profit torindo to bring the TTD experience to Singapore. This has been made possible because of support and meaningful partnerships with organisations and individuals who believed in us and in the method. These include hashtag#Dementia Singapore, hashtag#Thye Hua Kwan Moral Charities, hashtag#Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital, and hashtag#Bernard Lim and hashtag#Don Mendoza from Dementia Singapore. We are also grateful to Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs for supporting the travel and toolkit development costs that made this cross-border learning and sharing possible.
In March 2026, we launched the TTD e-toolkit with hashtag#LASALLE College of the Arts – a free resource for anyone interested in learning more about the method and philosophy. Applied drama practitioner and educator, hashtag#Michael Cheng, researched and wrote the toolkit with illustrations by hashtag#Yip Eunice.
July & August 2026: Our first workshops in Singapore this July and August, facilitated by Michael Cheng. One workshop for members of the public interested in understanding more about TTD, and a set of three workshops in August for arts practitioners and therapists who wish to learn how to use the TTD method.
TOTSU- TOTSU Dance 2026
This e-toolkit is a guide designed for those interested in Totsu-totsu Dance, including dancers and care facility staff looking to implement the practice.
It goes beyond merely explaining the principles and philosophy of the practice, and conveys the power of “living touch” and its essence, featuring concrete examples of application. Rather than being a manual, it was created to be as a “friendly companion”, a presence that walks alongside the practitioner.
The text was written by Singaporean Applied drama practitioner and educator, Michael Cheng, drawing from dialogues held in Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan from 2022.
We invite you to download and explore it.
If an interest in Totsu-totsu Dance is sparked by this e-toolkit, we invite you to try out an actual workshop. Please feel free to reach out to us via the “Contact” section on this website for more information about upcoming workshops.
GIBRAN – An Evening of Soul-Stirring Wisdom
An evening of soul-stirring poetry by the world's most well-loved poet, Kahlil Gibran.
Join award-winning actor Remesh Panicker as he weaves a powerful journey through the poet's most universal themes of love, children, immortality, spirituality, friendship and more.
AGATHI
Narration Script
Boldly reimagined in collaboration with Wild Rice, this production poignantly shines the spotlight on the people who find themselves caught between countries and trapped in the headlines. Agathi brings storytelling to new heights through a unique fusion of theatre, poetry and Bharatanatyam, the oldest classical dance tradition in India.
PARAMA PADAM
Narration Script
The board game was created in the 10th century India and popularised by the British in the 18th century as Snakes & Ladders. Ladders allow you to ascend, just as good deeds pave the road to heaven, while snakes bring you down, like the cycle of rebirth.
WOMAD SINGAPORE
WOMAD stands for World of Music, Arts and Dance, expressing the central aim of the festival to bring music, dance, cultures and people together in a glorious celebration of shared humanity. Founded in the UK in 1982, the festival has to date presented more than 145 events in more than 20 countries. The Singapore edition was founded in Singapore in 1998 and was the curtain raiser for the Festival of Arts that year.
MADE IN SINGAPORE!
A weekend festival presenting the best of Singapore’s singers and musicians from the 1950s until the early 2000s. Produced in collaboration with Esplanade Theatres on the Bay.
PLAY IT BACK!
Satay, big band music, five stones, military music, hymns in Latin, wayang, Elvis, corned beef – all part of life in Singapore during the first half of the 1900s. A festival celebrating the music, dance and past times of early Singapore.
The festival venue – Esplanade Park – was the subject of a commissioned short film that was screened at the festival.