Hong Kong Fringe Club Will Revive Their Fringe Festival
Hong Kong’s vibrant arts scene received a significant boost after announcing the Hong Kong Fringe Club will revive their Fringe
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Asia
Explore the latest performing arts news from Asia on StageLync. Stay informed with updates, performances, and stories from the vibrant Asian arts scene and live performing arts. Discover insightful articles and connect with the dynamic Asian arts community from Japan, Middle East, Palestine, Hong Kong and Singapore.
5 Distinct Types of Theatre in the Philippines
The Philippines boasts a theatre tradition as vibrant and diverse as its culture and history. From traditional folk performances to
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Book SARAB for 2025: A Powerful Circus-Theater Experience
The Palestinian Circus School is bringing SARAB, an evocative circus-theater production, back on tour in 2025. This unique performance, whose
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Shaping the Future of Performing Arts at HKPax 2024
October 2024 is set to be a milestone month for the performing arts in Hong Kong with the highly anticipated
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Singlish: Finding Our Tongue in Singapore
The nation-state of Singapore is a hybrid animal of many tongues. Multicultural and multilingual, it comes as no surprise that
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Billy Sy: Actor, Director, and Lecturer in Hong Kong
Billy Sy is an actor and, since a couple years ago, also a lecturer at the Hong Kong Academy for
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Vietnamese Circus is Ready for New Times
The days of single-act circus performances are fading into the past, as acrobats now demonstrate a wide range of skills
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Khalil Oghab, the Father of Iranian Circus
Khalil Oghab is the Father of Iranian Circus. This is a title he has given himself, yet it is also
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Interview with Wan-Jung Wei: OISTAT’s Youngest Executive Director
Wan-Jung Wei is the youngest Executive Director of OISTAT: International Organisation of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians, since its inception
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Indian Folk Theatre: What Do You Know about it?
Indian Folk theatre is a fusion of dance, drama, stylized speech, and spectacle.
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Embrace and Engage: A Reminder to International Circus Festivals
As a traveling art form, circus—not to mention those who create it and help produce it—has a unique power to
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Spotlighting Singaporean Circus Artists and Aerialists at Flipside 2023
On the “flip side” of typical city living is a remarkable event that showcases and celebrates some of Singapore’s finest
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FOCASA Circus Art Festival Debuts in Taiwan 2023
With the appearance of Tainan City’s first-ever big top tent earlier this year, a week of fun and celebration was
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PRO Talk with Dan Bolton, Founder and CEO of ECHO: The Growing Market and Job Opportunities in the Middle East
PRO Talks are live virtual events focused on career-building topics. Our virtual conversations feature industry influencers and experts from different
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Music in Circus: Who Leads, and Who Follows?
Whether it serves as the soundtrack to a one-person act or a large-scale ensemble piece, what role does music play
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Phare, the Cambodian Circus in Siem Reap
Phare, the Cambodian Circus in Siem Reap, is more than a conventional acrobatic circus; rather, Phare artists create and perform
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The Afghan Mobile Mini Circus for Children is Spreading Joy
The Afghan Mobile Mini Circus for Children (MMCC) is a traveling educational entertainment group in Afghanistan. MMCC accepts children aged 5–17 to learn
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Catch Me if You Can: Circus Photography with Taiwan’s Formosa Circus Art
For years, Taiwanese photographer Ken Wang and performer/freelancer Chao Wei Chen have worked with Formosa Circus Art and striven to
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In New Film, Cambodian Acrobat Shares the Power of Circus Arts
Since its founding in 1994, Cambodian social circus Phare Ponleu Selpak has made good on its mission to preserve Cambodia’s
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How the Contemporary Taiwanese Circus Artist Innovates: Tsiú-tsiān
As part of our continued exploration of the Taiwanese circus industry, question-setter Stella Tsai and interviewer Wen-Ling Lui recapture a
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From Postcolonial to Neoliberal: Identifying the “Other” Body in Indian Circus
This article is part of my ongoing doctoral research work, A Critical History of Indian Circus, Performers and Performance Acts:
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