ARISI is a cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary performance inspired by the grains of life that link humanity across Asia. In a shift away from epic storytelling, award-winning artistic director Aravinth Kumarasamy has imagined the dance production as episodic vignettes that intersect stages of rice cultivation with gestural rites and rituals in life stages where rice is the principal ingredient in these ceremonies. ARISI : Rice, takes the audience through a kaleidoscope of dynamic images brought to life through Bharatanatyam.

Apsaras Arts shares the stage with their traditional Balinese peers choreographed by Professor I Wayan Dibia collaborating with the company’s resident choreographer, Mohanapriyan Thavarajah. For the first time ever, Apsaras Arts collaborates with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra to melodically enhance the music score composed by Rajkumar Bharathi, and produced and directed by Sai Sharavanam.