Associate Professor Lim Beng Choo, together with the digital scholarship team members Feng Yikang and Richard Ho at the NUS libraries, has created the Perform Contemporary Tradition website. http://performct.nus.edu.sg The site is an archive for traditional performance in contemporary context, as well as a communication platform for researchers, practitioners, students, teachers and everyone who is interested in traditional performance.

The first project on the site is a collection of conference papers and video recordings of a conference organized by A/P Lim at the Department last October. With support from the Japan Foundation and our Department, the conference invited researchers and practitioners from Singapore, the Philippines, Japan, US and Europe to present research papers and lecture performances. The theme of the conference was on how traditional Japanese performance genres engage with contemporary scholarly, social and cultural context.