Dido and the Belindas
2024 - 2025
Concept and Direction: Ong Keng Sen
Set and Props Design: Khairullah Rahim
Costume Design: Becca D'Bus and Khairullah Rahim

Presented as part of :
Singapore International Festival ofArts 2024, held at Black Box, Stamford Arts Centre
Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting (YPAM) 2024
DnA Festival, 2025, T:>Works

A diva drag queen beckons you and the night ignites with wit, dignity and energy, inviting abandonment of expectations. Director Ong Keng Sen harnesses the electrifying energy of drag artistry and underground Ballroom culture, assembling a “Tribe of the Abandoned”. This Tribe, or The Belindas, together with Becca D’Bus as host and Dido personified, reframes societal marginalisation, transforming wit, glamour, and performativity into powerful tools of resistance and survival.

With live performance by lyric tenor Thomas Michael Allen and composer and DJ artist Toru Yamanaka. Joining them as The Belindas are the glamorous voguer, Koppi Mizrahi (Icon Overall Mother of House of Mizrahi), the electric Showta Oricci (Father Japan Chapter of House of Oricci), Momo Adachi, Acyd Rayne, Amir Haziq, Kak Nina Boo, Vignesh Kumar Singh, and Vivihoe.