SINGAPORE — Fancy immersing yourself in dance performances for three days? You can drop by photography space DECK, where dance company RAW Moves is presenting 48:00.

The event, which will run continuously for 48 hours starting next Friday at noon, will feature performances by 12 dance artists, who each have four hours — spread throughout the event — to present a piece.

“We want to revisit the body in its purest form,” said company artistic director Ricky Sim, who pointed out how dance pieces can range from 20 minutes to a full-length one-hour work but are seldom solo works. Expanding the amount of time would let the performers, who have not done something this long, flesh out their ideas more, he said, adding that it was originally conceived as a 24-hour event with 24 performers before settling into its current form.

But it will not simply be a matter of dance solos being rolled out every hour. “It wasn’t simply about looking at dance as we know it — whether contemporary, ballet, jazz or social dance — but as a performance art kind of interpretation and not just technique dancing,” said Sim, emphasising how the performances are not just limited to dance audiences.

Indeed, the performers — comprising seven company and five project dancers — have also been undergoing theatre training, with practitioners Koh Wan Ching and Edith Podesta chipping in on Suzuki and Viewpoints performance methods.

The pieces comprising 48:00 range from an artist simply using a chair and inviting people to have a conversation with her to another using soft toys to create a “perfect family” to an artist trying to overcome a fear of balloons.

Performer Liu Wen-Chun, for instance, taps into the different concept of time in Chinese culture as well as looks into acupuncture and the tenets of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Elsewhere, she provides a “hearty breakfast” for audiences, which is also related to the TCM sense of health and well-being.

Another performer, Chew Peishan, takes inspiration for Chinese funerals and the act of folding joss paper to investigate this particular social gathering. The piece will have a certain element of installation art, said Sim.

But there are a few other elements at play in 48:00. While one of the spaces in DECK will be used for the live performances, another room downstairs dubbed the “archive room” will also feature recordings of the segments that audiences may have missed.

“We know the durational works can be a bit lengthy for most audiences so we’re archiving every single hour and allowing the audience to control which hour they want to watch downstairs.”

A video screen hung in the centre of the space will allow people to see different videos projected on either side, which will create an “interplay of images”. “It’s not just a case of viewing a previous performance — if I choose to watch the second hour performance and you choose to watch the fourth hour, it would be interesting to see what the combination would be,” said Sim.

48:00 will play with notions of the body in relation to time and space over at DECK, but there is a third component as well — the performances done during the supposedly ungodly hours between midnight and 6am will be streamed live on the group’s website, http://www.rawmoves.net/. “Audiences can witness these without coming down but we hope for more people to come and support the artist because it does make a difference when there’s a live audience,” said Sim.

With so much happening over the three days, he suggests two ways of experiencing 48:00. You can either check out the programme line-up and catch the specific performances of artists you like or simply drop by. “You can go with the flow and see what each person is doing by chance because what everyone will be doing is related to everyday life, anyway. By not planning, you allow yourself to be surprised,” said Sim.

48:00 runs from July 17, noon, to July 19, noon, at DECK, 120A Prinsep Street. Tickets at S$25 from http://48hours.peatix.com and valid throughout the duration of 48:00.