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Wong Wai Yee
Artistic Director Dance Genre(s): Children Creative Movement, Contemporary, Jazz |
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Upon graduating from the extensive dance training programme at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) since 1990, she was also selected to be an exchange artist to attend the Asian Artist Exchange Programme (1993) organized by the New York Dance Theatre Workshop. At the same year, she was awarded the National Arts Council’s training grant to attend the established American Dance Festival.
Having established herself as a professional dancer for over 10 years with The Arts Fission Company (TAFC); of which she is also a founding member, Ms Wong has also performed with independent dance companies and choreographers in Singapore, Asia, USA and Canada. Some of her recent performances include guest and featured dancer with TAFC – Ten Year Anniverary Performance (2004); TAFC - Urban Sanctuary (2000); TAFC - Lost Light 2 – The temple of Dawn, Bangkok Contemporary Arts Festival (2000); with Butoh Dance Company Katsura Kan and Saltimbanques at the Berlin’s Asian Arts Festival in Germany (1999).
To date, Ms Wong has a collection of more than 50 dance choreographies created for schools and collaborative projects with local and international dancers, choreographers and artists of different disciplines.
Throughout Ms Wong’s teaching career, she has taught ballet, contemporary dance, music and movement to undergrad and part time students at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts from 1993 to 2000 as a full time dance lecturer. In 2001, Ms Wong’s career in dance has seen her exemplifying between aesthetic presentation and effective methodology by offering the best of both forms: artist and teacher in schools and community projects.
She has accumulated her specialised teaching experience with children in promoting psychodynamic, that is, a pedagogy which defines and elaborates the dynamics between emotions, thoughts and movement in the creation and learning about the art of dance.
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Ricky Sim
Associate Director Dance Genre(s): Contemporary, Ballet, Jazz |
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Ricky holds a MFA (Dance) from Queensland University of Technology (Australia). He has been a professional dancer, choreographer and educator for more than 15 years. Working with dance and theatre companies such as The Arts Fission Company; Ecnad Project Limited; The Toy Factory Theatre Ensemble; The Action Theatre; Singapore Dance Theatre (1995-2000); Katsura Kan & Saltibanques (1999, Japan), soloist dancer in Theatre Nordhausen (2000-2002, Germany), Fattore K (Rome, Italy).
He is often invited as speaker and guest lecturer of dance and education at international forums and institutions. Ricky has been appointed external assessor for dance 2007/08 by the National Arts Council (Singapore); assessing panel for the Arts Education Programme by the National Arts Council (Singapore) in 2003/04 for Dance; Education and Outreach Manager (Singapore Dance Theatre) 2004; Guest lecturer in movement at Thammasat University – Thailand since 1999 and is currently the Associate Director for the dance education company - Moving Arts.
To date, Ricky has created 30 commissioned works for professional companies, institutions, festivals, and interdisciplinary collaboration with local and international artists from America, Australia, Asia and Europe. He has also represented Singapore in many international festivals and events.
Ricky has received numerous awards and grants for his contribution to the arts in Singapore and overseas. His recent accolades include: Artist-in-Resident – 2008 and 2006 Thammasat University (Thailand); Silver award in choreography for National Day Parade 2007 (Singapore); International Touring Grant – Indonesia Dance Festival VIII 2006 (Singapore & Indonesia); Rotary-NAC Arts Training Grant 2005 (Singapore); Djerassi Residency Program for Choreography 2005 (USA); UNESCO-Aschberg for Artist 2004 from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (France/Greece); NAC-International Development & Marketing Grant 2004 (Singapore); Shell-NAC Arts Scholarship 2001 (Singapore).
Ricky is a representative and standing member of the Conseil International De La Danse – UNESCO since 2004.
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Grace Wee
Dance Genre(s): RAD Ballet, Adult Ballet |
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Grace started ballet age 7 at the Singapore Ballet Academy. As a student, she participated in numerous productions by the Singapore Dance Theatre and has won prizes at local dance competitions. She was awarded the CSTD summer school scholarship to take part in the Perth Theatrical Festival in 2001.
Upon receiving the Shell-NAC Scholarship for the Arts in 2002, Grace pursued her dance training at The Australian Ballet School and New Zealand School of Dance. While in New Zealand, she passed her RAD Advanced 2 Examinations with Distinction. In school, repertoire danced includes Balanchine’s Valse Fantasie and Serenade, Bournaville’s La Sylphide, Gorden Wilcox’s Revolting Rhymes, and variations from The Sleeping Beauty.
In 2006, Grace was a scholar with the Singapore Dance Theatre (SDT). She founded Tari Youth Theatre in May 2006, leading the group to represent Singapore at the 10th International Youth Dance Festival in Macau. Grace has performed with The Human Expression Dance Theatre, representing Singapore for the 8th Asia Arts Festival 2006, held in Beijing in the piece ‘Silence’, choreographed by Kuik Swee Boon. In July 2007 she represented Singapore at the World Ballet Competition held in Orlando, Florida USA. Currently she is a freelance performer and dance teacher.
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Dapheny Chen
Dance Genre(s): Lyrical Jazz, Jazz, Hip Hop, Contemporary, Salsa |
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Dapheny began her dance training in Ballet at an early age and completed the Royal Academy of Dancing Grades and Majors Intermediate Examination. She is trained in classical ballet in all her dance experience and is versed in contemporary dance, jazz, hip hop and salsa.
Since joining the Diploma in Dance programme at LASALLE-SIA in July 2002 she has performed in all of its graduation productions. She was also selected to perform in other major productions featuring international artists including Friday Night by John Mead (USA) in the fifth Annual Contemporary Dance Festival (Singapore); Shutter by Jaime Redfern (Australia) for the World Dance Alliance Conference, Taipei; Blue Carousel for Ah Hock and Peng Yu (Singapore), and the works of Gerard Mosterd (Amsterdam) and Natalie Weir (Australia) for Tabula Rasa, Singapore. She joined L.A. Dance Connection in 2003 and was part of their main performance company.
Her choreography to date includes works for a piano recital Romantic Expressions, Anti-Drug 2005, LASALLE-SIA graduation showcase Breathless, street jazz and lyrical jazz numbers for various LADC events.
She started teaching in 2001 and her experience includes various schools such as Beatty Secondary School, Orchid Park Secondary School, Clementi Primary School, St Joseph’s Convent as well as the American Club, Tanglin Club and the footwork workshops held at the Esplanade. Most recently, she was a dance host on the Kids Central programme Splashzone and makes up one part of the quartet of Soul Fusion that was in the finals of Mediacorp’s The Dance Floor competition. She is an active performing artist and educator in Singapore’s dance industry.
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Susan Yeung
Dance Genre(s): Contemporary, Street Jazz |
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A music graduate of Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts (Singapore) and Kingston University (England), Susan was awarded City Contemporary Dance Company Prize after completing a dance diploma at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2001. She was the Dancer-in-Residence with Ecnad Project Ltd (Singapore) from 2002-2003, and performed in Singapore Arts Festival 2002 upon joining the company.
Susan co-produced and co-choreographed “SUBTEXT” – a Dance Theatre performance in 2005 and “SUBTEXT ii” in 2006. In May 2007 she brought “SUBTEXT ii” to Guangdong Modern Dance Festival upon invitation, representing Singapore. “SUBTEXT ii” was highly- received by The Straits Time newspaper in Singapore and the Chinese audience.
She was also the external examiner for the dance school of Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts (Singapore) in 2003, 2004 and 2006, and for the dance department of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore) in 2007. She teaches dance in schools and institutions of all levels, from primary to junior colleges and polytechnics in Singapore. She is also a teacher in dance studios as well as dance companies such as Moving Arts, Ecnad Project and Frontier Danceland.
Susan was also given the opportunity to be involved in some high profile commercial events both in HK and Singapore, such as testimonial for a hair shampoo commercial on Singapore TV in 2003, London fashion show in 2006 and publicity shoot for Singapore Art Festival 2006.
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Vivienne Tan
Dance Genre(s): Ballet, Contemporary |
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Vivienne Tan started classical ballet training at the age of 6. She was trained in the Commonwealth Society of Teachers of Dancing (Australia) and the Royal Academy of Dance (UK) syllabus. She graduated from LaSalle College of the Arts with a Diploma in Dance, Presidential Distinction in 2001. She was awarded the Most Outstanding Student of her faculty. In July 2003, she graduated with a BA (Hons) Dance Theatre degree from LABAN (London, U.K.) with the support of the National Arts Council, Arts Bursary (Overseas).
Productions that she was involved in include The Singapore Dance Theatre’s Coppelia, The Nutcracker and Giselle. She has also danced for local contemporary dance companies such as Ah Hock and Peng Yu, Mprojectz and The Arts Fission Company. She is currently teaching and choreographing in government schools and local contemporary dance company, ECNAD.
Not only is Vivienne a founding member of Moving Arts, a specialized dance education company, she is also a resident choreographer, performer and dance educator for the company.
Her works were recently showcased in The Arts House’s 2nd anniversary opening party, VOLUME II: BIZARRE and in The Singapore Arts Festival 2007.
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Samantha Lee
Dance Genre(s): Lyrical Hip Hop, Hip Hop, Jazz |
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Samantha, born in Melbourne and raised in Singapore, has been dancing since the age of six. Her passion for dance fuelled her to explore and train in many dance styles including Chinese Dance, Jazz, Hip Hop, Pole and Salsa. She has traveled, and continues to travel, around the world to perform in countries such as Japan, Korea, South Africa and the United States. Samantha has also participated and excelled in numerous competitions. In December last year, she qualified for the semi-finals of the World Salsa Championships to be held at the end of the year and in March, her crew clinched second place in the recent Romp IV, held at Zouk.
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Bibiana Tan
Dance Genre(s): Street Jazz, Jazz, Hip Hop |
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Bibiana started her dance training with Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop and Funk at Dance Arts Singapore, Jitterbugs Swingapore and Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) Dance Academy. She underwent training and assisted in teaching from Grade 1 to Intermediate level for ISTD Tap/Modern at Dance Spectrum International. She also took the Intermediate Modern Dance examination and obtained A.
To date, Bibiana has taught in various dance studios, clubs and local schools. She has also choreographed for many events including a dance item for the National Day show at the ‘World Expo 2005’ Aichi, Nagoya, Japan, as well as assisted in the modern dance item for Peicai Secondary School in the Singapore Youth Festival.
Bibiana has accumulated over 80 local and overseas commercial performances/musicals/concerts in her belt of experience. Some of which include major productions such as “Chingay” (2006), “World Expo” at Aichi , Nagoya, Japan-National Day (2005) and “Phua Chu Kang – The Musical” (2005). Her personal achievements include group champion for Suntec Dance Competition (2000 & 2002).
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Tina Tan
Dance Genre(s): Hip Hop |
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Tina started her training in Modern, Jazz and Ballet under Ms Elaine Chan and in L.A. Dance Connection (LADC) scholarship programme from 2002 to 2006. Upon completion, she joined as an apprentice dancer with Phunk Patrol (Hip Hop Performance Company) as well as Dragones Latinos (Salsa Performance Company).
Tina has participated in major productions such as Mediacorp “FM93.3 Hit Award Year” (2007), “DoubleO Hip Hop Night” (2007), “The Big Groove” (2006), “Ren Ci Charity Show” (2005), “Chingay” (2004), as well as “GE Capital” – Corporate event.
Some of Tina’s accolade includes Individual Champion of “DanceQuake” – Solo Category (2000), finalist for the “Anti Drug Dance Competition” (1999) and “OverDrive” Dance Competition (2006).
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Veronica Tan
Dance Genre(s): Pilates, Contemporary |
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Veronica Tan, born and raised in Singapore, built her foundation as a Chinese dancer and has her dance style heightened while studying at ZaRick Dance Theatre. Embedded by her passion for dance, she went to New York City to further her dance training with The Ailey School since 2003.
Veronica has danced with Michael Mao Dance, Kristen Dexnis Dance and Bridge for Dance companies for 3 years. She has also performed with Teresa Fellion’s T. Lion Dance/Body Stories at the New York City 2nd Annual Dance Parade 2008.
As a choreographer, she has created and performed in “HiLo” with The Festival in DTW Theatre, “Who’s your enemy” in the Performance Lab Series at Steps Dance Studio, “Oops” with Kristen Dexnis Dance and other numerous pieces with InternationalSwede, The Ailey School and Dance New Amsterdam in May 2008, as well as “Awakening in Motion 2007” and “Play My Game” October 2008 in Singapore.
She has also produced “AWAKENING in motion” in New York City 2006, “Freedom of Being” 2007 and 6 full length dance works in collaboration with Mr. Lin Kun Yang to raving reviews.
She is currently the President of her newly formed non-profit dance organization “Awakening Room”.
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Ong Lay Keng
Dance Genre(s): Contemporary, Jazz |
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A certified movement analyst, Ms Ong graduated from the Laban/ Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, New York, 1996. Awarded with the National Arts Council bursary in 1995 for her studies in New York, she was also given a project grant in 1997 from the National Arts Council, Lee Foundation and Arts Fund for her dance production of “Journal of Ah-Man”. In 1999, she was also funded by the National Arts Council for her production “Where Two Ends Meet” which was held at Jubilee Hall.
A professional dancer with the People Association Dance Company from 1980 to 1987, She continued to develop her skill abroad. She studied with Jane Dudley and Juliet Fisher at the London School of Contemporary Dance and moved on to New York to study with Merce Cunningham, Anna Marie Forsy at the Cunningham Studio and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Natasha Baron and Frank Hatchet at the Broadway Dance Center, Simonson Jazz Technique with Laurie Devito at the Dance Space Center and with Zena Rommett who developed the Rommett Floor-Barre Technique, to name a few. Lay Keng is currently teaching at St Anthony’s Canossian secondary School, NanYang Polytechnic and Dance Arts. She is also on the panel for the Arts Education Programme (Dance) under the National Arts Council.
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John Mead
Dance Genre(s): Ballet |
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JOHN MEAD is an internationally recognized choreographer, performer and educator. Working professionally over the past 30 years, he has choreographed over 120 works, which have been performed in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, and the United States. Mr. Mead won the prestigious "Lausanne New Choreographers Competition" in 1988, hosted by Bejart Ballet Lausanne, Switzerland. From 1993 to 1998 John was a visiting faculty member of the official school of the Bejart Ballet: Rudra Bejart Lausanne. From 1993 to 2000 Mr. Mead was the Artistic Director of John Mead & Dancers in New York City, and was also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the New York University Program in Dance Education. Currently Mr. Mead is the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of MI Arts Ltd, a multi-faceted arts organization based in Singapore and dedicated to Concert Dance, Narrative Film Production and Creative Dance Education outreach.
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Lim Mei Chian
Dance Genre(s): Ballet |
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MEI CHIAN LIM is an established dance educator who received her Masters degree in Dance Education from New York University in New York City. She has worked extensively with students of all ages in Singapore and the United States. Since returning to Singapore, Ms. Lim has established dance education programs in a number of Singapore primary and secondary schools. The National Arts Council has endorsed her dance education programs since 2001 for her innovative approach to education as a valuable tool in the complete education of young people. At the tertiary level, she currently lectures at the Lasalle College of the Arts. Ms. Lim holds a Teaching Diploma with the Royal Academy of Dancing (London), is an Affiliate Teaching Member of the Commonwealth Society of Teachers of Dancing (Australia) and is a professional member of the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO, USA). She has also choreographed many works for professional dance companies and schools. As a professional performer, she has performed in New York City, Italy, Germany, the Middle East and Singapore. Ms. Lim is currently the Co-Director and Co-Founder of MI Arts Ltd, a multi-faceted arts organization based in Singapore and dedicated to Concert Dance, Narrative Film Production and Creative Dance Education outreach.