Building human
connections through dance
connections through dance
The Human Expression (T.H.E) Dance Company was founded in 2008 by Artistic Director Kuik Swee Boon. Rooted firmly in Singapore yet universal in its perspective, T.H.E's contemporary dance works reveal the body as a medium for exploring and celebrating the human condition.
Dance artists at T.H.E are immersed in the Company's signature methodology, HollowBody, which guides them to access their deeper instincts and impulses through movement.
The Company's movement vocabulary is distinct in its intensely personal aesthetics, yet thrilling in its diversity. Driven by a sincere desire to uncover the intricate, complex and oft-times overlooked dimensions of human existence, the Company's incisive observations on the human condition and its original creations are an essential mirror to the issues and rhythms of contemporary life. (More...)
T.H.E Second Company was born in 2008, with an interest in identifying and mentoring aspiring dancers to reach a professional standard of contemporary dance. Today, T.H.E Second Company has expanded its reach to members of the public who display a high aptitude for dance, including serious dance hobbyists and aspiring choreographers.
Unique to the company is its stringent technique training programme — one that is seldom available to individuals outside of a professional dance company. Members are taught by T.H.E’s core artistic team and guest teachers to ground them with a sound level of physical aptitude to tackle the demands of contemporary dance. Members also receive critical professional feedback on their performances and choreographic creations.
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Collaboration is an important part of T.H.E Dance Company’s artistic vision. We believe that a successful work does not depend on one person’s effort but the collective energy of a dynamic group of individuals. We have worked with local and foreign artists from diverse artistic disciplines including musicians Bani Haykal, Darren Ng, and Wang Yu Jun (Taiwan) as well as fashion designer Sunny Lim, Brazilian video artist Gabriela Gomes, Finnish lighting designer Anna Rouhu, and international choreographers such as Xing Liang (Hong Kong), Zhang Xiao-Xiong (Taiwan), Wu Yi San (Taiwan), Boi Sakti (Indonesia), Jeffrey Tan (Singapore) and Dimo Kirilov (France/Spain).
Founding Artistic Director & Principal Choreographer
Founder and Artistic Director of T.H.E Dance Company (est. 2008) and its annual cont·act Contemporary Dance Festival (est. 2010), Kuik Swee Boon danced in Compañia Nacional de Danza (CND) from 2002–2007, performing in works by renowned choreographers such as Nacho Duato, Jiri Kylian, and Ohad Naharin. Prior to CND, he danced in Singapore People’s Association Dance Company and Singapore Dance Theatre. A 2007 Young Artist Award recipient, he was nominated for the Benois De La Danse Award in 2003, and selected for the 2021–2023 Fellowship Programme with the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA).
Under Swee Boon’s direction, T.H.E has become a seminal dance company that trains in his HollowBody methodology, with a repertoire of works that has toured to many international festivals. Even when the pandemic hit, his 360° virtual reality adaptation of PheNoumenon (2019), amongst other digital projects, made its rounds to Italy and Israel in 2021. Most recently, he was commissioned by Esplanade’s da:ns festival 2022 to create Infinitely Closer (2022), which also marked the opening of the new Singtel Waterfront Theatre.
Associate Artistic Director, T.H.E Second Company
Trained in contemporary dance and Chinese classical dance, Silvia Yong’s career began with the People’s Association Dance Company in 1990. She was a principal dancer with Odyssey Dance Theatre from 2000 to 2004, and a founding member of T.H.E Dance Company.
Silvia holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Dance Education and Training from the London Contemporary Dance School, as well as a Masters of Arts in Contemporary Dance under the National Arts Council (NAC)’s Arts Bursary. She has taught at several arts and educational institutions such as National University of Singapore (NUS)’s Dance Synergy and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA). Currently, she is teaching at School of the Arts Singapore (SOTA).
Resident Choreographer
Kim Jae Duk has been the Resident Choreographer for T.H.E Dance Company since 2010. His international choreographic and performance projects have taken him across Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
As Founder, Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer of Modern Table Dance Company (est. 2013), his works are known for their unique dynamic curves, rapid movements, and the reinterpretation of traditional Korean forms in modern ways. For his interdisciplinary creations that transcend genres, Jae Duk is a highly sought-after choreographer in Korea and beyond. Lub Dub, choreographed for Bale Teatro Castro Alves, was selected by the Brazilian magazine BRAVO as one of the 10 best shows of 2017 (10 espetáculos de dança fundamentais de 2017). Another notable work of his, Darkness Poomba, was also invited to The Place in London in 2016, Chekhov International Theatre Festival in 2017, Yokohama Dance Collection 2021 as a masterpiece selection, and to LG Arts Center in Seoul.
Jae Duk’s talents also extend to music; he also composes original music for almost all of his choreographies.
Dance Artist, T.H.E Dance Company
Klievert Jon Mendoza graduated from the Philippines High School for the Arts where he received the Outstanding Student Artist Award in 2015. He was awarded the Gold Medal in the pre-professional category of the 2014 Concours International De Danse Classique De Grasse in Paris, France, and was also the first Filipino to compete in the Youth America Grand Prix 2018. He went on to study at NAFA in 2018, where he graduated with a Diploma in Dance (Distinction), was named ‘Best Graduate’ and received the ‘NAFA President Award’. Klievert joined T.H.E Dance Company in 2018, and has since choreographed for the 2020–2021 edition of liTHE.
Dance Artist, T.H.E Dance Company
Born 1995, Fiona Thng is a dancer, instructor and choreographer trained in various styles such as locking, hip hop, street jazz, contemporary and jazz With her group Scarlett she has completed in numerous such as The Dance Floor Season 2, TRDO Dance competitions, All-Babes Cineleisure Dance Battle, and has also worked with choreographers such as Ryan Tan, Jeffrey Tan, Zaki Ahmad, Lisa Keegan. Fiona joined T.H.E Dance Company as an apprentice in August 2019.
Dance Artist, T.H.E Dance Company
Trained in ballet and Chinese dance from a young age, Haruka’s formal introduction to contemporary dance began at SOTA. In 2017, she was accepted into the New Zealand School of Dance majoring in contemporary dance, where she trained with a prestigious faculty that included Victoria Colombus, Paula Steeds Huston, James O’Hara, Balázs Busa, Daniel Jaber and other guest artists.
In 2021, Haruka joined T.H.E. Dance Company, and she has been a part of the repertoire and original choreographies by artistic director Kuik Swee Boon and resident choreographer Kim Jae Duk.
Apprentice, T.H.E Dance Company
Chang En first started dancing classical ballet at the age of 4 and has since worked with established choreographers such as Jeffrey Tan, Albert Tiong and Zaki Ahmad. From 2017 to 2021, Chang En was a part of T.H.E Second Company, allowing her to further build upon her contemporary training. She had the opportunity to perform with T.H.E Dance Company in February 2021, where she trained alongside the company’s dance artists under the guidance of Kuik Swee Boon. In January 2022, Chang En joined T.H.E Dance Company as a full-time apprentice.
Associate Artist, T.H.E Second Company
Goh Jia Yin’s passion for movement began at a young age; she trained competitively in artistic gymnastics before stepping into her first (Chinese) dance class at the age of 12. A leap of faith after graduating from SMU with a Bachelor’s in Business Management saw her pursue Dance in Singapore at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), then in New York at the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY under a scholarship from NAC.
Jia Yin has performed in a diverse assortment of works by international and local artistes. When she was based in New York briefly, she performed with Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company for its 2015/16 season.
Equipped with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts (Dance) and certifications in other movement modalities, namely Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis, and Balance Body®️ Pilates Mat and Reformer, Jia Yin juggles between teaching dance and movement classes rooted in the work of GYROTONIC®️, and Pilates at various studios and institutions. She is an adjunct lecturer at NAFA, and an Associate Artist with T.H.E Second Company, where she dances, choreographs on an ad-hoc basis, and teaches. Jia Yin also finds joy and fulfilment in helping her range of clients and students with differing needs tap into the potential of movement as a form of therapy, injury prevention, as well as athletic and mindfulness training to enhance performance. She is a firm believer that a functional body makes for a happy and expressive body.
Associate Artist, T.H.E Second Company
A recipient of the NAC Arts Scholarship and Georgette Chen Arts Scholarship, Goh Shou-Yi holds a BFA in Dance and Diploma in Dance from State University of New York (SUNY) Purchase College and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) respectively. He was selected by Lianhe Zaobao as a "rising star to watch" (2015艺术新星-照耀未来空) in 2015. An adjunct lecturer with NAFA School of Dance, Shou-Yi is also an Associate Artist with T.H.E Second Company and Dance Nucleus, where he has been actively collaborating with both local and international artists to create and present dance choreographies and performances. Beyond dance, Shou-Yi further took on the role of a collaborator in The Orange Playground (2016) led by Haresh Sharma with The Necessary Stage (TNS), as well as in the 1 Table 2 Chairs Experimental Series (2017) presented by The Theatre Practice, Singapore. He was also a movement choreographer for PRISM (2017) by Toy Factory.
Shou-Yi's upcoming projects in the capacity of Movement Choreographer include Exile or Pursuit《放逐与追逐》under the direction of Jalyn Han as well as The Year of No Return by TNS, a festival commission for Singapore International ARts Festival (SIFA) 2020.
Associate Artist, T.H.E Second Company
Jackie graduated from NAFA and holds a Diploma in Dance. He is a recipient of the NAFA scholarship and had been given many opportunities to represent the school in overseas conferences, such as the China-ASEAN “Red Bronze Drum” Art and Education Achievement held in Nanning, China in 2008, and the World Dance Alliance Asia Pacific event and World Dance Alliance Global Dance event in New Delhi, India and New York, USA in 2009 and 2010 respectively.
Jackie has been a member of T.H.E Second Company since 2009 and has toured with the main company to Poland, Guangzhou, Yokohama and Niigata. He was also part of Singapore: Inside Out, an inaugurated travelling showcase of Singapore’s artists to Beijing, London, New York and Singapore.
Associate Artist, T.H.E Second Company
Marcus Foo started his formal dance training at LASALLE College of the Arts and graduated in 2004. As a dancer, Marcus performed with T.H.E Second Company from
2009–2015.
Currently focusing on choreography, Marcus has created for T.H.E Second Company for their annual platform liTHE. International collaborative works include Seoul Performing Arts Festival with Korean dancer Jin Byoung Cheol and DANCE-PORT TOKYO with Daisuke Inoue and Lee Sang Hyun, winners of Yokohama Dance Collection and Seoul Dance Collection.
In 2017, Marcus completed his postgraduate studies at London Contemporary Dance School and graduated with a Master of Arts degree with Distinction. Marcus has been an Associate Artist of T.H.E Second Company (Singapore) since 2017.
T.H.E Founding member/ Associate Artist
Zhuo Zihao received his contemporary dance training at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, both under scholarship. He has worked with various choreographers including Alberto Del-Saz, Robert Tannion, Charlotte-Boyd Christensen, and Cheng Tsung-Lung. He was also a resident artiste with Odyssey Dance Theatre in Singapore. As a founding member of T.H.E Dance Company, he has performed in all the company's works since its establishment as well as featured his solo work at the CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2010, an annual dance intensive initiated by T.H.E. In 2012, Zhuo was conferred the Young Artist Award (Dance).
Music Director, Composer and Live Performer
Born in Kaohsiung, Yujun is a graduate of the Applied Drama and Theater Department of the National Taiwan University of Arts. She currently works as a music composer and singer.
Keen on interdisciplinary exploration, Yujun has developed a stereoscopic approach to shaping the sound of music. Her practice draws upon observations of everyday life and ordinary people, transmuting mundane and fleeting impressions into a sonic documentation of complex emotional states.
Sound Collaborator
Awarded with National Arts Council Scholarship, Jing graduated with first class honors from Rose Bruford College (UK) specialising in Performance Sound. He has a keen interest for sound design in theatre and dance; and enjoys collaborative, devised and experimental works. Excited to work with T.H.E. again!
Singapore credits: A Fleeting Moment, Grind, Lord of The Flies, Helix, Pure, Pretty Butch, Prism, Fundamentally Happy.
UK credits: Little Black Book, Corpus Christi, Orion’s Hat, Rites & Regulations, Ghost Sonata, The Bacchae, You Me Bum Bum Train.
Nominated for Best Sound Design in the 2014 Off West End Theatre Awards for Outfox Productions’ Corpus Christi (UK).
Former Associate Artist
Jeffrey Tan is one of Singapore’s most prolific and established dancer, choreographer and educator. Formerly a principal dancer, assistant ballet master, and resident choreographer (2004 – 2008) with Singapore Dance Theatre (SDT), the Master of Fine Arts graduate from Queensland University of Technology is T.H.E’s very first associate artist as of 2013.
Tan received the Singapore Young Artiste Award (Excellence in Dance) in 2000 and has performed the works of George Balanchine, Goh Choo San, Graham Lustig, Nacho Duato, Jiri Kylian, and Boi Sakti to name a few. He has also toured to international venues in the United States, Australia, China, London, Indonesia, Malaysia, and to festivals such as the Le Temps d’Aimer la Danse a Biarritz in France, and Chang Mu Arts Festival in Korea. Testament to his versatility as a choreographer, Tan has worked in the balletic and contemporary dance forms, for musicals, and major events such as the Singapore National Day Parade and Singapore Shanghai World Expo 2010.
Tan’s appointment as T.H.E’s associate artist in 2013 marks the choreographer’s highly anticipated return to the local contemporary dance scene, and limitless potential for the company’s growth as Tan imparts his wealth of experience and elegant, fluid style.
First exposed to street dance at age sixteen, Mikiko Kawamura majored in dance at the Japan Women’s College of Physical Education. Her solo work “Alphard” premiered at Yokohama Dance Collection EX 2012, and thereafter presented at Dance Triennale Tokyo 2012, Japan; Malta Festival Poznan 2013, Poland; Perforations Festival 2013 in Zagreb, Croatia; Europe Meets Asia in Contemporary Dance Festival 2013 in Hanoi, Vietnam; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Contemporary Dance Showcase: Japan + East Asia 2015 at Japan Society, NY, U.S.A. She has also presented work at the Seoul International Dance Festival (SIDance) 2011 and JoJo-Oulu Dance Festival 2013 in Finland.
Awards include the Outstanding New Artist Prize at Yokohama Dance Collection EX 2011; the Next Generation Choreographer Award and Audience Award at the Toyota Choreography Award in 2014, and the Jury Prize and The French Embassy Prize for Young Choreographer at Yokohama Dance Collection EX 2015, all for “Inner Mommy”. Mikiko has also taken part in residencies in Romania, collaborating with artists from Finland and Croatia. She is currently a Junior Fellow at the Saison Foundation.
Kim Hwan-Hee graduated with a BA and MA from Sejong University, South Korea. He is the representative of Choombut, a member of Tatmaroo Dance Company, and lecturer at Sejong University. In 2014, he was awarded the best prize from AK21 International Choreographers Fostering Competition as part of Busan International Dance Festival. In the same year, he received the choreography prize from SPAF Seoul Dance Collection. In 2011, he also received the 1st prize in the division of contemporary senior males at Seoul International Dance Competition.
Papuan-born, Jakarta-based dancer-choreographer Jecko Siompo is one of Indonesia’s most renowned contemporary dance artists. Jecko was trained in traditional form such as Javanese, Sumatran and Minang ethnic dance, and other contemporary forms as a student at the Jakarta Institute of the Arts, including ballet and street dance. In 1999, he picked up hip-hop in New York and has incorporated street dance into his vocabulary of Papuan dance culture, integrating Jakarta’s hip-hop subculture into his choreography and dance films. As a dancer, he has participated in productions by both well-known Indonesian artists Sardono W. Kusumo and Boi G. Sakti and international choreographers such as Peter Chin (Canada) locally and abroad. In 2002, he was awarded a scholarship by the Goethe-Institute to study dance theatre in Germany. He has participated in international dance forums and arts festivals both within Indonesia and across Asia, Europe and the US, including Live Arts Bangkok (2007), the Asia Contemporary Dance Festival in Osaka (2007, 2008), the Asian Dance Conference in Tokyo (2007), and the Hong Kong Arts Festival (2009). He is also a jury member of the popular Indonesian TV programme Let’s Dance.
Spanish choreographer, Iratxe Ansa, attended the Conservatorio Superior de Musica before graduating from the John Cranko Schule Stuttgart, Germany. She danced with Basel Ballet and Ballet Gulbelkian before acting as muse to Nacho Duato in the Compañia Nacional de Danza Madrid, Spain, having many roles and pieces originally set on her. Iratxe danced with Lyon Opera Ballet before becoming a member of Nederlands Dance Theatre under Director Anders Hellstrom. She has worked with choreographers such as Nacho Duato, William Forsythe, Jiri Kylian, Mats Ek, Jacopo Godani, Johan Inger, Medhi Walerski, Crystal Pite, Ohad Naharin, Wayne McGregor, Alexander Ekman, to name a few.
After leaving NDT, Iratxe became a freelance artist in 2009. Her creations have won awards and mentions in choreographic competitions such as the International Solo Tanz Theater Festival, Certamen Coreografico de Madrid, and an award for artistic trajectory by the Association of Dance Professionals (Spain) in 2007. As a freelance artist she has created work for Lyon Opera Ballet, and danced and given workshops in various countries around the world. Dos Cuerpos is Iratxe’s first collaboration with T.H.E Dance Company.
Taiwan-born dancer and choreographer Sun Shang-Chi attended the National Academy of Arts in Taipei and graduated from Ernst Bush University (Berlin) with M.A. in Choreography. In 2007, he founded Shang Chi Move, and has presented his creations at festivals in Europe and Asia, including Maison de la Danse in Lyon, France, Festival Tanz im August in Berlin, Germany, Festival d'Avignon in France, and the International Taipei Arts Festival.
Shang-Chi has also been commissioned to create works by companies such as Sasha Waltz & Guests, Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre 2, London's Transitions Company, and the Dance Company of City Theatre Osnabrück. He collaborates with Singapore's T.H.E Dance Company for the first time in April 2015, creating Nexus.
Choreographer
Formerly a principal dancer of Spain’s Compañia Nacional de Danza, Dimo Kirilov has also been part of companies such as the Jeune Ballet de France and the Ballet National de Nancy et Lorraine. He became a freelance artist in 2009, working on international collaborative projects with choreographers such as Gentian Doda. Dimo’s collaborative work with Doda, Aimless, was awarded the first prize at the 2013 Burgos choreographic competition.
Choreographer
Currently the Associate Choreographer of the City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) in Hong Kong, Mui Cheuk-Yin was trained in Chinese classical and ethnic dance, and studied modern dance in New York. She was principal dancer with the Hong Kong Dance Company (HKDC) from 1981 to 1990.
Mui became an independent choreographer / dancer / teacher in the 1990s, receiving frequent commissions by the HKDC and the CCDC to create new works. Her major works include Eulogy, la grace, October Red, and The Tale of Miles in Triptych. Mui has also been invited to numerous international arts festivals such as the Venice Biennial Dance Festival (1999), the Lyon Biennale de la Danse (2000), and the Beijing Modern Dance Festival 2001.
For her stellar achievements, Mui received the Chief Executive's Commendation for Community Service in 2007.
Choreographer
Born in Beijing, Xing Liang is a household name in Asian Contemporary Dance. He joined the Guangdong Modern Dance Company in 1993 and later became one of the most well-known dancers in City Contemporary Dance Company (Hong Kong). Xing has won countless regional as well as international awards, His recent major choreographic works included Stranger than Fiction, The Conqueror, Nijinsky and Out Of The Box.
Lighting Designer
Goh Boon Ann is currently Assistant Professor at the Taipei National University of Arts’ School of Dance. Born in Malaysia, he has been a dancer with Hong Kong Dance Company, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC). He is also a founding member of the South “ASLI”’ Dance Workshop. He was the Resident Lighting Designer of CCDC and Guangdong Modern Dance Company from 2005 – 2013.
His major designs include Warrior Lanling, Seasonal Syndromes, Out Of The Box, What’s Next? Crime Scene! Very Dance!, As If To Nothing,The Tale of Miles in Tripyth and Strip Teaser 2012 for CCDC; The Comedy of K (2012 rerun), The Buying Game; and Hedvig from The Wild Duck. Other works include city:zen, Unspeakable for BeijingDance / LDTX, Wind-Forest-Fire-Mountain and Heaven and Earth for Guangdong Modern Dance Company; City of the Fall for Sete Tele and The Journey of Unrestrained for Zhang Xiaoxiong; and Moments in Time for Hong Kong Ballet. Goh’s lighting design for Upon Calligraphy by Liu Qi received the 2nd Class Award in Lighting Design at the 9th Guangdong Arts Festival, while his work for Six Degrees by Xing Liang garnered him the Outstanding Design for Dance award from the Hong Kong Dance Awards 2011.
Music Composer
Born in 1969 in Changhua, Taiwan, Chang Hui-Ni studied composition with Lin Chin-Yow, Pan Hwang-long and Lu Yen. In 1995, she received her MFA from the National Institute of the Arts (renamed Taipei National University of the Arts in 2001). From 2000 to 2001, she was a resident artist at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris following an appointment by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan. During this time she also studied with Guy Reibel at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, and gave several performances in Paris and Rouen.
Chang has a diverse music practice, ranging from concert music compositions to collaborations with artists from different disciplines including theatre, dance, and film. In September 2013, she provided the improvisational music for the drama TAKE 321! during its live performance at the 6th Taipei Fringe Festival. In December, the National Taiwan University’s EMBA Chorus commissioned Chang to create a choral work, which was performed at the Taipei Zhongshan Hall.
As a teacher of music theory and composition at the Taiwan Theological College and Seminary, Chang is actively involved in music education, having also edited textbooks used in Taiwanese junior high schools. She is also an accompanist at the dance departments of various schools, including the Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei Hwa-Kang Arts School and National Lan-Yang Girls’ Senior High School.
Music Composer
Award-winning composer-pianist Tze Toh has created music for films/animation, documentaries, contemporary dance and created Singapore's only contemporary Asian fusion orchestra Tze n Looking Glass Orchestra. He has composed works for the Discovery Channel, Infinite Frameworks, filmmaker Royston Tan, and for international events such as Journey of the Youth Olympic Flame 2010, Singapore Showcase, Auckland. He also created the original live score for Ramesh Meyyappan's theatre piece, Snails and Ketchup (part of the London 2012 London Cultural Olympiad). His orchestra performed for the official opening of Singapore's iconic Gardens by the Bay in 2012.
In 2011 Toh won the first prize in the UK Songwriting contest and his debut fusion album Stories from wonderland was selected as one of the top 10 albums of 2011 by Business Times, for having “helped shape music in 2011”. He has performed both locally and overseas in festivals including the Indonesia Music Expo (IMEX), ASEAN Jazz Festival, Singapore Arts Festival, MOSAIC Music festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His composed works have been performed in France, Scotland, UK, New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia and Singapore.
A self-taught composer and pianist, his influences include Ennio Morricone, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Keith Jarrett, E.S.T trio, Yoko Kanno, (early) John Williams, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Stravinsky.
Chinese Zither player
Natalie Tse is a Chinese Zither – Guzheng performer, educator, and experimenter. Her signature style involves sonic experiences using electronic effects, creating different soundscapes with the Guzheng. She has performed locally and internationally in events such as Spotlight Singapore (Moscow) and WOMAD (Singapore). Natalie is a member of musical trio SA(仨); NOISE Singapore Music Award Winners 2013, and has performed with SA(仨) at the Shenzhen Fringe Festival (Shenzhen) and Tribal Gathering of Tongue Tasters (Singapore) amongst others.
Natalie holds a Masters of Arts in Music from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Arts; Department of Music. Awards include the Grand Prix – prize of the Minister of Education and the European Krzysztof Penderecki Music Centre, Bydgoszcz Musical Impressions 2009 (Poland), and the 2004 Gold Medal Award at the 21st Century International Chinese Music Festival in Genting.
Choreographer
Wu Yi-San is currently a full-time Associate Professor at Taipei National University of the Arts’ School of Dance. She graduated from the National Taiwan University of Arts’ Department of Dance, and holds a MFA awarded by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Wu was also a dancer with Cloud Gate Dance Theatre in Taiwan, Hong Kong’s City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC), and a member of South “ASLI” Dance Workshop. In 2000, she received the Hong Kong Dance Awards from the Hong Kong Dance Alliance. In 2003 and 2006, she was inducted into the Hong Kong Dance Hall of Fame. In 2003, she received The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund to study at the London Contemporary Dance School in UK, and while there, performed with Random Dance Company and Akram Khan Dance Company, and worked with Protein Dance.
Since 1999, she has been teaching in the CCDC Dance Centre, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, E Side Dance Company, Y Space, DanceArt Hong Kong, Guangdong Dance Camp and Festival, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, and different dance communities. She has choreographed works for Crucible in Germany, T.H.E Dance Company in Singapore, CCDC, E Side Dance Company, amongst others, and has collaborated with different artists to explore various creative mediums and perspectives.
Music Composer
Bani Haykal experiments with text + music. As a performer and writer, he has collaborated with various collectives and individuals locally and internationally, participating in several festivals including World Event Young Artist (UK), da:ns Festival, 55mm2 Festival (Germany) and The M1 Fringe Festival among others. He has also toured, both as a soloist and with The Observatory, in France, Italy and Norway.
His work with music includes being the vocalist and songwriter for b-quartet, music collective mux, audio-visual performance group OFFCUFF and The Observatory. As a solo musician, he has released 3 studies (Ergophobia / how I got lost and died trying / sketches of syllables) exploring structured improvisation and spoken word.
As an artist he has exhibited in The Substation, Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore and Platform 3 (Bandung), having produced 3 works, Rethinking Music, inside the subject and Dormant Music. He is currently an Associate Artist with The Substation.
Lighting Designer
Adrian Tan’s designs have been staged at numerous cities around the world, including Jakarta, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Bratislava (Slovakia) and Prague. Most notably, A Cage Goes In Search of A Bird for theatre collective A GROUP OF PEOPLE was nominated for Best Lighting Design at the 2011 Life! Theatre Awards and also awarded Production of The Year.
Recent designs by Tan include, Company The Musical (Nominee, Production of The Year, Life! Theatre Awards 2013). Broadway Beng. Kumar, Crazy Christmas, Happy Ever Laughter and The Hossan Leong Show, all for Dream Academy. Not forgetting the well-received Cooling Off Day (Nominee, Production of The Year, Life! Theatre Awards 2012) for W!ld Rice, other shows for W!ld Rice include National Language Class, that premiered at the first Singapore Theatre Festival in 2006, and Cook A Pot Of Curry, which was part of the W!ld Rice Festival, Alfian Saat: In The Spotlight.
His versatility has been displayed in numerous dance shows, such as Coppelia, both 2012 and 2013 editions of Masterpiece In Motion and the Ballet Under The Stars, all for Singapore Dance Theatre. Tan has also worked on the 2012 and 2013 editions of Solo/ Duet by T.H.E Dance Company, under the NUS Arts Festival. He was also the Festival Designer for T.H.E’s CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festivals in 2011 and 2012, in September this year was the Designer for T.H.E’s New Vision triple bill performance, staged as part of their fifth anniversary celebrations.
In 2006, Tan was the first Asian recipient of the ETC Sponsorship Awards held in Las Vegas, USA.
Lighting Designer
Anna Rouhu studied lighting design at the Theatre Academy of Finland (Teatterikorkeakoulu) completing her Masters Degree in May 2009. She currently works as a freelance lighting designer both in Finland and internationally. Her works consist all forms of performing arts from live art to opera.
In Finland she has worked with well-known directors such as Saana Lavaste, Atro Kahiluoto, Eero-Tapio Vuori and playwright-director Marjo Niemi in both established institutions as well as experimental projects. Notable productions in Finland include Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt (2009), directed by Eero-Tapio Vuori at the Kajaani Theatre; Naytat Vieraalta Rakas (2009) with Marjo Niemi at the Teatteri Jurkka; Don Giovanni (2011) at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and Alkutuotanto (2012), a collaboration between Teatteri 2.0 and Kotka City Theatre directed by Saana Lavaste and Iiristiina Varilo.
Since 2009 she has worked closely with T.H.E Dance Company designing lights for numerous productions such as Within.Without (2009); Silence – T.H.E First Anniversary (2009); O Sounds (2010); The Man In The Centre (2010); As It Fades (2011) and for main shows in the CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2010 and 2011. Her most recent works with T.H.E are Silences We Are Familiar With at the Esplanade da:ns Festival 2012 and CONTACT 2012 main shows.
Sound Artist & Music Composer
For the past two decades, Darren has sound designed and composed music for over 200 arts productions, and has received multiple Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards for Best Sound. As a music composer, he is signed to record label Kitchen. Label, going by the pseudonym – sonicbrat, and was invited to perform solo in numerous prestigious international music and arts festivals across Europe and Asia. He has been Associate Sound Artist and Music Composer for The Finger Players since 2004 and is a cofounder of the design collective INDEX. He was conferred the Young Artist Award (music; multi-disciplinary practice) in 2012 by the National Arts Council.
T.H.E Dance Company is supported by the National Arts Council under the Major Company Scheme for the period from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2023.
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