Jackie Ong graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) with a Diploma in Dance and was awarded the NAFA scholarship in 2010. He joined T.H.E Second Company in 2009, and has participated in all M1 CONTACT festival performances since. Jackie performed in the original As It Fades, the Singapore Arts Festival 2011 commission for T.H.E Dance Company, in 2014 for the restaging and 2017 in Niigata, Japan. He was one of the performers for Permission to speak, sir, the Singapore:Inside Out commission in 2015 that traveled to London, New York and Beijing. In 2016 he did a month residency in Seoul and collaborated with award-winning artists Choi Minsun and Kang Jinan for a work that premiered at the Seoul Performing Arts Festival 2016, followed by M1 CONTACT Festival 2016. He most recently performed in “Double”, choreographed by Albert Tiong for M1 Contact Festival and subsequently in Macau and Shanghai.
performance date 22-24 Jun 2017 | Esplanade Theatre Studio | Borderline by T.H.E Dance Company and Muscle Mouth
performance date 28 Mar – 6 Apr 2018 | Esplanade F.Y.I Festival | By Kim Jae Duk