MELISSA NG FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
CHEN WANXIN PRODUCTION MANAGER
DARREN HO STAGE  MANAGER
RACHEL LUCIA FESTIVAL INTERN

Lidya Chrisfens is a fashion educator, designer, and researcher with two decades of industry and academic experience. She teaches fashion making at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, with a focus on creative pattern cutting, digital fashion, and sustainable design practices. Her pedagogical approach is grounded in critical making and experiential learning, encouraging students to work intuitively through the body, material, and space. With a Distinction in a Master’s in Art Pedagogy and Practice, Lidya continually explores new ways of teaching that connect process, emotion, and concept. Lidya’s research practice operates at the intersection of fashion, performance, and philosophy. Drawing from phenomenology, particularly notions of Atmospheric Space, Conceptual Space, and the embodied mind, her work explores how memory, emotion, proprioception, and material sensibility shape the act of making. She engages transdisciplinary approaches that merge fashion with performing arts, using these as a lens to understand the designer’s internal landscape. Her signature methodology, Blind-Draping, was developed in 2020 and has since gained international recognition for its ability to reframe how design can emerge through tactile perception rather than visual intent.

Marcus Foo is a dance artist, choreographer and educator whose practice is rooted in contemporary dance and shaped by a strong interest in embodied awareness and intentional movement. His teaching practice centres on helping dancers develop greater clarity, sensitivity and agency in the body—using weight, space, timing and floor-work pathways as tools for listening, decision-making and embodied awareness. He has taught at institutions including LASALLE College of the Arts and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, alongside other schools and training programmes across Singapore.

Daniel is an internationally renowned and established contemporary dance artist, choreographer and dance teacher. After graduating from Barcelona’s professional national conservatory of dance Institut del Teatre in 2010, he worked with international dance companies for 10 years, including Polish Dance Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, Zurich Opera, Y-Space in Hong Kong and Frontier Danceland in Singapore. He has performed at the Opera Houses of Oslo, Warsaw, Zurich; Saddler’s Wells in London, Kway Tsing Theatre in Hong Kong and Esplanade in Singapore. In 2019, he set up his own company, Dan Lourenco Dance to focus on his own choreography while continuing to work as a freelance dancer for other companies. Most recently he has performed at the Adelaide Fringe Festival; Edinburgh Festival Fringe; Edinburgh International Festival; Danza en la Ciudad (Bogota, Columbia); International Festival Fur Zeitgen-ossischen (Schwarzwald, Germany); CODA (Oslo International Dance Festival), iDance Festival (Hong Kong); Solo Contemporary Dance Festival (Ankara, Turkey). He has been invited as a guest lecturer and choreographer to teach students at globally renowned contemporary dance schools including: Dance Arts Faculty (DAF) (Rome, Italy); the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (Leeds, UK); Rambert (London, UK); YDance (Scottish Youth Dance Company, Glasgow, Scotland); West College Scotland Dance (Glasgow, Scotland); Attakkalari (Bangalore, India); CDDC Dance Centre (Hong Kong); the Institut del Theatre (Barcelona, Spain); CIA Gramo Danse (Panama), Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, School of Dance (Singapore) and the Singapore American School (Singapore). Awards for his works include: 2020, Audience Choice Award at WildDogs Intl Screendance Festival; 2011, L'Estruch award, LAVA award and finalist of the 10th Choreographic Competition of Burgos- NewYork; 2010, 1st award in the I Delmar Choreographic Award of María Carbonell in Valencia, Spain.

Redwan Hamzah is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, and singer-songwriter exploring sound, performance, and technology. His work examines the vibrations that connect time, place, and people — expressed through sound, design, and movement, and guided by improvisation and composition. In 2025, he completed a year-long residency at the National Gallery Singapore, presenting three commissioned works—a tree through time, kami/kamu, and kita — that reconnected him with his Javanese roots, through experimental structures of sound and staging. He has composed for dance, theatre, and film, and performed widely across improvisatory, and popular music contexts. His debut album, Leaves and Children, was recently released in 2025.

Anna Borràs is a Catalan choreographer, dancer, and founder of Anna Borràs Produktion, an interdisciplinary dance company based in Malmö, Sweden. A graduate of Institut del Teatre in Barcelona, she has worked internationally with artists and companies including Alexander Ekman, Akram Khan, IT Dansa, Jasmin Vardimon, Skånes Dansteater, 99 Art Company, Jaberi Dance Theatre, and others. Since founding her choreographic project in 2014, Anna has created and performed work internationally, collaborating with artists, institutions, festivals, and communities across Europe, Asia, Canada and the Americas. Her work combines contemporary dance, physical theatre, and her own movement vocabulary, exploring physical and emo6onal states, contact, kinesthetic awareness, and dance as an embodied form of communication. Anna has received choreographic commissions from institutions and festivals including T.H.E Dance Company / M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival in Singapore, Think Big - a collaboration between TANZtheater INTERNATIONAL Hannover and Staatsoper Hannover, and DanceEUA in Budapest and Croatia. Her work has also been presented and developed through plaforms, festivals, and residencies interna6onally, including Riksteatern Stockholm, Dansini6a6vet (Luleå), Tanzpunkt Hannover, Northern Sustainable Futures, Dansverkstæðið (Reykjávik), La Nave del Duende (Cáceres) and Centro Coreográfico Canal (Madrid). Alongside her artistic practice, Anna teaches workshops and classes based on her movement methodology, working with diverse communities and participants of different ages and physical abilities. Her practice is rooted in the belief that dance can create an accessible, dynamic, and deeply embodied language that connects people beyond physical and social boundaries.