Melissa Ng FINANCE MANAGER
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.

I’m Jingwen and I love moving through techniques and also breaking through them to find where my movement lies for the day/ week/ month. I have been dancing for 24 years rooted in ballet and Chinese dance and eventually branching out into different dance languages. I hope you join me and find ways to enjoy movements in your body!

Faye Tan is a Singaporean dance artist based in the UK. She has a decade of experience working full-time with National Dance Company Wales (UK) and Frontier Danceland (Singapore). Since graduating from Rambert School and VERVE, she has worked closely with over thirty choreographers from all over the world. Faye is an alumni of SOTA and Singapore Ballet Academy. She has worked with choreographers: Melanie Lane, Shahar Binyamini, Marcos Morau, Fearghus O'Conchuir, Matthew William Robinson, Nigel Charnock, Richard Chappell, Anton Lachky, Edouard Hue, Sarah Golding & Yukiko Masui, Theo Clinkard, Thomas Lebrun, Tung I-Fen, Lea Anderson, Caroline Finn, Andrea Costanzo Martini, Fernando Melo, Alexandra Waierstall, Osian Meilir, John William Watson, Chisato Minamimura, Ekleido, Liam Francis, Iván Pérez, Seirian Griffiths, amongst others. In her choreography, Faye uses movement and catharsis to explore the complexities of human emotion. She delicately navigates departures from the wealth-driven, materialistic, consumerist, patriarchial, heteronormative, mononormative, post-colonial, state-led capitalism of her upbringing. Her movement practice is influenced by her experiences as a contemporary repertory dancer and explorations of different dance styles, cultures, methods and techniques such as ballet, house, hip hop, popping, locking, acrobatics and rollerskating. She has choreographed for National Dance Company Wales, VERVE (UK), Frontier Danceland (Singapore), INTOTO (London Studio Centre), the Centre for Advanced Training (UK), Rambert School (UK), House of Tengri (UK), musician Dirk Stromberg, Dingyi Music Company and School of The Arts Singapore. Faye teaches and facilitates dance in various contexts. From introductory workshops to professionals, from private coaching to mass audiences of school children, for participants aged three to ninety-six, for the neurodivergent, the d/Deaf and the disabled.

Neo Hai Bin is a theatre practitioner and a drama educator since 2010. His work spans across age groups, having worked with preschoolers in Creative O, primary school children in schools and at the education branch in The Theatre Practice, and teenagers in SOTA and NYJC CCS, engaging in art-making approach steered by child-centric sensibilities. Neo Hai Bin is a theatre practitioner and a drama educator since 2010. His work spans across age groups, having worked with preschoolers in Creative O, primary school children in schools and at the education branch in The Theatre Practice, and teenagers in SOTA and NYJC CCS, engaging in art-making approach steered by child-centric sensibilities. About: https://linktr.ee/oceanice Art Collective: 微.wei collective https://www.facebook.com/weicollective/ Theatre Review: thea.preter https://theatre-reviews.blogspot.com/

Sammantha Yue is a Singapore-based freelance dance artist, educator, and registered Yoga Teacher (YTT 200). She holds a Diploma in Dance and a BA (First Class Honours) in Dance from LASALLE College of the Arts. From 2016 to 2023, Sammantha was a full-time artist with Frontier Danceland, where she performed and toured internationally across Taiwan, France, Belgium, Germany, and Portugal. She collaborated with a wide range of local and international choreographers and took on creative, teaching, and leadership roles within the company’s outreach and development programmes. As a freelance artist, Sammantha continues to perform, create, and teach. Her recent performance work includes performing in a duet at the FMK Dance Festival in Laos in 2025. Her practice spans performance, choreography, and dance education. Her practice begins from within — an ongoing inquiry into the body as both subject and site. Rooted in curiosity and shaped by lived experience, her work explores how the body inhabits, adapts, and transforms across different contexts of practice. She is drawn to the shifting roles the body can assume — as structure, sensation, and memory — and how these states evolve through time, space, and intention. Movement, for Sammantha, is not fixed but continuously becoming; a negotiation between precision and release, control and listening. Her practice is shaped by sustained physical inquiry and an interest in presence, sensation, and embodiment. As a movement educator, she draws from contemporary and ballet practices, alongside her training in yoga. Her teaching integrates breath, alignment, attention, and physical awareness, inviting participants to explore movement with curiosity while developing sensitivity, adaptability, and presence in the body.

Noah is a movement artist and choreographer bridging theater, movement cultures, and high-profile commercial productions. Experienced in shaping large-scale narrative concepts, multidisciplinary collaborations, and movement direction across stage, screen, and institutional spaces. The core of his philosophy is simple: Essence creates form. By shifting the internal frequency, you change the reality you project into the world.

Ivan is a dynamic choreographer, performer, and dance educator with a career rooted in both classical and contemporary. Known for his versatility and artistic precision, Ivan brings a wealth of stage experience and choreographic insight to every project. He began his formal training at the School of the Arts, Singapore (SOTA), before earning a full scholarship to the prestigious New Zealand School of Dance. There, he honed his craft under internationally acclaimed faculty and deepened his understanding of movement across multiple disciplines. After graduating, Ivan performed with the Music and Drama Company, followed by an extensive tenure with Singapore Ballet. At Singapore Ballet, he was entrusted with soloist roles in numerous world premieres and repertory works, performing across classical and contemporary platforms. His stage presence, musicality, and nuanced performance style consistently earned him critical recognition. Today, Ivan continues to shape the dance landscape as a choreographer and educator, working with institutions, commercial clients, and luxury brands to create compelling movement-based experiences. Whether developing new works, directing movement for campaigns, or mentoring the next generation of dancers, Ivan brings a thoughtful, collaborative, and professional approach to every engagement.

Kevin is a Singaporean-born multidisciplinary artist that focuses on movement based art and large scale artworks. Started street dance at the age of 14, he has been constantly interested in exploring the different movements, forms and workings of the body, which in turn had him to explore more of the visual art aspect of the street culture as he dabbled into graffiti when he was 17. His moniker “KART” is a reminder for him to always be “Keen And Ready To” challenge himself in various aspects of life.

Zhixin Sheng (b. 2001) works across installation, image-making, writing and interior design. Her ongoing practice engages with the negotiation between movement, space and interiority, as well as narratives of memory and relationality. She is interested in the boundary and interplay between and across mediums specially between image and text, movement and photo-sculpture — how different conceptions of boundary challenge and morph our sensibility. She graduated from Yale-NUS College in 2025, where she majored in Arts & Humanities, with a focus on art practice and creative writing. She is currently working further on her text-and-image work The Sensualist: A Book of Prayer and developing her first immersive moving-image installation work.

Shao is the impulsive and neurotic half of local analogue techno duo We Hate Deejays, and organizer for Singapore’s dark alternative cybergoth collective BlackLight Tribe. A convergence of experiences with club music, rock, and hip-hop dance led him to a burgeoning fascination with bass frequencies and their power to compel movement and trigger emotion. Wielding an eclectic array of anxiety-inducing electronic sounds, he explores the ability of music to express and bring catharsis to dark, negative emotions that are taboo in polite everyday company.

Klynn is drawn to the ways in which seemingly distinct disciplines intertwine, and the possibilities that unfold when different forms meet. She is curious about the quiet, in-between moments where boundaries soften, meanings shift, and unexpected connections find their way into being. Through play, experimentation and collaboration, she hopes to explore these relationships as a form of world-building, weaving together visualscapes and soundscapes that invite us to see, hear and feel the familiar with a renewed sense of wonder.

Faith is a Singapore-based textile artist and fashion designer working across textiles, fashion, objects and installation. Drawing from lived experience and the visual language of her surroundings, she uses humour, material experimentation and hands-on making to transform familiar things into something slightly strange. Her work uses playfulness to question assumptions and invite closer observation of the systems and objects we often overlook.

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.

Adele is a Singapore-based contemporary dancer, teacher and choreographer, working in various contexts and with diverse bodies, including dancers with disabilities. Adele’s movement practice is constantly evolving, but has strong influences from somatic-based techniques, Gaga and Flying Low. She enjoys improvisation, spontaneity and play. In recent years, she has created, collaborated and performed for different platforms including M1 Contact Contemporary dance Festival, Arts in Your Neighbourhood, ArtScience Late at Home, da:ns festival and Odoru-Akita Dance Festival. From 2013-2018, she was also a company artist with Frontier Danceland.

Oliver Chong is a Singapore theatre-maker whose work has been central to redefining puppetry as a contemporary performance discipline in Asia. A playwright, director, actor, puppeteer, and designer, he holds the record for the highest number of Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards nominations across disciplines, with 30 nominations and six wins. From 2004 to 2026, he was a central artistic force at The Finger Players, where he developed a body of work that expanded puppetry beyond its conventional associations, establishing it as a form capable of political, emotional, and visual complexity. His major works include the solo trilogy Roots, A Fiend’s Diary, and Every Brilliant Thing, and the Citizen trilogy, comprising Citizen Pig, Citizen Dog, and Citizen X. His works have been presented internationally across Asia, Europe, and Australasia. Chong currently works independently across directing, writing, and pedagogy. His recent projects include Animal Farm (Singapore International Festival of Arts 2025) and Tall Tales: Bananas and Ang Ku Kuehs, a Singapore–Taiwan co-commission with Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group, which premiered at Esplanade’s Huayi Festival in 2026 and will tour to Taiwan in 2027.

George (they/them) is an artist, designer and maker from Abergavenny, South Wales. Their practice spans sculpture, performance and costume design, utilising sewing to explore themes of the body, belonging, landscape and queerness. Alongside their visual arts practice they specialise in costume design for contemporary dance works which informs and expands their practice of working with the body. George’s work has been platformed by organisations such as g39, National Museum Cardiff, Chapter Gallery, National Dance Company Wales, Green Man Festival and their costume work has been part of programmes that have toured nationally and internationally to leading organisations and festivals of dance. George is currently Creative Associate with National Dance Company Wales until 2028. www.georgehamptonwale.com

Richard Chappell is an internationally renowned choreographer. Since 2013, Richard has lead his own ensemble Richard Chappell Dance as a platform for his choreographic research and critically acclaimed performance work. Based between Wales and the South West of England, Richard is currently a commissioned artist for Swindon Dance and Associate Artist at Exeter Northcott. Prior to this, Richard was a Resident Artist for Dance in Devon and Discovery Artist at Pavilion Dance South West. Richard's creative process is rooted in collaboration, co-authorship and emotional connectivity. Richard also loves to work in community settings, creating ambitious choreography for large intergenerational community casts with organisations such as Dance Blast, Dance in Devon and Torbay Culture. As a guest choreographer, Richard has created work for renowned dance companies and theatres, including the Royal Opera House, Stuttgart Ballet, National Dance Company Wales, BalletWorks, English National Ballet, Belfast Ensemble, Transitions Dance Company and Frontier Danceland (Singapore). For institutions, Richard has created works for Rambert School, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore) and Chichester University. Focusing on contemporary technique, improvisation and choreography, Richard has guest lectured for renowned course, including Rambert School, ArtEz Institute of the Arts (Holland), Lasalle College of Arts (Singapore), Singapore School of the Arts, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Bath Spa University and Tring Park School. As a community dance artist, Richard has five years of experience working as an inclusive arts facilitator and support worker for ROC Creative, alongside delivering regular workings to young people with learning difficulties, through Lifeworks and Dance in Devon. Richard works regularly with young people through organisations such as One Dance UK, National Youth Ballet and the Centre of Advanced Training programmes at Dance City, Swindon Dance and DanceXchange. Richard has undertaken artistic research through National Dance Company Wales, Studio Wayne McGregor and Surf the Wave and is a former lead artist on PDSW’s Young Choreographers Programme. His professional training consisted of the Royal Ballet School's Associates program, Tring Park School and BA(Hons) from Rambert School.

Born in Singapore, Christina studied at The Boston Conservatory and was awarded the prestigious Arthur B. Whitney Medal for highest scholastic achievement after previously training at The New Zealand School of Dance.   Her work in dance has taken her around the world, to Asia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, USA and Africa; working with artists including, Stephanie Lake, Sita Ostheimer, Byron Perry, Liu Yen Cheng, Matej Kejzar, Stephanie Batten Bland, Noa Zuk, Shahar Binyamini, Wallie Wolfgruber, Gabrielle Nankivell, Victor Fung, Lewis Major, Russell Maliphant, Aymeric Bichon and more.  At home, Christina has been working with Singapore Ballet, previously Singapore Dance Theatre, since 2011, creating 8 repertory works for the company for company seasons and festivals Dans Fest and Singapore International Festival for the Arts. She was previously a full-time artist and the rehearsal director at Frontier Danceland where she created numerous repertory works. She has also created work for NAFA, Lasalle and Sigma Contemporary Dance, where she is currently resident choreographer.  Featured as “upcoming dance artist of the year to watch” in 2012 by local newspaper Lianhe Zaobao and in Prestige magazine’s “nation’s brightest 40 under 40, 2013” and was also the Honouree in the 2015 JCI TOYP outstanding young persons award in the category of cultural achievement.

ScRach MarcS (Rach and Marc) represents a new wave of street art in Singapore and beyond. With a foundation in classic street dance styles, the duo's focus is on creative movement and exploration beyond the labels that define genre. ScRach MarcS hopes to constantly innovate and push artistic boundaries through works that are a celebration of movement and expression, reflecting the here and now. As active practitioners who engage in an extensive range of performance formats, they blend their knowledge of relevancy with a deeper reflection - where the viscerality of movements contain the rich embodied knowledge. Their works are constantly in conversation between the vernacular perspective and the critical provocation of hierarchy, challenging how power shifts across various spheres - from San Francisco Hip Hop International Festival (USA), Street Jam (KR), Street Dance of China (CN), Japan Dance Delight (JP) to the Singaporean landscape; Singapore International Festival of the Arts (SIFA), Dan:s Festival (Esplanade), Night Festival, F1 Singapore GrandPrix, Contact Festival and various commissioned works. scrachmarcs.com instagram.com/scrachmarcs

Sze is a dance maker, film maker, sometime trouble maker, parent, writer and activist. When they first shared weight, they knew they had found home! Sze has found community in CI since 2011, facilitating and teaching CI since 2012 in Singapore and internationally. A fundamental part of Sze’s CI practice is in Body Politics, integrating a somatic understanding of the body with the wider context of how we move in society, how we perceive ourselves and are perceived, how we experience privilege, ability, identity, association and discrimination.

Ahmad Kamil is a director, art maker, and educator whose two-decade practice focuses on translating street dance into an intentional theatrical language. Raised under the influence of Cultural Medallion recipient Almahdi Al-Haj (Nadiputra), Kamil utilizes a unique sensitivity to narrative to reconcile contemporary practice with his Singaporean-born Malay roots. Renowned for pushing the creative potential of street dance, he pushes for alternative choreographic processes that elevate individuality, craft, and innovation. Guided by the principle that nurturing the self empowers the collective, saya. builds intentional spaces for individuals to investigate their identities through movement—fostering a culture of expression, reflection, and mutual growth. With two decades of experience, Kamil’s pedagogical and choreographic impact spans leading institutions including the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, and Temasek Polytechnic, where he is widely respected for his mentorship and artistic insight. Between 2023 and 2026, he produced an exceptional body of 11 full-length works, including Apa? and Arus, and represented Singapore as Chief Choreographer for the ASEAN Festival of Arts (2024). As the founder of the movement collective saya., he is dedicated to formalizing the intersection of street dance and theatre as a sustainable, sophisticated discipline for the global stage.

Nathanael Ng is a Singapore-based movement artist and multidisciplinary creative working across dance, installation, costume design & fashion Guided by authenticity, his practice is rooted in Punking, Whacking, and street styles, blending boundary-pushing movement with somatic awareness, storytelling, and embodied exploration. Beyond the stage, Nathanael creates immersive installations, fashion projects, and community-led experiences that celebrate queerness, play, and collective spirit. As a former member of the streetwear collective MASH-UP, he has contributed to visual arts and installation projects including D/SINI Outdoor Visual Arts Festival (2018) and the Singapore Night Festival (2024). As collaborator of The Open Circle & the Mismatch collective , Nathanael cultivates spaces for experimentation where dancers, artists, and communities come together through dialogue, curiosity, and care. His work bridges nightlife and the arts, creating environments that challenge social norms while fostering connection and self-discovery. For Nathanael, movement is not just performance, but an offering- one that invites others into deeper connection with themselves and each other.

Miao is a wearable artist, costume designer and movement practitioner fascinated by the ways objects can reshape our relationship with the body. Working across adornment, sculpture and performance, she creates surreal, exaggerated forms that blur the boundaries between body and object. Informed by her background in contemporary dance, she approaches making through movement, touch and material experimentation, exploring how wearables can become extensions, interruptions or collaborators of the performing body. Her practice is driven by a curiosity for the unfamiliar physical possibilities that emerge when materials are allowed to move, resist and transform alongside us.

Dawn is an ethnographer and creative who cares about the bonds between human and non-human. With primarily a writing and performance art practice, they collage postures, objects, ideas as a way of knowing, with the hope of blooming felt and visceral wisdoms. Through the flurry of today's algorithmic and surveilled world, Dawn asks how we might remain porous, attentive, imaginative, and importantly, caring for what’s in front of us.

Alyssa Li is a contemporary dancer and researcher with an eclectic background in Human-Computer Interaction. Her movement practice draws primarily from contemporary release technique, improvisation, and somatics, and she loves to explore the role of dance when combined with text, theatre, and technology.