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Artistic Director's Message
Fifteen years ago, Sigma started rather simply — a group of friends who wanted to continue exploring contemporary dance together. There was no grand plan for what Sigma would become. There was simply a desire to keep dancing, keep learning, and keep inquiring.
Fifteen years later, that spirit of curiosity continues to be at the heart of what we do.
Today, Sigma is a growing community that extends from our introductory, beginner to intermediate public classes, to our youth programme, our company, faculty and associates. We may enter through different doors and have different relationships with dance, but the ethos remains the same: to ignite curiosity, to create connections through movement, and to make space for people to discover something new about themselves and each other.
MAGIS celebrates not just fifteen years of performances, but fifteen years of practice. Fifteen years of people showing up, sharing knowledge, taking risks, and building something unexpected together.
Tonight, we are also celebrating courage.
The courage to step onto a stage for the very first time. The courage to return to dance after a break. And the courage to move beyond what we think we already know.
Every dancer on this stage has taken some kind of leap to be here, and collectively landed, at the same time, on this stage in front of you.
I am deeply grateful to everyone who has been part of Sigma's journey — those who have danced with us, taught with us, created with us, supported us, and those who have simply walked through our doors and given dance a place in their lives.
Thank you for continuing to show up.
And thank you for being part of the next chapter.
Hong Guofeng
Artistic Director, Sigma
About MAGIS
MAGIS is Sigma's first recital in fifteen years. Bringing together its Community Dancers, Youth Wing, Company Dancers, Faculty and Associate Artists, the production returns to the heart of Sigma: a reminder to continue making time for what we love, to honour the discipline of a shared practice, and the art of coming together through dance.
The programme presents a collection of original choreographic works by Sigma's artistic team, performed by a diverse cast whose lives extend far beyond the studio. Featuring over 50 dancers aged 21 to 56, MAGIS brings together one of the largest casts ever assembled for a contemporary dance production in Singapore. Together, they bring different experiences, perspectives, and stories to the stage –– professional artists, students, working professionals, parents, teachers, and dancers from all walks of life, each bringing their own histories, perspectives, and presence to the work.
Derived from the Latin word meaning “more,” “greater,” or “beyond,” MAGIS explores the collective energy that emerges when bodies gather, move, and create together.
Directed by:
Hong Guofeng
Featuring works by:
Christina Chan, Chua Chiok Woon, Hong Guofeng, Mélaine Raulet, Sammantha Yue
Performed by:
Angeline Choong, Au Shu Qi, Bernice Liau, Callie Chan, Caroline Ong, Christina Chan, Chua Chiok Woon, Clarissa Peh, Coco Yau, Daniel Navarro Lorenzo, Dianne Loh, Emily Leong, Ernest Yim, Ezafarashia, Foo Qi En, Glenys Emily, Hong Guofeng, How Xian Wei, Ignatius Sim, IIya Ling, Ivan Koh, Jasmine Goh, Joel Auw, Khoo Li Pei, Klynn Tan, Kong Weijie, Laura Heng, Leanne Tan, Lee De Yi, Leong Kit Yee, Leslie Quek, Phuong Hoang Linh, Marcus Foo, Marilyn Kang, Maslyn Choo, Mélaine Raulet, Nah Jiemin, Ng Aik Song, Olivia Evelyn Maria, Raymond Leung, Sammantha Yue, Serena Lim, Sharon Tan, Stephanie Yeo, Tammie Tan, Tan Yu Xin, Teoh Jie Yu, Tia Isabel Solanki, Tracey Toh, Vivyan Yeo, Wu Juan Siong, Xanthe Hwang.
Lighting design:
Darren Lee
Item Synopses
#1
Second Nature
Choreographed by: Hong Guofeng
They liked people, but only in measured doses. They cherished solitude, though sometimes solitude became loneliness. They wanted to be free—to move, to change, to disappear and return as someone slightly different. Yet they were always looking for something to hold onto, something worth staying for. They could bend when life demanded it, but there was a stubbornness beneath the flexibility, a quiet refusal to be defined by circumstance.
Beneath the panic, the anger, the heaviness that sometimes arrived uninvited, there was still movement. A restlessness. A pulse. Something alive, waiting patiently for permission to emerge.
Dancers:
Callie Chan, Clarissa Peh, Dianne Loh, Laura Heng, Lee De Yi, Ng Aik Song, Sharon Tan, Tan Yu Xin, Tia Isabel Solanki, Wu Juan Siong, Xanthe Hwang
Music:
Born, Never Asked - Laurie Anderson
Dogov Godov - Driftmachine
Transition
by: Hong Guofeng, Chua Chiok Woon & Mélaine Raulet
#2
Kerama
Choreographed by: Mélaine Raulet
Kerama is the name given to the blue of the Okinawa sea—a deep, soothing, and comforting blue that creates a magical atmosphere. It evokes the feeling that, as you gaze at this Kerama-hued sea, everything simply evaporates, giving way to calm and serenity. The waves sweep away one's thoughts; the foam dissolves all anxieties.
This is what Kerama is about: the power of a color, the beauty of a landscape, and the restorative nature of contemplation. It speaks of fluid bodies held back by stagnant thoughts and motionless wounds—and of the movement of water, allowing one to breathe freely once more.
Dancers:
Ernest Yim, Ignatius Sim, Leanne Tan, Leslie Quek, Phuong Hoang Linh, Olivia Evelyn Maria, Teoh Jie Yu
Music:
Océan mer - Jacob Perotto and Mélaine Raulet
Odyssey - Rival Consoles
#3
Here, Again.
Choreographed by: Chua Chiok Woon
Each week, different bodies gather to practise the strange yet familiar act of contemporary dance. No two bodies move alike, yet each arrives with a willingness to listen, respond, and explore.
This short choreography asks a simple yet complex question: Why do we dance?
Perhaps to discover what the body already knows. Perhaps to meet one another, briefly, in motion. Perhaps to communicate with ourselves. Or perhaps simply because something in us longs to move—and to move together.
Dancers:
Angeline Choong, Callie Chan, How Xian Wei, Ilya Ling, Raymond Leung, Stephanie Yeo
Music:
Endless Story About Sun and Moon - Kai Engel
Walk the Path - Adrien Casalis
Transition
by: Christina Chan & Ivan Koh
Transition music:
Beautiful Things (The Goldfinch Official Soundtrack) - Trevor Gureckis
#4
Without Arrival
Choreographed by: Sammantha Yue
We move through moments of waiting, transition and uncertainty—waiting for someone, for something to happen, or simply for time to pass. Within these seemingly quiet moments, time can stretch, pause or shift in unexpected ways. Bodies move, pause, return and remain, creating spaces between action and stillness. Through these intervals, the work invites us to notice the small changes that happen within and around us, and to consider what it means to simply stay within a moment.
Dancers:
Caroline Ong, Ezafarashia, Khoo Li Pei, Maslyn Choo, Raymond Leung, Serena Lim
Music:
Box of Lamb - Philip Jeck
Cognitive Shift - Roger Goula
5 115 - Michael Wall
Transition
by: Daniel Navarro Lorenzo, Marcus Foo, Sammantha Yue
Transition music:
Walking and Falling - Laurie Anderson
#5
At the Very Next Moment
Choreographed by: Hong Guofeng
A gesture becomes a habit. A habit becomes a rule. A rule is quietly replaced.
What begins as a simple way of moving gradually takes on a life of its own, as bodies observe, imitate, adapt and wander into something unexpected.
At the Very Next Moment is a whimsical encounter with a world that is always becoming something else.
Dancers:
Dianne Loh, Glenys Emily, Jasmine Goh, Joel Auw, Marilyn Kang, Tammie Tan, Tracey Toh, Wu Juan Siong, Xanthe Hwang
Music:
s'Rothe-Zäuerli - Öse Schuppel
Aphrodite - Siddhartha Khosla
#6
Saturday Afternoons
Choreographed by: Christina Chan
It’s been wonderful to have this time together with this diverse cast of Sigma members at different stages of their lives and relationships with dance.
This work explores the simple pleasures of a Saturday rehearsal. Journeying together, embracing individuality within the group and finding freedom through support.
Dancing through life.
Dancers:
Au Shu Qi, Bernice Liau, Chua Chiok Woon, Coco Yau, Emily Leong, Foo Qi En,
Klynn Tan, Kong Weijie, Leong Kit Yee, Nah Jiemin, Vivyan Yeo
Music:
The Best Things In Life Are Free - Jack Hylton Orchestra
The Gates Made Plain - Craig Leon.mp3
The Best Things in Life Are Free - Nellie McKay
Transition
by: Marcus Foo
Transition music:
MBCST - Drew McDowall
#7
Finale
Choreographed by: Faculty & Associate Artists
Everybody, together, one last time.
Dancers:
Angeline Choong, Au Shu Qi, Bernice Liau, Callie Chan, Caroline Ong, Christina Chan, Chua Chiok Woon, Clarissa Peh, Coco Yau, Daniel Navarro Lorenzo, Dianne Loh, Emily Leong, Ernest Yim, Ezafarashia, Foo Qi En, Glenys Emily, Hong Guofeng, How Xian Wei, Ignatius Sim, Ilya Ling, Ivan Koh, Jasmine Goh, Joel Auw, Khoo Li Pei, Klynn Tan, Kong Weijie, Laura Heng, Leanne Tan, Lee De Yi, Leong Kit Yee, Leslie Quek, Phuong Hoang Linh, Marcus Foo, Marilyn Kang, Maslyn Choo, Mélaine Raulet, Nah Jiemin, Ng Aik Song, Olivia Evelyn Maria, Raymond Leung, Sammantha Yue, Serena Lim, Sharon Tan, Stephanie Yeo, Tammie Tan, Tan Yu Xin, Tia Isabel Solanki, Teoh Jie Yu, Tracey Toh, Vivyan Yeo, Wu Juan Siong, Xanthe Hwang
Music:
III. Sequence (Three) - Peter Gregson, Warren Zielinkski, Magdalena Filipczak, Meghan Cassidy, Richard Harwood
Sequence Four (Arr. for Orchestra by Peter Gregson) - Annabelle Traves
MAGIS Artistic Team
Hong Guofeng
Artistic Director, Choreographer
Guofeng is an independent artist and Artistic Director of Sigma Contemporary Dance and SMU Indancity. Since Sigma’s inception, he has shaped its distinct identity within Singapore’s dance landscape through a choreographic approach that extends beyond conventional stages.
His artistic practice centres on improvisation, experimentation, and the accumulation of structure over time, often engaging the body as a site of negotiation, memory, and presence. Working across stage, site-specific, and digital contexts, he explores how movement can emerge through constraint, persistence, and subtle shifts in attention, creating works that are immersive, durational, and attentive to the relationships between performers, space, and audience.
Christina Chan
Choreographer
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.
Chua Chiok Woon
Choreographer
A founding member and performing dance artist with Sigma Contemporary Dance, Chiok has performed in every work by the company since its inception. She has worked with choreographers including Hong Guofeng, Christina Chan, and Marcus Foo, Jessica Christina and Chou Shu-Yi, while her independent work has brought her to festivals and performances across Asia.
Chiok teaches ballet and contemporary dance to individuals of all ages at Sigma Collective Space and Z.en Ballet, which she co-founded. Driven by curiosity about human connection and a desire to move, she remains open to discovery through the different ways she performs, teaches, and creates.
She is interested in what can emerge when people move, respond, and create in relation to one another. These encounters—whether in the studio, on stage, in the classroom, or in everyday life—continue to shape the way she moves, creates, and experiences the world.
Sammantha Yue
Choreographer
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.
Mélaine Raulet
Choreographer
Mélaine is a dancer, choreographer, and performer who explores every boundary of the moving body. She trained at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional of Versailles and Cergy in Jazz and Contemporary Dance, at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris in Laban movement notation, and at the University of Lille in improvisation and choreographic composition.
There, she encountered the work of Carolyn Carlson, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Cloud Gate, Christian Rizzo, Myriam Gourfink, and Bruce Taylor through workshops, as well as Akram Khan, Maguy Marin, Pina Bausch, and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker through repertoire performances. She also delved into the vocabulary of Postmodern Dance through Laban scores.
She later founded her own contemporary dance company, choosing to explore the connection between literature and dance. Through this company, she develops hybrid performances that unfold both indoors and outdoors—because she is convinced that art touches more people when it steps outside, at the corner of a street or in a park.
Mélaine’s choreographic aesthetic is, above all, a dance of listening and connection. Gaze meets gaze. Skin meets skin. Skin meets floor. Body meets breath. Her choreographies embrace, entwine, wound, throw, carry, laugh, live, and dance themselves.
Darren Lee
Lighting Designer
Darren is a home-grown Singaporean Lighting Designer.
With more than 13 years of experience in the industry and a specialization in stage lighting, he has been and is still a part of various companies and spaces in the events, entertainment and theatrical scenes performing both creative and technical roles.
He has had the wonderful opportunity to collaborate and journey with entities such as
Singapore Chinese Dance Theatre, NUS Chinese Dance, The Esplanade Co Ltd, Checkpoint Theatre, Sigma Contemporary Dance, Frontier Danceland, NAFA, SOTA and many more.
Marcus Foo
Associate Artist
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.
Ivan Koh
Associate Artist
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.
Daniel Navarro Lorenzo
Associate Artist
Daniel Navarro Lorenzo (Barcelona, Spain) is an award-winning international choreographer and dance artist whose career includes work in more than 15 countries across Europe, Asia, the United States, and Australia.
A graduate of the Professional Conservatoire of Dance at Institut del Teatre in Barcelona 2010, Daniel has performed with leading dance companies including Frontier Danceland (Singapore), Phoenix Dance Theatre (UK), Polish Dance Theatre, Dantzaz Konpainia (Spain), and Y-Space (Hong Kong). Throughout his performing career, he has danced with internationally renowned choreographers including Ohad Naharin, Itzik Galili, Jo Strømgren or Shahar Binyamini among others.
As a choreographer, Daniel’s work is driven by physical intensity, emotional expression, and a deep interest in the human experience. His creations explore the relationship between the body, emotion, and storytelling, combining explosive physicality with nuanced and expressive movement language. His work has been presented internationally at festivals and venues including the Busan International Dance Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Riverside Theatre Sydney, International Dance Festival New Orleans in US, Akiha International Dance Festival in Japan, and Tramway Glasgow.
Daniel’s choreographic, teaching, and educational practice has led to collaborations, commissions, and residencies with leading institutions, universities, and dance organisations across the world. These include NAFA and LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore), K-Arts Korea National University of Arts (Seoul), Dance Arts Faculty (Rome), University of Taipei (Taiwan), Institut del Teatre (Barcelona), Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts (Bangalore), AMPA at the University of Sydney or Faculty and guest artist at Sigma Contemporary Dance, among others He has also worked with professional companies including Boston Dance Theater (USA), Nephrite Dance Company (Japan), AUSTI. Dance & Physical Theatre (Australia), Flyout dance company (Rome, Italy), Polish Dance Theatre (Poland), Y-DANCE (Youth Scottish national dance company) and Frontier Danceland (Singapore) among others.
Through his continuing work as both performer and creator, Daniel develops a distinctive choreographic voice that brings together dynamic physicality, emotional depth, poetic sensibility, and sophisticated storytelling, creating work that connects with audiences across cultural and artistic contexts.
MAGIS Cast
#1
Second Nature
[From Tuesday Intermediate Open Class]
Top L - R: Sharon Tan, Lee De Yi, Xanthe Hwang, Dianne Loh, Wu Juan Siong, Ng Aik Song.
Bottom L.- R: Callie Chan, Laura Heng, Clarissa Peh, Tan Yu Xin, Tia Isabel Solanki.
#2
Kerama
[From Sigma Youth Wing]
Ernest Yim, Ignatius Sim, Leanne Tan, Leslie Quek, Phuong Hoang Linh, Olivia Evelyn Maria, Teoh Jie Yu.
#3
Here, Again.
[From Sunday Beginner Class]
Top L - R: Angeline Choong, Callie Chan, Ilya Ling, Stephanie Yeo.
Bottom L - R: Raymond Leung, How Xian Wei.
#4
Without Arrival
[From Monday Intro Class]
Top L - R: Serena Lim, Maslyn Choo, Caroline Ong.
Bottom L - R: Khoo Li Pei, Raymond Leung, Ezafarashia.
#5
At the Very Next Moment
[From Thursday Beginner - Intermediate Open Class]
L - R: Marilyn Kang, Joel Auw, Tammie Tan, Jasmine Goh, Wu Juan Siong, Dianne Loh, Xanthe Hwang, Glenys Emily, Tracey Toh.
#6
Saturday Afternoons
[From Sigma Company]
Emily Leong, Bernice Liau, Foo Qi En, Chua Chiok Woon, Klynn Tan, Leong Kit Yee, Coco Yau, Kong Weijie, Vivyan Yeo, Nah Jiemin, Au Shu Qi.
Production Team
Chen Wanxin
Production Manager
Peter Teo
Stage Manager
Darren Ho
Assistant Stage Manager
Chua Chiok Woon
Marketing Manager
Melissa Ng
Finance Manager
Rachel Lucia
Intern
Special Thanks
Photographers:
Alex Chua, Burke Raby, Kuang Jingkai, Peh Lian Soon & Vincent.
To all our dancers, faculty, production team, photographers, collaborators and supporters —
our heartfelt thanks to everyone who has been part of this journey and continues to make Sigma what it is today.
Photos in this programme by: Alex Chua & Burke Raby
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