Artists - 14

Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Lavanderia a Vapore and Spazio Kor

Chang Theatre

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay

National Taichung Theater

Salihara Arts Center

HORSE

Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Lavanderia a Vapore and Spazio Kor

Chang Theatre

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay

National Taichung Theater

Salihara Arts Center

HORSE

Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Lavanderia a Vapore and Spazio Kor

Chang Theatre

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay

National Taichung Theater

Salihara Arts Center

HORSE

Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Lavanderia a Vapore and Spazio Kor

Chang Theatre

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay

National Taichung Theater

Salihara Arts Center

HORSE

Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Lavanderia a Vapore and Spazio Kor

Chang Theatre

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay

National Taichung Theater

Salihara Arts Center

HORSE

Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Lavanderia a Vapore and Spazio Kor

Chang Theatre

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay

National Taichung Theater

Salihara Arts Center

HORSE

Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Lavanderia a Vapore and Spazio Kor

Chang Theatre

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay

National Taichung Theater

Salihara Arts Center

HORSE

Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Lavanderia a Vapore and Spazio Kor

Chang Theatre

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay

National Taichung Theater

Salihara Arts Center

HORSE

Artist /
Amina Amici

Amina has danced with Deja Donne (Sandroni/Flory), Rodisio Company, Cie l’Estuaire, Carolyn Carlson at the CCN of Roubaix Nord – Pas De Calais amongst others and collaborates with Tetraktis Percussioni. She was an actress, dancer and singer for Studio D’action Théâtrale in Geneva, directed by Gabriel Alvarez from 2011-2016. She is an author and dancer of the Zerogrammi Company directed by Stefano Mazzotta since 2017.

Artist /
Elena Sgarbossa

Elena’s artistic path weaves choreographic processes and experimentation with research and movement projects for communities. In 2018, she approached choreography with KEO winning DNAppunti Coreografici. As a performer she has collaborated with Marco D’Agostin, Masako Matsushita, Yasmeen Godder, Nora Chipaumire, Chiara Frigo, and Davide Valrosso.

Artist /
Manuel Martin

Manuel is a choreographer, independent dancer and B-boy. Born in Madrid in 1981, he graduated from the Maria de Àvila Superior Dance Conservatory (Madrid) with a Bachelor’s Degree in Choreography while developing his technique of B-boying as part of the Vandals crew and was part of the Dani Pannullo Dance Theatre and Antonio Ruz dance company. Together with Rebeca García Celdrán, he created mymadder, a company based in Spain in 2010. He works on new productions of Zerogrammi dance theatre in Italy since 2019.

Artist /
Marigia Maggipinto

Marigia has danced for Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater and was involved in creating new works for the company from 1989 – 1999. She often returns as a guest artist with them including Tanztheather festivals in 2000, 2001, 2002. She has worked with US-based Mutation Theater Project, and has taught at Duke University. She now leads workshops around the world and works on new dance projects with many different artists.

Dramaturg /
Greta Pieropan

Greta has a background in Modern Philology and Literature Studies, with a focus on journalism and live performing arts. She works with festivals and dance companies on communicating dance to professional and non-professional audiences. Her personal research includes dance dramaturgy as a tool for the creative process and for developing a positive exchange between artists and audiences and researching new narratives for contemporary dance.

Commentator /
Susan Sentler

Susan is an independent artist, choreographer, educator, researcher, director, dramaturg, curator and performer, working globally in and around the field of dance and performance for over 30 years. Susan’s practice is trans-disciplinary, anchored by a honed somatic relationship to image. She focuses on gallery/museum contexts creating “responses” or “activations” as well as durational installations orchestrating moving/still image, objects, sound and absence/presence of the performing body.

Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Lavanderia a Vapore and Spazio Kor

Chang Theatre

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay

National Taichung Theater

Salihara Arts Center

HORSE

Artist /
Kornkarn Rungsawang

(Dancer with Pichet Klunchun Dance Company since 2010) Kornkarn represents a new generation of dance artists who wants to bridge the gap between traditional and contemporary dance. She has collaborated in the creation of new work with artists internationally. Parallel to her work as a dancer-choreographer, she has searched for new possibilities of movement by creating space for exchange of thoughts with the body.

Artist /
Ratchai Rujiwipatna

Ratchai is a core member of Babymime, a miming trio from Thailand. Their superb comic alike performance is easy to understand and guarantees great fun and laughter for the young and old. They have an annual showcase in Bangkok and participate in festivals across Asia & Europe.

Artist /
Sineenadh Keitprapai

Sineenadh is an established theatre actor, director, and performing arts teacher. Her work employs various techniques and styles, including non-realism, movement-based performance, physical theatre, devising performance, and butoh. Most of her works explore and reflect women’s issues, women’s bodies, and social concerns. She is currently a guest lecturer at several universities and the artistic director of Crescent Moon Theatre, Thailand.

Dramaturg /
Pichet Klunchun

Pichet bridges Thai classical dance with contemporary sensibility while keeping the heart of the convention. He founded Pichet Klunchun Dance Company in 2010 to create contemporary art performance with dancers with Thai classical dance backgrounds. Since 2010, Pichet and his company has participated in performing arts festivals in North America, Europe and Asia.

He was awarded the Routes’ ECF Princess Margriet Award for Cultural Diversity from European Cultural Foundation in 2008, The Chevalier of the French Arts and Literature Order from the French Ministry of Culture in 2012 and the John D. Rockefeller 3rd Award by the Asian Cultural Council in 2014.

Commentator /
Pawit Mahasarinand

The first Southeast Asian member of the executive committee of International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC), Pawit is an adjunct professor in cultural management and transdisciplinary in performing arts at Chulalongkorn University. Previously, he was director of Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) and Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts.

Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Lavanderia a Vapore and Spazio Kor

Chang Theatre

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay

National Taichung Theater

Salihara Arts Center

HORSE

Artist /
Daniel Kok

Daniel is a choreographer based in Singapore. In 2008, he was awarded the Young Artist Award for Dance by the National Arts Council. His performances have been presented across Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. He is the artistic director of Dance Nucleus (Singapore) and curates the annual da:ns LAB at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay.

Artist /
Hasyimah Harith

Hasyimah is a Malay-Muslim female artist who performs, choreographs and teaches traditional Malay dance. Using her body as the starting point, Hasyimah works with the Malay identity and female sexuality, as a way to reclaim agency over her body. Her working method involves strategies of pleasure, vulnerability and confession.

Artist /
Rizman Putra

Rizman graduated with a Master of Arts (Fine Arts) from LASALLE College of the Arts in 2007, and has been actively straddling between performance, visual arts and music for the last two decades. He is the founder of the electronic outfit, NADA, and is currently an Associate Artist with Cake Theatrical Productions.

Artist /
Sandhya Suresh

Sandhya graduated with a BA(Hons) degree in Dance from LASALLE College of the Arts. She is currently Associate Artistic Director of CHOWK Productions in Singapore. She also choreographs her own work, such as the recent Body Language I, II and III (2020), an exploration of the classical form of odissi on a contemporary body.

Dramaturg /
Shawn Chua

Shawn Chua is a researcher and artist engaged with embodied archives, uncanny personhoods, and the participatory frameworks of play. He holds an MA in Performance Studies from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and is a recipient of the National Arts Council’s Arts Scholarship (Postgraduate).

Commentator /
Charlene Rajendran

Charlene Rajendran is a theatre educator, dramaturg and practitioner at the National Institute of Education – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is Co-Director of Asian Dramaturgs’ Network (ADN) and Lead Editor of ADN Re/View. As a practice-led academic she publishes in varied spaces and works on interdisciplinary and community arts projects.

Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Lavanderia a Vapore and Spazio Kor

Chang Theatre

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay

National Taichung Theater

Salihara Arts Center

HORSE

Artist /
Anastasia Melati

Anastasia is currently a PhD student in Dance Studies at the Graduate Institute of Dance, Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA). Her research dissertation project is about dance (performance) and performativity of Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan.

Artist /
Liu I-ling

I-ling is a contemporary dance artist originally from Taiwan. She received a BFA from Taipei National University of the Arts and was a member of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company for 11 years. I-Ling has been creating and displaying her works as well as collaborating with visual artists, photographers, composers, directors and actors in theatre and film.

Artist /
Tien Hsiao-tzu

Hsiao-tzu focuses choreography research on human emotions shaped by time, history, culture and environment. She attempts to cut away the contradictions and labels that hinder self-exploration, and uncover powerful emotions deposited in the body. Her work The Hole has been presented at Avignon Off and Shenzhen Contemporary Theatre Biennale.

Artist /
Wang Ning

Born in 1991, Ning is a contemporary dancer and choreographer from Taipei, Taiwan. Launching a series of experiments about dance making, her solo debut, 15-minute Proposal of Movements (2020) questions the pure presence of dancer’s body. In her current choreography practice, Ning attempts to explore the embodiment of democracy from the individual to the community.

Director /
Tora Hsu

Born in 1985, Tora is a Taiwan-based theatre director, playwright and artist. He is the artistic director and co-founder of 4 CHAIRS THEATRE whose main interest lies in devising theatre and contemporary plays.

Dramaturg /
Tang Fu-kuen

Fu Kuen is currently Artistic Director of the Taipei Arts Festival, Taiwan. He was an independent dramaturg, curator and producer active in contemporary performance and visual fields in Europe and Asia. He curated Ming Wong’s solo exhibition for the Singapore Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale which was awarded Special Jury Mention. The platforms he has worked for include Singapore Arts Festival; Indonesian Dance Festival; In-Transit Festival, Berlin, Germany; Exodos Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia; December Dance, Brugge, Belgium; Colombo Dance Platform, Sri Lanka; and Bangkok Fringe Festival, Thailand. He also worked in immaterial conservation at UNESCO, Paris, France, and SEAMEO-SPAFA, Bangkok, Thailand.

Commentator /
Yu Yen-fang

Yen-fang is a performance artist from Taiwan. She has been involved in creative projects, showcased and taught internationally and locally to professionals and non-professionals. She is also the host of Global Underscore—an annual international contact improvisation event in Taipei since 2018.

Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Lavanderia a Vapore and Spazio Kor

Chang Theatre

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay

National Taichung Theater

Salihara Arts Center

HORSE

Artist /
Densiel Lebang

Densiel is a MFA Graduate from Jakarta Institute of the Arts. She has been actively working as an independent artist, researcher and performer since 2013. Her creative process combines choreographic work with idea incubation in her areas of research. Her recent research concerns physical events that occur when the body interacts with matter, or vice versa.

Artist /
Josh Marcy

Josh’s artistic practice revolves around the critical notion of “what is body” and “what is space”, and how the dialogue between the two entities can potentially form a reality. His recent works are SPASIAL (2018), BodySpace (2018), The Meeting (2019), and Side to side, In Scale (2019).

Artist /
Nudiandra Sarasvati

Nudiandra learned traditional and traditional contemporary dance from 2010 to early 2012. Then she continued her studies at L’école Atelier Rudra Béjart in Lausanne, Switzerland under the direction of Michél Gascard until 2015. She has participated in Kreativität Dance Indonesia since 2010 and has also released several choreographies ranging from solos, duos, to groups.

Artist /
Siko Setyanto

Siko became a dancer and choreographer at the Indonesia Dance Company and an active teacher in contemporary dance classes at Marlupi Dance Academy. He is currently working as a dancer at Eun Me Ahn Company, Korea and Asian Dope Boys, China, and serves on the Dance Committee of the Jakarta Arts Council for 2020-2023.

Dramaturg /
Yustiansyah Lesmana

Yustiansyah is a performance maker based in Jakarta. He works with Teater Ghanta – an open collaboration platform for performing arts. His works have been performed in various regions in Indonesia as well as at several international forums in Switzerland and Japan. He is also involved in the Indonesian Dramaturgy Council and the Asia Performing Arts Forum.

Commentator /
Akbar Yumni

Akbar was the curator at Arkipel (Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival) from 2013-2018, and curator at the Experimental Film Festival, Bangalore, India in 2015. He participated in the 2018 Curator Academy, Theater Work-Goethe Institute, Singapore. He received a grant from Kelola Foundation in 2021. His work as a performance artist involves reenacting Indonesian film archives that were lost during the authoritarian regime. Some of his reenactment performance works include Watching Turang (1957) in 2018 and Watching Lost Regions (1956) in 2020. He has collaborated as a researcher for the concept video The Invisible Free The Space at the London Design Biennale 2021 in London England. www.jurnalfootage.net

Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Lavanderia a Vapore and Spazio Kor

Chang Theatre

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay

National Taichung Theater

Salihara Arts Center

HORSE

Concept /
Chen Wu-kang

Wu-Kang is the co-founder and Artistic Director of HORSE, one of Taiwan’s well sought-after contemporary dance companies. Known for his delicate physical movements and innovation, Wu-Kang has diverse multi-disciplinary projects under his belt, having worked with international artists such as Jérôme Bel, Pichet Klunchun and Hong Kong Sinfonietta.

Concept /
Sun Ruey-Horng

Ruey Horng is a video designer and director who has been creating works internationally since 2008. He is the recipient of the 2020 Lucille Lortel Award for his projection design in The Headlands, produced by Lincoln Center Theater. His design works have been presented by Broadway Theater, EMPAC, Guggenheim Museum, HERE Arts Center, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, La MaMa, LCT3, National Theater Taipei, National Taichung Theater, and Weiwuying Performing Arts Center, among others.
www.raysun.cc

An Esplanade Commission as part of da:ns festival