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Hong Guofeng

Artistic Director & Resident Choreographer,

Sigma Contemporary Dance

Programme Faculty,

Sigma Youth Programme

Teacher,

Contemporary Technique for beginner-intermediate, Intermediate Open Class & Release Into Play

Guofeng Hong is an independent artist and the Artistic Director of Sigma Contemporary Dance. Since Sigma's founding, he has played a key role in shaping its artistic direction and establishing its presence in Singapore’s dance community. With a thoughtful and exploratory approach to choreography, Guofeng has created works that go beyond traditional performance spaces, including site-specific performances in "Dock 65" at Esplanade Park and the online production "Survei:ance," which was conceptualised and performed on Zoom before being streamed via Facebook Live. His choreographic works have been presented at various festivals, including Singapore’s M1 Contact Festival and SMU Arts Festival, as well as international platforms like the Sibu International Dance Festival, Dance Circus, and the Blossom Arts Festival. Publications such as The Straits Times and Arts Equator have described his works as "engaging" and "immersive". In 2019, Guofeng collaborated with long-time creative partner Chua Chiok Woon to produce a duet that premiered in Singapore and was later invited to festivals in Hong Kong, Macau, and Indonesia. More recently, he initiated the “Unsound.Bodies” collective, which focuses on multidisciplinary collaboration and experimentation. Guofeng remains committed to exploring the possibilities of contemporary dance, continuously learning and collaborating to create works that resonate with diverse audiences.

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Chua Chiok Woon

Founding Artist,

Sigma Contemporary Dance

Teacher,

Ballet Intro Class

Contemporary Beginner Class

Chiok is a founding member and a performing dance artist with Sigma Contemporary Dance. Independently, her co-creation "Honey Bee And The Dandelion," and participation in various dance projects have taken her to festivals locally, including 12.ance Festival, Esplanade’s Hua Yi Festival and M1 Contact Festival, and across Asia in Indonesia, Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Aside from performing and her creative work, Chiok Woon actively shares her practice and findings in ballet and contemporary dance with individuals of all ages at Sigma Collective Space and Z.en Ballet, which she co-runs.

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Li Yong Wei
(Yeong
 Wen Lee)

Programme Faculty,

Sigma Youth Programme Guest Artist

Teacher,

Contact Improvisation Intensive

Moving Through Uncertainty Class

Yong Wei (Yeong) began his dance training in ballet, followed by contemporary dance, in Singapore, which led him to further his studies of movement in Arizona State University (ASU). Since graduating from ASU in 2010 with an Outstanding Graduate Student Creative Work Award and a Distinguished Teacher Award, he has continued his practice and sharing of dance/movement in diverse environments.

 Yeong has also facilitated dance/movement workshops at King’s Academy, Jordan (2009), Arizona Dance Education Organization, Phoenix, Arizona (2010), America College Dance Festival, Tempe, Arizona (2010), International Dance Festival in Ilan, Taiwan (2011), Contact Festival, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2012, 2013), Mission Improvable Festival, Buffalo, New York (2012), Beijing Dance Academy (2015), Toronto (2016), and Shouze Arts Center, Beijing (2018 - 2024). In Singapore, Yong Wei (Yeong) also conducts dance/ movement workshops at O’Joy Care Center (part of the Health Oriented Ageing programme), Memories Café (Project by Alzheimer’s Disease Association), Greentree Montessori (a Creative Movement Class) and Nanyang Academy Of Fine Arts (Teaching Improvisation and Contact Improvisation). He occasionally organizes and facilitates intensive workshops to deepen his research and study of dance/movement.

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Ng Zu You

Programme Faculty,

Sigma Youth Programme 2024-2025

Zu You started dance at the age of 13, gaining exposure to various genres of dance such as Chinese dance, contemporary dance and ballet. To further pursue his passion, he enrolled in LASALLE College of Arts, graduating with a Diploma in Dance in 2010. He performed in the 2011 edition of Sprouts, organised by the National Art Council and Frontier Danceland, and received the Best Dancer award. Zu You went on to complete his Bachelor of Arts in Dance at Taipei University of Arts. Upon graduation in 2017, he was a dance artist with T.H.E Dance Company till 2022, working with international choreographers including Kim Jae Duk, Rudi Cole and Julia Robert Pares (HUMANHOOD), Dimo Kirilov, and Jos Baker.

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Daniel Navarro Lorenzo

Teacher,

Release & Rhythmic Awakening – Dance Conditioning​​

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, I set up my own company, Dan Lourenco Dance to focus on my 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 (Bar- celona, 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.

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Christina Chan

Resident Choreographer,

Sigma Contemporary Dance

Programme Faculty,

Sigma Youth Programme

Teacher,

Contemporary Intermediate Open Class Guest Artist

Born in Singapore, Christina studied at The Boston Conservatory 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 7 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.

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Germaine Cheng

Dance Artist,

Sigma Contemporary Dance

Programme Faculty,

Sigma Youth Programme

A wordsmith and movement magpie, Germaine received her initial training in classical ballet at Singapore Ballet Academy before pursuing a BA(Hons) degree at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London. Since graduating in 2012, she has performed with local dance company RAW Moves and her choreography has been showcased at Dance Nucleus’ HATCH and M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival. Germaine has also created interactive installations for Pop-up Noise: Soul Searching as well as Arts in Your Neighbourhood. She is currently an artist with Sigma Contemporary Dance. Germaine was on the Dance Faculty at School of the Arts, Singapore from 2014 to 2020, and is an adjunct lecturer at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. In addition, Germaine is a freelance dance writer, who received commissions to research, write and edit commemorative publications for Singapore Dance Theatre and T.H.E Dance Company.

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Sammantha Yue

Teacher,

Contemporary Introductory Course

Contemporary Intro Class

Contemporary Intermediate Open Class Guest Artist

"My art is living in itself — the starting point of my practice often stems from curiosity and personal experiences. I am interested in the roles the body can play and evolve through different grounds of practices." Sammantha is an artist, performer as well as a certified yoga instructor. She attained a Diploma in Dance (2014) and graduated with a BA First Class Honors in Dance (2016) from LASALLE College of the Arts. From 2016 to 2023, Samm was a full time artist with Frontier Danceland where she worked and collaborated with local and international choreographers including artistic director Low Mei Yoke, Chiew Pei Shan, Zhuo Zihao (Singapore), Gabrielle Nankivell and Luke Smiles (Australia), Tung I-Fen (Taiwan), Victor Ma Choi-Wo (Hong Kong), Shahar Biniamini (Israel), Richard Chappell and Deborah Nightingale (United Kingdom), Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet, Edouard Hue and Thomas Lebrun (France), Sita Ostheimer (Germany), Sascia Pellegrini and Marioenrico D’ Angelo (Italy).

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Fagan Cheong

Teacher,

Move with Purpose – Intention & Connectivity​​

Fagan is a parkour practitioner and movement enthusiast, with firm foundations in Art Du Deplacement (globally recognised as Parkour) since 2003, and is also an internationally recognised A.D.A.P.T Level 3 Art Du Deplacement and Parkour Master Coach. Blessed with golden opportunities to coach in several countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Korea, France and USA, he has dedicated his career to sharing his multidisciplinary experience in an effort to make movement learning more accessible to others. Heavily influenced by the philosophies and training approaches of Kali Majapahit Martial Arts, Recognise & Escape Danger, Yamakasi, Ido Portal, Fighting Monkey and MovNat, Fagan strives to continue inspiring others to discover their fullest potential through the exploration of movement. He believes that one can experience personal transformation through a physical movement practice. "Practice happens at the edge of your ability; Play happens at the core of your competence." https://linktr.ee/fagancheong

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Charlie Gong 龚文轩

Teacher,

Modern Contemporary Introductory Course

现当代舞入门课程​​

Former Senior Dancer & Dance Ensemble Singapore (DES) Arts Choreographer 前聚舞坊当代艺团资深舞者及当代艺团编导 Gong Wenxuan graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) in 2019, majoring in Dance. He joined DES upon graduation and was part of DES’ core performances, taking on his first lead role in Mystique (2022). he played the leading role and participated in the choreography of "Amalgamete" (2022), and the following year, he played the leading role and participated in the choreography of "Stride Beyond The Banks" (2023).In 2024, he starred in "Moon Odyssey" and served as the rehearsal director. 2019年毕业于新加坡南洋艺术学院舞蹈系。毕业后加入新加坡聚舞坊当代艺团,参与了聚舞坊专场演出,在《奇迹:最终勇者追踪》(2022)中首次担任男主角。之后在舞剧《雕型塑心》(2022)中担任男主角并参与编排,次年在舞剧《河清.坊立》(2023)中担任男主角并参与编排。在2024年,他主演了舞剧《追舞.追月》并担任排练总监一职。

Guofeng
Christina
Sammantha
Chiok
Germaine
Yong Wei
Zu You
Fagan
Daniel
Charlie
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