Contemporary Dance Class

Last year, some young dancers who take our regular Saturday company classes participated in a video penpal project with young dancers from Sydney.

We are so glad to work with the wonderful folks of Seet Dance, and to continue working together, as we prepare to share the Dancing-In-Place project more widely this year, and as we develop our work as dance and teaching artists throughout our lives.

Dancing-in-Place: Collaborative dance-making among children Registration Thank you for your interest in Dancing-in-Place: Collaborative dance-making among children. This registration form will take no longer than 5 minutes, and will only require key information from you in order for our team to send you the necessary details for the session. Date: 20th December 2020 Time...

Please email [email protected] to enquire and register.

Weekly Dance Classes @ 10 Raeburn Park (Sigma Collective Space):

Mondays 5.15 - 6.45 pm
Open Level Contemporary Dance Class (for adults and youths)

Fridays 4.30 - 6 pm
Junior Contemporary Dance Company Class (Open ability, for dancers 6 - 10 years)

Private classes, older children’s classes and Rolypoly Family classes for younger children also available, email for enquiries!

Here’s an update from ROAR, an initiative by Rolypoly Family and The Kueh Tutus 🙂 ROAR began as a response to covid-19, and came out of our dance work “Rolling On”, which was commissioned by National Arts Council Singapore for Arts In Your Neighbourhood 2020.

Bernice Lee and Adele Goh were commissioned to make UNISON together, as part of Dans Fest Open Call by Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay.

The show is online for free till end October, register for tickets at https://www.esplanade.com/festivals-and-series/dans-festival/2020/open-call?tabid=55f3c974-f310-41b0-bcb3-bca348cee7b7

You can also join Bernice and fellow artists online at the talk next Saturday, 3PM. (She’ll be coming out of teaching our Junior Contemporary Dance Company Class at The Substation before jumping into this chat!)

This event is suitable for all ages 🙂

Late last year, our artists Bernice Lee and Faye Lim had the pleasure of chatting with Charemaine Seet alongside fellow practitioners Ting-Ting Cheng, Lu Shirley Dai, Anna Kuroda, and Justine Shih Pearson.

Hosted by Critical Path, Australia's leading centre for choreographic enquiry, research and development, our discussion was provoked by New York-based dance artist Miguel Gutierrez’s article on BOMB and Anh Vo’s interview with choreographer Juliana F. May.

We responded with a digital meet-up led by Charemaine Seet and began our own conversation, shared on the Interchange Festival 2019-20 website www.interchange.criticalpath.org.au

P.S. We are also currently working with Charemaine Seet (Seet Dance) on a special project, bringing together young dancers in Singapore and Sydney for the special virtual dance programme "Dancing-In-Place: Movement Penpals".

Critical Path Interchange Home | Interchange Critical Path's Interchange program included a residencies, workshops and labs, a 3-day Interchange Festival 2017 and the Digital Interchange Festival 2019.

It’s sad to see arts spaces in Singapore be made to move on, either to become nomadic, to shift to a shinier space if they’re “lucky”, or to shrink in size. Our dance classes are held at The Substation — one of the most important and longest-running art spaces in Singapore, it survived the teardown of the National Library, which was replaced by the Dhoby Ghaut Tunnel, now between the new SMU building and the new plaza.

We’re thankful to know and share that The Substation will continue to be at The Substation until next July, and that our community of dancers will continue to get to build memories in this historic space at least for now. We can only wait to see what happens after the renovations (and find a temporary home nearby in the interim), but meanwhile we know that The Substation is happy to have us.

We think that arts spaces are essential to the building of individual memories and cultural memories. We are proud to call The Substation home.