Julaluck Eakwattanapun graduated from Srinakharinwirot University with a BA in Dance. She also holds an MA degree in Art and Cultural Administration from Burapha University. Julaluck has been a dancer with Pichet Klunchun Dance Company since its inception in 2004, featuring regulary in the Bangkokk Theatre Festival and Burapha Music and Performing Arts Festival. Her performances with the company include Women in the Morning (2009), We're Gonna Go Dancing in Asia (2007), Shoes (2006), พระเสด็จ (2005) and Love (2004).
Sunon Wachirawarakarn graduated form the Journalism program in Rangsit University and has since worked extensively with Pichet Klunchun Dance Company. His performance with the company include Women in the Morning (2009), We're Gonna Go Dancing in Asia (2007), About Khon (2007), On the Table (2006), Shoes (2006), พระเสด็จ (2005), Love (2004) and I-Tab-Pat-Ja-Ya-ta (2004). Sunon has also performed with the Bangkok City Ballet in Romeo and Juliet (2008) and Don Quixote (2007). His traditional performances include Saeng Ar-tit (2009) and Pra Jakkrawatar (2005).
Navtej Johar is an acclaimed Bharatanatyam-trained dancer, choreographer and yoga practitioner from India, who has won accolades for his cutting-edge choreography. Johar is recognized as a cutting edge choreographer whose work freely traverses between the traditional and the avant-garde. His work includes solo and ensemble works. Apart from classical Bharatanatyam it includes contemporary performance pieces, street-theatre, performance-installations, site-specific events, musicals and spectacles. He has worked internationally with companies and artists like Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Co, The Chandralekha Group, Keith Khan and the New York City Opera. www.navtejjohar.com
Since picking up his interest in composing and performing at a very young age, Philip Tan has never ceased to startle and impress with his personal but powerful pieces. He was awarded the LASALLE full scholarship in 1997 and was named the most Outstanding Student of the graduating batch with high distinction. After winning the SIA Award of Excellence in the Arts, he went on to pursue his Masters in music at Kingston University in the UK. As Music Director and Composer, he has won admiration from various multidisciplinary productions with which he has been involved. In 2003 and 2005, Philip received the Life! Theatre Best Music and Best Sound Award for his contributions to theatre music composition.
Zulfikle Mahmod majored in sculpture at Singapore’s LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, graduating 1997. He is an associate artist with The Substation, Singapore and one of the figureheads in the group of emerging Singaporean contemporary artists. He has exhibited locally and internationally: Thailand, Germany, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Norway and Finland, where he completed artist-in-residence programmes in 2001 and 2004 respectively. His "Stilt" series forms part of The Swissotel Stamford Singapore’s permanent art collection. Zul’s work is multi-disciplinary, ranging across sound, installation, drawing and sculpture. Each form is inspired and conceived in relation to objects in space. Formally trained in sculpture, he has continued to build and expand his practice over the last three years to include sculpted sound and live sound performances.
Of Peranakan Chinese descent, Yvonne Ng was born and raised in Singapore and moved to Canada in 1983. Shene has trained and researched in Chinese traditional and minority dance forms in Beijing (1996), as well as the Skinner Releasing Technique in Seattle (2002), and in Toronto (2003), and studied Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros (2003). Yvonne continues to train extensively in voice, Pilates, Skinner Releasing, Butoh and Ashtanga, Kundalini and Moksha yoga. In 2002, Ng received the prestigious K.M. Hunter Dance Award, in 2003, she was honoured with both the New Pioneers Arts Award and Chalmers Arts Fellowship, and in 2007, Ng was awarded the Premier’s Emerging Artist Arts Award along with Canadian dance legend Peggy Baker. Ng is an active member of the dance community having served on the board of Directors for the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists and Dance Umbrella of Ontario. In addition to choreography and performance, Ng is the Artistic Director of Series 8:08 (since 1994) and the curator and presenter of dance: made in canada/fait au canada, both of which produce the work of choreographers from across Canada.
A recipient of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) Singapore Foundation Culture Award 2007, Noor Effendy Ibrahim has served as a member of the Singapore National Arts Council Board from 2004 to 2006 (7th term), and currently sits as a Board Member of the Singapore Film Commission (2010-2012). Currently the Artistic Director of The Substation, Singapore’s first independent contemporary art centre, Effendy has also served as the Artistic Director of Teater Ekamatra, a Singapore-based contemporary Malay Theatre company, from 2001-2006 and returned as an interim AD from 2008-2009. An interdisciplinary artist, Effendy has created solo and ensemble art projects and performances in several countries, and has worked with Teater Kami, Teater Ekamatra, Teater Artistik, The Actors Studio (Malaysia), Pustaka Cipta (Malaysia), Cake Theatre, spell#7, The ETCeteras, The Little Red Shop, Theatre Training & Practice, Maya Dance Theatre, and Mirror Theatre, among other arts groups and collectives.
She received a degree in classical dance from Kalakshetra, Chennai founded by Rukmini Devi, the visionary revivalist of Bharatanatyam. She performed in many of the institute’s dance-dramas and later joined the renowned Chandralekha Dance Company as a troupe member for several years. There she trained in Yoga and Kalaripayyatu apart from undergoing workshops in modern dance. She traveled with the company in India and abroad performing in several festivals of dance.
Tripura trained in Dance/movement Therapy at Hancock Center in Wisconsin, U.S.A. Simultaneously she also studied modern dance, returned to India and completed her Masters degree in Psychology. In Bangalore she founded Apoorva Dance Theatre a contemporary dance group which performed in several prestigious festivals all over India.
Graduated from the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts (HKAPA) and formerly the Rehearsal Director of Singapore contemporary dance company ARTS FISSION, Scarlet has assumed many memorable roles in the company’s major productions as a key soloist including Shadowhouses , at Kampnagel Hamburg’s Laokoon Festival , 12 SMS Across the Mountains at the Seoul International Dance Festival and Singapore Arts Festival, and the Singapore-Hungary co-production, Ghost Exchange Series I (Budapest March 2007), amongst others. She had work with various artists such as Visual Artists, Musician and Architect. After leaving The Arts Fission Company she had joined an international project by East West Theater Company (Sarajevo) "Football! Football!" premiere in Singapore Arts Festival, Napoli Teatro Festival, Sarajevo and South Africa. Recently, she had created "scarlet is mumbling…" collaboration with choreographer Aaron Khek and "13 knots to Home" presented under Dancing In Place 2010.
Eko is a graduate and full-time faculty member of ISI Surakarta/The Indonesian Institute for the Arts in Solo, Central Java Indonesia. Eko holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Choreography and Performance from the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures (2001). He has studied Javanese court dances and the Indonesian Martial Art silhat. He is the founder and artistic director for Solo Dance Studio in Surakarta Indonesia since 1996. Eko received a Fulbright Scholarship Grant to pursue a PhD degree at UCLA in Fall and Winter 2007. He is now a third year Doctorate student of the Performance Studies at the Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Stephanie Burridge trained at the Laban Center (UK), holds a BA in Anthropology/Arts History (Australian National University) and a Ph.D. in Contemporary Dance from London Contemporary Dance School in association with the University of Kent (UK). As Artistic Director of Canberra Dance Theatre (1978-2001) she commissioned many of Australia’s leading choreographers, composers, visual artists and performers – she was awarded the first Choreographic Fellowship at the Australian Choreographic Centre, an ACT Lifetime Achievement award and received Australia Council funding for choreographic projects over several years. Tasmanian born, she now lives in Singapore where she has lectured at LASALLE College of the Arts and Singapore Management University, been a research consultant at the National Institute of Education, is a dance critic, author and editor of numerous publications including Shifting Sands: Dance in Asia and the Pacific (2006) and Beyond the Apsara: Celebrating Dance in Cambodia (2009). She is the Series Editor for the Routledge Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific series.
Sadanand Menon is a nationally reputed ‘arts editor’, popular teacher of ‘cultural journalism’, widely published photographer, arts curator and prolific writer and speaker at seminars on politics, ecology and the arts. He is currently Adjunct Faculty at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, where he conducts courses on ‘Arts & Culture Journalism’ and ‘Photojournalism’.
A long-time collaborator with Chandralekha, he is deeply involved with issues connected with the creation of a contemporary Indian dance and has travelled extensively in India and abroad as the technical director of Chandralekha’s performances. In 2001, he coordinated, for Sangeet Natak Akademi, Delhi, the first international symposium and workshop in India on ‘Light and Movement’.
Aporup Acharya is an performing artist, writer, stand-up comic and voice artist. He has worked with major Indian and international directors in India and abroad. His most recent involvements include The South Asian Women's Theatre Festival, New Delhi 2010, and Tim Supple's A Midsummer Night's Dream, US tour 2008, as well as Rajkumar Hirani's 3 Idiots. He works in advertising as a freelancer and as a columnist for various newspapers in India. Aporup obtained his education in economics at Presidency College, Calcutta and partly at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. .
Sasi co-founded the TTRP with the late Kuo Pao Kun in 2000. He also teaches in the areas of aesthetics, humanities, theory, and performer foundation training. He was Artistic Director of The Substation from 1996 to 2000, and now serves on their Board. He was also a noted theatre and visual arts critic, journalist and editor, and continues to engage in international research and dialogue on arts and culture. He most recently presented papers at forums organized by Columbia University with the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, and UNESCO. He holds an MA in Philosophy, and has also taught at the National University of Singapore.
Audrey is currently the Artistic Co-Director of The Substation as well as a Nominated Member of Parliament. In 1997, she launched the Moving Images film programme with The Substation’s then-Artistic Director T. Sasitharan. In 2000, she obtained an MA in arts administration from Goldsmiths College. Audrey has served on various committees, including doing "national service" with the Remaking Singapore project of 2003; she is also a founding member of Magdalena (Singapore). She has a particular interest in supporting the development of young artists, and occasionally writes, and teaches arts management, cultural policy and theatre studies.