Ding Hong 丁红
Artistic Director & Resident Choreographer
NUS Chinese Dance

Madam Ding Hong received her degree in Dance Education from the Beijing Dance Academy where she graduated with distinction in 1991. Upon graduation, she was invited to join the Academy's Youth Dance Troupe and has represented China in many overseas performances. She was awarded the National 1st Grade Artist Award by the Chinese Government.

After moving to Singapore in 1995, she has performed and choreographed works for many local arts and dance festivals, ASEAN dance festivals and National Day celebrations. Ding Hong has led the NUS Chinese Dance group since 2001. She is also a choreographer with the Theatre Arts Troupe and teaches Chinese Dance at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) and schools.

丁红在1991年以优越成绩毕业于北京舞蹈学院，成为国家一级演员。她多次在中国各大舞蹈比赛中获奖，并在三部大型舞剧中担任首席女主角，也代表中国舞蹈家小组演出。丁红从2001年任职国立大学华族舞蹈团的编导，并成立红蕾国际文化演艺公司发扬华族舞蹈。

Wang Cheng 王成
Guest Choreographer
Vice-chairman of China Anhui Dance Association (安徽省舞蹈家协会副主席)
Choreographer of China Anhui Opera Dance Theatre (安徽省歌舞剧院舞蹈编导)
National 1st Grade Choreographer (国家一级编导)

A graduate from the Anhui Arts Academy at the young age of 19, Wang Cheng joined the Anhui Performing Arts Group and later pursued Chinese dance and Folk dance in the Beijing Dance Academy and furthered his skills in choreography and directing. He performed for an outstanding 23 years, before becoming a choreographer-director in 2001.

Possessing a strong foundation in technique and theory and a wealth of dance experience, Wang has received numerous awards at international and national levels. He is recognized for excellence in choreographing for young people from children to undergraduates. In 2009, he was awarded National 2nd grade award in the Sixth Outstanding Children’s Performance National Showcase and awarded the 1st grade award for performance and 2nd grade award for choreography in the East Chinese Cities’ undergraduate dance competition.

Wang Cheng believes that choreography should seek to understand and represent society, and works that are inspired by life will naturally captivate audiences. He is currently Vice-Chairman of China’s Anhui Dance Association as well as Dance Choreographer of the Anhui Opera Theatre.

Born in Singapore in 1950, Dr Ho Chee Lick was a student of Chinese High School in the 1960s, where he was taught by Chen Wen Hsi and Chen Chong Swee in both Western and Chinese arts. Later in the 1980s, he studied in the US and obtained a PhD degree in linguistics from Kansas University. Since 1990 he has been teaching in the National University of Singapore, first in the Department of English Language and Literature, then in the Department of Chinese Studies.

From an early age Dr Ho has been deeply involved with music and painting. Since the mid/late 1990s, he has also contributed passionately to poetry translation in Singapore and started to write as a Lianhe Zaobao columnist.

Dr Ho has had two major solo art exhibitions in Singapore: Expressing Ubin (Soobin Art Gallery, 1999) and Sequenza: Ho Chee Lick’s New Ink Work (Art Retreat Museum, 2011).

何自力1950年生于新加坡，60年代在华侨中学就跟着陈文希和陈宗瑞两位大师学水彩、油画和国画。80年代他在美国堪萨斯大学读了八年书，取得了语言学博士的学位。从90年代开始，他就先后在新加坡国立大学的英文系和中文系任教。

他从小沉迷于音乐与绘画，90年代中期以来又在本地诗坛上积极从事翻译工作，还进入了联合早报副刊《四方八面》的专栏写作园地。

他在新加坡开过两个颇有影响的美术个展：《心沉乌敏》（斯民画廊1999）和《响象》（好藏之私人美术馆2011）。

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