NUS Arts Festival 2017

Fuse(d)

NUS Dance Synergy | Presented in-conjunction with the NUS Arts Festival

Fri 10 Mar | 8pm | UCC Theatre | $23 (Stalls), $19 (Circle)

Together with choreographers Albert Tiong, Yarra Ileto, and Zhuo Zihao, NUS Dance Synergy reflects on what it means to be a strong collective of dancers. Through original contemporary dance works, Fuse(d) explores the dynamic human relationships built on trust and respect that synergise and unite a dance company to make memories and create the future together.

NUS Dance Synergy

Known for their warm and welcoming dance culture, NUS Dance Synergy started as the Jazz Ballet Group in 1978. Under the direction of Singapore dance luminary Mr Fan Dong Kai and Albert Tiong, Synergy has grown into a dynamic dance group that strives to promote dance as a modern art form that incorporates elements of Jazz, modern, lyrical, and contemporary dance.

Focusing on the values of responsibility, discipline and self-confidence, its dancers undergo elementary and intermediate technique training weekly, with a progressive framework that allows them to continuously improve and excel in contemporary dance.

As a group nested in the community, Synergy also believes it has the potential to effect social change through the medium of dance. Since 2015, Synergy has adopted a Corporate Social Integration (CSI) effort, which includes dance workshops and interaction sessions organised for the elderly and teenagers.

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Albert Tiong

Technique Tutor

Albert graduated from the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts on scholarship in 1996. He was a professional dancer with Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan from 1996 to 1999, guest artist with Hong Kong Dance Company in 2000, and principal dancer with Odyssey Dance Theatre Singapore from 2000 to 2003. He is currently an adjunct lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. Albert was the Resident Choreographer and training master for Frontier Danceland from 2007 to 2011. Albert also founded Re:Dance Theatre in 2012. Together with dancers from NUS Dance Synergy and Re: Dance Theatre for NUS Arts Festival 2014, he created a full-length work, Traces which was awarded Production of the Year at Tan Ean Kiam Awards 2014.

Yarra Ileto

Technique Tutor

Ileto graduated with a BA First Class Honours Degree in Performing Arts (Dance) at LASALLE College of the Arts. Upon graduating Ileto joined T.H.E Dance Company as one of the full-time pioneer members. She has performed in all the company's works from 2008 to January 2015 touring extensively in Asia and Europe and has worked with noted choreographers such as Cheuk Yin Mui, Xing Liang, Zhang Xiaoxiong, Boi Sakti, Dimo Kirilov and Kwik Swee Boon to name a few. She has also choreographed works for T.H.E Main Company, T.H.E Second Company and several local Universities and Colleges. Yarra is currently a professional freelance dance artist, choreographer and instructor.

Zhuo Zihao

Guest Choreographer

A dance veteran in Singapore, Zihao aims to blend technologies into his works to produce immersive experience for the audience. In 2015, Zihao co-produced Dance in Situ, a site-specific performance platform. He was a resident artist with Odyssey Dance Theatre between 2000 and 2004 and a founding member of T.H.E Dance Company since 2008. In 2012, he was conferred the Young Artist Award (Dance). Since April 2016, Zihao has turned independent. He is also an Associate Artist with T.H.E Dance Company.