Aiden Tan
Aiden Tan is a freelance artist and movement
educator. He graduated from the Taipei National
University of the Arts (TNUA) with a Bachelor of Fine
Arts in Dance. He was awarded the Singapore National
Arts Council Scholarship for his artistic pursuit at TNUA
from 2015-to 2019. Aiden is a distinguished individual
who believes that the arts are essential for human
beings and envision dance as a therapy and a medium
to connect people emotionally and spiritually.
He began his formal dance training with Jesper Tan
and the Singapore Ballet Academy, where he had
completed his Royal Academy of Dance Examinations
up to Advanced Foundation.
Aiden’s artistry was further developed when he joined
The Human Expression Second Dance Company (T.H.E
2nd Company), a semi-professional youth company
under the directorship of Silvia Yong from 2010-2015.
He was involved in many of their major productions,
including the CONTACT Dance Festival, Emerging
Choreographers, Exxonmobil, and LITHE. As a
performer in T.H.E 2nd Company, he had performed in
works of local-based artists Yarra Ileto, Liz Fong,
Marcus Foo, Lee Mun Wai, and overseas artists
including Lee Ren Xin (Malaysia), Steve Goh (Hong
Kong), Sebastian Ledig (France), Inma Marin (Spain)
and Naoko Ito (Japan).
During his time at TNUA, he had worked with
renowned choreographers and performed in a wide
range of repertoires, including Soldier’s Mass by Jiri
Kylian, Leigh Warren (Australia), Repertoire of
Cloudgate Dance Theatre, Cursive by Lin Hwai-Min
(Taiwan), Zhang Xiaoxiong (Taiwan), Dong I-Fen
(Taiwan) and Jeong Yun Lee (Korea).
He was invited to perform a duet “10-6 into the SKIN”
choreographed by himself and his collaborator Cheng
Wei (Taiwan) at the 46th Ochanomizu Dance Concert
(Japan). This work has also been showcased at the M1
Contact Contemporary Dance Festival, Open Stage, in
2021.
Jonathan Lim
Writer, director & actor Jonathan Lim is a graduate of
Sydney’s National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), and is
the creator/writer of Singapore’s longest-running live
parody sketch show CHESTNUTS, which returns for its
25th anniversary show in Nov 2022.
Acting credits include Into the Woods with Lea Salonga,
Bent, Dick Lee’s Kampong Amber, Aladdin, The Magic
Fundoshi, 都是当兵惹的祸, Little Violet and the Angel, Das
Experiment, Lao Jiu The Musical and his one-man show On
This Emerald Hill. He has received three LIFE! Theatre
Awards nominations for Best Actor.
He has directed plays and musicals for W!LD RICE, The
Theatre Practice, Action Theatre, Toy Factory Theatre
Ensemble and his own theatre company STAGES. He also
created young & W!LD, W!LD RICE’s youth training wing.
Playwriting credits include 她⻔ (The Bride Always Knocks
Twice), Four Horse Road, People Say Got Ghost and White
Sails Over Blue Blue Sea. Musicals include H Is For Hantu,
Women on Canvas, Getai the Musical, Pursuant, Sparks
the Musical for DBS 50th anniversary, the LOVE 972FM
musicals Hero 来咯 and 梁Ju ; and WILD RICE pantomimes
A Singapore Carol and Oi! Sleeping Beauty!
Interactive theatrical works include Diva to the Death (an
interactive supper comedy at MONTI), KURSED (a
kampong horror experience at Sentosa’s Mount Imbiah),
Sailing Past (a historical tour of the Singapore River) and
The Bride Always KnocksTwice : Killer Secrets (a
multilingual virtual whodunit).
Screenwriting credits include 2 seasons of Meet the MP,
the telemovie +65, Channel U’s Seventh Month, the web
series Cheerific, and Eric Khoo’s feature film In The Room.
His poetry has been featured in Capsule and his short
fiction in The Best of Singapore Erotica. He has also
published Between Gods And Ghosts - a book on the
Chinese supernatural landscape in Singapore.
Most recently, he wrote and directed the first-ever Tiktok
sitcom B.TOgether; as well as co-writing the virtual
treasure hunt mystery Gallery of Secrets : The Lost Lily for
The Theatre Practice. He is currently writing the book and
lyrics for Unforgotten, a new musical about veterans
coping with traumatic memories of the Japanese
Occupation.
Ng Sze Min
Ng Sze Min is an audio producer interested in
expanding participatory and documentary forms.
She also writes songs, and hosts podcasts centring
on sustainability & wellness.
Some of her best works include being a resident
artist in Kluang, Malaysia, engaging local residents
to detail a sound map of their town. It culminated
into an audio walk and song, Story of the Coffee
Town, on Spotify.
In 2020, she was featured on Channel News Asia
Into the Vault, speaking to various experts and
recreating the soundscape of what her
grandparents may have heard during the 1950s in
Singapore. Her works have also been on American
Documentary PUBLIC UPDATE, 15th Big Sky
Documentary Film Festival, and Radiophrenia
Glasgow.
As the Co-Founder and Creative Audio Producer at
Artwave, she collaborates and partners across the
arts, businesses and communities to create
meaningful audio-first encounters and
programmes. Commissions include A Call Away - for
Singapore Writers Festival 2020, You're Invited -
for Esplanade Huayi Chinese Festival of Arts and
Artist's Block - an audio guided trail at Stamford
Arts Centre. Her latest immersive audio adventure,
Blind Diving, takes listeners on a dive to a
shipwreck. Produced in partnership with Coastal
Natives.
More at https://artwave.studio