tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2021-06-18T13:04:44+08:00 Peatix Fl tag:peatix.com,2021:event-1893163 2021-06-14T09:00:00SGT 2021-06-14T09:00:00SGT

Calling for young dancers aged 7-12! Dance on through the June holidays and make some new dance friends online. Derring-Do Dance/Rolypoly Family is offering a 4-day holistic dance camp that nurtures the dancers’ overall artistry and technique, while introducing them to the essentials of health and wellness for dancers. Camp director Bernice Lee leads the camp with Derring-Do Dance co-director Faye Lim, and with appearances by artists from Singapore and beyond. This contemporary and creative dance camp is open to young dancers of all levels. Dancers will have room to strengthen their foundational movement, and to tap into their creative confidence through improvisational and compositional studies. Each day of the camp centres on a Dance Mission, supplemented by activity packets that dancers can work with offline. There is room on the final day for our camp facilitators to spend time individually with each dancer, working on their solos before the closing show and party.  Please inform us if the young dancer has accessibility needs and we will do our best to support their camp experience. About Derring-Do Dance:Derring-Do Dance was founded upon the belief in contemporary dance as a radical way for every person to experience the creative, emotional and social capacities of their bodies. We are a company of dance artists, facilitators and instructors and are known for our work under Rolypoly Family and Body Smarts Through Movement Arts. Collectively, we have years of experience as dance performers and educators, specialising in movement improvisation, inter-disciplinary arts, and respectful facilitation, in Singapore and internationally. Our facilitators have taught at the Little Arts Academy, 10 Square (Youth Arts Academy), arts institutions such as Playeum, The Artground, LASALLE College of the Arts and SOTA, festivals like Got To Move Dance Festival, in dance mentoring programmes and various schools across Singapore, as well as at other dance festivals and camps regionally and internationally. The programmes we offer include: contemporary dance, movement improvisation, creative movement, dance partnering essentials, collaborative dance-making,  family dance classes and workshops (Rolypoly Family), and Body Smarts Through Movement Arts. Our team is led by Faye Lim, BA in World Arts and Cultures (UCLA) and MFA in Dance (NYU Tisch School of the Arts) and Bernice Lee, BFA in Dance (The Ohio State University). About Camp Director, Bernice Lee:Bernice is the co-director of Derring-Do Dance, with longtime collaborator Faye Lim and has danced for local companies Maya Dance Theatre (2014-2017) and Frontier Danceland (2012-2014). As part of Maya Dance Theatre’s main creative team, performed and collaborated in dance theatre works directed by Kavitha Krishnan and guests including Danang Pamungkas (Indonesia), Janis Brenner (USA), Olivier Tarpaga (Burkina Faso/USA), Rachel Ogle (Australia) and Rianto (Indonesia/Japan). With Maya, she traveled widely while training intensively in Bharathanatyam, Taichi, Indonesian and contemporary dance forms. Amongst other roles, she danced as Joan of Arc in PANCHA. At Frontier Danceland, she danced in repertoire by local and guest choreographers, including Matej Kejzar (Belgium/Slovenia), Noa Zuk (Israel), Ole Khamchanla (France/Laos), and Christina Chan (Singapore). A choreographer, an associate member at Dance Nucleus, and a lecturer at Lasalle College of the Arts and NAFA, she has worked as dramaturgy assistant for Shahar Binyamini in his creation for Frontier Danceland (PARADISO , 2018). Bernice has recently shown her work at M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival and The Esplanade’s Dans Festival. Bernice holds a B.F.A. from The Ohio State University (2010), during which she studied on exchange at the Laban Centre (UK). She was supported by National Arts Council and the International Buckeye Scholarship. For more information, visit bernicelee.xyz.