Resonates With Residency

Amin Alifin is a multi-disciplinary performing artist with 17 years of professional experience in the performing arts. A versatile dancer and choreographer, his extensive credits encompass theatre, music and the visual arts. He also teaches, competes and choreographs both locally and on international stages. Amin’s performance and competition credits include being the first and only Singaporean to clinch the champion title at the Gatsby Dance Asia Finals in Tokyo.

In his residency, Amin will delve into the timeless allure of batik fabric across various eras, forging collaborative paths with artists from diverse backgrounds. His current approach involves marrying his experiences in the different performing arts while simultaneously challenging clashing ideologies from different schools of thought to create some form of peaceful chaos.

Cheryl Ho is an award-winning actor, writer and facilitator. She works on projects with a focus on care, creativity and inclusion. After graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, she has worked with Australia’s leading theatre companies like the Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse, and ActNow. In Singapore, she has worked with Artwave, The Necessary Stage, Artshouse Limited, Esplanade and more. Cheryl’s latest One Woman show, I Am Seaweed, premiered at the 2023 Melbourne Fringe Festival. It was nominated in the Best in Theatre category and listed as one of the Fringe Judge’s picks.

In her residency, titled A Slow Future Through: A Gentle and Caring Approach to Art Making, Cheryl will explore what it means to prioritise intentionality, compassion and deep “seeing” in life, through the lens of the three works she has chosen. She will consider what we choose to reveal or see in others and ourselves, as well as the potential unseen forces that work against our state of being.

Redwan Hamzah is a composer, singer-songwriter, musician and educator. Interfacing with different disciplines, he has composed music for dance (Sigma Contemporary Dance), theatre (Translucent Bodies), and film (Viddsee). He has also performed in an improvisatory context for various shows, most recently Unsound Bodies and Weaving Worlds (Esplanade). He writes and performs guitar with the likes of Sezairi, Tim De Cotta, Taufik Batisah, Imran Ajmain, and aeriqah. He aims to bridge his explorations of his Javanese roots with a search for balance between harmony, melody and technology.

In his residency, Redwan's work resonates with the concept of vibrations that are ever-present across time, place and social contexts. Employing sound, design and movement elements, the works explore ways of capturing, manipulating and responding to vibrations and fluid structures of time informed by improvisation and considered composition.