Contemporary with Faye Tan
From the 9th-16th March, join international guest artist Faye Tan (National Dance Company Wales, Frontier Danceland) for professional company class. Faye’s contemporary class draws on her improvisation and technical practice, building to phrase work. Participants will work with principles such as clarity, curiosity, spontaneity, efficiency, risk, challenge, readiness, contrast, acceptance and indulgence. Expect an upbeat, high-physicality class with a focus on details, body awareness and function, and individual inquiry.
Faye Tan is a dance artist from Singapore and is based in the UK. She has a decade of experience working as a full-time dancer with repertoire companies National Dance Company Wales and Frontier Danceland, working with over thirty choreographers from all over the world as a performer and collaborator in new creations and restagings. Faye has choreographed works for National Dance Company Wales, VERVE, INTOTO (London Studio Centre), Frontier Danceland, Centre for Advanced Training, Rambert School, School of The Arts Singapore, House of Tengri, musician Dirk Stromberg and Dingyi Music Company.
Aside from performance and choreography, Faye is a dance teacher and facilitator for a wide range of people. She has taught in various contexts from introductory workshops for first-timers to professionals in company class, from private coaching to mass audiences of school children, for participants from three-years old to ninety-six, for the neurodivergent, the d/Deaf and the disabled. She is regularly a guest teacher at dance companies and training institutions.
For more information: faye-tan.com
