Hi to all Singaporeans,

For all you know, you may have been posting to someone in your class! But thats beside the point, since Singapore is such a small country, I think its great to get to know who's around and who's dancing =), so perhaps you could introduce yourselves and we'll all be a great singaporean dance community!

Here's a little form that might help, you don't have to answer all the questions if you're uncomfortable with them.


Name:
Age:
Gender:

Number and Type of dance classes taken:
Name of teachers:
Name of studio/place:
Level or Grade of Class:

How long have you been dancing?:
Favorite type of dance you take:
Favorite type of dance you watch:

Anything else you would like to share about you as a dancer? (Practically anything you want to say, your passion for it, your unique dancewear, brand of shoe etc etc, anything at all.)

email address (if you want to leave it):

hello. why don't you start first?

Okay I'll start... =) I didn't want to start coz it was quite embarassing but oh well.. haha

Name: Brandon
Age: 19
Gender: M

Number and Type of dance classes taken: 5 Ballet, 1 Modern Dance
Name of teachers: Miss Sharon Liew and Miss Rosalind Ong
Name of studio/place: Changkat CC, Tampines West CC, SDT (Modern)
Level or Grade of Class: Intermediate Ballet, Basic Modern Dance

How long have you been dancing?: Ballet 8 years total, age 5-13, stopped and just picked up 3 months ago
Favorite type of dance you take: Ballet
Favorite type of dance you watch: Ballet

Anything else you would like to share about you as a dancer? (Practically anything you want to say, your passion for it, your unique dancewear, brand of shoe etc etc, anything at all.)
Yea I know guy dancers are quite rare in singapore, but oh well, I still love ballet and its great =) The only bad thing is guy dancers are always very lonely in class =( the girls don't talk to me. =((

email address (if you want to leave it): o_brandon_o@hotmail.com
feel free to add me on msn, sure love to know a few ballet fanatics and make some friends

oh my gosh, I just realized the typo mistake in the title, it should be care *to* introduce yourselves, and not care you... gosh, what a horrible mistake!

Name: Sharon
Age: 16
Gender: F

Number and Type of dance classes taken: 1 Ballet
Name of teachers: Ms Kee and Ms Xiao
Name of studio/place: Bukit Batok East CC
Level or Grade of Class: Grade 5 ongoing to Inter.Foun

How long have you been dancing?: i danced chinese dance for 6 years. and ballet for 19 months.
Favorite type of dance you take: BALLET!
Favorite type of dance you watch: BALLET!

Anything else you would like to share about you as a dancer?
i have a passion for gymnastics too. i am the oldest in my class. but i never regret taking up ballet. i was also the only girl in the grade 5 class who had taken up pointe before. i would love to try chinese dance again and also take up basic ice skating. oh, not forgetting cheerleading, if i get into a poly with the cheerleading cca.

PROUD TO BE A DANCER!

wow, 19 months and you're in inter foundation, thats quite nice... and seems like you got all the flexibility type of sports there, must be really flexible I guess? keep it up

Name: Stufu

Age: -

Gender: F



Number and Type of dance classes taken: At the moment, 1 ballet class.

Name of teachers: I prefer not to reveal

Name of studio/place: Same with this

Level or Grade of Class: I'm doing RAD Majors, and also the higher grades.



How long have you been dancing?: Into 9th year now, i stopped for a few years...

Favorite type of dance you take: Ballet

Favorite type of dance you watch: Classical and modern ballets, as well as contemporary dances.

Nice, Where's Attitude Ballet studio anyway? By the way ballet4life, I saw some of your posts in the other forums, are you pre-professional? I noted you mentioning that your dream was to be a dancer... I thought it was really cool.

Im new but oh well, here it goes.

Name: Pei Lin
Age: 17
Gender: F
Number and Type of dance classes taken: 2Ballet 1 jazz
Name of studio/place: Attitude Arts, Ecnad Studio & Jurong Spring CC (Jazz)
Level or Grade of Class: BEGINNER!! Elementary for Jazz.

How long have you been dancing?: 4 months
Favorite type of dance you take: do i have to choose?? Jazz i guess since in ballet we havent exactly DANCED yet, just technique stuffs.
Favorite type of dance you watch: Jazz

Anything else you would like to share about you as a dancer?
Ok this is embarrassing, but I really wish to perform as a dancer one day, anywhere actually, I dont mean professional, just be able to dance for people to see and not just be a dance student forever, if you get what i mean. Someday maybe, if I get good enough.

Hello! I'm slightly newish to this board so it's nice for an introduction!

Name:Nicole
Age:21
Gender:F

Number and Type of dance classes taken: 2, Ballet and Flamenco, but we do Jazz and Modern as well, actually perform it is more likely.
Name of teachers: Jennie Ng(Ballet), Ping Ping(Flamenco)
Name of studio/place: Le Grand School of Dance (located at Tampines)
Level or Grade of Class:Intermediate CSTD

How long have you been dancing?:17 Years
Favorite type of dance you take: Ballet
Favorite type of dance you watch: I'll usually watch any type of dance except contemporary, this depends.


Been dancing for a really long time, but due to some past injuries and what not, most of it has been uphill climb, regaining back strength and flexibility. Still I'm no great shakes at the latter but I'm working real hard. I really do love dance, hip hop, jazz, ballet, throw it at me and I'll work hard. BUT I've had no aspirations to be professional, I just LOVE it as it is. I do it for myself, it's a passion, but this is one passion that won't take me to the professional stage, hopefully it might in other areas in the performing arts industry. I'd rather sing truthfully. Currently waiting for uni and working and trying to get in dance and vocal lessons at the same time. Hah. Busy Busy. Let me see, oh I have BAD BAD feet, so I don't know what I'm going to do if I can't get anymore Gambas. Woe is me.

You can visit me at my LJ: blazefury.livejournal.com
If you want to get me on MSN just PM me!

And great! More male dancers, welcome bubblebran! I'll talk to you don't worry. Haha. Nice to meet the rest of you too!

Whoa. I dare not dream to be one... But i really want to be a professional dancer. So i'm planning for my future education in dance. yeps. I'm not exactly good you know? There are a few here who are very talented. Yups. Guys can be professional easily if you've got your stuff. yeps. You just need a few years of intense training and you're there! Take Jeffrey Tan of SDT as an example. So don't stop aspiring!

ahh of course I'll never stop aspiring... yea when I found out about Jeffrey Tan, I was very encouraged. I thought it was quite unrealistic for me, but suddenly theres hope!!! Whee

But the sad thing is SDT has many overseas dancer... even though the competition for male ballet in singapore isn't very high... they take so many overseas dancers =( becomes very hard...

Name: Steph
Age: 20 going on 21
Gender: F

Number and Type of dance classes taken: 1, Adult Ballet
Name of teachers: Antony Tay
Name of studio/place: Dance Arts
Level or Grade of Class: Beginners.

How long have you been dancing?: 6 mths, but i did kids ballet under Ms Sandra Ho for 3 yrs (grade 2) till p1 or 2.
Favorite type of dance you take: Ballet!
Favorite type of dance you watch: Ballet, contemp, jazz.

Anything else you would like to share about you as a dancer? (Practically anything you want to say, your passion for it, your unique dancewear, brand of shoe etc etc, anything at all.)
I want to do pointe! I want to look graceful! I want to dance!
Er...but sadly due to my crazy schedule which will only get crazier, it's highly unlikely i'll every get to slip my ugly, un-pointable feet into a pair of Bloches or Freeds. *sob*
And yeah, I really regret quitting ballet. Then again, it wasn't my choice. Lol.

email address:PM me on this forum?

Hello! I've kind of just started posting on this forum, so here is my introduction! I'm Singaporean but studying in the UK.

Name: Rachel
Age: 21
Gender: F

Number and Type of dance classes taken: 3 ballet classes per week until last week,when my classes have all stopped.
Name of teachers: Raquelle Ashton and some girls/guest teachers at my uni
Name of studio/place: Royal Academy of Dance headquarters and my uni
Level or Grade of Class: Beginners, intermediate & elementary

How long have you been dancing?: all kinds of dance on & off for abt 2 yrs, but started doing ballet seriously for about 6 months
Favorite type of dance you take: jazz
Favorite type of dance you watch: erm,sadly i haven't watched a proper dance perf but i'm looking fwd to my first time!

Anything else you would like to share about you as a dancer? (Practically anything you want to say, your passion for it, your unique dancewear, brand of shoe etc etc, anything at all.)

I think I'm really fortunate to be in the UK cos there's good opportunity for exposure to dance. Of course S'pore is not bad too. Well I'm really old to be starting out dancing but I still dream of performing one day! Need not be professional but still, at least performing on stage instead of always dancing in a class. If possible I want to do a diploma! Haha. I've got lots of passion n i'm really pushing myself in this aspect but I feel that dancing is something I want to do my whole life! I enjoy both jazz and ballet. I used to swim but didn't like it much. Stuff I want to try are rockwall climbing, freestyle skating and ice skating. I also LURVE skiing!

Woah... I think you're really lucky to be in the UK! No worries about performance, you'll get to do some someday, there are many performances that are not professional

Just curious, you've got time to do Uni and take 3 classes a week? wow, isn't it quite tough?

Name:Yi Yi
Age:turning 14 next month
Gender:F

Number and Type of dance classes taken:ballet and chinese dance
Name of teachers:Ms Cheah and Mdm Chen Lili
Name of studio/place:SBA and nygh
Level or Grade of Class: gr5 going to inter foundation

How long have you been dancing?: 11th year
Favorite type of dance you take:not sure
Favorite type of dance you watch:ballet

zesty! you study dance in RAD?! oh my god. thats so cool. why did your classes stop? you are so fortunate!

yeah my schedule is quite tight as a result. also becos i've got 9-5 day on thurs n ballet at night, n always have major report/project/deadline/test/watever on fri, it kind of sucks. But besides that the other classes are on weekend so it's ok. Being in uk is fun but it's really exp! Btw i'll be going back to s'pore over july period so maybe it'll be nice to meet up with some of u if u guys are keen. If not no worries! I'll prob bump into some of u anyway cos i'll prob do dance classes over the summer. Can't live without dancing!

cool! Yea I thought that dancing in RAD was really cool... if I had a chance I'd have both hands raised... maybe even pose pirouette into class! =X

ya i'm quite lucky to be taking class there! the classes are 8 pounds(=$24) which are not too exp considering the teaching is really really good. What i learn in 1 class at RAD is more than what i normally do in 1 month at my uni! But no complains about the classes at my uni,cos it's only 1 pounds($3) per class. Classes have stopped becos it's the easter break,but i'm taking open jazz classes somewhere else 3 times a week,sometimes 2 classes each time. That place's exp but I don't mind becos I just have to dance. Like a little addicted if u know what i mean. haha u guys must think i'm crazy now.

Haha. Bubblebran, the reason why SDT take in so many foreign dancers is because of the shortage of male dancers in S'pore. Line in SDT, there are only 2 S'porean male dancers, which is really sad. Even those guys who dance locally and are good, are foreigners epspecially from China. China produces many good dancers, both male and female alike. So yeps. just work hard! jia you!

haha thanks, yea I'll work hard.. but I'm still afraid I can't get it! I still can't do pirouettes properly until now... such a far far gap.. =(

Oh i was having problems with pirouettes too not too long ago. Hope this will help. First u must practise ur balance in retire position. If u can do this already, the trick is the spotting! Your spot will get u round. Oh, n don't forget to really plie before u turn,i always forget this. Finally just keep practising! like what i'm trying to do right now cos i'm still bad at it haha. Yup hope this helps!!

zesty, you mean per class will be around $24? if it is so, to me, it will be expensive!

but anyway, it worth the price. its RAD school!

pirouette requires lots of practices. make sure your standing leg is pulled up. or rather "drilled" your standing leg into the ground. then spin. try the spinning first. once you are comfortable with it. then spot!

good luck.

wait a minute, is 24 SGD or 24 Euros? Gosh its rather expensive! My teacher gives me so many extra classes that it only averages to about 4 dollars a class.. =)

Name: Jin Hwee
Age: 14 going on 15
Gender: F

Number and Type of dance classes taken: 3 per week: 1 ballet and 2 cca(dance)in school
Name of teachers: School: Grace Leong, Wang Da, Benedict Soh Studio: Elaine(now)
Name of studio/place:school, Attitude
Level or Grade of Class: Gr6

How long have you been dancing?: start ballet outside last yr. Did ballet in school as cca..
Favorite type of dance you take: ballet??
Favorite type of dance you watch: -