team deca
Edwin.
Edwin graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 2008 with a Diploma in Dance. Upon graduation, he was invited to present his graduating choreography, The Shaman's Cat, at the da:ns Festival 2008 at Esplanade. He was part of Generations Spotlight: Moscow (2008) directed by Ivan Heng, where he performed for the President of Russia, Dmitriy Medvedev, and Singapore's Senior Minister, Goh Chok Tong. He later performed for His Excellency President of Singapore SR Nathan at the Singapore Design Awards 2008.
He joined Arts Fission in 2008 ad has been actively choreographing and performing since. He was appointed Rehearsal Director in 2011 and Artistic Director for the company’s annual young people environmental dance-theatre productions since 2012. He has directed, curated, designed and choreographed more than 20 staged and site specific original productions.
With Arts Fission, he was involved in all productions and community projects. Some notable performances include, and not limited to, The Rite of Spring: A People’s Stravinsky (2013), Temple Reimagined (2013): a dance film, Future Feed (2014): a collaboration with Irene K Compagnie and presented in Belgium, In the Name of Red (2015): a site specific performance commissioned by National Gallery Singapore, Fire Monkey: a site specific performance under the arts festival of Mapping Melbourne (2016), and again at Northcote Townhall, Melbourne (2018).
Rachel.
Rachel Lum graduated with a Diploma in Dance from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in year 2011. Upon graduation, she joined Frontier Danceland as an apprentice. Rachel then joined Re:Dance Theatre (RDT) as a founding member where she actively performed in all of her core and external productions such as M1 Contact Dance Festival, M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, Singapore Night Festival and NUS Arts Festival. Rachel was also the training mistress for Re:Dance Theatre 2. In 2017, she joined The Arts Fission Company as a movement artist. In addition, she has created numerous dance works and one of them, No Corners, was invited to perform at Lift Off Dance Festival in Bracknell, United Kingdom. As a freelance artist, she has performed in M1 Contact Dance Festival, CDE Springboard Dance Festival Macau and DANCESTAGES Shanghai.
Joanne.
Joanne started her dance journey at the Royal Academy of Dance ballet programme at the early age of five in Malaysia. At 16, she discovered her interest in contemporary dance, fascinated by the endless possibilities in body movements. She recently graduated from the Diploma in Dance Program at LASALLE College of the Arts with Distinction.
While furthering her dance studies at LASALLE College of the Arts, she expanded her repertoire to include genres such as jazz and street dance. During her training at LASALLE, she worked with several local and international artists such as Rachel Lopez de la Nieta (UK), Leah Morrison (UK), Ery Mefri (Indonesia), Eisa Jocson (Philippines), Susan Sentler (UK/Singapore) and Jenny Neo (Singapore), as well as collaborated across disciplines such as fine arts, fashion, film and animation, which widened her perspectives of dance. She is interested in dance creation as well as movement research which challenges the boundaries of the human body. She is currently a full-time dancer with Decadance Co.
Stephanie.
Stephanie Rae Yoong graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts with a Diploma in Dance with Distinction in 2018 and joined RAW Moves as an Apprentice Dancer. She was then promoted to Junior Dancer in 2019. She then joined Sigma Contemporary Dance as an Associate Dancer in 2021.
Stephanie has performed in works locally such as Close Company (2018) by Alison Currie (Australia) , Ghost Call (2019) by Nabilah Said and Subtle Down Tempo No (2019) by Murasaki Penguin (Australia/Japan), HASER by Syimah Sabtu (2021) for M1 Contact , Locked by Decadance co (2021) and in Australia at OzAsia Festival (2018). Her choreographic work Fragments and A Whimsical World was featured in RawGround: Competition (2018)and RawGround:Reference (2020) .
She also taught Creative movement to A Little RAW Kinder in 2020 and was also a facilitator for A Little RAW Junior and A Little RAW Company (2018-2020), and is currently the teacher for DecaK!ds classes.