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T.H.E Dance Company's cont·act Contemporary Dance Festival is an annual dance festival held in Singapore that showcases contemporary dance performances by local and international dance companies and choreographers. [26] The festival is organised by T.H.E Dance Company, a contemporary dance company based in Singapore.
Ten international style ballroom dances—five Standard and five Latin—are defined by the World Dance Council (WDC), which has world-wide membership of all countries taking part in ballroom competitions. The WDC incorporates various groupings and former titles, such as the World Dance and DanceSport Council (former title). The WDC is the ...
The term 'ballroom dancing' is derived from the word ball which in turn originates from the Latin word ballare which means 'to dance' (a ball-room being a large room specially designed for such dances). In times past, ballroom dancing was social dancing for the privileged, leaving folk dancing for the lower classes. These boundaries have since ...
Sunny Low was born to Low Poh San, who founded the Poh San Dance Studio in 1937 and is credited with introducing ballroom dancing to Singapore, and his wife Jenny (née Quek). [2] Sunny had six siblings and was the eldest son in the family. [3] He attended Outram Secondary School and began dancing at the age of 14. [4] [5]
Since 2001, Singapore Raffles Music College (Abbreviation: SRMC; Chinese: 新加坡莱佛士音乐学院; pinyin: Xīnjiāpō Láifoshi Yīnyuè Xuéyuan) has been one of Singapore’s leading schools for higher learning in music and dance, registered with the Committee for Private Education (CPE).
Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) is an annual arts festival held in Singapore. It is organised by Arts House Limited for the National Arts Council. The festival is usually held in mid-year for a stretch of one month and incorporates theatre arts, dance, music and visual arts, etc. Besides local participants, many of the events ...
The World Dance Council (WDC) is a registered limited company, and the legal successor to the International Council of Ballroom Dancing (ICBD), which was formed in 1950 in Edinburgh. [8] The WDC operates through a general council and two committees: The World Dance Sport Committee regulates professional dancesport at the international level.
The Singapore Wushu Dragon and Lion Dance Federation, formerly known as the Singapore National Pugilistic Federation, is the official body which oversees and governs the sport in Singapore. Among the notable wushu professionals in the city-state is Vincent Ng , who became the first individual wushu champion from Singapore in 1995.