Christina Chan

Christina graduated summa cum laude with a B.F.A. in Dance from The Boston Conservatory in May 2010 and was awarded the prestigious Arthur B. Whitney Medal for highest scholastic achievement. She had previously trained at the Singapore Ballet Academy and the The New Zealand School of Dance.

From 2012-2016 she was a full-time artist and the rehearsal master with Frontier Danceland where she worked with artists from USA, Australia, Taiwan, France, Israel and Belgium including Noa Zuk, Stephanie Lake, Byron Perry, Sita Ostheimer Liu Yen Cheng, Matej Kejzar, Stephanie Batten Bland, Shahar Binyamini, Wallie Wolfgruber and more. Her choreographic works at Frontier include Coming Soon, Between, Fatroom, Bufo Alvarius and Little momentous and have been performed numerous times locally and abroad in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Israel and at invitation from CCNT Tours in France.

Christina has co-created Midlight with Aymeric Bichon, which premiered in 2015 and was performed at Asia Pacific Dance Bridge and the US. She also co-created Flux of Time, Stroboscope, Life On and the full-length work Iris with Aymeric. An Excerpt of Flux of time was recently performed in Israel at “Batsheva Hosts”, a platform run by Batsheva Dance Company.Iris is a full-length work premiered at Da:ns fest 2016. As a collective they have recently travelled to New Zealand, Australia and Africa for work including dancing in a new work by Stephanie Lake.

Christina has also created repertory work for Singapore Dance Theatre. These include Waiting, Shift or Go and Traces we left Behind which premiered recently at Dans Festival 2014 and was performed in Cambodia in 2015 and Unfound 2016. Christina is currently also a dancer for the full length duet Replica by Stephanie Lake and Chasm by Sita Ostheimer.

Featured as “upcoming dance artist of the year to watch” in 2012 by local newspaper Lianhe Zaobao and in Prestige magazine’s “nation’s brightest 40 under 40, 2013”, Christina was also a National Arts Council Scholarship recipient from 2005-2010 and a recipient of the Julie Ince Thompson Scholarship as well as a Merit Scholarship from The Boston Conservatory. She was the winner of local national choreographic competition Sprouts 2011 and Best Dancer in Sprouts 2012. Christina was also the Honouree in the 2015 JCI TOYP outstanding young persons award in the category of cultural achievement.