RiverGrass Dance Theathre and Academy

CREATIVE DANCES and GAMES
Great FUN for this Hari Raya Break!
Sun, 14 Oct 2007
Pentas 1, KLPac 3-6pm more

Need a space for rehearsal, practice, photo sessions, brain storming, practice your guitar, conduct lessons or just meditation?

Rate: RM15-30/hour, depends on usage of AC. Further concessions available.

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RiverGrass joyfully brings your attention to the Malaysian Dance Festival 2005. more

MEW and her MUSES
The first Dance Production in KLPac @ PENTAS 2

By Mew Chang Tsing with Artistic Director, Joe Hasham
A Collaboration of RiverGrass Dance Theatre and The Actors Studio
Priority Entrance for RiverGrass members and MyDance Alliance members more

rtistic Director and Founder of RiverGrass Dance Theatre, Principal of RiverGrass Dance Academy, Mew Chang Tsing graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and acquired her MA in Dance Studies at the University of Surrey, UK.

Mew is a renowned dance extrovert in Malaysia. Besides performing and choreographing, she also works in the field of education, arts promotion and management. Currently she is the President of MyDance Alliance- a member of World Dance Alliance, and holds the position of Treasurer for World Dance Alliance –Asia Pacific. Mew is also a lecturer at the National Arts Academy and University Malaya.

As an artist and a person, her direction of work is towards finding an identity in Malaysia ’s Interculturalism. Mew’s strength lies in her wide range of comprehensive dance training in Ballet, Contemporary Dance and Chinese Dance as well as her immersion in Balinese Dance and the main folk dances of Malaysia and Indonesia.

In the process of learning, understanding, deconstructing and owning these forms, Mew’s performance and choreographic styles reflect her quest for defining herself, her life, her culture.

Mew has won international recognition as a choreographer and performer; she has performed, given workshops and seminars in U.K., Australia, Portugal, Hong Kong, USA, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore and China. In 2000, Mew completed a collaborative piece with Seattle film artist John D. Pai entitled Traces, which was produced by the Northwest Asian American Theatre under the International Artist Program funded by Ford Foundation and the work was hailed by the Seattle Times as an "especially remarkable" and "strongly felt" work.

Through RiverGrass Dance Theatre and RiverGrass Dance Academy she continues to develop and promote her own unique intercultural dance style – in which she constantly finds surprises and epiphany.

2001, Mew was awarded the The Most Distinguished Young Artist In Cultural Stage Performance. 2002, she was nominated as ‘Best Actress’ for the Noph Cameronian Arts Award. In 2003, RE:Lady White Snake a dance drama produced by her won three Cameronian Arts Awards – Best Set Design, Best Lighting Design and Audience Choice Award.