Stacie Leong

Biography

Stacie Joined Dancepointe and dACADEMY in July 2022.

She is currently enrolled in the Masters of Education in (Dance Teaching) by the Royal Academy of Dance, Validated by the United Kingdom’s University of Bath, and will complete the program in September 2026. She graduated from Singapore’s LASALLE College of the Arts Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Dance in April 2019 having acquired a Diploma in Dance in 2014 as a recipient of the LASALLE Scholarship for the academic year 2013/14. She has completed her RAD Advanced 1 with Distinction. Trained in Ballet, Contemporary, and Jazz, but has picked up hip-hop, basic tap, and salsa alongside.

She is currently the Resident Dance Instructor at Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School (Secondary) and has sent the students to several competitions and school performances, choreographed for the 2021 and 2023 Singapore Youth Festival Arts Presentation.

She is also a Dance Artist under The Presence Project led by Dr. Peter Gn (SG)

• Conducted Contemporary Technique Training and choreography in 2021.

• Performed in Fluid Entities 2023, Trinity Laban Music and Dance Conservatoire Summer School 2023, Amplified! DanceLab23: Youth Leadership Camp.

Stacie actively performs and choreographs for The Kueh Tutus led by Melissa Quek (SG)

• Performed in venues such as Esplanade’s Octoburst Childrens’ Festival and The Artground at Goodman Arts Centre Indian Heritage Centre for their children’s festival, Enchanted Forest, NAC’S Got to Move

• Assist in a Community engagement movement workshop organized by Esplanade

Bachelor of Arts(Hons) Dance Performances:

• Choreographies by Susan Yeung(SG), Annie and Franck (France), Theo Clinkard(UK), Liz Roche(IE), Jacky Yu(HK), Kuik Swee Boon(SG) as well as completing her dissertation titled In His Presence: An Embodied Dance Practice supervised by

  Ang Gey Pin.

Diploma in Dance Performances:

• Choreographies by Melissa Quek, Albert Tiong, Foo Yun Ying, Chiew Pei Shan, Yarra Iltero, Dapheny Chen, Soren Niewelt, and John Mead in platforms such as Esplanade’s Annual Dans Festival, and T.H.E CONTACT Dance Festival

• Worked with International Company, Vision of the Dance, under the tutelage of Mathias Martiz from Barcelona.

  
  

She devoted her semester breaks and actively performed in student choreographies and participated in community works such as MindBath organised by LASALLE Arts Management Students as well as Displacement, a community collaborative work with NAFA Dance students.

Professional Dance Company Experience:

• She joined the Professional dance company Re:dance Theatre as an Apprentice Dancer in June 2014 working with duo Aaron and Ix, passoverdance

• Performed for the Exxonmobil Campus Concert by Dapheny Chen and in CO:LAB 2015 by Rachel Lum.

• She has also traveled to Taiwan with the Company to tour their works. In Differ 3, She danced in Chien Hua Bao (Taiwan) and Albert Tiong.

Independent Artist Projects:

• Teaching Assistant at the Dance Talent Development Program organised by NAC/MOE/LASALLE

• College of the Arts in 2014,2016 and 2017.

• Phrases 2 by Paragraph

• Hatch 2 by Dance Nucleus

• NUS Dance Ensemble Evocation

• AEP By John Mead Dance Company

• Exxonmobil Campus Concert 2016

• Site Specific work in Singapore’s Civic District

• NOISE Singapore in a piece commissioned by Global Cultural Alliance

• Hatch 3 By Dance Nucleus

• Prisma Dance Festival 2017 Panama City, Central America

• #Scope 2 by Dance Nucleus

• Dance in Situ Season 3 By Chiew Pei Shan

• SYF 2017, 2021, 2023

• Conducted classes with students from APSN Katong School

• Assistant to Choreographer Melissa Quek for Childaid 2023 a charity concert by The Straits Times.