Sharul Mohd

Sharul is a versatile dance artist with multifaceted experience comprising choreographic work, teaching and performance. From 2007 till present, he has been a Malay dance performer, instructor, choreographer and practitioner with Artiste Seni Budaya, under the tutelage of Mr Rizman Kassim. He developed a well-honed practice in various forms of Malay folk dance. He has vast experience in performing internationally (Poland, Korea, Sabah, Bulgaria, Istanbul and Kuala Lumpur), and through a wide variety of platforms and collaborative works. Sharul strives to deepen his perspective through active conversations of dance artistry and his choreographic creativity is grounded in intricate expressions and complexity of movement.

He is dedicated to find ways to deepen traditional Malay dance in society by assisting people to relate to the art form in new ways, thus keeping the tradition alive and relevant. Sharul is passionate in creating contemporary works that explore movement language of Malay traditional form. Upon graduation from BA (Hons) Dance from LASALLE College of the Arts, he is interested to nurture his practice in performance-making. He is currently an Associate of P7:1SMA Ltd, a dance community led by Norhaizad Adam, who considers performance-making as necessary disruptions, Malay as a concept, and dance as a strategy for common humanity.

Tng Yue Lin Geraldine

Final year psychology student at National University of Singapore. A team player who possesses strong social, communication, leadership and management skills. Always eager to help others and contribute to the team. Receptive to learning and open to taking up new challenges and opportunities presented.

Nurliyana Shukor

Liyana started ballet at the age of 10 years old. Her interest carved a continuous path to take up modern and contemporary dance in secondary school. At a young age, Liyana envisioned herself as a versatile dancer, hence she joined Atrika Dance Company under the tutelage of Mdm Mazlina Buang since 2010 till present. With the company, she is trained in traditional Malay dance, various street dance genres and contemporary dance. She has been taking part in competitions, productions and corporate events. Her notable experience is when she clinched top three in a TRDO dance competition (2015) and choreographed a hip-hop dance work for an Overseas Exchange Programme to India (2015).

In recent years, she started teaching and choreographing internally for company classes since 2018 and have an interest in developing her pedagogy in dance. She is passionate to develop her experience beyond Atrika Dance Company. Her desire led her to source out knowledge by attending open studio classes and workshops. Liyana is continuously learning from various local artists to broaden her perspective about dance and hopes to work with international artists in years to come.

Peni Candra Rini

Composer, Songwriter, Poet, Vocalist for Javanese (Sindhen) and Contemporary, Lecturer in the Department of Karawitan, Doctoral Candidate for Creation of Music Art at Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI) Surakarta. Owner and Executive Director of Candrarini’s Gamelan, Sentana Art Music Production and Jagad Sentana Art Foundation.

Syarifuddin Sahari

Syarifuddin started out in street dance at 17 and his movements are derived from elements and tools of Street Dance namely HipHop, House, Dancehall & African, while having interest in other performative and movement forms. Exploring the power of the mind and imagination, he believes that dance as movement is the cosmic language that shares vocabulary and concepts, and is open to finding new ways to move and explore in order to better embody and transmit physically.

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Intrigue, fascination, curiosity, wonder and understanding are some of the fuels that drive his actions and behaviour, seeking inspiration from his surroundings and beyond. He is currently exploring the relation between sound and movement, the seen and unseen, experimenting in his practice-in-process called Textures of the Reverb.