Lee Yong Wei is an independent dance artist and improvisation practitioner. He facilitates a monthly Contact Improvisation Jam and Forum in Singapore and has conducted Contemporary Dance Masterclasses and Contact Improvisation Workshops at the Nayang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), LASALLE College of the Arts and The Substation among others. Recently, he participated in the Nationally recognized contemporary dance festival, Bates Dance Festival, USA, as a performing artist and assistant trainer.

Yeong Wei received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Choreography in 2004 and his Master of Fine Arts in Dance in 2010 from the Herberger College of the Arts, Arizona State University. A student of distinction, Yeong Wei received the Outstanding Student Award (2003/2004), Outstanding Graduate Student in Creative Work Award (2009/2010) and the Distinguished Teacher Award (2007/2008) from Herberger College of the Arts.

A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Byron has toured extensively developing and performing roles with Douglas Wright, Leigh Warren, Chunky Move, Paul Selwyn Norton, Lucy Guerin Inc, Ballet Lab, DV8 Physical Theatre, Force Majeure, Antony Hamilton and Kate Denborough. In 2006 he received an Australian Dance Award for ‘Outstanding performance by a male dancer’ and won ‘Best Male Dancer’ at the Green Room Awards for his year’s work. He was recently the inaugural Harold Mitchell fellowship recipient for professional development in direction and choreography.

His choreographic work includes Punctuated Equilibrium and the Hayflick Limit for Chunky Move, hest2 for the Victorian College of the Arts, Breaks of Asia for The Studio at the Sydney Opera House,A Volume Problem for Tasdance and Goggle Box for which he was nominated for a Green Room Award for Best original choreography. Recently he was commissioned by Chunky Move to create I like this for their Next Move program with co-director Antony Hamilton. He is currently developing two new works DoubleThink and One Show Only that will premiere in 2012.

Frequently called the Josephine of today, Stefanie Batten Bland mixes European subtleties with American ardor to explore human emotional relationships and the physical notions of community.

Stefanie's serious dance and theater training began later at the performing arts high school in LA , at The Joffrey School, where she was awarded a scholarship to participate in their trainee program and at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. She graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, where she was honored with the Sunny Brown Foundation Award. She then attended SUNY Purchase for dance, and New School for Social Research for post coloninal literature studies on scholarships. In 1998 she began to dance as a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, where she spent several seasons as a soloist.

In addition, she performed with Sean Curran, Kraig Patterson, Gus Solomons Jr., Douglas Dunn... She has been a soloist for Lar Lubovitch Dance and was seduced to Europe by Pina Bausch and her Tanz Theater Wüppertal where she then moved and danced as a guest in 2001 and in 2002. Afterwards she joined Compagnie Linga in Switzerland and worked with Hungarian choreographer Pal Frenak and was assistant to Ivory Coast choreographer Georges Momboye, and danced for Angelin Preljocaj in Julie Taymor’s “Grendel” for the LA Opera, among others...

Ms. Bland has been creating works between France and the US over the last 5 years, fusing her dance heritage with her desire to converse with artists from other mediums.

Jeff received his MFA in Dance Choreography at Taipei National University of the Arts in 2007. His works represented a special texture of creativity influenced by his original background in Architecture. Jeff’s choreography credits include Anarchy’s Dream (2009) & Anarchy 1980 (2008) commissioned by National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan, Anarchy (2008), Gray Mass (2006), Falling Kiss (2006). Falling Kiss placed him as one of the most outstanding choreographers in the performance platform of National Creative Dance Competition in 2008, sponsored by the Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan. In 2006, he received S-AN Artistic Creation Award in Taiwan after the success of his work Gray Mass. Jeff’s works depict a strong structure, meaningful inspiration and creative way of playing with time, space and energy. His teaching experiences include Chu-bei Senior High School in 2008, Drama and Dance Department of Colorado College (USA) from 2009 to 2010. Jeff was also one of the five choreographers for 2009 World Games.

Jeff co-created 22.5-minutes Subconscious Indulgence with Frontier Danceland's Artistic Director, Low Mei Yoke. The work was performed in Singapore (2010) and Taiwan (2011).