Cross-cultural collaborations

Wong Jyh Shyong (Malaysia)

A DANCER with Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre from 2005 to 2009 and a recent graduate with a masters in dance from Taiwan, Wong Jyh Shyong is the artistic director of the Damansara Performing Arts Centre in Malaysia. He'll be collaborating with Choi Myung Hyun (Korea), who's the recent winner of the 6th Seoul Dance Collection, and also the 2012 Young Choreographer's Creation Competition.

Wong and Choi have seen each other's dance clips and have explored themes. "What we found is that we're both intrigued with time and space. Choi recently choreographed a piece about time and waiting, while my recent full-length work was entitled 'In a Space of Time'. So we've both used time as a theme, but taken different approaches," he adds.