Chew Shaw En 周劭恩
Chew Shaw En is a
performer, dance artist and facilitator with a multidisciplinary practice that spans different contexts. She performs in her own work and also performs for others; and she works with performance score, task-based devising, and improvisation. Shaw is interested in the kinetic foundations of contemporary life
and she draws upon fantasy, the vernacular, and her socially engaged work with people and communities
to evoke imagery, metaphor and concepts that guide her creations. Shaw is interested in making work that challenges the audience to think about relationships differently.
Her creations include p a c e -a site specific dance activation and response at Kampong Bahru Bus Terminal (Singapore Art Museum 2024); Across a Small Distance (feelers & starch 2021); Big Feelings created in residence at National Gallery Singapore (Resonates With Residency 2022); In Being With a dance film commissioned by Esplanade Singapore; unsuspecting guardians cutting a path through dust a series of murals along the walls of public housing through a neighbourhood in boon lay depicting silhouettes of observed everyday intimacy and play (3Pumpkins 2023).
Amongst her facilitation experiences Shaw is a creative facilitator at Tak Takut Kids Club(TTKC) - a community space in the neighbourhood dedicated for children and youths with vulnerable backgrounds across different projects. With TTKC, she has been a part of long-running projects such as Community Getai (2021-2024) – a ground up weekly performance night where we facilitate a culture of self sustaining performance making and hosting by and for the community; and Let’s Go Play OutSide! an initiative that activates the public playground as a community space where children and people can gather.
As an artist-facilitator, Shaw works with Superhero Me on projects that pushes the boundaries of inclusion in collaboration with neurodivergent children and their families such as GROW in collaboration with Apple (2023 & 2024); and she was Programming Executive for cont.act Contemporary Dance Festival (2022-2023).
Her creations include p a c e -a site specific dance activation and response at Kampong Bahru Bus Terminal (Singapore Art Museum 2024); Across a Small Distance (feelers & starch 2021); Big Feelings created in residence at National Gallery Singapore (Resonates With Residency 2022); In Being With a dance film commissioned by Esplanade Singapore; unsuspecting guardians cutting a path through dust a series of murals along the walls of public housing through a neighbourhood in boon lay depicting silhouettes of observed everyday intimacy and play (3Pumpkins 2023).
Amongst her facilitation experiences Shaw is a creative facilitator at Tak Takut Kids Club(TTKC) - a community space in the neighbourhood dedicated for children and youths with vulnerable backgrounds across different projects. With TTKC, she has been a part of long-running projects such as Community Getai (2021-2024) – a ground up weekly performance night where we facilitate a culture of self sustaining performance making and hosting by and for the community; and Let’s Go Play OutSide! an initiative that activates the public playground as a community space where children and people can gather.
As an artist-facilitator, Shaw works with Superhero Me on projects that pushes the boundaries of inclusion in collaboration with neurodivergent children and their families such as GROW in collaboration with Apple (2023 & 2024); and she was Programming Executive for cont.act Contemporary Dance Festival (2022-2023).