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JS Choreollective is an independent choreography collective founded and led by Malaysian contemporary choreographer Wong Jyh Shyong (JS). Based in Malaysia, this choreographic laboratory explores the contemporaneity of Asian choreographic bodies and objects by inviting dance, music, multi-media and video artists to work together in JS's work, which considers and navigates through multicultural and post-colonial societies in relation to the fluid locality of people and the land. Focusing on exchange with Asian dance networks and artists, JS has staged his contemporary choreographies at CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival (Singapore, 2012 and 2014), Storehouse Collection (Japan, 2015), INTERFACE (India, 2016), Asian Young Choreographers‘ Exchange (Hong Kong, 2016), The 28th Asian Monodrama Festival (Korea, 2017), Dance in Asia (Japan and Taiwan, 2018; Indonesia, 2019; Japan Online, 2020), Dance Now Asia Dance Festival (Taiwan, 2024) and Malaysian productions such as d'MOTION International Dance Festival, MyDance Festival, Kuala Lumpur International Dance Festival, Soundbridge The 6th Contemporary Music Festival, Blossom Arts Festival Malaysia, Dancing in Place, Soun(d)ance, Dancebox, to name a few.
 


ABOUT JS


Wong Jyh Shyong (JS), born in Seremban, Malaysia, is an independent dance artist who thinks, creates, performs, and teaches dance. 

 

He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Universiti Malaya in 2023, a Master of Fine Arts from the Graduate Institute of Choreography, Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA) in 2013 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with First Class Honors in 2005. He was previously a dancer with Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan from 2005 to 2009.

 

In the 9th and 11th BOH Cameronian Arts Awards in Malaysia, he received the Best Featured Performer award for his homecoming performance with JS Dance Theatre’s “Fragile” (2011) and Niche Design & Pentas Project’s “Double Punctum” (2013).  

 

From 2013 to 2016, he was the artistic director of DPAC Dance Company (DDC) and Damansara Performing Arts Centre (DPAC). Under his artistic direction, DDC, a full-time dance company under DPAC, was a choreographic workplace that aimed to present dance productions with local artists and collaborative projects between Malaysian and international dance artists. 

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His choreographies for DDC include “In a Space of Time”, “WExplode“, “Faces“, “Once“, “I See Skies of Blue”, and e.t.c. JS has also staged his own works and commissioned pieces in various festivals and venues in Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and India such as MyDance Festival, TARI Festival, d’MOTION International Dance Festival, M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival, Kuala Lumpur International Arts Festival, Sibu International Dance Festival, DPAC Arts Festival and Interface 2016, and many more.

JS Choreollective was established in 2016 after the discontinuation of DDC. It continues JS's exploration of Malaysian contemporary dance. The past collaborators of JS Choreollective are:

  • Composers: Thong Yoong Hao, Kent Lee, Melita Cruz, Tee Xiao Xi, Goh Lee Kwang, Jack Wan, Ng Chor Guan 

  • Video Artist: Keisuke Takahashi

  • Dance Artists: Lee Ren Xin, Tan Bee Hung, Yee SueKi, Mohammad Khairi Bin Mokthar & Tay Yi Xuan (Winnie)

  • Costume Maker: Dynasty House

  • Set: David Wong

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