About SDW 2011

Singapore Dance Week 2011 – Connect…Share…Experience!
A Celebration of Dance organised by the World Dance Alliance Singapore

The Creation and Presentation Network of WDA, Singapore (WDAS) is working towards celebrating Singapore Dance Week 2011. The week long celebration of Dance will open on May 21st 2011 with "Connect…Share…Experience!" As the name suggests, Singaporeans will get up and experience the joy and verve of Dance. The venue for this opening event will be One Fullerton. This will be followed by a full week of dance happenings in various parts of the island in schools, community centres, dance studios and institutions etc. Singapore Dance Week 2011 will close on May 28th 2011 at ION Orchard.

For us Singapore Dance Week is a platform for connecting, sharing and experiencing dance together. The seed of this idea first found expression as International Dance Day in 2008. Each year, the idea has been developing – in 2009 WDAS celebrated International Dance Week. In 2010 the event morphed itself into Singapore Dance Week and was organised on a much larger scale than the previous years. This year, the event has received even more support from various segments of the community. We at WDAS look at Singapore Dance Week as an annual event which we see moving closer and closer each year towards the vision of taking Dance to the community.

We look forward to having you join us in celebrating Dance.


Singapore Dance Week 2011:


Opening Event


Connect…Share…Experience!- at Sea View Channel, One Fullerton (from 5pm onwards)

Highlights of the opening event include

• Official launch of SDW 2011 by our Guest of Honour NMP Viswa Sadasivan

• Honouring of Dance Pioneers of Singapore – Ms Rose Eberwein and Mdm Lee Shu Fen

• SDW 2011’s signature mass dance, a spontaneous creation that will celebrate the diverse dance genres of Singapore.

• Showcase of dance pieces from various dance genres and by dancers from various age groups and ethnic backgrounds.

• Bollywood mass dance. (will be posted on the WDAS website and official blog prior to the event so that members of the public will have the opportunity to learn the moves and will be able to join in the mass dance)


Satellite events

Mini performances, workshops, lec-dems, open house, open rehearsals etc by members of Singapore’s dance community at CCs, schools, dance studios and institutions and at other venues.


Closing event

SDW 2011 will close at ION Orchard (from 5pm onwards)

Highlights of the closing event include:

• Hip Hop Mass Dance (will be posted on the WDAS website and official blog prior to the event so that members of the public will have the opportunity to learn the moves and will be able to join in the mass dance)

• Showcase of dance pieces from various dance genres and by dancers from various age groups and ethnic backgrounds


SDW 2011 will close with the special signature mass dance, spontaneously created at the Opening in celebration of the diverse dance genres of Singapore.