Light Years Choreographers 2026/2027 OPEN CALL
Calling young choreographers and creatives aged 7-14 years! Come join our dance company for young artists.
We welcome participants with different personalities, backgrounds, disabilities and abilities, dance training and experiences. Join a community of young people who love to move and make art. This programme is suitable for any child who loves creative collaboration; not everyone needs to perform – some children might want to participate by creating costumes/props/text/music, or collaborating in other ways.
Light Years Choreographers is a platform to: listen deeply to the children, nurture their inner selves, build warm, healthy relationships, and honour their immense creativity.
Programme Intensive Dates
23-25 November 2026, 9AM-2PM @ 42 Waterloo Street
17-18 March 2027, 9AM-2PM @ 42 Waterloo Street
15-19 June 2027, 9AM-2PM @ Goodman Arts Centre
Final Showcase Date
19 June 2027, 2-6PM @ Goodman Arts Centre
Additional Workshop Dates
The company of Light Years Choreographers will also meet once a month in January, February, April and May. The exact dates/times will be mutually decided and aim to accommodate as many schedules as possible.
(If spaces are available, children who cannot join the full LYC programme may join the intensives only)
Light Years Choreographers is a lighthearted space for young dancers to develop and express their early choreographic ideas with peers and mentors.
Through the years, Rolypoly Family has facilitated and been witness to creative, compositional and choreographic choices made by young dancers. We created Light Years Choreographers as a platform to further develop and celebrate their unique artistic voices, at this very special age when they have a lot to imagine, contribute, and learn.
Designed for children aged 7-14 with prior experience in any kind of dance, the programme runs from November 2025 to May 2026 and closes with a vibrant showcase of the young dancers’ individual and group choreographic explorations.
In showcasing the artistry of young dancers from different backgrounds, we hope to share the richness and diversity of choreographic perspectives in Singapore.
Bernice Lee
Faye Lim
WHO WE ARE
Light Years Holiday Dance Camp Directors
Bernice Lee and Faye Lim started Rolypoly Family together and are the Camp Directors. They are artists who dance, facilitate, choreograph, and make, including with their own children. They love collaboration and sharing creative spaces in community with others. Individually and together, they have shown work locally and internationally, including at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Dance Nucleus, The Substation, 72-13, ArtScience Museum, The Artground, and National Gallery Singapore.
Bernice was formerly a dance artist with Frontier Danceland and Maya Dance Theatre. She holds a B.F.A. in dance from The Ohio State University (2010) and an M.A. in Fine Arts from Lasalle College of the Arts (2022).
Faye holds an M.F.A in Dance and Choreography from New York University and a B.A. in World Arts and Cultures from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Rolypoly Family is dedicated to honouring children’s creative genius while supporting the artistic and socio-emotional learning of diverse young children, their families and communities. Led by dance artists Bernice Lee and Faye Lim, we produce delightful arts and dance experiences, such as performances, interdisciplinary projects, workshops, and body safety education from our artists’ intuitive choreographic and movement practices.
Our name is a statement of our beliefs – that families come in all shapes and sizes, that kinship can grow through creative and physical play (yes, rolling!), and that rhyming is as fun in language as in dance. Rolypoly Family is a division of Derring-Do Dance.
