About Artist
Ma Yanling is a contemporary dancer based in Singapore. She was a dance artist with T.H.E Second Company from 2011 to 2016, performing in most of the company’s annual productions for liTHE and M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival. Ma’s notable performances include roles in Jerome Bel’s Gala (2016), Edith Podesta’s The Immortal Sole at M1 Singapore Fringe Festival (2018), Brian Gothong Tan’s Lost Cinema (2018, 2020, 2021), and SIFA2022 commission Remotes x Quantum. She is also the Company Manager at Centre 42, a Singapore-based theatre development non-profit organisation.
Coming up at SIFA
Angel Island
Inspired by poetry inscribed on the walls of the titular immigration station, Angel Island is a music-theatre performance weaving a story of immigration, discrimination, and confinement, bringing history into the reality of our current lives.
