PERFORMING ARTISTE - CHUA POH YI, JOEY
REVIEW
By Malcolm Tay, The Flying Inkpot, 2000 "Playing both choreographer and performer, Chua was perhaps the most competent dancer with her smooth leg extensions and swift turns." By [Unknown], The Arts Magazine, 2000 "Chua....enchanted the audience with her quick precision - a spark in the fire." By [Unknown], The Arts Magazine, 2000 While all the dancers demonstrated their technical potential, both Chua and Thomson were especially exquisite to watch." By Brenton Wong, The Arts Magazine (Nov/Dec 2000 issue), 2000 "Especially striking was Joey Chua who danced her own solo while a video played……” By June Tey, The Arts Magazine (Nov/Dec 2000 issue), 2000 "The choreography was controlled and minimalist in approach, and Joey Chua’s mastery of isolation movements was used to good effect.” By Pawit Mahasarinand, The Nation, 2000 "This intercultural performance flew smoothly and naturally back and forth between dialogues and dances which seemed to find the right balance……In the end, the billing of “Tracing” as a “work in progress [was] humble indeed.” By Robyn Sassen, Artlink.co.za, 2009 "Tracing isn’t fanfare and bigness, but the dancers use the large space of the Dance Factory stage with the wonder and freedom of youthful experimentation; you do not come away with a broader message or an answer to anything big and universal, but it is certainly a gem and a privilege to watch a work of this caliber.” By Robyn Sassen, Artslink.co.za, 2011 "….Bhayi’s “Tracing”, a gentle sophisticated piece about childhood he choreographed and danced in collaboration with Joey Chua Poh Yi. the result of a Singaporean residency two years ago.” By Mathew Krouse, Mail & Guardian Online "In the two-hander Tracing, Singapore’s Joey Chua Poh Yi and local dancer Mcebisi Bhayi treated our inheritance of apartheid politics as a childish game that got more serious as the dance progressed.” By Bilqis Hijjas, KL Dance Watch, 2008 "Joey’s solo……entitled Precious, offers intellectual interest as well as clarity of movement.” By Dr Caren Carino, The Arts Magazine (June/July 2000 issue), 2011 "……On the horizon of promising dance careers are two performers deserving special attention – Joey Chua from Singapore and Sunday Lucia Thompson from Australia. Both stood out from the others. Chua, a B.A. (Dance) graduate from the University of Adelaide enchanted the audience with her quick precision – a spark in the fire……While all the dancers demonstrated their technical potential, both Chua and Thompson were especially exquisite to watch.”
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