biography

jee chan (all pronouns) is an artist working in the fields of dance and expanded choreography. They are concerned with questions surrounding the displaced body and what it can perform. Characterized by hybridity and syncretism, their transdisciplinary practice engages with oral histories, ancestral epistemologies and the representation of (auto)biographies, particularly among the contexts of island Southeast Asia. A member of the inaugural artistic cohort at the Rose Choreographic School (Sadler’s Wells, London) their work has been presented at Sophiensaele (Berlin), Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), DOK Leipzig, the e-flux Screening Room (New York), the International Festival of Films on Art (Montreal) and the Singapore Art Museum. jee lives between Singapore and Berlin.

recent & upcoming 💧

AS PERFORMER SALAR, Amanda Piña, Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna, 21 - 23.01.2027 ︎︎︎

AS PERFORMER Losers, Enad Marouf, Sophiensæle, Berlin, 29.10 - 02.11.2026 ︎︎︎

AS PERFORMER Untitled (briefly here bright), kiana rezvani, tanzhaus nrw, 11.09.2026︎︎︎

AS PERFORMER Trio A, Yvonne Rainer, 2026, for the 60th anniversary of Trio A, Tate Modern, London, 10 - 11.07.2026︎︎︎

AS PERFORMER Future Songs of Fish and People, Amanda Piña, performance for the New Patrons of Ummanz, 27.06.2026︎︎︎

RESIDENCY Singapore Art Museum, Cycle 3, in collaboration with Sharon Mercado Nogales, ABU/ALMITAS, 03 - 05.2026︎︎︎

PERFORMANCE ratu, premiered at 35^th Tanztage Berlin, in co-production with Sophiensæle, Berlin, 08 – 09.01.2026 ︎︎︎

FILM bendungan, world premiere, 68th DOK Leipzig, German Documentary Film Competition, 28.10.2025︎︎︎

LECTURE PERFORMANCE laut jerebu, presented at Institute of Contemporary Art, London, as part of Choreographic Devices, 19.01.2025︎︎︎

AWARD danceWEB scholarship 2025, Impulstanz, Vienna International Dance Festival, Austria ︎︎︎

EDUCATION Rose Choreographic School, London, 2024 - 2026

Full CV available here ︎︎︎

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