Sonia Kwek (she/her) is an artist from Singapore working with performance, movement and the body. She performs, facilitates, directs, choreographs, dramaturges, writes and produces for projects across varying mediums and spaces, including theatre productions, museum activations, site-specific responses, durational happenings, short films, mocap-animated music videos, immersive installations, nightlife gigs and participatory art. Informed by theatrical worldbuilding, Butoh dance and somatic techniques, her work explores corporeal sensualities, layers within archetypes and the latent unseen to deal with questions about embodiment, gender, perception and representation. Often involving collaboration and transdisciplinary experimentation, Sonia seeks to shape time-space to centre the expression and experience of the personal, visceral and erotic.
Sonia graduated from Intercultural Theatre Institute, where she trained in contemporary acting and traditional Asian forms, and holds a Bachelor of Creative Industries (Distinction) from Queensland University of Technology. Currently, she is an associate artist with dance performance company P7:1SMA, and an active member and facilitator of the Singapore Butoh Collective. Sonia also started the Singapore chapter of Club Chrome, a pole dance and creative collective based in Australia platforming queer, BIPOC and/or SW artists.
Last Updated: July 2024