Fan Tiao

翻跳 (2023-)

Note:

In 2006–2007, Ho was trained as the leader of her school’s broadcast gymnastics team in Guangdong, China. After immigrating to Hong Kong in 2008, Ho has been relentlessly practising different forms and genres of dancing. Unfortunately, she can never go back to the context of how socialist collectives placed a strong emphasis on body exercise routines and the practice of imitation during her childhood. This is the unscheduled field research note for "Fan Tiao" (2023-).

Designed by Ho Ting (2025).

Fan Tiao No. 3 (2025) Documentation (Front View)

Recorded on 22/02/2025, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.

Watch on: https://youtu.be/4BwBHbPcxlE

Photo credit to Ho Ting, at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.

This photo album is a collection of “dance” records from Singapore, spanning from 1920 to 1985.

It was created by filtering the photographic database of the National Archives of Singapore using the keyword “dance,” reviewing 18,046 items, and selecting 214 photographs.

Inner pages of the photo album, the originals are from the National Archives of Singapore (NAS).

“Fan Tiao No. 3” (2025) is the first piece of work executed based on the concept of "Fan Tiao" during the Spring Residency Programme in LASALLE, Singapore. It comprises a collection of digitized photographs, magazines, newspapers, commercial advertisements, and footage recorded at various locations in Singapore, including Sim Lim Tower, People’s Park Centre, Waterloo Centre, and Singapore Management University. Additional sources include archival materials from the National Archives of Singapore (NAS), the National Library of Singapore, and excerpts from the Hong Kong film “The Mad Phoenix” (南海十三郎) (1997) directed by Clifton Ko.