Ong Lay Keng

Biography

  A certified movement analyst, Lay Keng graduated from the Laban/ Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, New York, 1996. Awarded with the National Arts Council bursary in 1995 for her studies in New York, she was also given a project grant in 1997 from the National Arts Council, Lee Foundation and Arts Fund for her dance production of “Journal of Ah-Man”. In 1999, she was funded by the National Arts Council for her production of “Where Two Ends Meet”, which was held at Jubilee Hall. A professional dancer with the People Association Dance Company from 1980 to 1987, she continued to develop her skill abroad. She studied with Jane Dudley and Juliet Fisher at the London School of Contemporary Dance. Ms. Ong then moved to New York to study with Merce Cunningham and Anna Marie Forsy at the Cunningham Studio and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Natasha Baron and Frank Hatchet at the Broadway Dance Center, Simonson Jazz Technique with Laurie Devito at the Dance Space Center and with Zena Rommett who developed the Rommett Floor-Barre Technique, to name a few. Lay Keng is currently teaching modern dance at Nanyang Polytechnic, teaching Pilates, as well as running Floor Barre classes under Zena Rommett Floor-Barre® technique at her home studio and our center.

Research Interest

Physiotherapy