Founding Artistic Director & Principle Choreographer of The Human Expression (T.H.E)
Dance Company.
Artistic Director of cont．act Contemporary Dance Festival
Kuik Swee Boon is the founding Artistic Director of The Human Expression Dance Company and its annual cont．act Contemporary Dance Festival. His career began with Singapore People’ s Association Dance Company and Singapore Dance Theatre before becoming the principal dancer of Spain’ s Compañ í a Nacional de Danza (CND) from 2002 to 2007.
Under Swee Boon’s direction, T.H.E has become a seminal dance company with a signature voice derived from training in his HollowBody™ methodology, developed from 2016. This methodology informs Swee Boon’ s repertoire of works for T.H.E, which has toured many international festivals. His numerous commissions include Infinitely Closer (2022) for Esplanade’s dains festival, which also marked the opening of Singapore’ s new Singtel Waterfront Theatre.
Swee Boon is a recipient of the 2007 Young Artist Award, a nominee for the 2003 Benois De La Danse Award, and a 2021 – 2023 Singapore fellow with the International Society for the Performing Arts.