BIO: Nitipat “Ong” Pholchai
Director/Performer
Born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand, Nitipat (Ong) Pholchai is a physicist, an independent dance artist/dance maker and a movement researcher. During 2012–2013, he worked with groups in San Francisco including ZiRu Productions, Project Bandaloop, Palanza Dance, Karl Frost, Lizz Roman & Dancers and Kinetech Arts. Since 2014, he has directed and develops his own work through the local Bangkok group “Spine Party Movement” with its educational community “Contact Improvisation in BKK” that promotes somatic movement practices to the public. Spine Party Movement has been sharing workshops and presenting work in Thailand, Malaysia, India, Iran, Germany, USA and the Netherlands. As of 2018, his dance research is centered around the issue of self-and-collaborative learning, creativity, consciousness, and community-building through the practice of improvisation. His interest in martial art practices also bring him to investigate creatively and artistically the issue of freedom, negotiation and compassionate confrontation.
Since 2017, his dream of vitalizing experimental performance art scene in Bangkok started to become a reality when a network of his artist friends came together to support "Project C" as a creative community platform.
Link to CV
WORK EXPERIENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
AS MAKER/COLLABORATOR
In Between Pretty
At the Garage, San Francisco, USA
Combustion
with Tera Killbride, Sebastian Lopez-Lehto
Freakatoni Witchy Weekend Improvisation Summer Intensive
At OT301, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Movement of Sound
Play Practice Residency
At Shoonya Studio, Bangalore, India
Face me! I got your back
Play Practice Residency
At Shoonya studio, Bangalore, India
Courtly Behavior
with Lee Renxin, Kai Eng Er, Colleen Coy
Dancing In Place 2018
At Rimbun Dahan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Instead of No, Maybe.
Created with and produced by Ideh Aboutalebi
At Armenian Association, Tehran, Iran
WORK EXPERIENCE (Thailand)
AS DIRECTOR/COLLABORATOR
Creature of Myth x Fractals
Produced by Urban Bones Dance Company
At the HOP Silom, Bangkok Thailand
Art Street Ratchadamnoen Festival
At Ratchadamnoen Contemporary Art Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok International Dance Festival
At Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), Bangkok, Thailand
Soft-condensed Matter
self-produced as Spine Party Movement
At Democrazy Theatre Studio, Bangkok, Thailand
Amplitude: Freedom of the Soul
Bangkok Theatre Festival 2015
At Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok,Thailand
Bangkok International Dance Festival 2015
At Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Thailand
Dancing In Place 2016
At Rimbun Dahan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kingdom
self-produced as Spine Party Movement
At Chang theatre, Bangkok, Thailand
The Witness
Bangkok International Solo Festival 2016
At Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
The Gut Body
Digest Pls. Exhibition
At Syrup the Space (closed), Bangkok, Thailand
HOME: a contemporary dance
Bangkok Theatre Festival 2017
At Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
At Chang Chui, Bangkok, Thailand
Sensate #1, Music Box
Project C: Collaborative Happening Art for Creative Society 2017
At ROUND ABOUT Café, Bangkok, Thailand
I’MBALANCE
Play(e)scape installation by Eiji Sumi, Closing Party
At Gallery VER, Bangkok, Thailand
YES!
Project C 2018 Artist Lab Showcase
At YELO House, Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok Theatre Festival 2018
At Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
I SEE YOU, YOU SEE ME
The Nose Thailand Exhibit 2018: ImPerfect
At Siam Paragon, Bangkok, Thailand
AS PERFORMER
Shadows
By Urban Bone Dance Company
Creature of Myth
Soft-condensed Matter
Amplitude: Freedom of the Soul
Kingdom
The Witness
HOME: a contemporary dance
Fierce
A short film by Wise Lama
horses
By Kabinet K
Untitled
By Vidura Amranand
Group Study
By Daniel Hayward
The Retreat
By Thanapol Virulhakul/Democrazy Theatre
The Retreat: gallery drift
By Thanapol Virulhakul/Democrazy Theatre
Yes!
I SEE YOU, YOU SEE ME
AS CURATOR
Project C: Collaborative Happening Art for Creative Society 2018
At YELO House, Bangkok, Thailand
