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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

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