Dr Noramin Farid

Dr Noramin Farid

Adjunct Lecturer
LASALLE College of the Arts
University of the Arts Singapore
Choreographer, Researcher, Arts Educator
Co-Founder & President of DIAN Dancers
Curator of ArkiTari.com
soultari.amin@gmail.com
@amin-farid
www.soultari.co
Biography

Muhd Noramin Bin Mohd Farid – or Soultari Amin Farid, as he’s better known – trained in Malay dance with Perkumpulan Seni. He is a choreographer, arts educator and researcher and was the Joint-Artistic Director of Bhumi Collective (2017-2022), a multidisciplinary performing arts and producing company.

Amin is the curator of an online portal, ARKITARI, which documents maritime Southeast Asian dances. He is also the current president of a dance organisation, DIAN Dancers, and the founding member of Arki-Gen, a collective focused on promoting discourse and research about Southeast Asian performing arts.

He is a recipient of the ASEAN-India Youth Award (2018), Singapore Youth Award (2017), National Arts Council Scholarship (2017) and Goh Chok Tong Mendaki Youth Promise Award (2016). He holds a PhD in Theatre, Drama and Dance Studies from Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

As an arts practitioner-researcher, his works interrogate the normative notions of class, ethnicity, identity and gender.

Teaching
  • Critical Dance Studies
  • Asian Dance Studies
  • Performing Arts of Southeast Asia
  • Ramayana and Southeast Asia
  • Performing Arts Case Studies: Indonesia, Malaysia
Research Area and Expertise
  • Anthropology of Dance
  • Ethnochoreology
  • Malay Dance & Music
  • Performing Arts of Southeast Asia
  • Critical Dance Studies
  • Choreomusicology
  • Popular Entertainment and Performing Arts from 20th - 21st Century
  • Minority Ethnic Socio-Cultures in the Malay World
Methodological Approaches
  • Ethnography
  • Autoethnography
  • Ethnochoreology
  • Choreomusicology
  • Archival Methods
  • Embodiment
  • Practice as Research
Major Research Projects




2023 - 2025

"Reclaiming Their Place: Malay Taxi-Dancing Girls as Creators of Tradition" (In-progress)
Women's Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance – Volume 2 "Creators." 
Bloomsbury Press

"Choreo-Curating (Amok) Bodies: Reclaiming Histories for Malay Dance" (In-progress)
Oxford Handbook of Dance Praxis: Volume 1 (Dance & Corporeality and Choreography & Authorship)
Oxford University Press (OUP)
 

2022 - 2024

"Mapping Singapore’s Malay Dance in the 21st Century: Transmission, Promotion & Regeneration"
National Arts Council's Research Grant
 

 

Publications
Availability for Academic Supervision

Available to supervise students in following research areas:

  • Arts Companies focused on Malay Heritage, Performing Arts Practice
  • Issues regarding Tradition and Modernity
  • Dance Education
  • Intercultural Performance
  • Multiculturalism and Nation-state
Achievements and Awards

2023               JCI Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World    JCI TOYP, SG
                       (JCI TOYP) – Cultural Achievement (Merit Award)

2020                The Glynne Wickham Postgrad Scholarship           SCUDD, UK

2019                Li Siong Tay Scholarship                                         Tan Kah Kee Foundation, SG

2018                Asean-India Youth Award (Arts & Culture)              Government of India, India

2017                Singapore Youth Award                                          National Youth Council, SG

                        The Glynne Wickham Postgrad Scholarship          SCUDD, UK

2016                Goh Chok Tong Youth Promise Award                   MENDAKI, SG

                        NAC Postgraduate Scholarship                             National Arts Council, SG

                        Tan Ean Kiam Scholarship                                     Tan Kah Kee Foundation, SG

2014                Erasmus Mundus Scholarship                               European Union, EU

                        Tan Ean Kiam Scholarship                                    Tan Kah Kee Foundation, SG