ong cheryl 王詩樂 .

Cheryl is a movement artist and practitioner who is interested in the interweaving fields of movement, nature, and presence. Through embodied, creative, and nature-based practices, she enjoys sharing environments of spaciousness, deep listening, care, compassion, intuition, and curiosity. 

She started Body Stories in 2021 on the island of Singapore, to share the gifts of inhabiting our moving bodies and being in nature. 

A large part of her current approaches towards improvisation are shaped by her experience of dance training and living in Switzerland (La Manufacture - Haute école des arts de la scène, Bachelor of Arts HES-SO in Contemporary Dance, Lausanne, 2016 - 2019).

She has been nourished by her meetings with artists of diverse improvisation and somatic practices, together with the base training in Shaolin and Taiji. The people who have most inspired her are Dominique Falquet (Shaolin & Taiji, Switzerland), Hisako Horikawa (Body Weather, Japan), Elina Pirinen (Finland), Gregory Stauffer (Switzerland), Susanna Recchia (Italy), Kirstie Simson (Wales / UK), and David Zambrano (Flying Low & Passing Through, Venezuela / Brussels). The friends whom she was studying dance and movement with are also an integral part of her journey - Anna-Marija Adomaityte (dance, Lithuania / Switzerland), Juliette Uzor (dance, Switzerland), Julien Meyer (theatre, Switzerland), Martin Reinartz (theatre, France / Switzerland), Cary Shiu (dance, Hong Kong / Berlin), Emma Saba (dance, Italy / Switzerland), and Adél Juhász (dance, Hungary / Switzerland). 

The common thread weaving together her body of work is growing together with people on the ground through embodied, creative and inclusive practices, as well as journeying with creative sojourners whose values and practices align. 

This brings her to place as an associate artist with Rolypoly Family (2019 - present) and Forest School coach with Hundred Paths (2024 - present), as well as Forest School Singapore (2020 - 2024). On her journey of learning about inclusive arts practices, she has been involved in the Captains Programme 2023 by Superhero Me.