Miss Teo Ching Ching
was recently appointed as a RAD Examiner. She
holds a Master of Arts ( MA ) degree in Dance
from UCLA and a Bachelor of Arts ( Honours ) degree
in Dance from the University of Buckingham. She
was awarded UCLA Fellowships and National Arts
Council ( NAC ) Overseas Arts Bursaries towards
her post-graduate studies in the USA. Miss Teo
is a Registered Teacher of the RAD and ISTD, with
diplomas from both examination boards.
Her ballet choreography has
won Gold and Silver Awards at the Singapore Youth
Festival ( SYF ) Central Judging for Dance. She
has created dances for concerts staged by Palais
Dance Studio, Methodist Girls School ( Primary
& Secondary ) and Paya Lebar Methodists Girls
School ( Primary ).
Miss Teo has choreographed
and performed in professional productions by the
Singapore Lyric Opera, displaying her flair in
flamenco ( "Carmen" 1998 & 2002
) and the waltz, character dance, cakewalk and
can-can ( "The Merry Widow" 2004 ).
Appointed as the first RAD
Practical Teaching Supervisor in Singapore in
2001, Miss Teo had the privilege & responsibility
of assessing the teaching of trainee-teachers
working on their RAD & university validated
teaching qualifications.
She has worked as a Tutor
for the RAD Certificate in Ballet Teaching Studies
( CBTS ) programme since it was introduced to
our region in 2005. Miss Teo has assessed RAD
trainee ballet teachers in Singapore, Malaysia,
Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines in their
distance-learning studies. She has also conducted
Intensive Study Period ( ISP) for CBTS students
in this region.
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