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About Maya Dance Theatre

Founded in 2007, Maya Dance Theatre (MDT) is a non-profit professional dance theatre company that has carved out a niche for itself in the Singapore dance scene by creating works with social consciousness and sharing social stories. Pivoted on a social theme, each multi-disciplinary production encourages meaningful conversation with audiences and artists.

The 3 main tenets of our company are:

  • collaborations,
  • expounding social issues and
  • engaging with communities to share social stories.

MDT has received SEED Grant from National Arts Council, Singapore (NAC) from 2012-2015 and is recognized as a Citizen Ambassador of Singapore International Foundation (SIF) for promoting Arts for Good.

In 2018, MDT formed DADC (Diverse Abilities Dance Collective), an art making space where individuals with disability co-exist with professionals, inspiring each other and experimenting together.

Our contemporary dance expression is stemmed from Asian dance traditions and philosophy, primarily Bharathanatayam (Indian Classical Dance) and helmed by artistic director and resident choreographer/trainer, Kavitha Krishnan.

In 2020, MDT created works for digital space to continue their artmaking and practice despite the uncertainties due to the pandemic conditions.