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Neil Chua is a ruan instrumentalist, artistic director and sound practitioner dedicated to bridging tradition and contemporary expression. A graduate of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, he holds a Master’s degree specialising in the ruan.

His work integrates improvisation, environmental sound and spatial design to create poetic, immersive experiences. As founder of RuanAtWorkz Musical Arts, he leads cross-cultural collaborations and community-driven projects, including “Moving Mountain”. His practice emphasises stillness and deep listening, offering audiences reflective spaces that reconnect self, culture and environment through a refined contemporary sonic language.

Butoh artist XUE is the founder of the Singapore Butoh Collective, dedicated to cultivating butoh culture through performance, film, and underground contexts. Currently an Associate Artist at Dance Nucleus, XUE trains under Vangeline and Emiko Agatsuma. Their international work spans the US and Southeast Asia, including an 11-hour performance at the ArtScience Museum.

As co-founder of the rave-butoh series Endless Return, XUE received a T:>Works Per°Form Fellowship. Through teaching at LASALLE College of the Arts and the National University of Singapore, XUE investigates butoh as a radical praxis, mentoring a new generation of artists in contemporary performance and movement.