Choong Wan Chin, Malaysian, is Founder and Artistic Director of KL Dance Works. She is also Co-Founder and former Artistic Director of Ballet Theatre Malaysia. A graduate of the Shanghai Dance School, she has danced with the Singapore Dance Theatre and Shanghai Ballet Company. Upon receiving her Master Degree of Fine Arts in Dance and Integrated Media at California Institute of the Arts, USA, she joined Ena Ballet Studio, Japan as Resident Choreographer and Principal teacher and co-founded Ena Ballet Studio Company.

From 2003-2010, Wan Chin worked in cooperation with the State Ballet School of Berlin (Staatsliche Ballet Schule Berlin) on a pre-professional training programme for talented Japanese students. In 2009, the program extended to include a partnership with Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson Academy.

Wan Chin has been on the panel of adjudicator of The Dance Society of Malaysia’s Solo Classical Ballet Competition for 7 years (between 2004-2013). She also created the compulsory variations in Category 3 for the competition.

Since 2010, Wan Chin has been invited to bring her choreographies back to Malaysia. She has staged 10 major productions, full-length ballet repertoires and International Ballet Galas at the National Theatre (Istana Budaya Kuala Lumpur) and in 2015 collaborated with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra in creating Carmen in Dance and Paquita Grand pas Classic.

During her tenure as the Artistic Director and choreographer at Ballet Theatre Malaysia, she presented ‘Impromptu’, ‘Bruch Violin Concerto’ (3 movements), ‘Carmen’ (full-length), ‘Traffic’, ‘Die Fledermaus’ (excerpts) and ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (full-length).

Wan Chin has been invited to guest teach and present her choreographies in USA, Japan, Colombia, Thailand and Singapore.