Suhaili Micheline Ahmad Kamil

A trained dancer and performer, Malaysian dancer Suhaili is the director of Aurora School of Dance (since 1989) Malaysia’s premiere dance school built to foster excellence in students by providing a rigorous, diverse and nurturing environment . Her work and determination earned her numerous awards.

Suhaili has toured; being invited to :

 

* Various dance festivals such as T.H.E Dance Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival.
* ‘Dance for Community Healing’ World Islamic Economic Forum WIEF (Bandung)
* Featured Speaker TEDx Talks (Kuala Lumpur and Universiti Malaya)
* OMI Dance (NYC) and KOBE Dance box (Japan) art residencies
* Attended Workshops and teaching around the globe ; USA, Spain, Australia, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines and Korea.

 

She has also taught movement and dance workshops at ASWARA, Sunway University, Yayasan ChowKit KL, KDU University, Enfiniti Academy and private schools such as Sri Cempaka and Alice Smith Secondary School.

Suhaili premiered her first full length dance work ‘Flatland’ at the Kuash Theatre, nominee for 2014, 11th Boh Cameronian Arts Awards winning multiple awards . Since then, she has created many group or solo based collaborative works such as Lemang Menang, Eclectic Shift and Nasi Ekonomi; growing young emerging dancers and devoting herself to create much bigger impact and awareness through performance art and educational talks.

 

During the pandemic, her continuous development in online dance training lead to a self discovery later on in creative art and painting. Her movement and art combined is enjoying a ‘revival’ and all the struggles she had to overcome. Her recent works had been exhibited and sold at Godown Arts Market last year. She also premiered a new collection called Daya Series in Dec 2022 in collaboration with KolmeGlu.