Pat Toh is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice centres the disciplined body as a site of inquiry. Often working through endurance-based methods, she draws from the language of sports protocols and contemporary fitness culture to examine the efficient yet exhausted bodies produced by a hyperproductive culture. Through multi-sensorial performances that bring together movement, spoken word and audience participation, her works explore themes of labour, survival and adaptation while imagining new ways of living. Her work has been presented across Asia and Europe. She is currently an Associate Artist at Dance Nucleus.
A Shell-NAC Arts Scholarship recipient, she holds a Bachelor of Dramatic Arts (Acting) from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (Australia), and a Masters of Arts from the National Institute of Education (Singapore). Her work Pretty Things was nominated for Production of the Year, Best Director and Best Ensemble in Singapore’s Life! Theatre Awards (2012). Her solo Topography of Breath has toured to cont.act Contemporary Dance Festival (Singapore), Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Liveworks Festival of Experimental Arts (Australia), CROSS Festival (Italy), International Dance Festival (Korea), HDX Dance Exchange (Hong Kong), Machol Shalem Dance House Jerusalem (Israel), FMK International Dance Festival (Laos) and solochoreographico (Germany and Italy).
She has received residency support from Dance Nucleus (Singapore), The Saison Foundation (Japan) and Geothe-Institut Singapore.
