Publicity
Chan Hon Goh
“I try to forget about the person and forget about which
role he is playing and not concentrate on myself either, but try
to get out of my persona and into the character I am playing. It
is hard when you don’t feel that connection with your partner
it really becomes work. Though you have to be serious and develop
artistry it is also important to laugh at yourself.”
The Globe and Mail
“My initial goals were to be a clear, technically excellent
dancer. But now I am going more deeply into the very essence of
dance and I am falling more in love with it. I am discovering more
personalities that can exist for me, finding ways of creating flesh
and blood beings from the raw material of character…
After all the repetition and the rehearsal our vocabulary remains
basically the same. But what makes ballet more the sport is the
way we develop a character. That is what makes dance live and breathe.
One’s own personality adds to what occurs on stage, the dancer
and the character become one…
Personal happiness has a way of feeding creative energy, building
maturity, allowing you to truly live life.”
Dance International
“I am tiny in terms of light weight and not so tall, but
I don’t think I am tiny in my movement or proportion.”
The Toronto Sun
“What some people don’t realize is that it is a
very physical art form. In performance you’re dancing full
out for two and a half to three hours. Stamina is definitely a thing
to keep working for…
"For that ballet to really work, the characters have to
be believable, although some dancers would disagree. For me it is
about playing different roles. That is the magnetism that attracts
me to ballet. It gets me though the long days, the physical pain.”
North Toronto Post
"Whatever the ballet is I always find something I love
about it. I have to love it before I can make the audience love
it.”
Coffee Culture Magazine
“Coming from a family of artists – My father Choo
Chat is my teacher and my mentor, my uncle, Choo San, was a choreographer
and my aunts Soo Kim and Soo Nee are both dancers – It is
almost as if I have this artistic life line in my blood! And the
warmth of their support surrounds me each time I perform and it
gives me the will to always do better.”
Cleo
“My father was the key influence in developing my love
towards dance.
In cultivating my passion to perform in-depth research of character,
attention to detail and to never stop improving myself at every
stage of my life.”
Forplay
“Dancing has to come from the heart, you cannot force
it in anyway.”
The Straits Times
“Ballet consumes so much of my time. It’s not a
nine to five job, nor can I drop it when I’m on vacation.
That is, not if you want to make something of yourself in dance.
It requires that kind of commitment.”
The Toronto Sun
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