BIOGRAPHY
Jazlyn Tan is a Singaporean dance artist, educator, and arts administrator who graduated summa cum laude from Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance with a BFA in Dance. Specializing in contemporary fusion, her movement vocabulary is rooted in ballet and street styles, further expanded through her earlier training at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore.
Jazlyn is an active member of Creative Reaction Company, a Philadelphia-based Hip-Hop collective, where she continues to evolve as a performer. In November 2024, she was part of the team that won 1st Place at the Prelude Dance Competition in Virginia, and this July she will compete with Creative Reaction at World of Dance in Los Angeles. Her choreographic work Interconnected, co-created and performed with Lily Santana, has been featured at Koresh’s Artist Showcase (February 2025), KYLD’s INHALE Performance Series (March 2025) alongside Petals by Lian Long Xuan, and most recently at the BLOOM Emerging Artist Festival (April 2025) presented by Forza Dance. At BLOOM, Jazlyn also co-taught a collaborative class with Santana. Interconnected will next be performed at KoDaFe in NYC (July 2025).
Beyond performance, Jazlyn is deeply passionate about dance education. She began teaching RAD Ballet at the age of 16 and has since accumulated over seven years of experience teaching students of all ages, from preschoolers to adults, across Ballet, Hip-hop, Contemporary, Heels, and Choreography. Since 2022, she has been a Hip-Hop instructor for Oschool Kids Courses in Singapore. She has also led preschool dance classes and facilitated workshops at Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, including Ladies Jazz, Broadway Jazz, and Twinkle Toes (a parent–child hip-hop workshop). In 2023, she organized and taught a youth dance camp in Singapore as a fundraising initiative to support her undergraduate studies.
Currently, Jazlyn serves as an Arts Administration Intern at Mignolo Arts and is pursuing Umfundalai certification through the M’Singha Wuti Training Program under the National Association of American African Dance Teachers (NAAADT). She channels her passion for cultural education and community-building through Sankofa SG, a self-initiated platform that aims to educate and inspire the next generation of dancers while fostering appreciation for the African Diaspora through the lens of Umfundalai.
Jazlyn aspires to merge her passions for performance, education, and cultural advocacy, equipping herself with the tools to uplift and empower communities through dance.
