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Dance, play, body safety! Our lessons and projects are age-appropriate, context-informed and culturally-aware. Rolypoly Family is a division of Derring-Do Dance.

Rolypoly Family is dedicated to honouring children’s creative genius while supporting the artistic and socio-emotional learning of diverse young children, their families and their communities. Led by dance artists Bernice Lee and Faye Lim, we produce delightful dance experiences, such as performances, interdisciplinary projects, workshops and classes, from our artists’ intuitive choreographic and

movement practices. Our Body Smarts Through Movement Arts programme teaches body safety and sexuality education topics to diverse communities, using a multi-modal approach that includes movement, art, craft and discussion. We also provide training & consulting for artists, educators and organisations who want to build healthier, safer and/or more creative spaces for diverse children. Our workshops and consulting services can help expand capacities, bridge gaps or tackle specific problems in your projects, communities or workplaces. Our name is a statement of our beliefs – that families come in all shapes and sizes, that kinship can grow through creative and physical play (yes, rolling!), and that rhyming is as fun in language as in dance. We partner with groups and organisations across Singapore, such as community groups, social service organisations, arts groups and institutions, and government agencies. Interested in working together? Get in touch!

03/03/2025

At the end of 2024, a parent of a Junior Dance Club participant shared about their year with us. We’re so grateful for their kind words! We’ll be kicking off our dance classes again on 24 March and are excited to continue moving and making a difference in the children’s weeks ☺️

Book your classes here (or access it easily on our link in bio!): https://rolypolyfamily.com/book-classes/

17/02/2025

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Our first Member Engagement Event of the year is in collaboration with Esplanade March On! 👀 for deets!

𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗪𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗪𝗮𝘆?
How do we think about child-centered play, and how does body safety factor within it?

In this interactive sharing Co-Led by Faye Lim and Chew Shaw En, participants will engage in activities that activate the space, consider its permissibility, and reflect on the boundaries both adult and child bring into play. Based on their experiences working with children through the arts, Faye and Shaw will share within the contexts of their work with children in their respective communities, bringing in elements of consent, body safety and play.

🗓️: 8 March, Saturday, 7-10pm
📍: Esplanade Rehearsal Studio, L6
💌: https://tinyurl.com/SWPTW2025

This event is for 𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗝 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗲 members only. Please write to [email protected] if you’re not a member but would still like to attend.

10/02/2025

Calling all preschool educators! We are gathering interest for our Body Safety professional development courses for 2025. Our courses are ECDA-endorsed and cover topics like body boundaries, consent and safety steps.

Course options:
•⁠ ⁠⁠Innovative Strategies for Teaching Body Safety to Children in Early Childhood
•⁠ ⁠⁠Inclusive Approaches to Teaching Body Safety in Early Intervention

Date options:
•⁠ ⁠⁠22, 23 May
•⁠ ⁠⁠2, 4 Sept
•⁠ ⁠⁠Others - tell us when!
(Each course is in-person and requires 2 full days).

This course is also open to the general public.

If you are a preschool or an individual wishing to join us in one of our courses, let us know in our Interest Form (link in bio)! We will get in touch with you! Complete the form by 2nd March.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to drop us a message on Instagram! ☺️

01/02/2025

Last December, we got to meet Ti**le Friend by at the helpline’s 40th Anniversary Event. The exhibition was a chance to reflect on the joys and challenges we might face in being trusted adults, and it offered insights and ideas for how to do better.

We learnt that it was not all that rare for children to call in with safety problems. As many of you are parents or adults in close proximity with children, we wanted to share some of the information we gleaned from the interactive exhibit about children’s mental health in Singapore.

28/01/2025

Thank you for joining us at our Pop-up Dance Playgroup at the Esplanade on 19 Jan!

We were inspired by the ongoing monsoon season to explore nature’s themes of growth and renewal, rolling and adapting our bodies and minds to the changing weather patterns.

Lunar New Year is also known as the “Spring Festival”, celebrating the turn of Winter into Spring.

This New Year, we hope our overcast skies, resembling wintry scenes elsewhere, also forecasts upcoming growth and renewal for all!

📷 Photo credits: Esplanade

22/01/2025

🎉Exciting news: We will be restarting our Monday classes at Pirateland in February!

Dance Playgroups for ages 1-4 will kick off with a pop-up on 17 February before resuming weekly classes on a rolling basis from 24 March.

Junior Dance Club for ages 7-10 will resume 3 February onwards, except for a brief break on 10 & 17 March where there will be no classes.

All our Monday classes are held at Pirate Land, at The Centrepoint (Somerset MRT). Drop-ins and 2-week trials are also available!

Book now at our website (link in bio) 😉

07/01/2025

Join us on Sunday, 19 Jan at the Esplanade to move with your child!

Footwork is a series of introductory dance workshops organised by the Esplanade. As part of this, we will be holding a pop-up parent-child dance playground, designed for participation between adults and young ones aged 3 to 6 years old. 💃

Venue: Esplanade Rehearsal Studio
Date & Times:
•⁠ ⁠19 Jan, Sunday, 9.30-10.15am
•⁠ ⁠⁠19 Jan, Sunday, 11-11.45am

Limited slots available! Sign up at the link in our bio ;)

24/12/2024

At Rolypoly Family, we are always working with artists and performers to develop new projects and improve existing ones. Jialing is one of the artists who has been working with us for many years. We’ve been through so much together, as artists and in life, and we are so glad for our many conversations (synchronous and asynchronous 😂) and art projects (also synchronous and asynchronous) together 🫶

22/12/2024

2024 highlights (sunday):
This year, we…
✅ continued including children in creative processes
✅ built on existing collaborations and forged new partnerships
✅ shared creative movement with children across ages
✅ conducted Body Smarts Through Movement Arts for different groups and settings

We’re grateful for how 2024 turned out and excited for more collaborations and opportunities next year! If you have an idea for collaboration, contact [email protected]. See you in 2025! ;)

21/12/2024

As we round up 2024, we’ve excitedly churned out some numbers accumulated from our activities this past year! Thank you to everyone for joining us in making 2024 count 🎉

17/12/2024

This Dec, we got together with some of the performers, teaching artists, and crew we worked with this year. We had a nice time catching up over food and discovering all the ways we knew each other outside of Rolypoly Family! And missed some of the other folks who couldn’t join us.

So much gratitude for the opportunity to work with these good people and we look forward to doing more together next year.🌻

P.S. Shout out to the team at Summer Folks, who delivered wonderful and friendly service. It’s a halal café with indoor and outdoor seating, and provides old school games at each table!

12/11/2024

Recently, our co-director Faye had the pleasure of leading Professional Development programmes for some teachers from Pingu’s English International Kindergarten, Myanmar. They joined us at for two of our Creative Movement Teacher Training programmes - Social-Emotional Learning at Every Turn and Let’s Make a Movement Sentence!

The teachers brought their expertise, experience and creativity - it was wonderful being able to hear what they are already doing in their classrooms. Faye was glad to know that the teachers felt inspired from the training and ready to incorporate more social-emotional learning and creative movement in their classrooms.

Interested in Professional Development programmes? Contact us via DM or email [email protected] to make an enquiry!

08/11/2024

Is learning Body Safety scary for children? At Rolypoly Family, we think it doesn’t have to be, as long as programmes are quality and age-appropriate with trained facilitators.

Aligning to best-practice criteria, our multi-modal programme involves movement for typically developing, neurodiverse and disabled children.

Join us this Saturday, 9 Nov, 3-4.30pm!
Find out more and sign up at the link in our bio.

References:
[1] Scswebdev. (2022, November 8). Commentary: Why we need to teach pre-schoolers protective skills to stop child sexual abuse. Singapore Children Society. https://www.childrensociety.org.sg/commentary-why-we-need-to-teach-pre-schoolers-protective-skills-to-stop-child-sexual-abuse

07/11/2024

Previously, we asked everyone in a poll what you thought was the most pervasive myth regarding body safety for children.
Is it too early to start practising body safety with children? This is our response!

Body Smarts Through Movement Arts is happening THIS SATURDAY, 9 NOV! Find out more and register at the link in our bio ;-)

12/10/2024

Last week on Children’s Day, we performed two shows of Gerak ABC and made 2 new words with the audience, “Apbal” and “Abcre” 😝

Thanks to everyone’s quick thinking, the new words have taken on meaning. “Apbal” Is when apple is eaten with sambal. “Abcre” sounded like “up” and “tray” to an audience member. Hence, “Abcre” is when you bring up a tray of nourishment to a loved one who might be ill - so they can makan and minum in bed, and they will know that you sayang them 🫶

Thanks to everyone who came out to the shows and joined in! We were also very happy to have our guests from and . They do wonderful work with children; check them out!

P.S. We perform Gerak ABC! at schools too! For primary schools and some preschools, Gerak ABC! is available for subsidies under the National Arts Council-Arts Education Program. ;)

05/10/2024

We have resumed our Dance Playgroup classes at Pirateland! 🥳

Dance Playgroups for Ages 1-3
Every Monday, 4pm
@ Pirateland, Somerset
Classes can be booked on our website (link in bio).

Dance playgroups are also available in the east at Little Forest, every Friday morning.

04/10/2024

Happy Children’s Day! We hope that today and every day, we remember the joy of life, the rights of children, and the wonder of childhood.

Let’s continually strive to take better care of our children, our own inner children, and all children.

Image by bleelly and oto and evio

01/10/2024

When we dance and teach in schools and children spaces, we love looking out for the books on their shelves, especially the ones that relate to movement and our bodies.

This book was certainly feet-ing 😝How our feet are shaped and used affect our movement, posture and alignment. Notice your feet today 👣🐾

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Here’s why we are making a point to attend the Singapore Children’s Society’s @sgchildrensoc Tinkle Friend 40th Anniversary event this weekend: Besides the chance to celebrate with Children’s Society, we are looking forward to the event exhibits about why some children hesitate to confide in their adults, and the stories from children that can help parents, educators and care professionals better support children’s wellbeing. There will also be a rare opportunity to experience a Tinkle Friend chat (12-2pm/2-4pm) – this is especially helpful as the helpline is typically for children only. At Rolypoly Family, we share the Tinkle Friend helpline as a resource in our body safety education programme. As parents, our co-directors Bernice and Faye are grateful that an alternative channel like this is available to children. Even as we do our best to be trusted adults for our children, we can’t predict when a child may feel unable to bring up an issue they are facing. Not only is the helpline reassuring, it also signals towards the wider community of care in our society. Hope to see you at the event and join the pledge to be trusted adults for the children and youth in your lives. Visit bit.ly/TF40thAnni to find out more. Event details: 📍 Our Tampines Hub, Festive Walk 📅 21 & 22 Dec (Sat & Sun), 11am to 8pm  🌟 Guest of Honour: Ms Sun Xueling, Minister of State for Home Affairs and Social and Family Development Event highlights: - Discover untold stories from children and why some hesitate to confide in adults - Experience a Tinkle Friend chat - Gain valuable insights from the practitioners at Singapore Children’s Society - Enjoy fun bonding activities and bring home exclusive merchandise giveaways

Children can enjoy moving in different ways — explore movement with us at our Rolypoly Junior Dance Club! Sign up for a 2 week trial on 4 & 11 Nov, via the link in our bio ;-)

Don’t miss out!! Join us the next two Mondays, 23 & 30 Sep for a 2 week trial of Junior Dance Club. For ages 7-10. Sign up at the link in our bio 🥳

Can you make out what Shaz @shahizman.s is spelling out? 🤭 SAVE THE DATE!: FRIDAY, 4 OCT, 10AM & 11.30AM at @theartground #sgkids #creativemovement #sgdance