Afro Singapura
The two who run it
Afro Singapura is run by two Singapore dancers who have been teaching here for over a decade. They are the reason the instructors are flown in rather than approximated, and the reason the week runs when it says it will.
Loy Xue Hui “Hua”
Co-Founder, Afro Singapura · Event Director, ACE 2026
Xue Hui is a dance artist, choreographer and educator with over two decades in dance. Starting with Hip Hop, she began her journey in the industry at 17 after being scouted by the founders of O School, and has since explored a wide range of styles that shaped her versatility as a dancer.
Her journey into African dance began unexpectedly in 2016 through a one off opportunity to work with Los Angeles choreographer Tony Tzar. That experience opened up a new world for her and sparked a deeper curiosity. Further training in London eventually brought her to Ghana and South Africa, where learning directly from dancers and practitioners deepened her understanding and made African dance the main focus of her practice.
For Hua, dance has become less about mastering movement and more about listening, connection and staying curious. Her experiences have shaped the way she sees movement through people, rhythm, culture and lived experience.
That same spirit continues through her work with Afro Singapura and Xafroba, the crew she started in 2024, where learning, exchange and community remain at the heart of what she does. She currently leads ACE 2026 as Event Director.
Ruzaini Ismail “Zaini”
Co-Founder, Afro Singapura · Programme & Operations, ACE 2026
Zaini started in 2011 and spent the years that followed competing — placings under Blaqueneez, then JAPBLAQ, then Andro. Three crews, three different rooms, three different ways of moving.
That is not an accident, and it is most of what he teaches. His argument to students is versatility: be able to move in more than one language, and still sound like yourself in all of them. Individuality is not the thing you have before you learn technique. It is the thing that survives it.
He now spearheads his own crew, Wolfpack. They have taken Afro dance onto stages that mostly don't see it — Super 24, WSB Singapore — and came out of WSB's Monster category as 2nd Runner-Up.
He has been teaching for over a decade, much of it in school clubs, which is a harder room than a studio and much better training for running a camp.
At ACE 2026 he runs programme and operations: the schedule you book against, the rooms you dance in, and six days actually happening when they say they will.