Janek Schergen is Swedish/American and trained by Richard Ellis, Christine DuBoulay and Benjamin Harkarvy. He danced with Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet and has been ballet master for The Washington Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and Norwegian National Ballet. In 1991, he graduated from the Benesh Institute in London as a choreologist. Mr. Schergen is the Founding Artistic Director of the Choo-San Goh & H. Robert Magee Foundation and Chairman of The Choo-San Goh Awards for Choreography. He has staged over 140 productions of Choo-San Goh’s ballets throughout the world. After having been involved in the inception of Singapore Dance Theatre in 1988, he kept a close connection with the company. In 2008, he was appointed Artistic Director of the company. He has staged numerous full-length classical ballets, as well as 11 of Choo-San Goh’s ballets for Singapore Ballet. In 2015, he was presented with the Culture Award and, in 2017, given the Singapore National Day Award. In 2019 he was given the “Person of the Year” award by Singapore’s Swedish Chamber of Commerce.