​​Dr. Muhd Noramin Mohd Farid – or Soultari Amin Farid, as he’s better known – trained in Malay dance with Perkumpulan Seni. He is a choreographer, arts educator and researcher. He is currently an adjunct lecturer in Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and Lasalle College of the Arts.

A recipient of the ASEAN-India Youth Award (2018), Singapore Youth Award (2017), National Arts Council Scholarship (2017) and Goh Chok Tong Mendaki Youth Promise Award (2016), Amin holds a PhD in Theatre, Drama and Dance Studies from Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. 

He is the curator of an online portal, ARKITARI, which documents maritime Southeast Asian dances. He is also the current president of a dance organisation, DIAN Dancers, and the founding member of Arki-Gen, a group focused on promoting discourse and research about Southeast Asian performing arts.

A leader in his Malay dance community of practice, Amin has been invited to sit as a member of the Malay Language Council of Singapore and the Chingay Creative Panel. He was appointed Malay language ambassador in 2021.

As an arts practitioner-researcher, his works interrogate the normative notions of class, ethnicity, identity and gender.