Another sister, Goh Soo Khim 吴素琴, trained at the Australian Ballet and co-founded Singapore Dance Theatre in 1988.
[citation needed] Goh studied at the Nanyang Primary School and proceeded to Raffles Institution.
[citation needed] Believing in his talent, she offered him a position with her newly founded Washington Ballet in 1976.
[6] Many noted that his work was filled with a usage of classical ballet vocabulary that seemed influenced by his Asian heritage.
His only full-length work, Romeo and Juliet, to Prokofiev's famous score, was created for the Boston Ballet in 1984.
The Washington Ballet gained international notice due to Goh's work with the dancers in the company.
Alan M. Kriegsman, Dance critic for The Washington Post, wrote that Goh "has propelled the Washington Ballet to international status on the jetstream of his talent..." (February 21, 1985)[citation needed] The company conducted its first large scale overseas tour in 1984 and over the next few years performed in Europe, South America, and the Far East repeatedly, featuring programmes of Goh's choreography.
In addition to Fives, some of the most well-known works he created for the Washington Ballet include Variations Serieuses, "Double Contrasts", Birds of Paradise, In the Glow of the Night, Unknown Territory, and Schubert Symphony.
Singapore recognized his talent as a choreographer by presenting him with the Cultural Medallion in 1986, the country's highest award for artistic achievement.
Singapore Dance Theatre has added to their repertoire twelve of Goh's works, bringing his unique identity as a Singaporean choreographer back to his homeland.