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Ming-Shen Ku

As an active choreographer and dancer, Ming-Shen Ku has settled her base in Taiwan since 1987. Ms. Ku’s works are influenced by many Western and Eastern dance styles, a merging development from her diverse backgrounds. Since 1991, Ms. Ku became deeply involved in Contact Improvisation and introduced it to Taiwan. She has collaborated with many dance companies and events in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Austria as well as U.S. Her solo performance has also been invited to tour in the US, London, Paris, Australia, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. The review from New York Times has commented her work “simple and handsome”. She founded her dance company “Ku & Dancers” in 1993 to present new works and promotes the concept of improvisation. “Ku & Dancers” has set their foot print in New York, Australia, Paris, London, China, Korea, Malaysia and Indonesia. As the only professional dance company that has devoted itself in improvisation works, Ku and Dancers found “i-dance Taipei”, a biannual improvisation dance festival, as part of the “i-dance” network since 2011. Ms. Ku has also been invited as a guest artist to perform and to teach in many universities and dance companies around the world. She has received Wu San Lien award, a life time achievement award, in 2009. Currently, Ming-Shen Ku teach as a full professor in the Dance School of Taipei National University of the Arts.

Christopher Chu

Born in Hong Kong, Christopher Chu received his BS in Civil Engineering from the National Taiwan University where he started dancing and has never stopped since then. Chu is the founding member of Ku & Dancers, and also a member of the Performing Arts Alliance in Taiwan. He used to work as a project manager of an engineering consultants company in Taipei for more than twenty years. He is now active as a freelance dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. In 2017 Chu received his MFA from Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA) Dance School. He also composes music for dance, too. Since 2010 he is the Taiwan representative of Mirramu Creative Arts Pty. Ltd. (Australia). He has been teaching contact improvisation in many groups and dance companies in Taiwan since late 90’s. Chu also involves in digital imagery programming and real-time interactive dance, and has created dance and technology works since 2005. He is awarded a scholarship as a visiting scholar to Ohio State University, USA in 2014.

Anli Su

is Associate Professor in Dance Department of Chinese Culture University, Taiwan. She received her M.F.A degree in Dance from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1993, she joined Ku & Dancers Company, and has been involved in the education and performance of improvisation.

Mei Li

Mei Li graduated from London Contemporary Dance School with MA degree. She worked with Kirstie Simson in the filming of ‘International Documentary of Dance Improvisation’ and has been invited to perform and teach improvisation in numerous festivals such as ‘Contact Improvisation Festival Japan,’ and ‘Asian Improvisation Art Exchange’ in Seoul, ‘i- Dance HK,’ ‘Festival International de Danse Contemporaine’ in Madagascar. She is an active practitioner, a performer of improvisation, a member of Ku & Dancers. She currently teaches at National Taiwan University of Arts and at Dance Forum Taipei Dance Company, and is the Director at “Perennial Tree。Creativity/Psychology。Programmes”.

Hsu Chen-Wei

From Taiwan, currently Artistic Director of Human Dance. Hsu’s training background includes Contemporary Dance, Improvisation, and has received a Masters Degree in Dance Choreography at National Taipei University of the Arts. Hsu has focused on Taiwan contemporary dance methods throughout his career, which then evolves into his core principal when choreographing dance pieces. Many of Hsu’s dance works have won the Taiwan’s National Creative Dance award, and has toured in many countries; including the US, Canada, Australia, France, Malaysia, China, HK, Indonesia, and Macao.

Lin Yichi

Graduated from M.F.A, Graduate Institute of Dance, Performing major in Taipei National University of the Arts, and Taipei City University Department of Dance. Participate in Scottish choreographer Janis Claxton “Dance for you, okay?” in 2017 Kaohsiung Spring Art Festival, and Ku & Dancers “SADHU” in 2016 Taiwan National Theater 1+1Dance and 2016 Tainan Arts Festival. From 2014 to the present, participate in Hsu Chen Wei Dance Company “Embrace Proximity” and “The Sacrifice of Roaring” in Macau, Beijing, Hawaii, 2016 Taiwan season - Edinburgh Fringe Festival and 2016 European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA) NEU NOW Festival. 2011-2013 participate in Neo-Classic Dance Company “The Spring Rite”, “The Song of Thanksgiving”, “Wielding Sword along Chilly Wujiang”, “Salvation of Christ”.

Su Chiahsien

After graduating from The Chinese Culture University department of Dance , Su Chia Hsien jointed Ku & Dancer, SunShier Dance Theratre and Taipei Folk Dance Theratre. He was also commissioned to create works for Sunshier salon in 2017.  

Chang Sue-Ching

Born on 1979 in Taipei Taiwan, she is the improvisation dancers of Ku & Dancers Dance Company, also the dance teacher at present.Sue-Ching received her MFA in Dance Choreography from TNUA.Su-Ching joined Ku & Dancers since 2008, performing in 《Memory Puzzles》,《Decode2010》, 《Voltar》, 《Moon Light》Sibu International Dance Festival in Malaysia, performing with Nancy Stark Smith《Conversation with the Legendary》at i-dance Taipei 2013,《Wonderland》and other outdoor improvisation dance performances.  

Chien Tzu-Ting

Ting graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts, MFA in Dance choreography. Since 2013 she joined Ku & Dancers Company, and in 2014 attended the ImproJunction Festival (India Pushkar) supported by Lo Man Fei Foundation. The following year Ting produced “Little Territory”, a dance focused on the physical and mental aspects in our lives. In recent years ,she performed dance productions,and also performances related to music experiment and photographic.

Chen Yu Xin

 Yu-Hsin Chen, graduated from National Taiwan College of Performing Arts, is majoring in off-stage music accompaniment of Taiwanese Opera and the Traditional Chinese drums, and is acknowledged by master Da-Peng Liu and Bu- Chao Zhuang. He has been employed by National Center for Traditional Arts for a project of “Taiwanese Opera Leadership Program for Young Talents ”, and a contract employee to the Yilan County Government of Performing Arts Department, in the mean time, acquiring knowledge of Art Administration. He is now the owner of a Specialty Coffee shop – Sing.Cafe, and a member of A Root, A Moving Sound, Taiwan Bamboo Orchestra. He is shining at playing the Tradition Chinese Gong, the African Drum, Cajon, tank drums, hand pan, etc. He has explored worldwide percussion instruments and is quite often collaborating with all sorts of music orchestras.

Arnaud Lechat

Arnaud Lechat was born in France and early on he began to learn music, clarinet, and Chinese at the Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations. For him, each instrument is the key to another world. He arrived in Taiwan ten years ago. Musically, this country is very rich. There is the music of the Aboriginal, Hakka, Fulao people, the Beiguan, Nanguan and Taiwanese opera. Arnaud has been involved in more than twenty pieces of modern improvisational dance, poetry festivals, and Taipei city cultural development concerts.

Coordt Links

Coordt Linke was cross-discipline musician and a composer from Germany. He was graduated from Robert Schumann Hochschule from Düsseldorf Germany, trained in classical percussion. His creation was crossing the boundary between modern art field like dance, theatre, and new-media. He had collaborate with renowned choreographer in Europe such as Akram Khan Company in Zero Degrees, Third Catalogue, and Sacred Monsters, and with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui in Tempus Fugit, and Sutra.

Jimi Chen

Jimi Chen is a music composer, and music producer. He had been nominated many times for the Golden Horse Awards, the Golden Bell Awards, and the Golden Melody Awards. His creation was widely used in contemporary arts including modern dance, theater, television, film, documentary and records. He often cooperates with well-known artists, director and choreographer abroad and at home. His style various from eastern ethereal, cross-domain innovation, and epic minimalism.

Jipo Yang

Jipo Yang was born 1988 in Yilan, Taiwan. He started to play Sheng at the age of 10, nurtured in the professional arts education of Taiwan. Concerning Yang’s performance, he not only puts high emphasis on the aroma controlling of traditional pieces, also he contributes to expand the diverse possibilities towards performance of Sheng. In 2014, Jipo Yang has founded the art platform “A Root Yilan” based in his hometown, the main goal is to share unique perspective of life through performing arts and connect people together.

ET Chen

Born in Taipei , Taiwan . Musician, Artist , Explorer of the healing path . Didgeridoo is not merely and instrument, but a sacred vehicle to connect with the Nature Spirit, the dream world, and to transmit the very source of healing energy . ET’s didgeridoo performance is akin to a native ritual. Through the medium of sound, we are able to travel to the deepest recesses of consciousness in order to heal, transform, and reconnect with ourselves. The invisible mandalas created through sound, are endowed with the rich and abundant vibrations of Mother Earth, and will lead us through a profound journey of healing and spiritual transformation.  

Li Tieqiao

Li is a saxophonist, electronic musician, composer and art curator based in Beijing, China. In his music, he mixes elements from rock, jazz, experimental electronic and free improvisation. Li is the founder of SDJX Free Improvisation Alliance, and has since 2007 organized more than hundreds of concerts and events involving musician, dancers and artist from across the globe. He has collaborated with a number of European based musician and artists, both in China and on tours in Europe, including Peter Brotzman, Alexander Von Schlippenbach, Didier Petit, Sylvain Kassap, Sainkho Namtchylk. In 2005-2007 he lived in Norway where he started to collaborate with Contact Dance dancers and Free Improvisation musicians. After returning to Beijing he continued this line of work through collaboration with several Chinese modern dance ensembles, including Guangdong Modern Dance Company, Beijing LDTX Modern Dance Company.