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2010 TAIPEIDEA Dance Festival
Aug. 2 ~ Aug. 20, 2010, Taipei, Taiwan.
Faculty Members¡G
Professional Dance Workshop
Ballet/ Ballet Coaching
Li-Chou Cheng was born in Shanghai, China. His professional training began at the Beijing Ballet School under Pyoter Guschev, former artistic director of the Kirov Ballet. He was a soloist with the Beijing Central Ballet from 1961-80, where he performed lead roles in classical ballets such as Swan Lake, Le Corsaire and La Esmeralda, as well as in Chinese contemporary ballets. From 1966-80, Mr. Cheng also served as ballet master and rehearsal director for the company. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1980, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Utah and at Arizona State University, as well as principal teacher for the Boston Ballet School and Company. Mr. Cheng is currently teaching at Texas Christian University.
Professor of Professional Practice in Ballet
Texas Christian University
Hui-Chen is now a dancer and contemporary teacher in Switzerland Stadttheater Bern Ballet. She graduated from the Dance Department of National University of the Arts. She majored in both choreography and performance. Her dance work "Misplaced Relationship" won the copper Award in Taiwan Creative Dance Competition held by Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan 1996. In 1997, she was the guest dancer in Dance Forum Taipei and Stadttheater Dortmund, Germany as well as the rehearsal assistant of Wind Flyers Dance Laboratory. She joined the Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan in 1998, and took part in the performances all around world. During her stay in France in the year 2002 and 2003, she joined the NDP Project music theater, and worked with Martino Muller. After returning to Taiwan, she worked as the rehearsal director of the "Dream Butterfly Valley" of Taipei National University of the Arts, performing in National Theater. She joined Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan again in the year 2004 to 2006. In 2007, she joined Stadttheater Bern Ballet in Switzerland. She created "Into Dust" and "In Between" in 2008, " Into you I" and "Lost in the Motions" in 2009.
Contemporary Dancer/ Teacher
Switzerland Stadttheater Bern Ballet
1995 Philipp Egli founded and led his own dance-company MOLTeNi in Zurich for the next six years. In 1998 he created two pieces for official celebrations of the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang Goethe in Frankfurt, Germany. Also he was guest-soloist in Zurich Ballett/Heinz Spoerli, choreographed for the Operas Aida, Oberon and Simplicius and was teaching regularly contemporary dance for professionals. In spring 2000 he received the choreography price of UBS cultural foundation, Switzerland. From 2001 to 2009 he was the artistic leader and chief-choreographer of the dancecompany Theater St. Gallen, Switzerland. In 2007 and 2008 he was invited to create for ballettmainz/Martin Schlapfer, then choreographed in spring 2009 for Augsburg Ballett in Germany. Since August 2009 Philipp Egli is head of first study program in contemporary dance in Switzerland at Zurich University of the Arts.
Choreographer/Teacher
Head of contemporary dance Switzerland at Zurich University of the ArtsContemporary Dance/ Capoeira
Damian was born in Switzerland. He studied dance at the ¡§Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Zurich¡¨ and worked with several theatres, dance companies and projects in Europe as a dancer; M.S. Schrittmacher Berlin / State Theatre Oldenburg, Bern Ballet, dance company of Theatre St. Gallen, dance theatercompany of State Theatre Darmstadt, T.E.C.S. in Basel and for the Iceland Dance Company to mention a few. Since 2006 he works as a free lance artist, is a guest teacher at various dance companies around Europe and also started to create his own project (TanzArt Festival/Theater Giessen, Tanzhaus nrw Dusseldorf, Reykjavik Dance Festival, Urban Street Art Festival Pottporus). He also did several projects for and with teenagers and young dancers. Next to his dancing, he started to practice intensively Capoeira, a brazilian martial art form. He studied first with ¡§Capoeira Brasil¡¨ and after that with ¡§Companhia Pernas Pro Ar¡¨ / ¡§Contra-Mestres Porquinho¡¨ and ¡§Boca de Peixe¡¨.
Dancer/TeacherChoreography Workshop
H.T. Chen was born in Shanghai, China and raised in Taiwan. Mr. Chen¡¦s background is in both Chinese and Western dance and theater. A graduate of the University of Chinese Culture in Taiwan, The Juilliard School in NYC, and New York University (MA), H.T. Chen worked for several years at La MaMa E.T.C. as an actor, dancer and choreographer with the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre. He has also been the recipient of NEA Choreography Fellowships, a CAPS grant, and a Jerome Foundation grant, and was choreographer in residence at THE YARD - A Colony for Performing Arts. Mr. Chen has taught at the Navajo Community College and the NYU Dept of Dance Professions. For the last several years, he has also been working with Dance Theater Workshop¡¦s Artists Exchange Program of their International Suitcase Fund. Mr. Chen has been an Arts America Speaker for the U.S.I.A. to Mauritius, and serves on the Board for Dance Theater Workshop.
Choreographer / Teacher
Artistic Director
Chen Dance Center
The Franklin Method Workshop
The Franklin Method Workshop
M.S. Jan she was Coordinator of the Dance Wellness Lab at Loyola Marymount University. She has worked in Pilates rehabilitation since 1991, in Dance Medicine since 1981, and in the Franklin Method since 2005. She initiated / directed the Pilates rehab component of several physical therapy clinics in both CT and CO. Her dance / dance medicine background includes many years as university faculty, and continuing involvement since 1990 with the International Association of Dance medicine (IADMS), as President / Board Member / Executive Director. She completed the Polestar Pilates courses 1996-1999, and has studied other mind-body systems including Feldenkrais / Alexander. She is a Level II Franklin Method Educator, and is currently in the Level III training course. She is also conducting research on the Franklin Method, with a colleague at Loyola Marymount University.
Jan Dunn
Coordinator / Teacher
Dance Wellness Lab Loyola Marymount University
Composing Music for Dance Workshop
Composing Music for Dance workshop
Claudia Howard Queen has been in the field of music for dance for the past 30 years as a composer for dance, multi-instrumental dance musician, educator, and former dancer. As a composer for dance, Ms. Queen creates music specifically designed to illuminate the visual poetry and enhance the creative voice of the choreographer and dancer. Ms. Queen¡¦s compositions for dance have toured nationally and internationally in the repertoires of companies such as Jan Erkert & Dancers, the Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble, the Dublin City Ballet, and the Chicago Moving Company. As a dance musician, Ms. Queen uses piano, percussion, voice, electronic, stringed, blown, and world music instruments to create sophisticated, uplifting, kinesthetic music for dance, and has played for 200 dance instructors throughout the US and internationally. Ms. Queen is currently Assistant Professor of Music for Dance at UNT (University of North Texas) and has been faculty at the American Dance Festival in North Carolina since 2006. She teaches courses in music composition for dance, music for dancers, dance improvisation, composer/choreographer collaboration, and creativity. She holds an MFA from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. This is Ms. Queen¡¦s second Fulbright Award to teach in Taiwan.
Claudia Howard Queen
Composer / Musician
Assistant Professor
University of North Texas
Phone:
+886-2-28961000 ext. 3317Fax:
+886-2-28938779Email:
yingsophiaying@gmail.com (Sophia)
Sponsored by the Council for Cultural Affairs. Taiwan