Ewen Chiu

Senior dancer of Cloud Gate / Taiwan

ABOUT

Ewen Chiu is a former senior dancer of Cloud Gate Dance Group. After retirement, she served as an education and promotion specialist of Cloud Gate Foundation and adjuvant assistant professor of Dance Department of Taipei University of the Arts.

Born in Chiayi, Taiwan, Ewen studied performance at the Dance School of the National Academy of Arts. She trained in ballet, contemporary dance and Chinese dance. She joined Cloud Gate in 1994. She graduated from the dance department of the National Academy of Arts in 1994 and joined Cloud Gate in the same year. In 2014, she was transferred to Tamshui Cloud Gate Theatre as a lecturer in educational promotion, and served as adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Dance at National Taipei University of the Arts and the Department of Performing Arts at Xingwu University of Science and Technology.

During her stay in Cloud Gate, she received training in Oriental body parts such as Taijiquan and martial arts, and performed solo dances for many important works of Cloud Gate. Most of the performances are "charming" characters, such as the lady in white in "spring breeze" in "bamboo dream", the maid in "dream of red chamber", the little lady in "dream land", the green snake in "legend of white snake", and the little chun in "shining sun still shining" in "Chen yingzhen landscape".

As a professional dancer for 20 years, she has participated in the performances of important works of Cloud Gate for many times. Her solo dances in "Rice Wo", "If Not for You", "The Tract in the House", "Listen to the River", "White Ⅱ", "Wild Grass", and "The Tradition" in "The Tradition" are impressive. Hong Kong choreographer Lai Haining's "A Woman's Mind - Pink Life" and British choreographer Akaron's "Lost Shadows" also have outstanding solo performances. He has also collaborated with Taiwan choreographers Wu Guozhu and Liu Guanxiang.

At present, she is a solo dancer, working with artists in different fields, and acting as motion designer for film, television and theater performances for many times. In the field of performing arts, more possibilities of practicing dance can be promoted through creation and education.

In March 2021, Ewen Chiu was invited to join Global Artists Committee (Dance) of the Asian Art Association.

Acting Experience

1991 Dancer of the dance theater "Spring Light Can't Cage"
2007 Mr. Eyeball nightclub "love blue red light" actor
1994-2013 Cloud Gate Dance Collection Full-time dancer
2017 Cloud Gate Theater Creative Plan Liu Guanxiang's work "The Abandoned" dancer
Dancer of "Kids I Know Too Much" by Liu Guanxiang, Denmark and Beijing Tour
Ewen Chiu X Lai Qixia dancer in the seventh club of its second season 2018 Biao Dance Club
2018 and 2019 Toyosu Dance Live, Japan. Dancers of "Super Swan" in Nishijima

Director teaching

2007 Choreographer for the troupe Flora on Mount Hermon
2007 Mr. Eyeball nightclub "love blue red light" choreographer
Action design of Goethe Faust for the summer premiere of National Taipei University of the Arts Drama School in 2008
2008 Choreographer, Huashan Art and Culture Center London Calling
Choreography of "Collage and Call" at the opening performance of the 2008 Art Concept Exhibition "Eyeballs Love the Earth"
Choreographer of "Mr. Eyeball on the Eye Converse Creative Show" in 2009
Action design for 2010 film "Suspend" directed by Zhan Kaidi
2013 Mr. Eyeball "Good Habits of Love" concept public welfare activity MV action design
Action design for the film "Big Rice" directed by Ye Tianlun
2015-2018 Cloud Gate Dance, Department of Dance, Taipei University of the Arts, directed the rehearsal of "Hanging the Grass", "Bamboo Dream" and the reconstruction of "Legacy"
2019 Mr. Eyeball Art Theater Room 260 Action Design
In 2019, Xiao Yihan and Wu Mengting co-performed "Stare" Choreography by Institute of Dance Department of Beijing University of Fine Arts
2019 Camping Asia Lobby Class Artist Body Guide
2020 Body rhythm training at Buffalo Nature School Summer Camp
Body training/action design for Mr. Eyeball's art theater "Beefy Man Hell" in 2020
The handicap of Japan Expo 2021 の culture, art creation, spot formation, DANCE DRAMA 'Breakthrough Journey' choreography

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