Po Cheng, Tsai, a professional dance artist, from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is the founder and current artistic director of B.DANCE.

Tsai was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. After graduating from Tsoying Senior High School, he went to Taipei National University of the Arts. During his university days, he got a scholarship to go to Purchase College, New York for exchange and learning. His works are often based on his own life experiences, perceptual, supplicated, but still humorous, with unique dance languages and treacherous and changeable styles. He often integrates theatres, dance, and extreme limb movements in his works.

From 2014 to 2019, he had presented several original pieces to the international dance circles as touchstones and received high praises along with 4 gold medals and 1 silver medal from multiple choreography competitions around the world. In 2018, Tanz, a German magazine, included Tsai as one of the 2017/2018 most promising young choreographers around the world. Tsai was selected as the “best emerging choreographer of the year” by the France National Board of Performance Arts in 2020 and one of the “Ten Outstanding Young Persons” in Taiwan in 2021.

In the recent years, Tsai has put in a lot of efforts in the international markets. He has tried to test those markets with his works, showing the rich power of creating original works in Taiwan, and has been invited by several groups and organizations around the world, in

cluding Luzerner Theater and Bern Theatre in Switzerland, Stuttgart Gautiher Dance Company in Germany, Introdanz Dance Company in Netherlands, and Cloud Gate 2, to visit as a guest choreographer, and then brought what he’d seen back to his home country. In 2016, he set up the “B.OOM by B.DANCE”, a project for international collaboration in performance, inviting celebrated independent choreographers and dancers in Europe to Taiwan for performances and workshops. He’s been trying to lead his team with innovative thinking from diversified perspectives, aiming to open up the possibility of in-depth dialogues between arts and education and the society. That’s how he’s given back to our land through actions.

He was invited in Global Artist Committee of Asian Art Association in November 2021.

2021: 59th “Ten Outstanding Young Persons” National Presidential Award, Taiwan.

2020: 
“Special Expert Jury Prize”, Teatro Nudo competition, NO’HMA Theater, Milan, Italy

2020: 
“Outstanding Young Choreographer Award”, Association Professionnelle de la Critique de Théâtre, de Musique et de Danse, France, for RAGE

2019: Won First Prize in the Tanzplattform Bern for "Orthrus"

2019
: Jury Award, Berner Tanzpreise, Tanzplatform Bern, Switzerland, for Orthrus

2018: 
“Upcoming Choreographer of the Year, 2018”, Tanz magazine, Germany

2017: Berner Tanzpreise, Tanzplatform Bern, Switzerland, for Innermost

2017: 
“Most Outstanding Performance”, Valladolid International Street Theatre Festival (TAC), Spain, for Hugin/Munin

2016-17:
 “Generation T Most Outstanding Young Persons”, TATLER magazine, Taiwan

2015: Won first prize in the Copenhagen International Choreography Competition and the Tanz Luzerner Theater Production Award with his piece “Hugin/Munin”.

2015: Won second place in the International Choreography Competition in Jerusalem with his piece “Hugin/Munin” and was invited to perform at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival in Romania.

2014: Won the production award and the audience award in the 28th Internationaler Wettbewerb fuer Choreographen Hannover in Germany with his piece “Floating Flowers”.

B.DANCE, founded in 2014, is an independent contemporary dance company in Taiwan.

B.DANCE has been devoted to promoting original works in performance arts created by the young generation in Taiwan and, following its philosophy of “bringing Taiwan to the world and bringing the world to Taiwan”, visited 45 cities in 21 countries for 235 performances while expanding the markets in Europe and the international network, in hopes of bringing a new trend of thoughts to the ecology of arts in Taiwan to make the culture and art industry more diversified. B.DANCE has been built as a platform for professionals from all sides for creative collaboration, to create a solid and sophisticated international network with Taiwan as the starting point for the purpose of making sustainable connections in arts with the world. B.DANCE’s cross-culture, cross-industry, and cross-business-opportunity collaborative projects can make the culture and art markets even more flexible and output values more efficient in all aspects.