Hsiao-Tzu Tien

Freelance choreographer, dancer and performer. Born in 1984 in Tainan, Taiwan. She puts focus of her choreography research on human emotions shaped by time, history, culture and environment. Regarding choreography as the chisel of life, she attempts to cut away the contradictions and labels that hinder self-exploration, and uncover powerful emotions deposited in the body. While looking into the desire and fear in life, she also looks for the exits of life’s trajectories, as well as their various possibilities. She also develops the potentials of body and movements through international exchange and collaboration with theater or performance arts, keeping connected with foreign cultures and other disciplines. Among her creations: Drifting Dust, a dance video she created with the artist Cheuk-lam Chih ; the performances The Hole, Stem and Masses co-created with Shih-Wei Wang, Tzi-Mei Li, Helmi Fita for which they were the winners of Performing Arts Award of the 18th Taishin Arts Award in 2020.

The work of Hsiao-Tzu Tien focuses on digging out the connection and relationship between emotions and movements. For the past few years, she tries to find ways of transforming one’s memories of life into physical movement. She will share this experience with the participants – her concepts of body language – during the workshop through exercises like “Silent Movement”, “Spine Talk” by developing movements from one's personal grammar.

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