Tsai Hsi Hung graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts 2011. In 2009, she
traveled to Australia as an exchange student for the Dance at Queensland Technology
University Dance Department. She has worked with the Australian Dance Theater,
Tasdance, Expressions Dance Company, and Chunky Move Dance Company Dancers.
Since then, her choreography has been commissioned and performed throughout the
United States and Asia.
Hung was recently awarded the Jaffee and Hall Emerging Choreographer Award from
Indiana’s Dance Kaleidoscope Company and will create a new work for the company in
2025. Hung will also premiere a new piece with the Joffrey Concert Group in New York
City as part of their Creative Movers Choreography Commission. Later this year, Hung
will create a new work for the South Chicago Dance Theatre.
Hung’s work has been featured at companies such as Philadelphia’s BalletX, Ballet
Hispanico NYC, Milwaukee Ballet, Arkansas Ballet and the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago.
She has been in residence at Western Michigan University, Kennesaw University in
Georgia and the National University of the Arts in Taiwan where she was a guest
teacher from 2022-2024.
Hung’s choreography often features the interplay between dance and painting. In
2022, Hung created an original work inspired by the paintings of Hans Hofmann that
was commissioned by the Battery Dance Company, NYC.In 2020, Hung received a
Choreography Fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the
Arts.
In June of 2018, the MET Dance Company performed Hung’s work IO for 12 dancers at
the Miller Outdoor Theater in Houston, Texas. In 2019, Hung’s piece DOUBLEND was
performed at the NU VU Festival at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Martha
Graham Studio Theater and NYU Skirball Center and her work Brushstroke 2X2 was
performed at the 2020 APAP Peridance Showcase in New York.