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.