Dancing is a way of expressing how you feel for people of all different ages. It is a wayof relaxing which is used to express yourself through various movements. Peopleworldwide admire the art of dance which requires a lot of time, patience and hard workto master. Many dancers are well known all over the world, and captivate their audiencewith their moves and skills. The top ten great Chinese Choreographers are.
1. Hsueh-Tung Chen
Hsueh-Tung Chen was born June 23, 1947, in Shanghai, China. He grew up in Taiwan before eventually moving to New York in 1971. He was a dancer and choreographer. He has a masters degree in Dance Education from The Juilliard School in New York City and the University of Chinese Culture in Taiwan. After five years at the New YorkCity’s La Mama Experimental Theater Club, he decided to showcase his work by creating his own dance company H.T. Chen and Dancers, in 1978. He, unfortunately, died on June 12, 2022, due to lung cancer in Manhattan.
2. Choo Chiat Goh
Choo Chiat Goh is a Chinese ballet dancer and choreographer born in 1939. He fell inlove with art form at 13 after watching The Red Shoes. After this, he joined the RoyalBallet in England and later trained in China under the dancer and choreographer PyotrGusev. He graduated in 1959 from the Beijing Dance Academy, after which he becamea principal dancer at the National Ballet of China. He was in Canada visiting his sickmother but eventually stayed back. He, along with his wife Lin Yee, are the co-founderof Goh Ballet Academy, Canada.
3. Yen Han
Yen Han is a significant soloist of Ballet Zurich. In addition to her profession as a ballerina, she is an artistic director and choreographer at her ballet school, the Yen Han Dance Center, located in Zurich, Switzerland. She did her first ballet training in LosAngeles from Stefan Mucsi and Paul Maure. At sixteen she moved to China sixteen to continue her studies at the Beijing Dance Academy.
4. Lalan
Xie Jinglan was a Chinese-French multi-talented artist born on September 14, 1921, inChina. She changed her name to Lalan. She was born with a knack for music anddancing, which she developed through her father, Xie Meigen, a famous flute player andscholar. She did not start painting until she was 37 beginning her artistic career inpainting, choreography in modern dance, and composing electronic music. She spentmost of her time with her husband, Marcel Van Thienen, in France. In 1995 she died in a car accident.
5. Sang Jijia
Sang Jijia is a Chinese Choreographer. In the 1990 he was a dancer for the City Contemporary Dance Company and Guangdong Modern Dance Company. He studied with William Forsythe, working for The Forsythe Company as a dancer andchoreographer until 2006. He is now a Resident Artist with LDTX/ Beijing Dance and Guangdong Modern Dance Company in China.
6. Shen Wei
Shen Wei is a New York-based Chinese-American choreographer, director, and painter.He creates original works that use a variety of elements which include dance, sound,painting, theatre, sculpture, and video. His creative blend of Western and Asian views and his syncretic approach to art performance are praised by his critics frequently.
7. Willy Tsao
Willy Tsao is a modern dance Chinese Choreographer. He is widely regarded as thefather of Chinese modern dance. He runs three major dance organizations in China. Heis the Managing Director of Guangdong Modern Company and the Artistic Director andFounder of City Contemporary Dance Company in Hong Kong and Beijing LDTXModern Dance Company in 2005.
8. Muna Tseng
Muna Tseng is a Chinese-American dancer, author, lecturer, and choreographer. Shebegan her modern dance training when she was 13 in Vancouver, Canada. She taughtat New York University and the Atlantic Theater Program as an adjunct faculty. Shefounded Muna Tseng Dance Projects in 1984 in New York City, having lived there since1978. She has performed in over 30 countries and over 40 dance productions. She hasbeen the executrix and director of her late brother Tseng Kwong Chi’s photography library since 1990.
9. Wen Wei Wang
Wen Wei Wang is a Chinese-Canadian choreographer, businessman, instructor, and dancer born in 1965. He migrated permanently to Vancouver in 1991. At 12, he began training at the Lanzhou Army Song and Dance Company. In just four years, at the age of 16, was promoted to the position of full-time company dancer. He formed his own dance company Wen Wei Dance in 2003, through which he developed eight full-length works. He is the artistic director of both Wen Wei Dance and Ballet Edmonton 2018.
10. Yang Liping
Yang Liping is a Bai ethnic Chinese dancer and choreographer. In 1986 she became famous for choreographing and performing The Spirit of Peacock. In 1992 she became the first dancer from Mainland China to perform in Taiwan. She is well known for he rcreativity and performance of the Dai peacock dance and is called China’s Peacock Princess. She has toured over 30 countries and performed over 1000 shows.
