Lin Hsiu-wei, the producer, is the choreographer, artistic director of Tai-Gu Tale Dance Theatre. She graduated from the Chinese Cultural College in Taipei, Taiwan, with a degree in Dance Performance. She was a principal dancer in the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre from 1975 to 1985, where she received different professional dance trainings, such as ballet training of Martha Graham and Limon’s dance style, as well as Chinese opera movements and gestures. In 1986, Lin was invited to participate, and also perform the solo dance Nu-Ua, in the American Dance Festival. In 1987 she received a Fulbright Scholarship and studied in New York for half a year.
Lin tries to be free from all the traditional and ballet trainings, as well as techniques of modern dance. She aims to go deep inside her own body and to find her own world of dancing. Tai-Gu Tale Dance Theatre was founded on the basis of spirit.
Since 1986, Lin has also worked as the producer and the administrative director of Contemporary Legend Theatre, in charge of repertoire management and choreography. Until present, she has produced more than 13 productions, including an adaptation of Medea, and some of them were invited to present in international theatre festivals.
