Contemporary with Peiling Kao

Peiling Kao  ©Terry Lin

This class focuses on technical dance training. It is inspired and influenced by traditional modern dance techniques, post-Judson movement technique, and somatic practices. It is based on grounding the body through alignment and articulation of the joints, while using weight, gravity, suspension, expansion, and momentum to move intelligently. Participant will learn movement sequences, empower their physical ability, and investigate different ideas to approach movement.

Peiling Kao is a Taiwanese choreographer, dance educator, and performer. Since moving to the U.S. in 2007, she has been working with choreographers of different aesthetic frameworks, collaborating with interdisciplinary artists, performing and teaching nationally and internationally, as well as presenting original work via her company PEILING KAO DANCES. In May 2010, she finished her MFA in Dance at Mills College and received an E.L Wiegand Foundation Award for excellence in performance and choreography.
Peiling is an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her research and creative interests are focused on movement improvisation, choreography, bicultural and hybrid movement, and interdisciplinary collaboration. She has received the Board of Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching Award in 2022, Endowment for the Humanities Award in 2018, Junior Faculty Research Award in 2018, and Office of Chancellor for Research Award in 2017, 2018 & 2019 from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Peiling was awarded one San Francisco Bay Area’s Isadora Duncan Dance Awards in 2012 and nominated for another in 2013. She is also a recipient of the Lo Man-Fei Dance Fund from Cloud Gate Foundation in Taiwan in 2016 and the MAP fund in 2021.
Peiling has danced in the company of Gerald Casel, Molissa Fenley, Christy Funsch, Nina Haft, Shinichi Iova-Koga, Katie Faulkner, Hope Mohr, Randee Paufve, and Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts in the U.S. She has taught Modern/contemporary dance technique, movement improvisation, choreography, and Taiwanese/Chinese folk dance as a visiting faculty and guest artist at Mills College, Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program and BFA program at Dominican University of California, Hollins University, UC Santa Cruz, Western Washington University, Austin Peay State University, California State University East Bay, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, and Chinese American International School in San Francisco.

Please note that the schedule is subject to changes.

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Profitraining Zentralschweiz is a training on a professional level.  Wednesday and Thursday classes as well as workshops will also be open to non-professional dancers and advanced level students.
Non-profis can only participate after a positive evaluation of their level by the IGTZ. This decision is binding.

Info: profitraining@igtz.ch