PeiJu Chien-Pott (Chinese: 簡珮如; pinyin: Jiǎn Pèirú; Wade–Giles: Chien3 P'ei4-ju2; born 1984) is a Taiwanese dancer. She was a principal dancer for the Martha Graham Dance Company.
PeiJu Chien-Pott | |
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| Born | 1984 (age 39–40) Taoyuan, Taiwan |
| Occupation(s) | Choreographer, director, dancer, educator, and founder |
| Website | https://www.peiju.org |
Born in 1984, she was raised in Taoyuan.[1] Chien-Pott started dancing at the age of five,[2] and began training aged 10.[3] She later entered Taipei National University of the Arts' seven-year dance program developed by Lo Man-fei.[4] Chien-Pott continued to study dance under Merce Cunningham, and later performed with Buglisi Dance Theatre and Korhan Basaran and Artists, and Nimbus Dance Works.[5][6] She joined the Martha Graham Dance Company in 2011, after her second audition,[7] and became a principal dancer in 2014 before leaving the troupe in 2016.[8]
Chien-Pott is described as "the most dramatically daring and physically chameleon-esque" dancer who is able to "communicates the emotional message of the Graham works with such beautiful clarity." She founded PEIJU Performing Arts in Taiwan.[3] In 2017, Chien-Pott was invited to perform at the Taipei Universiade.[9][10] Later that year, she received the Bessie Award for best performance in Martha Graham's Ekstasis.[11][12] Chien-Pott was starring in the Sia, Akram Khan, Zhang Jun, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger-helmed kung-fu musical "Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise" at The Shed.[13][14][15][16]
Personal life
editShe has a daughter from her first marriage.[17][18] She currently resides in New York City.
Awards and achievements
edit- 2014- Honored with “POSITANO PREMIA LA DANZA "LEONIDE MASSINE" for "Most Outstanding Female Dancer on the Contemporary Scene".
- 2014 and 2017- Named one of the "Best Performers of the Year" by Wendy Perron of the Dance Magazine
- 2015- Named one of the honorees of the "Women's History Month" in Hudson County
- 2017- Bessie Award for "Outstanding Performer" in Dance for her performances of Virginie Mécène’s reimagining of Martha Graham’s 1933 lost solo Ekstasis
- 2017- “Outstanding Alumni Award” from Taipei National University of the Arts
- 2017- "Outstanding Citizen" from the government of Taiwan
- 2017- “People of the Year" by PAR Performing Arts Redefined of the National Theater of Taiwan
- 2018- Capri International Dance Award
- 2018 and 2019- “Outstanding Elite” in Performing Arts by The Generation T List of Asia Tatler
- 2019- “Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Taiwan” by Junior Chamber International
- 2021- One of the “Best Dance of 2021” by New York Times for her solo performance in Richard Move’s production “Herstory of the Universe” premiered at the Governors Island in New York City on October 9, 2021
- 2022- Featured in a short film NALA, directed by British filmmaker and choreographer Darshan Singh Bhuller has received ten international film awards
- 2023- Awarded a Choreography Fellowship from New Jersey Council on the Arts
References
edit- ^ Kourlas, Gia (1 April 2016). "Living and Breathing Martha Graham". New York Times. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
- ^ Poon, Kah (9 June 2017). "The Architecture of Simplicity". Spirit and Flesh. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
- ^ a b Mead, David (21 February 2018). "Peiju Chien-Pott returns to Taiwan with the Martha Graham Dance Company". Seeing Dance. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
- ^ Baker, Diane (10 March 2018). "Loving Graham ... and danbings". Taipei Times. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
- ^ "Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company to Bring CROSSCURRENT IV to Flushing Town Hall". Broadway World. 3 March 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
- ^ "Taiwanese dancers celebrated at CrossCurrent IV". Queens Ledger. 28 February 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
- ^ "Spotlight: This Graham Dancer Found Audition Success Post-Baby". Dance Magazine. 2 October 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
- ^ Huang, Timothy; Kao, Evelyn (20 March 2016). "PeiJu Chien-Pott set to bid farewell to Martha Graham dance troupe". Central News Agency. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
- ^ "Tickets for Universiade opener sold out: official". Taipei Times. 18 July 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
- ^ Diane, Diane (19 August 2017). "Taipei Universiade: Dancers welcome world to the Games". Taipei Times. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
- ^ "OUTSTANDING PERFORMER: BESSIE AWARD TO PEIJU CHIEN-POTT". Neu Records. 9 October 2017.
- ^ Burke, Siobhan (10 October 2017). "Jewels and Resistance on Bessies Night". New York Times. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
- ^ Scherr, Apollinaire (July 1, 2019). "Dance is the winner in Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise at The Shed, New York". The Financial Times.
- ^ Ugwu, Reggie; Yalkin, Devin; Sadek, Mohamed (2019-06-19). "Can a Kung Fu Musical Get (Way) Off the Ground?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
- ^ Green, Jesse (2019-06-27). "Review: In 'Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise,' Eyes Wide Mind Numb". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
- ^ Fox5NY (2019-07-03), 'Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise': A Kung Fu Musical with the Songs of Sia, retrieved 2019-07-12
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Peters, Jen (1 November 2014). "Your Body: Working Out with PeiJu Chien-Pott". Dance Magazine. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
- ^ Ouellette, Jenny (23 March 2017). "Letter to My Teenage Self: PeiJu Chien-Pott". Dance Spirit. Retrieved 10 March 2018.