She was recently recognized by the New York Times as one of the “Best Dance of 2021” in Richard Move’s “Herstory of the Universe”. Her many awards include a Bessie for “Outstanding Performance”, Positano Premia La Danza Leonide Massine for “Best Female Contemporary Dancer”, Capri International Dance Awards, “Best Performers” in 20 by Dance Magazine, and numerous awards in her native Taiwan. She holds a BFA in Dance from Taipei National University of the Arts where she was honored with an “Outstanding Alumni Award”. I can see where youre coming from, especially considering Korea (as well as Japan) have used the Chinese phoenix to represent the empress/queen and.
On the theater stage, PeiJu was a principal actress in the Kung Fu musical “Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise” commissioned by The Shed and choreographed by Akram Khan. Plot twists don’t fit, character motivation comes out of nowhere, and set pieces are random and repetitive.
She has been celebrated for her work as a principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company and for her performances in the iconic roles of the Graham repertory. Chen (Orphan of Zhao, Monkey: Journey to the West) was inspired to make Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise by Bruce Lee’s 1964 audition for The Green Hornet, and much of the show has the simplicity of a run-of-the-mill 1960s television series. We put all these different forms of human expression on an equal plane.PeiJu Chien-Pott is an internationally acclaimed contemporary dance artist from Taiwan who has been described by the Brooklyn Rail as "one of the greatest living modern dancers". “We facilitate the making of original work across performing arts, visual arts and pop culture. “The Shed is, quite simply, a commissioning center for all arts and all audiences,” says CEO and artistic director Alex Poots, who signed on in 2014 after serving as founding director of the Manchester International Festival and artistic director of the Park Avenue Armory. The 200,000-square-foot structure-already known for its movable shell, which rolls out to cover the adjacent plaza-is set to offer equally attention-grabbing programming, striving to be a new model for how culture is created and consumed in the 21st century. On April 5, after more than a decade of work and planning, The Shed finally opens, and it’s as ambitious as ever. Circa 2006, the point marked one of the most valuable plots on this once-sleepy swatch of Manhattan’s West Side, and the vague but ambitious plan for it, as set forth by the administration of then-mayor Michael Bloomberg, was to build a cultural institution unlike any other in the city.
Long before The Shed had a name, before its mission had been fully articulated or its physical structure defined, it was just a red dot on a map of New York City’s Hudson Yards.
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