Scarlet Yu is a Hong Kong-born, Europe-based translocal artist whose interdisciplinary choreographic practice prioritises sustainability, coexistence, and the politics of embodiment. Trained in dance and choreography, Yu approaches choreography as a relational encounter. Her work navigates the in-betweenness and Otherness using movement, storytelling, and sensory materials to explore memory, heritage systems, transformative identities, and co-subjectivities.

Yu’s practice challenges established narratives through forms of listening and embodied dramaturgy. Working across mediums and contexts—from theatres and museums to galleries and public spaces.

Yu has served as a jury member for Tanzplattform Germany 2018, and was previously Rehearsal Director of Arts Fission Company (2000–10) and Theatre Program Executive at Skyhigh Creative Partners HK (2011–12). She was a selected artist in ADAM Artist Lab and Hombroich Summer Fellows in 2017 and holds an MFA in Choreography from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (2015).

Tung I-Fen is a choreographer, performer, educator and curator. Tung works in various contexts, including dance, theater, film, contemporary music and technical art, among others, while laying her artistic practices in the agency and intersections of humanity, society and nature. Tung started to curate the program and host several projects such as Dance Park platform for freelance dancers, Unboxing: Live Art Arena for freelance artists, performing art program for Nuit Blanche. Since 2006, her works have been presented in London and Paris, as well as in Spain, the USA, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and India. Tung also participated in several interdisciplinary productions, such as Dear John which won the performing award of 12th Taishin Arts Award. She is currently a full-time lecturer at the University of Taipei.It all begins with an idea.

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Fan, Xiang-Jun is a dance researcher, critics, and dramaturg. She is currently an adjunct assistant professor at Taipei National University of the Arts. Her research focus on the development of contemporary dance in Taiwan, body culture practice, dance and technology. Her doctoral dissertation To Touch the Limit In-Between: Contact Improvisation, the Aesthetics of Touch and Taiwan Contemporary Dance got awarded a scholarship from National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) in Taiwan.

Photo credit: CHEN, Yan-hong