王珩 Heng Wang
Heng Wang, Taiwanese contemporary performer, choreographer, director, and art educator, received her professional education at the Taipei National University of Arts (Taiwan). From 2015 onwards, she choreographed at The Double Theatre and worked as the troupe’s co-artistic director. She also collaborates with different artists, continuously researching every possibility through the perspective of body and movement.
She has won several awards and been invited to residence and festivals. In 2016, she was invited as a guest artist at Anton Bruckner University (Austria) and co-choreographed “Duet” with Kai-Chun Chuang. In 2017 her international breakthrough came with collaborating her work “Rethink III” with VJ artist Pei-Yi Tsai which won the Digital Arts Award of the Anthology Award and was nominated at the Womencinemakers Film Festival. While in the same year, her co-directed full-length theatre piece in The Double Theatre “Far Away” and “Her” was invited to the Besancon Theatre Festival in France, South Nangu Alley Theatre Festival in Beijing, and EX-Theatre Asia Festival in Taiwan.
She has self-choreographed full-length work throughout her career. In 2015, she adapted Martin Crimps’” Attempts on Her Life” at Taipei Fringe Festival. In 2019, she presented her second full-length “Building a Nation by the Name of God” which was invited to the Play Art Festival in 2020. In the same year, she started “Project of Choreographing Stories” which creates through the progress of field working and researching with non-dancers and perform in the form of documentary theatre from the perspective of body and movement and developed “GO! GO! AND BEYOND” which was invited to attend Taipei Fringe Festival in 2019. “Skip Stich” was performed in 2020 and invited to the Want to Dance Festival in 2021. “Seasons” is invited to the Taoyuan Iron Rose Festival and will be premiered in 2021 October.
Work History
「Self- Choreograph works」
2021 “How CHARMING!” at Light Coming Festival, Hsinchu Taiwan
2021 “Skip Sticht” (Public!) at Want to Dance Festival, Taipei Taiwan
2020 "The Kid of Dakao" (work in progress) at Waywuing National Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung Taiwan
2020 “How CHARMING!” at National Palace Musem Autumn Festival, Taipei Taiwan
2019 “Building a nation by the name of God”, Taipei Taiwan
2019 “GO! GO! AND BEYOND!” Taipei Fringe Festival, Taipei Taiwan
2019 “Somatosensory Heterotopia— Body Map Choreography Project” at Want to Dance Festival, Taipei Taiwan
2019 "Not Where you are " at Art Pumping Nangang Festival, Taipei Taiwan
「Collaborate works」
2020 “Play Safe” invited to Nuit Blanche with The Double Theatre, Taipei Taiwan
2019 “Cet Enfant” with The Double Theatre, New Taipei City Taiwan
2019 “Far Away” with The Double Theatre, Taoyuan Taiwan
2018 “Variety Show” at the Contemporary Art Biennial, Taipei Taiwan
2018 “Far Away” with The Double Theatre at EX-Theatre Asia Festival, Miaoli Taiwan
2017 “Rethink II” won the Digital Arts Award of the World Anthology Award and was nominated to the Womencinemakers Film Festival.
2017 “Anacusis III” with Digital Arts Artist Jia-Fang Chang at Hyper Frequency Digital Art Exhibition, Taipei
「International 」
2019 Attended CND Camping Paitin and Lyon
2017 “Far Away” with The Double Theatre at Besancon Theatre Festival, Besancon France
2017 “Her” with The Double Theatre at South Nangu Alley Theatre Festiva, Beijing China
2016 invited as a guest artist at Anton Bruckner University (Austria) and co-choreographed the piece “Duet”
「Education」
2019-2021 worked as the project leader and teacher in the “Body and Sculpture Dance Workshop” of the “Cultural Experience Education Program” of the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan.
2018 worked as the project leader and teacher in the “Creative Dance Workshop” of the “Cultural Experience Education Program” of the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan.
2015-2018, worked in class planning and dance educational project in campus “Dancing, Heart, and Color”.