Kuo Chu Wu

Kuo-Chu Wu (Taipei, 18 august 1970 – Taipei, 6 january 2006) was a taiwanese choreographer and dance director.

Life

After studying and working at the National Institute of the Arts in Taiwan [1] , Kuo-Chu Wu attended since 1997 to 2004 the dance academy Folkwang Hochschule in Essen (Germany) [2] , which influenced most of his future work. During this period he becomes quite famous in Germany for his choreographies and in 2002 he gets the dance prize from the foundation Josef und Else Classen Stiftung. In June 2004 he shows his first work "Fuge" on the occasion of the "Folkwang Tanzabend". He created many choreographies with the taiwanese company Cloud Gate Dance Theatre Taiwan [4] , which he went with on a tour to Honkong and Taiwan. He also choreographed for the Wuppertaler Opernhaus and for the Folkwang-Hochschule. Wu finished his studies in 2004/2005 and became immediatly Dance Director at the Tanztheater Kassel [3] , with his own company, composed by dancers of Folkwang.

Kuo-Chu Wu died the 6 january 2006 for a severe desease.

In June 2006 Malou Airaudo, former dancer in Pina Bausch's company, shows the premiere of "Windschatten", the choreography she composed as homage to Kuo Chu Wu [5] .

Works

Tantalus

Fuge
Oculus

Weblinks

* National Institute of the Arts in Taiwan [http://www2.tnua.edu.tw]

* Folkwang Hochschule [http://www.folkwang-hochschule.de/]

* Staatstheater Kassel [http://www.staatstheater-kassel.de/index.html]

* Cloud Gate Dance Theatre [http://www.cloudgate.org.tw/]

* Oculus in Youtube - Cloud Gate2 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2IgVWQ6Cy8]

* Cloud Gate 2 [http://www.cloudgate.org.tw/eng/english/cgdt2.html]

* Article about Oculus [http://www.artkroells.net/echo.html?contentechojungchoreographen.html~main]

* Oculus in Tanznetz.de [http://www.tanznetz.de/kritiken.phtml?page=showthread&aid=85&tid=4476]