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Lee-Yuan Tu

Dancer

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Lee-Yuan Tu comes from Taiwan and has been a member of GöteborgsOperans Danskompani since the 2013/2014 season. Since then he has had the opportunity to take part in creations by internationally renowned choreographers such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Sharon Eyal, Damien Jalet, Marcos Morau, Marina Mascarell, Ohad Naharin, Hofesh Shechter, Saburo Teshigawara and Alan Lucien Øyen.

After graduating from the Taipei National University of Art in 2011, Lee-Yuan has previously worked with Meimage Dance and Shobana Jeyasingh Dance. He also choreographed and performed in After the End, which won the Taiwan Golden Dance Award in 2010. In 2017 Lee-Yuan was taking part of the New choreographer project in Taiwan as a choreographer with performance It takes two to tango which was nominated for the 16th Taishin Arts Award.

In January 2020 Lee-Yuan premiered production Rasa in Antwerp Opera Ballet Vlaanderen where he acted as a co-choreographer along the choreographer Daniel Proietto.

Lee has performed in the following productions, amongst others: 

  • Wild Poetry
  • Dust and Disquiet
  • Hammer
  • Oblivion
  • Here not Here
  • SAABA
  • Contemporary Dance
  • Skid
  • Decadance Gothenburg
  • Solo Echo
  • Autodance
  • Icon
  • Noetic
  • MAX
  • Untitled Black

Close-up: Lee-Yuan Tu