Kuo Chu Wu
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Kuo-Chu Wu (Taipei, 18 August 1970 – Taipei, 6 January 2006) was a Taiwanese choreographer and dance director.
[edit] Life
After studying and working at the National Institute of the Arts in Taiwan [1], Kuo-Chu Wu attended from 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 Hong Kong and Taiwan. He also choreographed for the Wuppertaler Opernhaus and for the Folkwang Hochschule.
Wu finished his studies in 2004/2005 and immediately became Dance Director at the Tanztheater Kassel [3], with his own company, composed by dancers of Folkwang.
Kuo-Chu Wu died on 6 January 2006 of a severe disease.
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].
[edit] Works
[edit] External links
- National Institute of the Arts in Taiwan [1]
- Folkwang Hochschule [2]
- Staatstheater Kassel [3]
- Cloud Gate Dance Theatre [4]
- Oculus in YouTube - Cloud Gate2 [5]
- Cloud Gate 2 [6]
- Article about Oculus [7]
- Oculus in Tanznetz.de [8]
