![]() Her images have appeared in major media, commercial work and magazines including NYTimes, Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, ELLE, VOGUE, Spirit and Flesh Magazine, Capezio, GapFit campaign, Shiatzy Chen and Dior Magazine and others. Besides her stage work, Chien-Pott has been collaborated with renowned photographers including Lois Greenfield, Hibbard Nash, Paul B Goode, Tullio Fortuna, Jacob Sutton, NYC Dance Project and others. In the same year, Chien-Pott made her musical debut and played the lead role Little Lotus in a new Futuristic Kung-fu musical production Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise directed by Chen Shi-Zheng at The Shed in New York City, and she graced the cover of WE PEOPLE (Taiwan) the September issue. On April 16, 2019, Chien-Pott was one of the 25 artists invited to perform at the Merce Cunningham’s centennial celebration at the BAM in New York City. In 2011, Chien-Pott joined the Martha Graham Dance Company as an Apprentice and within three years, she was promoted to the rank of Principal Dancer. Chien-Pott has also served as a Guest Master Teacher for Nimbus Dance Works, its school, and outreach programs in the Jersey City public schools.Ģ011 – present: Career with the Martha Graham Dance Company and after The following year, she became a member of Nimbus Dance Works, a Jersey City-based contemporary dance company where she has performed lead roles in work by numerous artists including Samuel Pott, Pedro Ruiz, Francesca Harper, Korhan Basaran, Xiao-xiong Zhang, Charles Weidman, Randy James, and as the Sugar Plum Fairy in the annual Nutcracker production. The same year, she was invited to perform with Buglisi Dance Theatre and Korhan Basaran and Artists. In 2008, Chien-Pott relocated to New York City through a Merit Scholarship at the Merce Cunningham Studio, where she studied with Merce Cunningham himself. After receiving her BFA in Dance, she performed internationally with the Taipei Crossover Dance Company as a leading dancer.Ģ008 – 2010: Relocation to New York ![]() While still a university student, she performed with the Taipei Crossover Dance Company as a lead female dancer and with the Taipei Royal Ballet. At the age of 15, she was selected as one of the top five dancers nationally for the seven-year dance program at Taiwan’s prestigious arts university, Taipei National University of the Arts. Early life and career 1984 – 2007: Childhood and education Ĭhien-Pott started her dance training in classical ballet and Chinese Folk Dance at the age of 10 and was a member of the leading competition dance group in her hometown. She currently resides in Jersey City, New Jersey. She has a daughter from her first marriage. Chien-Pott was starring in the Sia, Akram Khan, Zhang Jun, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger-helmed kung-fu musical "Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise" at The Shed. Later that year, she received the Bessie Award for best performance in Martha Graham's Ekstasis. In 2017, Chien-Pott was invited to perform at the Taipei Universiade. She founded PJ Performing Arts in Taiwan. Ĭhien-Pott is described as "one of the greatest living modern dancers" and "the most dramatically daring and physically chameleon-esque Graham dancer of her generation", she has interpreted the iconic lead roles of Martha Graham's repertoire including Ekstasis, Chronicle, Cave of the Heart, Clytemnestra, Hérodiade, Night Journey, Errand into the Maze, Rite of Spring, Lamentation, Primitive Mysteries and others.Sought out by choreographers worldwide, she has created acclaimed lead roles in works by Mats Ek, Nacho Duato, Luca Veggetti and Andonis Foniadakis among many other significant artists. She joined the Martha Graham Dance Company in 2011, after her second audition, and became a principal dancer in 2014 before leaving the troupe in 2016. Chien-Pott continued to study dance under Merce Cunningham, and later performed with Buglisi Dance Theatre and Korhan Basaran and Artists, and Nimbus Dance Works. She later entered Taipei National University of the Arts' seven-year dance program developed by Lo Man-fei. Chien-Pott started dancing at the age of five, and began training aged 10. Choreographer, director, dancer, educator, and founderīorn in 1984, she was raised in Taoyuan.
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