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Private life
Shang-Chi Sun (Taiwanese, born 1977) is a Taiwanese choreorapher. Since 2001 he lives in Berlin, Germany.

Carrer
He was educated at the National Academy of Arts in Taiwan. There he studied contemporary dance, traditional chinese dance and classical ballet. In 2001 he left Taiwan and went to Germany for his artistic development. He started to collaborate with choreographers such as Lin Hwai-Min, Sasha Waltz, Daniela Kurz, Russel Mapliphant and others.

In 2007, he established the Shang Chi Sun Company in Taiwan.

In 2008 he earned the first award at the 12th International Solo Tanz Theatre Festival Stuttgart with his choreography „Dialog II“. The same year he performed that piece at Maison de la danse in Lyon, France.

In 2010, he graduated from the „Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch“, University of Arts Berlin with a Master of Arts in Choreography. He has created several works which have been presented in Europe and Asia e.g. at the Philharmonie Köln, Tanz im August Berlin, Festival d’Avignon France, International Taipei Arts Festival, Shizuoka Arts Festival Japan, Cité de la Musique (Paris), Taiwan International Fesitval of Arts, International Dance Festival Tel Aviv, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Neues Museum Nürnberg, and Leverkusen Bayer Kultur. He cooperated with other companies for commissioned works, among others with Sasha Waltz & Guests, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre 2 (Taiwan), with the Transitions Company London as well as the Dance Company of the City Theatre Osnabrück.

In 2017 he created for the Taipei Fine Arts Museum a live exhibition piece „Perspicuum“. It questions how transparency can be interpreted by symbols which exist in our society.

Awards
2005: "Bavarian Theatre and Literature Prize" from the IHK-Kulturstiftung.

2008: "First Choreography Prize" at the 12th International Solo Tanz Festival Stuttgart.

2012: Traverse has been selected for the priority list of the European network Aerowaves

Shang-Chi Sun collaborated with Senat Berlin, Goethe Institut, Cloud Gate Dance Foundation and the Culture Center of Taiwan in Paris.

Work
•	2006: Warum nicht (Nürnberg Tanztheater)

•	2008: Dialogue II (Maison de la dans Lyon)

•	2008: Walk Faster (International Taipei Arts Festival)

•	2009: Nüwa (Maison de la dans, Lyon)

•	2010: 4.48/Ohne Titel (Shizuoka Arts Festival, Japan)

•	2011: Deutsches Requiem/Johannes Brahms (St. Egidien Nürnberg Chöre und Ensemble)

•	2011: Je.Sans.Paroles (Via Festival 2011, France)

•	2011: Traverse (Fabrik Potsdam)

•	2011: Genus (Cloud Gate Dance Theare II)

•	2012: Breakfast (International Taipei fine Arts Festival)

•	2012:Under Trot (Trinity Laban)

•	2013:Uphill (National theatre Taipei, Taiwan)

•	2013: Incomplete Harmony (Repertoire des Tanztheaters Osnabrück)

•	2013: Threads (Taipei Digital Arts Festival )

•	2014: Transit in Préludes (im Bröhan Museum Berlin)

•	2014: The Photographer (mit dem Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Museum of Photography Berlin)

•	2015: Nexus (T.H.E Dance Company Singapore)

•	2016: Promenade ( Konzerthaus Berlin, Otto-Werner-Saal)

•	2016: Spur (mit dem Ensemble KNM Berlin)

•	2017: Schulter von α (mit dem Ensemble KNM Berlin, Akademie der Künste Berlin)

•	2017: Perspicuum (Installation and Exhibition at Taipei Fine Arts Musuem)

Links
www.shangchi.de

https://www.facebook.com/shangchisun/