Introduction

YU DANCE THEATRE produces UCLA based choreographer Cheng-Chieh Yu’s dance theater work. Yu’s bold kinetics and provocative imagery are built from the acute corporeality of postmodern dance techniques informed by the martial arts of Tai Chi Quan（太極拳）， Pi Gua（劈掛掌） and Ba Gua Zhang （八卦掌）. Yu Dance Theatre illuminates notions of an Asian and Asian American profile, crisscrossing issues such as gender ascription, social-political perspectives, diasporas and cultural boundaries.

Yu’s choreographic vision and international profile from 1993 to the present has developed with commissioned choreographic works presented internationally in USA, Israel, Germany, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan. Commissions include from the Chinese Information and Cultural Center, Movement Research, Danspace at St. Mark’s Church in NYC, the Beijing Modern Dance Company, the Guangdong Modern Dance Company in China, the Jumping Frames International Dance Video Festival in Hong Kong, The Taipei Dance Circle, The Creative Society and Sun-Shier Dance Theatre of Taiwan. USA presentations have been hosted by many venues in New York City, such as Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen, Danspace Project at St. Marks Church, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, P.S. 122, La MaMa, Etc., Pace University, Taipei Theater; Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center.  Also on the East Coast, her work has been presented at The Yard/A Colony for Performing Artists, and at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Massachusetts.  Yu Dance Theatre’s presentations have been seen in southern California in Los Angeles at the Frank Lloyd Wright’s Sowden House/Home LA Project, the Grand Performances, The Japanese American Theater, Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theater (REDCAT), Highways Performance Space, Skirball Cultural Center, LA Contemporary Exhibition (LACE), LA County Museum of the Arts(LACMA),  UCLA’s Center for Intercultural Performance, Los Angeles Women’s Theater Festival, Sola Dance Festival, San Diego’s Sushi Performance and Visual Art, as well as the University of California at Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California at Riverside’s Culver Center, and UCLA‘s Center for Intercultural Performance and the Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater.

Cheng-Chieh Yu’s Dance for Camera work, done in collaboration with film maker Marianne Kim have been screened in Beijing, Macau, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Taipei, and in major international film festivals in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles as well as internationally in France, the Netherlands, Spain, Poland, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, Malaysia, Switzerland, Greece, Egypt and England.  Martiality, Not Fighting, a dance-for-camera co-commissioned by the Guangdong Modern Dance Company and the Jumping Frames International Dance Video/Hong Kong has also received the Best Performance from the InShadow Video Festival in Portugal (2014), The Best Short in Dance Camera West, Los Angeles (2015), as well as the Dirorphte Jury Award in Amsterdam (2016).  It has been featured at the KCETLink on its global Dance for Camera online platform.

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余舞劇場成立於1997年，作品探索華人移民與美國人文的近距離對話，透過融合現代/後現代舞與中國拳術 (太極拳，劈掛掌與八卦掌) 的身體，企圖以大膽的動作語彙和身體意象，致力探究性別、離散，社會政治和跨文化議題。

1993年至今，余氏逐漸發展出個人的編創風格，並且受到越來越多的積極評論及讚譽。其個人及委託作品曾於美國，以色列, 德國，印尼，柬埔寨， 馬來西亞，新加坡，北京，廣州，香港及台灣等地演出，委約創作單位包括： 紐約中華資訊及文化中心（Chinese Information and Cultural Center ），莫博理街劇場（Mulberry Street Theater)、動作研究中心（Movement Research），紐約聖馬可教堂的舞蹈空間（Danspace at St. Mark’s Church)）、紐約的長江劇團和Yara藝術群，北京現代舞團、廣東現代舞團、台灣的創作社，三十舞蹈劇場，光環舞集，以及香港的跳格國際舞蹈電影節。余氏的作品曾在紐約多個劇場演出, 包括DTW, The Kitchen, 傑德遜教堂(Judson Church)，聖馬可教堂的舞蹈空間，林肯中戶外場， 公學122劇場，LaMaMa， 佩斯大學， Thelma Hill表演中心等，也曾在麻省駐名的雅德舞蹈藝術村（TheYard／MA），和被《時代》雜誌喻為“舞蹈界的樞紐和聖城”的雅各之枕舞蹈節(Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival)。南加州演出的劇場包括：Frank Lloyd Wright’s Sowden House/HomeLA計畫，格蘭德藝術節(Grand Performances)、美日劇場（Japanese American Cultural and Community Center)、加州藝術學院劇院（REDCAT）、斯科博文化中心（Skirball Cultural Center）、高速路劇場（Highways Performance Space）、洛杉磯女性戲劇節 (LA Women’s Theater Festival) 、索拉舞蹈節（Sola Dance Festival) 、聖地牙哥的蘇斯表演和視覺藝術節（Sushi Performance and Visual Arts／San Diego），以及加州大學爾灣分校的尼克遜劇場 (Nixon Theater, UC Irvine) 、加州大學河濱分校科佛中心 (Culver Center／UC Riverside), 加州大學洛杉磯分校的跨文化表演中心（Center for Intercultural Performances/UCLA) 和科夫曼舞蹈劇場（Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater）。

余承媫和Marianne Kim合作的舞蹈實驗短片, 曾在亞洲的北京，廣州，澳門，香港，台北，美國紐約，洛杉磯，舊金山，以及法國，荷蘭，西班牙，波蘭，愛爾蘭，葡萄牙，巴西，墨西哥，馬來西亞，瑞士，希臘，埃及，英國等國際上重要的舞蹈電影節播放， 由廣東現代舞團和香港跳格共同委託創作的《止戈，》更榮獲2016年阿姆斯特丹Cindans Dance舞蹈電影節Dirorphte評審獎， 2015年洛杉磯Dance Camera West最佳短片獎，及2014年葡萄牙InShadow電影節最佳表演獎。