Jie-Hung Connie Shiau (she/her) is a choreographer, dancer, and educator. She was born in Gainesville, FL and raised in Tainan, Taiwan. Shiau has worked as a collaborator and artist with an array of dance companies, including Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Gallim Dance, Helen Simoneau Danse, MeenMoves, Adam Barruch/Anatomiae Occultii, and Kevin Wynn Works. Her choreographic work has been presented internationally at New Choreographer Project in Taipei, Taiwan, Loyola University, Little Island Dance Festival, SUNY Purchase Spring Concert, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago summer intensives, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Shiau has been recognized as a Chicago Dancemaker Forum Greenhouse Artist in 2019, as one of Dance Magazine’s 2018 “25 To Watch”, with an Honorable Mention for the Jadin Wong Award for Emerging Asian American Dancer in 2014, and with a Reverb Dance Festival Dancer Award in 2014. Shiau was an inaugural Choreographic Fellow for the 2022-23 season at Gibney Company. Her dance film Greener Grass was a semi-finalist in the London International Web & Shorts Film Festival in 2021. Shiau was the leading female dancer in Huang Ruo’s opera, Angel Island, which premiered at BAM Harvey in January 2024. Shiau is currently a freelance artist, based in NYC, and an Artistic Associate at Gibney Company.

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