Biography
Jeff Hsieh Chieh-hua is the Artistic Director of Anarchy Dance Theatre. Jeff’s works have a unique quality, derived from his dual background in architecture and dance. His pieces possess strong structural characteristics and embody creative perspectives regarding time, space and energy in both physical and digital ways, which are deeply embedded within layers of meaning.
Jeff’s acclaimed works of choreography include Second Body, Seventh Sense, The Eternal Straight Line and CyborgEros, which mainly focus on interactive dance performance. Jeff has been invited to several international festivals including Ars Electronica, TodaysArt Festival, and the George Town Festival. Since 2015, he has co-created a series of dance-installations with choreographer I-fen Tung and Chang Ko-Yang such as You Choreograph and Exercise series, which seek to expand the expression of dance beyond traditional concepts of ‘performance’. Jeff was also one of the directors of the opening ceremony of the 2017 Summer Universiade, Taipei.