NAME

Jie-Hung Connie Shiau (she/her)

POSITION

Artistic Associate, Gibney Company

HOMETOWN

Born in Gainesville, Florida; Raised in Tainan, Taiwan

EXPERIENCE

As a dancer, choreographer, and educator, Connie has worked as a collaborator with an array of companies, including Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, AIM by Kyle Abraham, Gallim Dance, Helen Simoneau Danse, MeenMoves, Adam Barruch/Anatomiae Occultii, and Kevin Wynn Works.

HONORS

Selected as a Gibney Choreographic Fellow for the 2022-23 season. For her fellowship, she created a new work that was presented at Gibney Center in New York in November 2022.

Connie's choreographic work has been presented at New Choreographer Project in Taipei, Taiwan, Loyola University, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago summer intensives, Earl Mosley Diversity of Dance, Little Island Dance Festival, SUNY Purchase Spring Concert, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s 43rd Virtual Season.

In addition, Connie’s film “Greener Grass” was a semifinalist in the London International Web & Shorts Film Festival 2021.

Connie has also been recognized as a Chicago Dancemaker Forum Greenhouse Artist in 2019, as one of Dance Magazine’s 2018 “25 To Watch” picks, 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.

INTERESTS

Connie's Moving Toward Justice Fellowship project with Gibney is BODYHUES, a platform to promote self-caring and self-loving practices as a means of fighting body shaming culture.

CONTACT

@jiehungshiau 

IMAGES

Courtesy of Gibney; Back of card image by Amy J. Gardner