陳柏潔 Po-Chieh CHEN
藝術總監 Artistic Director
出生於高雄，現定居台中。
現任雙人創作組合「藝術報國」藝術總監。從事創作、表演、教學與策展。
畢業於美國紐約州立大學柏切斯分校舞蹈學院，主修編舞 (BFA cum laude, Conservatory of Dance, State University of New York at Purchase)，2002年以最高榮譽紐約州立大學首長獎畢業，並獲頒Bert Terborgh舞蹈獎。
就學期間曾演出 José Limón、Mark Morris、Doug Verone、Ayako Kurakake、Pascal Rioult、沈偉等多位編舞家的代表作品；同年並代表 Purchase Dance Corps 參與德國杜塞道夫「Global Dance 2002」，與臺、美、港、澳四國大學共同演出林懷民作品《薪傳》。畢業後受邀加入紐約 Elisa Monte Dance 擔任專職舞者，展開職業舞者生涯。
2021年與設計師陳鈺分共同創立「藝術報國」（Ars Association）。
陳柏潔的創作以「身體」作為主要的藝術語彙，透過敏銳的感官覺知與深層的身體表達，形塑出獨具特色的舞蹈美學。她所實踐的「一體化創作」將舞蹈、影像、物件、空間場域以及多元媒介交織成有機的跨域結構，在不同形式與脈絡間流動。其藝術精神源自身體及其本質的持續探問，並延伸至對個人歷史、生命經驗與社會意識的思索。她的創作涵蓋舞蹈、肢體劇場與歌劇，並在傳統劇院、特定場域及環境表演空間中呈現。
陳柏潔的創作橫跨多元類型，包括受邀於「2022樹林跳—跳島舞蹈節」演出的《歡迎來到我的練舞場》；2022年擔任導演與編舞的戶外大型偶戲舞蹈作品《艾拉—第一次造訪》，由藝術報國、衛武營馬戲平台、雲林國際偶戲節與桃園鐵玫瑰藝術節共同推出。
2024年，發表作品《發現之地》，巡演臺中、高雄；與設計師陳鈺分共同創作並演出的速寫系列1《近他方，在見與不見的地理》於「2024艋舺國際舞蹈節」亮相。同年亦受雲門舞集邀請，於「2024春鬥—編創旅程」發表獨舞作品《在場》之階段呈現；並擔任臺中國家歌劇院「2024 NTT 遇見巨人」雷哈爾輕歌劇《微笑之國》之動作設計暨指導。
2025年陸續發表《舉起手指向星辰》（發展中作品）、《在場》、速寫系列1《近他方，在見與不見的地理》（劇場版），以及受邀參與「We TAIWAN 臺灣文化 in 大阪・關西世博」於中之島展區「萬變氣場」系列，編創暨演出《艾拉—相遇中之島》，展現其持續拓展跨域敘事與身體語彙的創作能量。
現為表演藝術網絡發展協會（PANDA）理事、臺灣舞蹈生態行動協會會員、亞洲製作人平台工作營（Asian Producers’ Platform Camp）成員，並於2023年獲選為湄公河文化中心（Mekong Cultural Hub）2024 Curated Conferences 計畫成員之一。
Po-Chieh CHEN
Artistic Director
Born in Kaohsiung and currently based in Taichung, Po-Chieh Chen is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans creation, performance, curation, and teaching. She is currently the Artistic Director of Ars Association
Chen graduated cum laude from the Conservatory of Dance at the State University of New York, Purchase College, majoring in Dance Composition. During her time in New York, she received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence and the Bert Terborgh Dance Award. She performed in works by renowned choreographers, including José Limón, Mark Morris, Doug Varone, Ayako Kurakake, Pascal Rioult, Thang Dao, and Shen Wei. In 2002, she represented the Purchase Dance Corps at the Global Dance 2002 Festival in Düsseldorf, performing Legacy by Lin Hwai-min. Following her graduation, she joined Elisa Monte Dance (New York) as company dancer.
In 2021, Chen co-founded Ars Association with designer Yu-Fen Chen, focusing on body-centric creative practices that explore personal history, social awareness, and the body’s essence.
Chen’s work centers on the body as her primary artistic vocabulary, cultivating a distinctive dance aesthetic shaped by acute sensory awareness and deeply rooted physical expression. Her practice of “integrated creation” interweaves dance, video, objects, spatial environments, and diverse media into an organic, cross‑disciplinary structure that moves fluidly across forms and contexts.
Rooted in a sustained inquiry into the body and its essence, Chen’s artistic spirit extends toward reflections on personal history, lived experience, and social consciousness. Her creations span dance, physical theatre, and opera, presented across traditional theatres, site‑specific locations, and environmental performance spaces.
Recent works include Welcome to My Dance Floor (2022), premiered at the We Island Dance Festival: Shulin Jump, and Ayla – The First Visit (2022), co-produced by Ars Association, Weiwuying Circus Platform, Yunlin International Puppet Theater Festival, and Taoyuan Iron Rose Festival. In 2024, she created Locus, touring in Taichung and Kaohsiung, and Sketch Series 1: The Near Elsewhere, in the Geography of Seeing and Not Seeing, co-created with Yu-Fen Chen and premiered at the 2024 Want to Dance Festival. She also presented work-in-progress Possibility of Presence at Cloud Gate Dance Theatre’s Spring Riot. Additionally, Chen was invited to serve as Movement Designer and Coach for Das Land des Lächelns (The Land of Smiles) at the National Taichung Theater (NTT) in 2024.
In 2025, her created works including The Other Among Us, Possibility of Presence, Sketch Series 1: The Near Elsewhere, in the Geography of Seeing and Not Seeing (Theater Version), and the Ayla-Strolling in Nakanoshima.
Chen is actively involved in the international performing arts community as a Board member of the Performing Arts Development Network Association (PANDA) and a member of the Asian Producers’ Platform (APP). She is also part of the Taiwan Dancing Forward Collective and was selected for Mekong Cultural Hub’s 2024 Curated Conferences Project.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| 2024 | Movement Design & Coaching for Das Land des Lächelns by Franz Lehár (presented as part of the 2024 NTT Fall for Great Souls), commissioned by the National Taichung Theater, directed by Wang Chia-Ming, and produced by Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group. |
| Curator, Miaoli Diam eˋ Fringe Festival (Organized by Miaoli County Government and Culture and Tourism Bureau, Miaoli County) | |
| 2022 | Curator, 2022 Art Creation Project (Organized by Ars Association) |
| 2021- | Co-founder, Ars Association |
| 2019-2022 | Associate Manager, Creative Engagement Division of Arts Education Department, National Taichung Theater |
| 2015-2019 | Programming Associate, Programs & General Planning Department, National Taichung Theater |
| 2015-2016 | Assistant to Executive and Artistic Director, National Taichung Theater |
| 2009-2014 | Project Manager, Performing Arts Alliance |
| 2007-2009 | Project Planner, The Eslite Corporation |
| 2004-2007 | Project Coordinator, Cloud Gate 2 (Cloud Gate Culture and Arts Foundation) |
| 2004 | Administrator, The Lan-Yang Dancers in Taipei |
| 2002-2004 | Dancer at the “ Elisa Monte Dance” (New York) |
| 2002 | Dancer at the “Thang Dao Dance Company” (New York) |
| 1998-2000 | Dancer at the “Purchase Dance Corp” (New York) |
TRAINING
| 1998-2002 | Purchase College, State University of New York Dance Conservatory B.F.A. in Dance with Composition Concentration Scholarship student 1998-2002 |
| 2001-2002 | Merce Cunningham Dance Studio, Scholarship student for the summer quarter |
| 1999 | Martha Graham Contemporary Dance School, Scholarship student for the summer program |
| 1996-1998 | Tsoying Senior High School Dance Division, Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
| 1994-1996 | Lin-Ya Junior High school Dance Division, Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
AWARDS & HONORS
| 2023-2024 | Selected as one of the members of the Mekong Cultural Hub 2024 Curated Conferences project |
| 2002 | Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellent (The State University of New York) |
| 2002 | Bert Terborgh Dance Award (Purchase College) |
MEDIA
| 2003 | KI International Furniture Design Company (Work with Lois Greenfield) |
CHOREOGRAPHY & PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE
| 2026 | Creating new work: Ayla-Weaving Dreams. The work was invited and will be presented in the 2026 Taichung Children’s Arts Festival in April 4-5. |
| Creating new work: Where Do We Go From Here. The work was invited and will be presented in 2026 Want to Dance Festival in April 17-19. | |
| Curate 2026 Melting Point Project (organized by Ars Association). Creating new work: Before It Begins. The work will be premeired in July 3-4 at the Black Box of the National Taichung Theater. | |
| 2025 | Created Possibility of Presence premiered at the Black Box of National Taichung Theater |
| Created Ayla-Strolling in Nakanoshima which was invited to be part of the WE TAIWAN prgram, organized by Ministry of Culture (Taiwan) and presented at the Osaka City Central Public Hall－East Plaza in Osaka, Japan. | |
| Created The Other Among Us premiered at the 2025 Want to Dance Festival. *Work-in-progress version | |
| Co-created and Performed Theater Version of Sketch Series 1- The Near Elsewhere, in the Geography of Seeing and Not Seeing at 2025 Want to Dance Festival. The work was invited to be part of the Exchange Program of the festival. | |
| Created The Nineteen Features which was commisioned by the dance division of National Chia-Yi Girls’ Senior High School. | |
| 2024 | Created Locus premiered at Black Box of National Taichung Theater in Taichung City and later toured to the Paint Shop of National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts. |
| Created and Performed Possibility of Presence (Work in Progress) at 2024 Spring Riot (Organized by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan) | |
| Co-created and Performed Sketch Series 1- The Near Elsewhere, in the Geography of Seeing and Not Seeing at 2024 Want to Dance Festival | |
| 2023 | Performed Soul of P (Daily Production Dance Company) at 2023 Next Open Show Festival |
| 2022 | Created and Performed Welcome to My Dance Floor The work premiered in the 2022 We Island Dance Festival: Shulin Jump at Shulin Arts Center |
| 2004 | Performed at The Joyce Theater, NY (Elisa Monte Dance) |
| Performed at Kaatsbaan Theater, NY (Elisa Monte Dance) | |
| Performed at The Egg Theater, Albany, NY (Elisa Monte Dance) | |
| 2003 | Performed in DANCERS RESPONDING TO AIDS, New York (Elisa Monte Dance) |
| Performed at Tsai Theater with Thang Dao Dance Company in Boston, MA | |
| Performed at Catskill Mountain Foundation, Catskill, New York, American Theater, Kaatsbaan, New York. Nazareth College Arts Center, Rochester, New York, Hampton Art Theater, Hampton, New York (Elisa Monte Dance) | |
| Performed at The Joyce Theater, New York Season with Elisa Monte Dance | |
| Performed at Benefit of Craft Museum of New York (Elisa Monte Dance) | |
| Performed at Lake Placid Center for the Arts (Three-week Residency; Elisa Monte Dance) | |
| Performed at APAP Showcase (Elisa Monte Dance) | |
| 2002 | Performed with Elisa Monte Dance at the Remember Project, Dancers Responding to AIDS at St. Mark’s Church, New York |
| Performed in the Ponec Theater in Prague, Czech Republic; Slovak National Opera Theater, Bratislava, Slovak and World Financial Center, New York with Elisa Monte Dance | |
| Performed excerpts from “Legacy” by Lin Hwai-Min (Founder of Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan) in Global Dance 2002, Dusseldorf, Germany. (Purchase Dance Corps) | |
| “Possession” choreographed by Doug Verone (artistic director of Doug Verone and Dancers), performed by Purchase Dance Corps | |
| 2001 | Excerpts from “Psalm” choreographed by Jose Limon, directed by Sarah Stackhouse, performed as Soloist in Purchase Dance Corps “Grand Duo” choreographed by Mark Morris, staged by Megan Williams performed as Soloist in Purchase Dance Corps |
| 2001 | “Les Enfants Terribles” choreographed by Ayako Kurakake, performed in American Dance Guild Festival |
| 2001 | “Behind Resonance” choreographed by Shen Wei (artistic director of Shen Wei Dance Art), performed by Purchase Dance Corps |
| 2000 | “Story” choreographed by Neil Greenberg, performed by Purchase Dance Corps |
| 1999 | Performed in “Nutcracker ” directed by Kazuko Hirabayashi, performed by Purchase Dance Corps |
| “Wien” choreographed by Pascal Rioult (artistic director of Pascal Rioult Dance Company), performed by Purchase Dance Corps | |
| 1998 | Performed as Arabian in “Nutcracker ” choreographed by Kevin Wynn, performed by Purchase Dance Corps |
| 1997 | Performed in the 12th Annual Asia Pacific International Dance Events and International Dance Conference Dance Collection 1997- Australia and Taiwan Dancing Together |