Profi training Mu-Yi Kuo cv_class description - PACT Zollverein

Mu-Yi Kuo

Mu-Yi Kuo
Dancer/Choreographer/Teacher
Mu-Yi Kuo is a freelance dancer, teacher and choreographer. She holds degrees in dance from the
Chinese Culture University in Taipei, Taiwan and the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany. She
has performed internationally with numerous artists and ensembles including Legend Lin Dance
Theater, Folkwang Tanz Studio, Henrietta Horn, Rodolpho Leoni, Michèle Anne de Mey, Thierry de
Mey, En-May An, Stephanie Thiersch, Anna Konjetzky, and the Wuppertal Tanz Theater of Pina
Bausch. She is a frequent guest teacher at PACT Zollverein and Tanzhaus NRW, and is co-director of
the dance company Kuozo.
Class concept
In order to come together we must first have a starting point and a common goal. As it is, we already
have much in common: our bodies have weight and share the same gravity. In my class, I will start by
exploring ways to bring our bodies into motion by working with weight and gravity as opposed to
working against it.
As our bodies change everyday, so do our thoughts. Change can both happen and be made to happen.
Change can be a powerfully motivating force for the discovery and exploration of previously unknown
possibilities that lie within each of us.
When we dance, our bodies, minds and emotions function as a triangle, forming a unified, organic
whole. In my class I will use music to create an atmosphere that will encourage change in the flow of
energy through this triangle, gently guiding your muscles and stimulating the impulses behind their
actions: the imagination. Static words, however, cannot inspire like the natural vibrations of sound, so
let's dance!