Mei Hong Lin

Mei Hong Lin (* 1959 in Luodong , Yilan County , Taiwan ) is a Taiwanese dancer and choreographer .

life and work

Mei Hong Lin completed a classical Chinese dance training. She danced in the Lanyang Dance Troupe in Taiwan. Then she went to Europe. Lin studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Danza in Rome, then at the Folkwang University in Essen with Pina Bausch . From 1991 to 1992 she headed the dance department of the Plauen-Zwickau Theater as ballet director , from 1997 to 2002 Mei Hong Lin was in the ballet directorate at Theater Dortmund . From 2004 to 2005 she was the dance director at the Staatstheater Darmstadt . Mei Hong Lin has been the artistic director of TANZLIN.Z at the Landestheater Linz since 2013 . The choreographer has been invited to international festivals, for example in 2010 with the piece Schwanengesang to the Taipei International Festival in Taiwan, in 2014 with Blind Date to Korea and in 2016 with Orfeo ed Euridice to the 14th International Opera Festival in Daegu (Korea), where the production was awarded the Grand Prix. In 2017 and 2018 she received the Austrian Music Theater Prize for her productions. Mei Hong Lin also directed and created choreographies for opera, operetta, musical and drama. She has created productions for the theaters in Augsburg, Bielefeld, Innsbruck, Kaiserslautern, Linz, Schwerin, Rostock, the Leipzig Opera and the Leipzig Theater , the Dresden State Operetta , the Toulon Opera, the Teatro Real Madrid, the Gothenburg Opera and the Erfurt DomStufen Festival .

Choreographies (selection)

• Hôtel du Nord , based on the novel by Eugène Dabit
• Ainadamar , music by Osvaldo Golijov
• Jesus Christ Superstar , music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
• The Juliet Letters - letters to Julia
• Lala on the couch , music by Serge Weber
• Blind Date , music by Astor Piazzolla, James Brown, the Rolling Stones
• The bride's make-up artist , based on motifs by the Taiwanese author Li Ang, music by Michael Erhard
• Orfeo ed Euridice , music by Christoph Willibald Gluck
• Swan song , freely based on motifs from Georges Rodenbach's novel Bruges-la-morte , music by Michael Erhard
• Romeo and Juliet , freely based on motifs by William Shakespeare, music by Serge Weber
• Carmina Burana , music by Carl Orff
• Swan Lake , music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Marie Antoinette , music by Walter Haupt
• The little mermaid and the Infanta’s birthday , music by Alexander von Zemlinsky and Franz Schreker, based on motifs by Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde
• Sacre du printemps | Metamorphoses , Metamorphoses by Richard Strauss and Le sacre du printemps by Igor Stravinsky
• Cinderella , by Sergei Prokofjew

Awards

• 2006 German Artist of the Year Award
• 2011 German Theater Prize Der Faust , nomination, for Die Brautschminkerin
• 2012 German Theater Prize Der Faust, nomination, for Romeo and Juliet
• 2016 Grand Prix, 14th Daegu International Opera Festival (Korea), for Orfeo ed Euridice
• 2017 Austrian Music Theater Award, Best Ballet Production, for Swan Lake
• 2018 Austrian Music Theater Award, Best Ballet Production, for The Little Mermaid

Web links

• Mei Hong Lin Landestheater Linz
• Mei Hon Ling , Leipzig Opera
• The bride's make-up woman , video clip on YouTube
• Mei Hong Lin , video clips on LT1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Report on dioezese-linz.at: Mei-Hong Lin takes over the ballet direction at the Landestheater Linz ; accessed on April 4, 2020
2. ↑ Report of March 28, 2018 on diepresse.com: Mei Hong Lin: About air and love ; accessed on April 4, 2020
3. ↑ Report of October 27, 2019 on tanzschrift.at: Mei Hong Lin: “Le Sacre”, Tanzlin.z ; accessed on April 4, 2020
4. ↑ Report of February 21, 2020 on volksblatt.at: Cinderella and the start dancer ; accessed on April 4, 2020
5. ↑ Report of March 1st, 2020 on derstandard.at: Mei Hong Lin's "Cinderella" at the Linz Music Theater ; accessed on April 4, 2020
6. ↑ Report from March 1, 2020 on sn.at: "Cinderella" at the Landestheater Linz: She dreams of dance ; accessed on April 4, 2020