Muna Tseng

Muna Tseng (* in Hong Kong ) is an American dancer, dance teacher and choreographer of Chinese origin.

Photographer Tseng Kwong Chi's sister grew up in Hong Kong. She received her dance training in Vancouver from Heather McKellam and from Magda and Gertrude Hanova , two students of Mary Wigman . At the invitation of Jean Erdman and Joseph Campbell , she came to their Theater of the Open Eye in 1978 . Here she took on some of Erdman's roles from the 1940s and danced to live music by John Cage , Lou Harrison and Teiji Ito .

In 1984 she founded the Muna Tseng Dance Projects with which she created more than 40 productions, which have been performed in the USA, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Korea, England, Scotland, Bosnia, Israel, Greece, Estonia, Sweden and Switzerland were. She has received two grants each from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts and several commissions from the New York State Council on the Arts . She was also awarded the Bessie Award and the Smithsonian Institution as Artist of National Merit . The Silver River was voted Best Choreography in the 2000 theater season.

As a dance teacher, Tseng participated in the Atlantic Theater Program and Playwrights Horizon Program at New York University . At Queens College of the City University of New York she founded and directed the Summer Dance Residency Program , also she taught at the Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers University .

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SURNAME	Tseng, Muna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American dancer, dance teacher and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hong Kong