Insignificant Beauty

As an active choreographer and dancer, Ming-Shen Ku has settled her base in Taiwan since 1987. Ms. Ku’s works are influenced by many Western and Eastern dance styles, a merging development from her diverse backgrounds. After teaching for 25 years, Ming-Shen Ku retired as the Dean from Dance School of Taipei National University of the Arts. She has received Wu San Lien award, a life time achievement award in 2009, and National Award for Arts in 2020. Since 1992, Ms. Ku became deeply involved in Contact Improvisation and introduced it to Taiwan, later spread it around Asia. She founded her dance company “Ku & Dancers” in 1993 to present new works and promotes the concept of improvisation. Since 2011, Ku and Dancers established a biannual international improvisation festival “i-dance Taipei”. Over more than a decade, i-dance network become a known improve festival around Asia.