CHIEN Lin-Yi graduated from the School of Dance at Taipei National University of the Arts. He is the director and performer of 01 Dance Production.
He was a full-time dancer with Japanese dance company Noism between 2013 and 2016, and with Hung Dance between 2017 and 2019.
During that time, He participated in LAI Hung Chung’s works Birdy and Watcher, which won numerous international choreography awards.
His first solo work, Mr. Jo, was premiered in Taiwan’s New Choreographer Project (2016). The second piece, Mr. Papillon, was premiered at the Stray Birds Dance Platform in Taiwan (2021) and the Goyang International Dance Festival in Korea (2023), praised by CNB News for its “uncontainable longing for freedom.”
From 2021 to 2024, his works have been featured for four consecutive years at the Kaohsiung Spring Arts Festival. He has also worked as a project dance critic for Performing Arts Review in Taiwan.