Yi-Wei Tien

Yi-Wei Tien is a performance-based artist from Taipei, currently living and working in Berlin. Trained in Classical Ballet, Contemporary Dance, and Chinese Classical Dance, she built her skills through years of stage experience. After relocating to Berlin, she began to approach the body as a medium beyond form, transforming her practice into collaborations with theatre directors, visual artists, filmmakers, electronic musicians, digital artists, and fashion designers. Her work spans contemporary dance, theater, video, performance art, live music, film, and immersive experiences.

Through this diverse practice, she reflects on the dancer’s role as a body-based medium–investigating how movement interacts with space, technology, and audience perception to blur the line between performative presence and daily life. Since 2021, she has collaborated with multimedia artist Ping-Hsiang Wang, presenting at Ringtheater Berlin and Berlin Performing Arts Festival. Her work has been shown at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Silent Green, Funkhaus, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, and at international festivals including Fall for Dance (NYC), Avignon Off, Festival Tokyo, and Luxembourg Art Week. She has collaborated with River Lin, Betty Apple, Pichet Klunchun, Mylène Benoit, Shu-Yi Chou.