Cheng-Ting Chen
Cheng-Ting Chen is a theater designer and performer. After 10 years of dance training, she studied theatrical design at the Taipei National University of the Arts and stage design and scenic space at the Technical University in Berlin. From 2007 to 2010, she worked as a theater designer in Taipei and was the technical director of the Guling Street Avant-garde Theater. At the same time, she cooperated with various artist groups in the fields of scenography, theater design and dance. Her stage designs were nominated for the World Stage Design (WSD) competition in 2009 and 2017.
Cheng-Ting has lived in Berlin since 2010 and has worked at the Uferstudios, Sophiensäle, Bauhaus Dessau, Ballhaus Ost, PACT Zollverein, Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and at the SPRING Festival at the Stadsschouwburg in Utrecht, among others. She has also toured Norway, Mexico, Taiwan and China with projects for the independent scene. She is a collaborative artist with the Polymer DMT platform for contemporary dance/performance projects. As a set designer at Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Cheng-Ting has worked on Abdruckkörper (2022) by Yatri Niehaus, Im Strom (2022) by Atilla Oener and Eventually Causing the Shake, (2023) by Lois Alexander among others.