THEATRE
DIRECTOR
剧场_导演

PERFORMANCE
ARTIST
行为 _艺术

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PUPPETEER
傀儡_师

FESTIVAL
CURATOR
演出展 _策展人

PHOTO-
GRAPHER
拍摄_者

ACTRESS
表演_者

RESEARCHER
TRANSLATOR
学者_翻译

INCLUSIVE
CYBER
ARTIST
包容性_虚拟创作

Designer
剧场_设计

DO NOT TRY TO DEFINE ME
YOU WILL FAIL
JUST AS I DO

A.
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THIS
SOMNAMBULISTIC CREATURE
—-

On a snowy spring morning, Hè Tiāndīng was born in a post-industrial small city of China. If she had been walking continuously along the latitudes of the earth since birth, perhaps at this point she would have reached New York in another way, where she is based now. With her mother's expectation, she started piano lessons at the age of three. According to her mother, after seven years she resented it and made a solemn decision to quit. In retrospect, this was the beginning of her falling into the artistic precipice.

When she was a teenager, a teacher called Fish Star once predicted that if she could conceal the filth of the world, she would become a politician; if she could not tolerate the impurity, she would become an artist.
She always found the prophecy inexplicable, until she realized that it had come true. It was too late.

She has become
an artist.

But who knows what that means.

B.
MUMBLING ON HER BIO
—-

Tianding He is a theatre director, performer, puppeteer, producer, photographer and festival curator based in New York and Los Angeles. She is the founder and artistic director of B·O·N·D International Virtual Live Performance Festival, an online festival advocating accessible and inclusive digital performance innovations; an arts leader of NYFA’s Incubator for Arts & Culture Leaders of Color in the Tri-State Area 2022; a resident artist in Object Movement Festival at The Center at the West Park.

She focuses on creating inclusive, intercultural and experimental theatre and performances with global artists while authoring scholarly research and writings on somatic, accessible and virtual theatre.

She received her first
MA in Performance Studies from NYU, a second master in Theatre of Hunter College, and PhD in Drama from UC Irvine and UC San Diego. She was instructed by Richard Schechner and highly inspired by 60s’ Yoko Ono.

Her works have been invited and presented in numerous international festivals. Her recent directing credits: Two Takes: The Peony Pavilion (Frederick Loewe Theatre), experimental puppetry: The Discarded (HERE Arts Center & Rattlestick Theatre),

How I Disappeared (New Ohio Ice Factory Festival, Dumbo Six Foot Platform, HERE Arts Center, Object Movement Festival & Williamsburg Arts Nexus), stage reading: A Deal (CHUANG Stage & Pao Arts Center), game theatre: Hey! Cherry Orchard (Wuzhen International Theatre Festival), inclusive performance: Imaginarium in Chinese Sign Language (B·O·N·D International Festival), virtual theatre: South Node of the Moon (Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance), immersive theatre: The White Night (Margo Feiden Gallery), Versailles 2.0 (Shanghai Theatre Academy); puppetry: Warning! Apocalypse! (International Virtual Toy Theatre Festival), Me, You, He & She (Dixon Place); physical theatre: Plastic Mirror (Soho Gallery), Invisible Days (UNFIX Festival).

She also produced Off-Broadway shows: The Romantic Misadventures of Ah Q (Theatre Row), A Language of Their Own (IATI Theatre) and line-produced Be HERE Now Reopening Party (HERE Arts Center). Her selected photography projects include Mothership and Fam-alien, both exploring the embodiment of alienated female experience in the metropolis of New York.

Upcoming:

- May 29, 2024:
Discarded Clouds: Collaborative Multimedia Theatrical Storytelling with AI (workshop)
@ CAPAS, Göttingen, Germany

Moon Is My Antidote

HÈ TIĀNDĪNG