Wan-Lun Yu

 

 

Wan-Lun Yu (1990°) was born in Taichung, Taiwan. She is a performing artist, dancer, teacher and maker based in Brussels.

She graduated from Taipei National University of Arts. Ever since, she has collaborated with a wide range of choreographers, visual artists, and directors across Europe and Asia, including Gerard & Kelly, Shezad Dawood, Mylène Benoit, Hsiao-Mei Ho, Chien-Ming Chang (Rehearsal Director for Shechter II), Hiroaki Umeda, Nemo Flourt, Neels Castillon, Fanny Sage, among others.


Wan-Lun’s artistic research explores how emotion and consciousness intersect within the body, forming a unique library that continuously reflects on and questions culture, identity, and society.


Her first project with Belgian audiovisual artist Joeri Verbesselt: the short film Retreat, which was selected for CPH:DOX (Copenhagen, 2020), Ann Arbor Film Festival (2021), The New York Science Fiction Film Festival (2022), and The European Philip K. Dick Film Festival (2022). Their second major project, Tableau Vivant , was supported by both the Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation and the Flemish Government with work-in-progress showings at STUK Leuven (2018) and in Taipei (2020).

Together, they continued exploring embodied performance through two site-specific series: foam, slaver, froth, sperm (2019) and Find the Apple (2020).


In 2023, Wan-Lun collaborated with multidisciplinary artist Shezad Dawood for Night in the Garden of Love -Inspired by & featuring Yusef Lateef , a VR choreography and live performance in WIELS, Brussels. In the same year, Wan-Lun was invited by visual artist and film director Naïmé Perrette to choreograph and perform Liquid Border for the opening of the group exhibition LIPPIA at les îles mardi.


She joined Peeping Tom in 2020 for the Triptych: The Missing Door, The Lost Room, and The Hidden Floor and has since toured internationally with the company.


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