Chung-Fu Chang (Choreographer) Along with his work as a choreographer, Chang is an associate professor in the Dance Division of Colorado State University and director of the CSU Tour Dance Company. He has received an Outstanding Faculty Award from CSU Mortar Board in 2008, and The 2009 Best Teacher Award from The CSU Alumni Association. At CSU, he teaches all levels of modern, improvisation and choreography, and acts as an advisor for senior production. Born in Taiwan, he danced professionally with the country’s internationally renowned Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and Kaohsiung Contemporary Dance Company. In the United States he has been a guest artist with numerous companies and featured in an array of contemporary choreographers’ work. In 2002, Chang began to pursue a solo career. His solo works and performances have been showcased at various dance festivals and major performance venues nationally and internationally. He received a Solo Finalist Placement Award at the 2004 Palm Desert Dance UnderThe Stars Choreography Festival at McCallum Theatre in California. In 2007, he was invited as a special guest artist for the Grand Prix de Argentina in Buenos Aries, Argentina. His choreography has been presented throughout the U.S. and in Argentina, Cyprus, England, Greece, Mexico and Taiwan. A full evening of his work was presented as the closing program of the X and IX Festival Internacional de Danza Contemporanea Avant Garde 2009 and 2008 in Merida, Mexico. Among the companies that have commissioned works from Chang are Aspen Dance Connection (2006, '07 and '08), Ballet Nouveau Colorado (2004, '05 and '07), Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts (CO), Ohio Ballet, Ormao Dance Company (CO), Rainbow Chorus (CO), MOMENTA Dance Company (IL), the Dancing Wheels Company’s Icarus Project at the Allen Theatre in Cleveland (Playhouse Square), Mulberry Street Theater’s Ear to the Ground Series (New York City), Middle Tennessee State University, Adelphi University (2004 and '06), the Virginia Intermont College Dance Company; and in Taiwan: the 2003 Taiwan International Human Rights Film Festival, the 2005 and 2000 Asian-Pacific Young Choreographers' Project, the Counterpoint Chamber Music company’s evening show – Peter Pan, Queen Children Ballet, the Solar Site Dance Company (2008, '09 and '10), Chung-Hwa School of the Arts (2003, '05, '06, '07, '08, '09 and '10), National Tainan Chia-Chi Girls’ Senior High School Dance Program (2004, '05, '07, '09, and '10), National Chia-Yi Girls’ Senior High School Dance Program (2009 and '10) and many others. Chang has held creative residencies at The Yard in 1999, and at the American Dance Festival in 2006 (International Choreographers’ Residency). In 1999, he received choreographic grants from the Jerome Foundation and CSU Academic Enrichment Program Award. His work, The Last Autumnal Tints, was nominated for Dance Magazine’s “Outstanding Student Choreography” and performed at ACDFA’s National Gala at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, in 1998. Orange County Register dance critic Laura Bleiberg named Chang in “Faces to Watch ’98: A Look at People in the Arts”. Chang has served as adjudicator, juror and panelist for the Illinois Arts Council, the Thornton Arts, Sciences, and Humanities Council in Colorado, and the Bureau of Cultural Affairs Kaohsiung City Government in Taiwan. He was a Chancellor's Fellowship recipient from the University of California, Irvine, where he completed his M.F.A. in Dance in 1998, and was named Distinguish Alumni. Previously he received a full, four-year scholarship at The Boston Conservatory, the Walter Terry Memorial Full Scholarship at Harvard University in 1993, and a full scholarship at Jacob’s Pillow Choreography Workshop in 1994. Prior teaching appointments include University of Florida and Kent State University. He also has taught as a guest artist at major dance companies, institutions and festivals throughout the U.S. and in Canada, Mexico and Taiwan.
