I-Fang Lin

Born in Taiwan, I-Fang Lin is a dancer-choreographer, performer and practitioner of the Feldenkrais method.
Her career as a choreographer and performer began in the 90s, crossing paths with Mathilde Monnier, Christian Rizzo, François Verret, Emmanuelle Huynh, Jacques Patarozzi and Pierre Droulers, Wen-Chi Su, Dominique Figarella, Philippe Katerine, ERikm, Rinôçerôse, Louis Sclavis, Fabrice Ramalingom, Anne Collod, Didier Théron, Kosei Yamamoto, SINE QUA NON ART, Xavier Leroy, Jocelyn Cottencin, Boris Charmatz. .. She founded the Maiastra association to support her various choreographic, performance and educational projects.

With En Chinoiseries in 2016, I-Fang Lin explored star-attitude by inviting musician Frànçois Marry, leader of the band Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains. An associate artist of Scènes Croisées de la Lozère from 2018 to 2021, she conceived and produced Au Large, a choreographic project evoking the phenomenon of murmuration for Lozère’s dancer-amateur-ices. In 2019, as artist-in-residence at NTCH in Taiwan, she will create Skein Relations on the theme of emotional contagion.

Between performance and choreography, sculpture and image, she creates Ébloui with visual artist Jocelyn Cottencin.
I-Fang Lin is a practitioner of the Feldenkrais method. As a teacher, she gives workshops and masterclasses in France and abroad, combining somatic techniques with the performative issues and states of presence that underpin her choreographic work. She has performed at the Fondation Royaumont, ENSAD Montpellier, Université Paris V, Extension de Toulouse, CCN Master, PREAC, University of Taipei, National Taiwan University of Arts, NTCH Taipei, Weiwuying, ENSA Nantes, CND Paris, CND Lyon, Ensa Nantes, CCN Montpellier Master Exerce, etc.

I-Fang Lin continues to write choreography for CO.M.BAT and Ban Ping Shan. Since 2010, she has been invited to revisit the repertoires of collaborating artists, creating pieces for dancer-amateurs based on the works in the repertory under invitation.