C.TAI TAI

WORKS:

LIVE PERFORMANCE

2022
Spring 2022

A hard baby buries

The Kiln House, IL​

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Life quantized​

Midway Studios, IL

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Winter 2022

Cleaning+ 精靈 @ Church

Theaster Gates + 27 Contact Hours

St. Felicitas Church, IL

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2021

Fall 2021

Cleaning+ 精靈 (in fours)

Logan Center, IL

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Summer 2021

Adeline Yoga's Yoga Blessing Fund Fundraiser (online)

Berkeley, CA

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Spring 2021

SUPERCOLLIDER (online)

Inglewood, CA

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Winter 2021

The Exponential Festival (online)​

New York, NY

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2020

Fall 2020

Sept 2020 Survey (online)

Maiden LA, CA

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Winter 2020

Performance Anxiety

Chinatown Soup, NY

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Breaking Grounds Festival

Tempe Center for the Arts, AZ

 

The Exponential Festival

Para\\el Performance Space, NY 

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2019

Fall 2019

Yanira Castro hosts COMMUNE

New York Live Arts, NY

 

Summer 2019

The Sable Project Artist Residency

Stockbridge, VT

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Inundation, Ondulation, Modulation

Governor's Island, NY​

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NY Poetry Festival

Governor's Island, NY​

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Spring 2019

Multiversant

Chashama (East 64th Street), NY

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AUNTS curation

Para\\el Performance Space, NY 

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The Immigrant Artist Biennial Fundraiser

Radiator Gallery, NY

 

Winter 2019

Sophia Chizuco: Flakes of Dreams 

RESOBOX, LIC, NY

 

Monday Night series

Judson Church, NY

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2018

Fall 2018

The Howl Concert Series

Bay Ridge, NY 

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2017

Fall 2017

Wedding

Saratoga Springs, NY

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2013

Fall 2013

Live concert with Foreign Fields

Brooklyn Fireproof, NY

 

Mixtape (Lulu Fall + James Theory)

Radio Bushwick, NY

 

Spring 2013

The Next Stage Project's Choreography Showcase

Ballet Arts, NY

 

Student Choreographer Showcase

Peridance Capezio Center, NY

 

Dance Soiree by Sobers and Godley

Ailey Citigroup, NY

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Bare Soles

Kennedy Dancers, NJ

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ZINES

2020

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Fall 2020

The Asian American Arts Zine - October 2020

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Fall 2019

Yo-NEWYORK! No. 5 Pre-Order

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VIDEO

2021

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Spring 2021

Dissolving Borders

New York, NY

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Exponential Festival 

New York, NY

 

2020

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Spring 2020

EMERGENYC2020 Fellowship

New York, NY

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Corona Care +

Field Projects Gallery NY

TEACHING

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2017-present

Yoga and fitness instructor

- self employed

- Older Adults Technology Services from AARP

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2017-2020

LIVuNLTD

Skyview Grand Parc, NY

ALTA LIC, NY

Union Square East/1 Irving Sq, NY

Senior Planet Exploration Center, NY

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2019

Movement workshop instructor

The Sable Project

Stockbridge, VT

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2018

Rehearsal director

The Moving Company

Marjorie Barrack Museum, NY

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2013-2017

Rehearsal assistant

Tamar Ettun's The Moving Company

New York, NY

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AWARDS, RESIDENCIES and FELLOWSHPS 

 

2022

Spring 2022

Arts and Science Collaboration Grant

Arts, Science + Culture Initiative, IL
 

2021

Summer 2021

Lighthouse at The Beam Center on
Governor's Island, NY

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2020

Fall 2020

Artist Talk (Maiden LA, CA)

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Foundation for Contemporary Arts Artist Relief Fund 

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Summer 2020

California Arts Council Artist Relief Fund

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Dance/NYC Artist Relief Fund

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Scholarship to Adeline Yoga, California's Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training Program

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Spring 2020

Scholarship to Iyengar Yoga New York's Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training Program 

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EMERGENYC 2020 (NYU/Hemispheric Institute)

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Winter 2020

The Floor on Atlantic's Artist in Residence, NY (canceled)

Watermill Residency invitation by Tamar Ettun, NY

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2019

Summer 2019

The Sable Project Guest Artist, VT

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Spring 2019

Creative Capital's taller profesional para artistxs latinx

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Winter 2019

NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur at Saratoga Arts

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2018

Fall 2018

NYFA Immigrant Artist mentee 

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EDUCATION

2021-2024

University of Chicago​

Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts 

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2020-2022

Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training at Adeline Yoga, CA

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2019-2020

Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training NYC

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2019

Yoga 216 Functional Anatomy Training for Yoga Teachers

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2017-2018

The Yoga Room Certified 200 Hr Vinyasa Yoga Teacher

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2014-2016

New York University

Master of Science in Chinese to English Translation

Certificate in Spanish Medical Interpreting

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2011-2013

Peridance Capezio Center 2 Year Certificate Program

under Marlena Wolfe and Igal Perry

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2012

American Dance Festival

under Elizabeth Corbett , Ming-Lung Yang, Mark Dendy

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2007-2011

Washington University in St. Louis Bachelor of Arts in Dance

under Mary-Jean Cowell, Cecil Slaughter, and Christine Knoblauch-O’Neal

COLLABORATIONS

2022

Almost

Donna Costello

CPR, Brooklyn, NY

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2021

The Lighthouse Project

Mycelia Artist Collective

Governor's Island, NY

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Almost

Donna Costello

Greenspace, NY (canceled)

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2020

Almost

Donna Costello 

FEAST Performance online, NY​

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Facial Recognition Software video shoot 

Ariel Asch 

NY

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Here, Together!

Hanae Utamura 

Brooklyn Museum, NY​

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Alternative Currencies

Stefanos Tsivopoulos (directed by Rebecca Pristoop)

The Eighth Floor, NY

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2019

Alternative Currencies

Stefanos Tsivopoulos (directed by Rebecca Pristoop)

The Eighth Floor, NY

 

Whose Is A Place

The Moving Company

Rebecca Pristoop, Annabel Paran, Scynge Xing, Laura Berstein

Elmhurst Sculpture Garden, NY

Art Lot, NY

Pace University Gallery, NY

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The Dead Sea

Tamar Ettun

Pioneer Works, NY

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Flakes of Dream

Sophia Chuzico with Tina Wang

Resobox Gallery, LIC, NY

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2018

The Let Go

Nick Cave

Park Avenue Armory, NY

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Blue and Orange

Tamar Ettun

Times Square 10, NY

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Excerpts of Blue

Tamar Ettun

NADA Art Fair, NY

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Studies #7

Tingying Ma with Tina Wang

Panoply Performance Laboratory, NY

Exponential Festival/Chez Bushwick, NY

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Studies #6

Tingying Ma with Tina Wang

Chambers Fine Art Gallery, NY

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Studies #5

Tingying Ma with Tina Wang

Movement Research/Judson Church, NY

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Studies #4

Tingying Ma with Tina Wang

Current Sessions/Wild Project, NY

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Studies #3

Tingying Ma with Tina Wang

ITINERANT Festival, NY

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Part: PINK

Tamar Ettun

Katonah Art Museum, NY

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2017

Part: PINK

Tamar Ettun

The Battery Park, NY

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Part: PINK

I dream of the elections

Tamar Ettun

Saint Marks Church/Danspace, NY

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Part: YELLOW

Tamar Ettun

Bryant Park, NY

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2016

Last Days of Folly

Tamar Ettun

Madison Square Park, NY

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AIRspace Group Show

Tamar Ettun

Abrons Arts Center, NY

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