About

VICTORIA CHIU - CHOREOGRAPHER

I acknowledge the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of the nation and the traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work. I pay my respects to elders past, present and emerging and recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded.

SHORT BIO

VICTORIA CHIU trained at the VCA, Melbourne, Australia. Chiu’s practice investigates physicalising concepts in relation to histories of self, peoples and place and she works at intersections of dance, screen and technology. Chiu’s work is culturally significant and will continue giving voice to diverse bodies as they contribute to today’s global movement landscape. Chiu has collaborated, performed and toured extensively with European, Australian, Singaporean, Chinese and New Zealand companies and artists including Cie Gilles Jobin, Micha Purucker, Cie Nomades, Jozsef Trefeli, Roland Cox, RDYSTDY, Rudi Van Der Merwe, Kristina Chan, Candy Bowers, Linda Sastradipradja, Fiona Malone, Amelia McQueen, Gabrielle Nankivell, Bernadette Walong, Australian Dance Theatre for Superstars of Dance, Liu Ya Nan, Arts Fission, Yinan Liu, Mindy Meng Wang, Nebahat Erpolat, Ma Haiping, Shian Law and Cate Consandine. Collectively her choreographic work including The Ballad of Herbie Cox, Floored, Do You Speak Chinese?, Fire Monkey, Grotto, Viral, What Happened In Shanghai, Genetrix and Soursweet have been presented in Europe, North America, China and Australia. Victoria and RDYSTDY won the Green Room Award 2021, Best Digital Dance for, Soursweet. From 2023, Chiu is Co-Chair of the Green Room Dance Panel and a PHD candidate at University of Melbourne VCA researching Decentring Colonialism through Place-Based Digital Dance.

LONG BIO

Victoria trained at the VCA, Melbourne, Bachelor of Dance. She has performed and toured extensively with European companies Cie Nomades, Cie Gilles Jobin, Micha Purucker, Jozsef Trefeli and Jane Turner. In Australia she has worked with Fiona Malone, Bernadette Walong and with Australian Dance Theatre for TV show Superstars of Dance filmed in LA. Her first full length work was a Sydney/Geneva collaboration with Cie József Trefeli called ‘StarStruck’. Victoria and Roland Cox successfully created and toured ‘The Ballad of Herbie Cox’. It toured with critical acclaim across Canada was invited to Los Angeles April 2013 and to Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival 2014. Victoria was Dancehouse Housemate XI in which the work ‘Floored’ was presented in August 2013. Victoria was in residence at Footscray Community Arts Centre 2013 -2016 while working on ‘Do You Speak Chinese?’, this work premiered with critical acclaim in March as part of the 2015 Malthouse season for Dance Massive, toured to Shanghai International Arts Festival RAW!Land October 2015 and Bendigo December 2015. Victoria has collaborated with Arts Fission, Singapore December 2016 with 'Fire Monkey' performed at Arts Centre Melbourne, with second season at Northcote Town Hall 2018 and she created 'Grotto' at the Immigration Museum for Asia TOPA February 2017. She appeared in film for Cate Consandine at CCP Melbourne, worked with Linda Sastradipradja on 'The Dancer as Auteur' and collaborated with Candy Bowers in 2017 on ‘Hyper Fragility’. Victoria dances in virtual reality film VR-I for Cie Gilles Jobin which won Grand Prix de l'Innovation et Prix du public pour at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma à Montréal 2017 and also screened at Sundance 2018 and Venice Biennale, in 2019 and 2020 she appeared in his digital works ‘Magic Window’, ‘Dance Trail’ and ‘Virtual Comedy’. Chiu’s international collaboration 'What Happened In Shanghai' was performed in Shanghai International Arts Festival RAW!Land 2017 and recently at Abbotsford Convent in Asia TOPA 2020 and she was commissioned by PPY Sydney Dance Company for short work ‘Viral’ 2018. In 2019 Victoria began collaboration with video artists RDYSTDY on ‘Genetrix’ and ‘WomanFishMan’ and more recently ‘Centre For New Geography’. Victoria has received the Lydia Hao Emerging Artist Award 2013, a Playking Foundation Asian Performing Arts Travel Grant 2015 and has been a Multicultural Arts Victoria Ambassador for Melbourne Festival 2013-2016. ‘Do You Speak Chinese?’ was nominated Most Outstanding Choreography and Victoria Chiu and Kristina Chan Most Outstanding Dancers Dance Australia Critics Survey 2015 and ‘Fire Monkey’ Most Outstanding Choreography 2018. Victoria and RDYSTDY won the Green Room Award 2021, Best Digital Dance for, Soursweet. From 2023, Chiu is Co-Chair of the Green Room Dance Panel and a PHD candidate at University of Melbourne VCA researching Place-Based Digital Dance and Decentring Colonialism.