Lin Mei-hong
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Lin Mei-hong | |||||||||||||||||||
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林美虹 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1959 (age 66–67) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Education | National Dance Academy | ||||||||||||||||||
| Occupations | Dancer, choreographer | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Bernhard Helmich | ||||||||||||||||||
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Lin Mei-hong (born 1959) is a Taiwanese choreographer. Lin began dancing with the Lanyang Dance Troupe in Taiwan, then moved to Italy and Germany for further training. She has spent the majority of her career in Europe, with the Ballet in Plauen, Theater Dortmund, and Staatstheater Darmstadt. Between 2013 and 2022, Lin was artistic director for the ballet of the Austrian Landestheater Linz.
Lin has produced adaptations of The House of Bernarda Alba, Macbeth, and Carmina Burana, among others. She has also choreographed Die Brautschminkerin, which was nominated for a Der Faust award in 2011.
Lin was born in Luodong, Yilan County, Taiwan,[1] in 1959.[2][3] As children, the four Lin sisters took ballet and piano classes.[3] Lin Mei-hong then participated in the first classes held by Gian Carlo Michelini's Lanyang Dance Troupe,[4] founded in 1966,[5] and joined the troupe itself around the age of 10.[4][6] Aged 16, she pursued further study at the National Dance Academy,[6] where she was trained in ballet.[7] Near the end of her time in Italy, Lin attended a performance by the Tanztheater Wuppertal, led by Pina Bausch.[3][6] Lin subsequently enrolled at the Folkwang Hochschule, where she graduated in 1989.[3][6] That year, Lin returned to the Lanyang Dance Troupe as choreographer.[4] Lin began as director in 1991 of the Ballet in Plauen.[3] Between 1997 and 2002, Lin served as artistic director of the ballet at Theater Dortmund.[3] She joined Staatstheater Darmstadt as artistic director in 2004.[3][8][9] While affiliated with Staatstheater Darmstadt, Lin was also director of Lanyang Dance Troupe.[9] In 2006, Lin received the German Artist of the Year Award.[10] In 2013, Lin began work as artistic director of TANZLIN.Z, of the Landestheater Linz in Austria.[11][12] While at the Landestheater Linz, she has worked with Taiwan-based artists, such as the Romanian choreographer Constantin Georgescu.[13] Lin was placed on paid leave from the Landestheater Linz in September 2021[14] and eventually terminated in February 2022.[15] She was replaced by Roma Janus.[16]
