2026 Princess Grace Award
Nominated by: South Chicago Dance Theatre
Tsai Hsi Hung graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts 2011. In 2009, she traveled to Australia as an exchange student for the Dance at Queensland Technology University Dance Department. She has worked with the Australian Dance Theater, Tasdance, Expressions Dance Company, and Chunky Move Dance Company Dancers. Since then, her choreography has been commissioned and performed throughout the United States and Asia.
Hung’s work has been featured at companies such as Philadelphia’s BalletX, Ballet Hispanico NYC, Milwaukee Ballet, Arkansas Ballet and the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago. She has been in residence at Western Michigan University, Kennesaw University in Georgia and the National University of the Arts in Taiwan where she was a guest teacher from 2022-2024.
In the Fall of 2025, Hung travelled to Hong Kong and created a new work for the CCDC Dance Company. Hung was recently awarded the Jaffee and Hall Emerging Choreographer Award from Indiana’s Dance Kaleidoscope Company and created a new work for the company in 2025. Hung will also premiere a new piece with the Joffrey Concert Group in New York City as part of their Creative Movers Choreography Commission. Later this year, Hung will create new works for the South Chicago Dance Theatre and Ballet Vancouver, to be premiered in the 2026-2027 season.
All photos by Terry Lin