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I-Chen Zuffellato was born in Taiwan in 1979 but grew up in Italy. In 2004 she graduated as a performer at the Amsterdam University of Arts, the TheaterSchool. Her earlier studies are based on ballet, modern and Chinese dance. She attended several workshops at Tanzwochen in Vienna, Laban Center and Royal Academy of Dancing in London. In the year 2000 she was invited by the choreographer Carolyn Carlson to attend the Accademia Isola Danza, promoted by La Biennale di Venezia, where she studied with important personalities of the dancefield such as Carolyn Carlson, Caterina Sagna, Jean Cebron, Ivan Wolfe, Malou Airaudo, Bill T. Jones, Frey Faust, Nigel Charnock, Larrio Ekson,Jennifer Muller, Janet Panetta and many others. In 2001 she was in Florence to deepen her knowledge of the Nikolais' method of composition, under the guidance of Simona Bucci and in the same year Carolyn Carlson offered her the special invitation of attending the Academy for another year.

During this time she collaborated as a dancer for Michele Abbondanza and Antonella Bertoni in the performance Argonautika and in the performance by Simona Bucci for the closing Galà of the Leone D'Oro Prize ( Biennale di Venezia). From 2002, after graduating, she mainly worked in Holland, collaborating as a performer with the Dutch company De Meekers of Arthur Rosenfeld; with Nienke Reehorst and Fabian Galama; in CONSTR/CTION by Sarah Manya, one of a three solo performance in domestic spaces presented in relevant festivals such as the Body Stroke Festival in Brugge (Belgium) and the Springdance in Utrecht (Holland); with Marie-Cécile de Bont and the company Piet Rogie & Co..

Meanwhile, she kept on studying attending, among others, the coaching project by Benoit Lachambre at Impulstanz , the Axis Syllabus workshop by Frey Faust and Improvisational Practice by Andrew Morrish.

In the summer 2006 she danced in the opera The Magic Flute of W.A. Mozart directed by maestro Riccardo Muti and choreographed by Min Tanaka for the Salzburg Festival 2006.

In 2006-'07 she has worked with director Michael Laub in Berlin and Rotterdam for the project Portraits Series that had its première at the Tanz Im August Festival in Berlin and with whom she will keep on collaborating as a performer for the next project Marching Series.

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