Mei Hong Lin 林美虹

Mei Hong Lin is a renowned choreographer and opera director. After studying at the National Dance Academy in Rome, Italy, she studied at the Folkwang Academy in Germany. She was the artistic director of four national theatres in Germany and Austria from 1991 to 2022. Her cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary studies have resulted in her diverse and rich creative style, with works spanning dance, opera, operetta, and musical theater. In 2009, Radio Germany named the Dance Theatre of the Darmstadt State Theater under her leadership as one of the top three dance theatres in Germany, along with the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and The Forsythe Company. Wiebke Huester, the chief dance critic of the Frankfurt General Newspaper, praised Lin for giving dance theatre a new lease of life and likening her work to Ang Lee's films, saying that both are full of fascinating insinuations and unforgettable impressions!