PeiJu Chien-Pott


PeiJu Chien-Pott is a Taiwanese dancer. She was a principal dancer for the Martha Graham Dance Company.  
Born in 1984, she was raised in Taoyuan. Chien-Pott started dancing at the age of five, and began training aged 10. She later entered Taipei National University of the Arts' seven-year dance program developed by Lo Man-fei. Chien-Pott continued to study dance under Merce Cunningham, and later performed with Buglisi Dance Theatre and Korhan Basaran and Artists, and Nimbus Dance Works. She joined the Martha Graham Dance Company in 2011, after her second audition, and became a principal dancer in 2014 before leaving the troupe in 2016.
Chien-Pott is described as "the most dramatically daring and physically chameleon-esque" dancer who is able to "communicates the emotional message of the Graham works with such beautiful clarity." She founded PEIJU Performing Arts in Taiwan. In 2017, Chien-Pott was invited to perform at the Taipei Universiade. Later that year, she received the Bessie Award for best performance in Martha Graham's Ekstasis. Chien-Pott was starring in the Sia, Akram Khan, Zhang Jun, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger-helmed kung-fu musical "Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise" at The Shed.

Personal life

She has a daughter from her first marriage. She currently resides in New York City.

Awards and achievements