About Fu-Lann Tao

I am Tao. In ancient Chinese, it means the Way and the Path, which we all are.

I am also a Quantum Voyager who desires to travel with no footprints.

I ask myself: Is it conflicting for a quantum voyager to state the past?
Perhaps, not if I do not identify with it. Identities are always limitations and bondages to the past. Yet, past, to me, is not to be denied and rejected but to be reflected upon and let go.
My former selves are like slices of parellel realities.  Each has its own history.  I have evolved from all of them.  I know them.  I respect them.  They are what they should be.  No more, no less.  But I am on my evolutionary path to engage more realities yet to be known and to write the history yet to be written.
I am the Journey, the Way, the Path.

So, instead of identifying with ers' and ists'.  I state my short biography simply as this :

I have always been singing since I had memory.  But this ability was surpressed when I grew up.Interestingly,  I followed my inner passion to become a dancer.  I was an Anthropology and Philosophy major when I was a undergraduate student in the National Taiwan University.  I became a Dance major when I was in graduate study in the University of Kansas.In later years, when I was more mature in my dance,I began to integrate my singing to my dance-theater performances.  My art is based on dance but knows no category.

I have created many dance works and have been able to perform with my dance company, namely,  PATH OF TAO, throughout Taiwan.  I was invited to Hong Kong, Japan and Malaysia for International Dance Conferences and Art Festivals.  I performed in New York City in 1995.
These are some reviews of my dance works:

"....many moments of breathtaking beauty..." New York Times

"....dreamlike yet physical, they are like paintings you can immerse yourself for a long time.
It is very mysterious how this works...." Village Voice

".....she brings up a new horizon to the dance world of Taiwan...." Taiwan Ming-Sheng News

I have been a senior lecturer in the dance department of National Institute of Fine Arts, now, the National Taipei University, for over 10 years teaching choreography and improvisation.  I also worked with children, handicapped people and with special education and offered workshops to teachers in 

these fields.

I developed my own singing/chanting style and composed in solo as well as in group forms.

I have published two books on dance, namely, Book on Dance (1994,Taipei) and Concerning Body(1997,Taipei).

I wrote numerous articles and short stories that were published in newspapers and magazines in Taiwan.