MUNA TSENG is a dancer celebrated for her elegance and exquisiteness and a choreographer acclaimed for her seamless fusion of Asian sensibilities and Western abstract forms. She has choreographed and performed in theaters and festivals in America, Hong Kong, Singapore, England, Scotland, Bosnia, Israel, Greece, Japan, Estonia, Sweden and Switzerland, often in collaborations with leading international contemporary artists.

Muna Tseng was born and raised in Hong Kong, educated in Canada where she began her dance training with Magda and Gertrude Hanova, disciples of Mary Wigman. Invited to New York in 1978, she became the protege of Jean Erdman and Joseph Campbell at their Theater of the Open Eye, and Anna Kisselgoff took immediate notice: "an exquisite dancer, absolutely breathtaking." "A choreographer with something important to say." (The New York Times).

Muna Tseng Dance Projects Inc. was founded in New York in 1988 to present Muna Tseng's choreography. Acclaimed productions: SlutForArt a.k.a. Ambiguous Ambassador (received a 1999 New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award for creators Muna Tseng and Ping Chong, 92nd Street Y New York premiere in 1999, US tours 1999-2002); The Silver River (with Bright Sheng- composer, David Henry Hwang -libretto, Ong Keng Sen- direction, Lincoln Center Festival 2002, Spoleto Festival USA 2000, Philadelphia and Singapore tours), After Sorrow (with Ping Chong & Company, La MaMa ETC New York premiere in 1997, US and Asian tours 1997-98) The Idea of Eas (with composer Tan Dun, pianists Margaret Leng Tan, SouHon Cheung, and architect Billie Tsien, P.S. 122 premiere in New Yorkin 1996,); The Pink (with composer Tan Dun, Hong Kong and La MaMa ETC New York premieres in 1994, US and Estonian tours 1994-97); MTPNC (with composer/video-artist Phill Niblock, Danspace New York premiere in 1992, German tour); Water Trilogy (with director Emmanouil Koutsourelis, Joyce Theater New York premiere in 1990, European tours); Post-Revolutionary Girl (with composer Ana da Silva, painter Winston Roeth, New York premiere 1989, Asian and European tours).

Awards and fellowships Muna Tseng has received include a New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Award, two fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and numerous commissioning grants from New York State Council on the Arts. Honors include Best Choreography for The Silver River in Philadelphia's 2000 theater season, Distinguished Service in the Arts from New York City Council President Andrew Stein, and Artist of National Merit from The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. She is on faculty at New York University's Atlantic Theater Program and has taught at NYU's Playwrights Horizon Program 1996-97. She founded and directed the Summer Dance Residency program at Queens College (City University of New York) 1982-85, and was on the dance faculty at Douglas College at Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts 1980-82. She has served on numerous panels including New York State Council on the Arts, Maryland Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts.