Here comes me
Xiaotan
chengyu
xiao means small in Chinese.
I'm reacting to that "do not capitalize your name" movement.
I'm young. I do have ego, from time to time, and say things without thinking too thoroughly.
I'm young. I allow myself to do so.
And I appreciate the time that I still feel not too ashamed to do so.
My new *real* personal website is now live, please feel free to check: tanchengyu.com
You are also welcome to stay here, with this *fake* version, if you just prefer (quirky stuff...
Welcome me,
to my kingdom!
xiaotan,
full name, chengyu tan,
she/her, queer by heart
chinese, according to her passport
is a researcher, educator, and practitioner
in theatre, community centres, and occasionally the classroom (she believes she will appear there more frequently if she managed to get a job as an academia, soon (wish her good luck
into queer, performance and nonesense sh*t.
obtained her gender-neutral title, Dr., from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2023 and now works as an independent researcher voluntarily until she achieves full time academia employment.
she spent 1/10 of her life, 2019-2022, (actually longer than that), in gay clubs in Shanghai, dancing, drinking, talking, flirting, floating, cracking, wasting, brokening, connecting, and the least importantly, writing, towards a permenant head damage, phd
Read more about her phd
drag queens in China, collage by xiaotan
she tests her ideas at academic conferences...
upcoming...
Exploring Possibilities of Applied Theatre as Teacher Education in China
Amateur Theatre: Assembling Safe Spaces for Queer Women in Shanghai, China
Beyond Impersonation:
Exploring Cross-Dressing in Chinese Theatre and Drag Performances
2024 Canadian Association for Theatre Research, Canada
2024 Performance Studies internatioonal, UK
2024 International Federation of Theatre Research, Philippines
Attempts and Conflicts: a reflection on arts-based grassroots education activities in Shanghai
2023 Theatre and Performance Research Association, UK
Queer Performance and Spaces in Shanghai
2019 International Federation of Theatre Research, China
Queer Monologues (Practice as Research)
2018 Collisions, UK
Feminists Theatre and Community in China
2017 Intersection, UK
she enjoys doing talks, plz keeping inviting her!
Guest Speaker for Graduate Class “Educational Innovation and Communication Studies” by Prof. Noriyuki Inoue, Waseda University, Japan
Tackling Barriers in a Challenging Time: Inequality, Activism and, Art and Cultural Dynamics, Seminar at Department of Performing Arts, Bangkok University, Thailand, and Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen
as a guest lecture,
she has been invited to talk about
theatre,
performance,
applied theatre
and sexuality in China
by...
...
2023, Bangkok university, Thailand
2023, waseda university, japan 早稲田大学
2023, East China Normal University, China 华东师范大学
2023, East China University of Political Science and Law, China 华东政法大学
2020, Royal CentralSchool of Speech and drama, university of london, UK
2017, tongji University, china 同济大学
HEr peer-reviewed publication is on the way!
she is working on...
“Rebellion + Conservatism: Performing Chinese Gender Perceptions through Drag”
Book chapter manuscript in progress, to be submitted in December 2023.
“What does ’sit in a circle’ mean for workshop participants in China”
Manuscript in progress, to be submitted in summer 2024.
Dopamine (2022)
A devised solo autobiographical performance devised by/for/with 4 queer women at their age of early 30s living in Shanghai.
directed by
Chengyu Tan
devised by
Chengyu Tan, Alex Mao, Xuejun Zhao, Xiaoran Li
90 Breaths (2016)
“If you have an app that can help your finances, why can’t you have an app that will talk to your mum?”
Through a game, two twenty-something daughters provoke each other to reveal truths about their relationships with their respective mothers through the recreation of actual dialogue between them and their mothers.
created and performed by
Chengyu Tan & Ewa Owsiak
supported by
Cultivate Programme, China Exchange, London, UK
fianlisted by
World Stage Design, 2017
she organizes gatherings on and off line
for fun!
and for her belief
that performance is
for everyone, everywhere, everyday, off stage , in life
for communication, contact and collasping (together
she loves designing posters for herself and her friends small business ideas
She is a honoured premium member of Canva.com where she designs all her marketing materials including this website.
She is looking for all types of collaboration:
Research, events, performance, activism, entrepreneur, friendship, love...
Surprise her!
click here for her cv...
Do you have any questions?
contact her to see more fragmented pieces of this soul.
don’t contact her for nothing interesting.
define interesting on your own.
chengyu tan
i’m my own agent
chengyuknewit@gmail.com
Dr.chengyu tan
in theatre & sexuality
chengyuknewit@gmail.com
chengyu tan
innovative educator
chengyuknewit@gmail.com