Background
Lo was born in Taipei, though she and her family moved to Yilan three months after her birth.
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Lo Luo
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Education
After she graduated from NTU with a degree in English literature, Lo spent a year in New York intending to further her studies in journalism and creative writing. Instead, she returned to Taiwan to join the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre in 1979, before leaving in 1982 for New York University, where she earned an Master of Fine Arts in dance. While in the United States, Lo appeared in multiple performances of The King and I with Yul Brynner and also studied at the Alvin Ailey School of American Dance, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, and the José Limón Dance School.
Career
She had three older sisters, one of which is the singer, Sophie Lo, and one older brother. Lo, who began taking priviate dance lessons at age 5, joined Taiwan"s Neo-Classic Dance Company in 1974 while a student at National Taiwan University. She graduated from New York University in 1985, and began teaching at Taipei National University of the Arts that year.
Lo was named dance department chair in 1992, and later led the graduate dance program at TNUA. She was responsible for launching the school"s seven-year accelerated dance program, which develops talent in high school and places candidates into TNUA upon high school graduation.
In 1994, she retired from performing with Cloud Gate and started the Taipei Crossover Dance Company with three other Cloud Gate dancers. Her first choreographic works Paradise Lost and The Beginning were also written.
This was followed by more work throughout the 1990s, including, The Place Where the Heart Is, City of the Sky, and Chronicle of a Floating City. Lo wrote Restless Souls in 1999.
In 2000, the year she wrote The Snake, Lo was honored by the National Culture and Arts Foundation, which named her the recipient of its National Award for the Arts.
As a performer, Lo was best known as the lead dancer for Lin"s Requiem. In contrast to Lin"s East meets West choreographic style, Lo was influenced by Chinese dances and experiences within her personal life. Lo was diagnosed with lung cancer in September 2001.
With treatment, the disease stayed manageable until October 2005.
Another round of chemotherapy was started at that time, and she was in remission until February 2006. Lo died at the Koo Foundation Sun Yat-sen Cancer Center in Taipei at age 50 in March 2006.
Taipei National University of the Arts has named a scholarship in her honor, as has Cloud Gate.
Achievements
Membership
Her final work, Pursuing the Dream, a collaboration between herself and Sophie, was performed by members of Cloud Gate 2 seven weeks after Lo"s death.
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Nationality
Taiwan