Sun Li Tsuei founded Shang Orientheatre in 1999. Sun Li Tsuei has practised Tai Chi Chuan since her childhood and is a graduate of the National Taiwan Academy of Arts. During the 1980s she lived in Paris and joined the schools of Jacques Lecoq and the mime Marcel Marceau. Shang Orientheatre presents a modern form alternative style influenced by the practise of martial arts and the ancient Ya Yue dance of the Imperial Court form.