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JuanAnn TAI (Ann Hayward) is a Professor and the chairperson of the Department of Dance at Tainan University of Technology in Taiwan. She holds a PhD in Dance Studies from the University of Surrey, an MA in Dance Education from NYU, and a BA in Dance from Hunter College, CUNY. She is currently the national representative of daCi Taiwan. The major areas of her research and teaching include Dance Pedagogy, Dance History, Dance Composition, Creative Dance for All and Cross-cultural Dance Studies. 

Ann has been active in international cultural exchange projects since 1996. From 1996 to 2015, she acted as the coordinator and English interpreter of several Taiwanese folk dance groups for participating in international folklore festivals in Europe and America in the following cities: Matelica, Lazzaro, Macerata, Coredo, Fondi, Minturno, Pescara, Assemini island of Sardegna, Alatri & Vatican (Italy), Poreč, Karlovac (Croatia); Aarhus (Denmark); Sárvár (Hungary); Waynesville, NC; Springville, UT; Rockland, NY (USA); Ourense, Pamplona (Spain); Sidmouth, Billingham (England); Fribourg (Switzerland); Le Puy-en-Velay, Montignac, Felletin (France); Santa Maria da Feira (Portugal). Additionally, she was invited to be the deputy director of the 2016 International Youth Ambassador Exchange Program to Asia-Pacific regions: Palau, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia and Tuvalu, sponsored by Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 2011, she has organized several cultural dance exchange projects between universities in Taiwan, Korea and the USA.

She is the author of the books A reflexive study of dance in vocational higher education (Kaohsiung: Liwen, 2015) and Pride, prejudice and politics in dance: The rise of dance as a symbolic power in Taiwan (Saarbrücken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010). She is also a contributing author of two edited collections: Dance education around the world: Perspectives on dance, young people and change (London, UK: Routledge, 2015) and Identity and diversity: Celebrating dance in Taiwan (New Delhi: Routledge, 2012). Her research papers are published in peer-reviewed academic journals include Research in Dance Education (A&HCI), Korean Journal of Dance, International Journal of the Humanities, and Research in Arts Education (TSSCI). She is one of the critics for the on-line Performing Arts Review founded by the National Culture and Arts Foundation. She has been invited to give talks at various institutions both nationally and internationally.

Since 2016, Ann has been a judge at the Seoul International Dance Competition. She is a board member of the Taiwan Dance Research Society (2013-) and one of the international editorial board members for the Korean Journal of Dance Studies (2014-). She is also a certified Global Career Development Facilitator (2012-).