Ran Jiao

Ran Jiao is a Chinese interdisciplinary performance-maker, director, and performer based in Prague, Czech Republic. She creates performances like living experiments — testing the borders of theatre as a temporal collective experience. She investigates how performative formats, bodies, and materials activate and transform realities. Her work often moves through site-specific and participatory formats, resisting clear categories while provoking social, ecological, and political reflections.

A graduate of The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, she has collaborated with prominent festivals and institutions in the Czech Republic, including the Bazaar Festival of Dance and Performance, Tanec Praha, Prague Quadrennial, New Stage of the National Theatre Czech Republic, and The National Gallery Prague.