About
I’m a choreographer who brings stories to life through movement, shining a spotlight on often untold narratives from AAPI communities, with a deep focus on the Chinese diaspora in the U.S. My work spans dance film, site-specific installations, proscenium stages, and unconventional performance spaces, pushing boundaries and redefining where dance can live. I thrive on collaboration, partnering with composers, theater directors, projection designers, filmmakers, photographers, and other creatives to craft immersive, multidimensional experiences.
Biography
Choreography Presentations
Emerging Choreographer Series (ECS) 2025,
administered by Mare Nostrum Elements
@LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Apr 2025, NY
Red Fuzhou Noodle Soup project
(in collaboration with Qixin Zhang)
@Mitu Theatre, Nov 2024, NY
Portraits of the Moon
@Take Root at Green Space, Oct 2024, NY
@Washington Square Park, presented by Museum of Chinese in America, Sep 2024, NY
The Moon and Us
AAPI International Choreographer dance showcase, Gibney Dance Center, produced by Obremski Work, May 2024, NY
Here We Root
@AAPI Dance Festival at APAP 2024 at Ailey Citigroup Theatre, produced by Nai-Ni Chen Dance Co. & Asian American Arts Alliance, NY
@Battery Dance Festival 2023, NY
@Queens Botanical Garden, Oct 2022, NY
Us Around the Table (WIP), Queens Council on the Arts 2022, NY
Carry a Dream with You, Queens Botanical Garden 2021, NY
Flux/Convert, 7MPR, Arts on Site, Aug 2021, NY
Wo/我 (dance film), Queens World Film Festival 2022, San Fransicco Dance Film Festival 2022, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2022
Configuration of Us, Making Moves Dance Festival Sept 2019, NY
Entwine II, Ailey Citigroup Theater, KoDaFe 2019, Jun 2019, NY & Mark O’Donnell Theater, First Look 2019, Jul 2019, NY
Entwine I, Parque da Devesa, Jul 2018, Portugal
Beneath the Skin, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center 2017, NY
Twine and Fall, Schaeffer Theatre, Bates Dance Festival, Jul 2016, ME
Honors / Awards / Grants
Performance Award & Honorable Mention in Choreography for film Wo/我 (short dance film),
10,000 Dreams Film Festival 2025,
Gold Standard Arts Foundation
Arts Grants For Queens grant, Flushing Townhall 2024
Queens Arts Fund 2024, New York Foundation for the Arts 2024
Jadin Wong Fellowship, Artist of Exceptional Merit 2022, Asian American Arts Alliance
Outstanding Dance Film Award for film Wo/我 (short dance film) from the Queens World Film Festival ’22
Best Short Narrative Award ’22 for film Wo/我 (short dance film) at the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon
The Artist Commissioning Program Awardee, Queens Council on the Arts 2021
City Artist Corps 2021, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs & New York Foundation for the Arts
CUNY Dance Initiative Residency 2020-2022
New Work Grant, Queens Council on the Arts 2020 & 2022
New Work Commission, Making Moves Dance Festival 2019
Fellow, Emerging Choreographer Series 2017, Mare Nostrum Elements 2017
Past Performances as dancer
The Curious Cabinet, created by Meghan Healey & Aniko Szucs, Godwin Ternbach Museum at Queens College, NY, Jun 2025
Echoes of Arrival (directed by Dennis Yeuh Yeh Lee) at the Museum of Chinese in America, NY, May 2025
Catching Silouette: An Oral History Street Performance Project by Museum of Chinese in America (directed by Dennis Yeuh Yeh Lee and Nina Lam), Chinatown streets, May 2024
Breathing with Strangers by KINESIS PROJECT (Artistic Director: Melissa Riker)
Riverside Park, Aug 2019 & Sep 2020, NY
Arts on Site, Jan 2020, NY
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Oct 2019, NY
Chinese Folk Dance by Grant Zhuang (New York Chinese Cultural Center), The MET Museum, Feb 2020, NY
Tilted Glass by Issac Iskra, Little Theatre, Feb 2020, NY
Cabin Dance by Lauren Butler, Dixon Place, Sep 2019, NY
Silver Quantum by Yuku Hasegawa, The Sheen Center, May 2019, NY
Vision of You by Brendan Henders, 7MPR at Arts on Site, April 2019, NY
Searching for a Phase Change by Lane Gifford, Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Jun 2017, NY
While You Were Here/ Unraveling by Lucy Kerr, Center for Performance Research, Apr 2017, NY
Education
MA in Contemporary Dance, London Contemporary Dance School
BS in Dance and Graphic design, Macaulay Honors College at Queens College
Teaching
Guest dance teacher
@Queens College
Community dance workshops
@Flushing Townhall, Museum of Chinese in America, Glow Cultural Center