Artistic Director:

Yang Sun is an award winning dancer, choreographer, and director, working in the intersection of movement, color, and poetry. Her strong bond with movements started with improvisation practices in the field, cafeteria, corridor, riverbank and other non-traditional spaces. Grew up in China and later found her path in the U.S., Yang holds a Summa Cum Laude Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College. She is also an alum for Trinity/LA MAMA Performing Arts Program in New York as well as NUOVAX Professional Dance program in Torino Italy.

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As a dancer, she is the 3rd place winner for ImpulsTanz Freedom is a Dancer Dance Battle in 2023, Vienna. Yang has worked with choreographers including Shen Wei, Jonathan Frederick, Alleyne Dance, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Jenna Riegel, Elena Puchol Sola, Michael Getman, etc. She is currently performing with Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hardknocks.

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As a creator, she has curated a series of public interactive installations Project 2020 in the town of Amherst spring 2021. From 2021-present, she presented choreographic works at Arts on Site, Kirby Theater, American Dance Festival Informal Concert, ACDA Northeast Regional Gala, La MaMa ETC etc. Her most recent solo work Poet was selected as one of the 16 finalists to be considered for New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Residency 2024. In 2024, her dance film Poet was selected by numerous international exhibition & festivals:

Cinédanse Sept-Îles, Prix Lumière nomination, 2024

FASS FORWARD Dance Film Festival Official Selection, 2024

Experimental, Dance & Music Film Festival, Winner of Best Story, 2024

Portland Dance Film Festival Official Selection, 2024

London Contemporary Exhibition, ItsLiquid Group, 2024

Venice Anima Mundi Exhibition, ItsLiquid Group, 2024

Dance for Yang is a speech, and a visual poetry sung by the body. She values the sincerity in movement that captures all the liminal spaces words fail to express. She draws her inspiration from deep observation of the people, the environment, and the self. She believes in the art’s power to heal, reveal, and make a difference.

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She says:

“ I am a drifting soul searching for sanctuary in movement, color, and poetry, and dance has indeed provided me a home.”