Z Space

Yue Yin Choreographic and FoCo Technique Workshop

2:30pm - 4:30pm
Sat, July 12 (doors 2:15)
on Z Space’s Steindler Stage

SFDanceworks is pleased to present longtime Yue Yin Dance Company contributor and SFDW Season 8 dancer, Nat Wilson, who will lead a public workshop introducing participants and observers to YYDC’s trademark FoCo Technique and choreographic workshop of SFDW's Season 8 work, "A Measurable Existence." Nat will conclude the workshop with a Q and A and warm-up will be provided. Join us and get to know Yue Yin's work and immerse yourself in SFDW's Season 8 repetory! See our website for more on Yue Yin and Nat Wilson: https://www.sfdanceworks.org 

Yue Yin is a choreographer, founder and artistic director of YY Dance Company and the creator of FoCo Technique™, a unique contemporary form of dance movement rooted in Chinese classical and folk dance melded with the complexity and diverse influences of the immigrant experience. She began her training in Chinese classical and folk dance in Shanghai, China at the prestigious Shanghai Dance Academy and completed her MFA in dance at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2008. In 2018, Yin founded YYDC, a non-profit contemporary dance company dedicated to the teaching, production, and performance of her original choreographic work. 

 Yue Yin was the recipient of the 2021 Harkness Promise Award. This prestigious award recognizes her innovation in choreography and education. She was the winner of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago 2015 International Commissioning Project, winner of the 2015 BalletX Choreographic Fellowship, and winner of Northwest Dance Project’s 5th Annual Pretty Creatives International Choreographic Competition in 2013. Yin’s work has been commissioned from acclaimed organizations such as Gibney, Martha Graham Dance Company, Oregon Ballet Theater, NW Dance Project, BalletMet, Boston Ballet, Philadelphia Ballet, Limon Dance Company, Alberta Ballet, Balletto Teatro di Torino, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, Juilliard School for Dance, USC Kaufman School of Dance, Tisch School of The Arts, Princeton and more.