Graduate School Performance and Choreography:
*PDC: Performing Dance Company of modern dance department of University of Utah.
• Performance experience:
2012:
PDC: “Black White Red” --- Stephen Kaster (Chair of the Department); Grad Concert: “Without Transation” --- Elena Demyanenko; Nov. 29th, Nov. 30th and Dec. 1st .
2011:
PDC: “Chanson” --- Andrew Miller (Guest Artist);Graduate Concert: “La Vie” --- Shih-ya Peng (Graduate student); Grads Salon: “Freedom Incorporation” --- Tanja London ; Thesis Proposal of Kitty Sailer (Graduate Student); Grads Salon (Workshop II): Solo “Catch the Info” --- Li Zhan
2010:
PDC: “Song of Sentient Beings” Sharee Lane (Associate professor); Pau Hana (Workshop I): Solo “Layers and Weight” --- Li Zhan.
• Choreography:
2012 Fall:
Working on Thesis Creative Piece (Grad Concert).
2012 Spring:
“Another Side of Beauty” Thesis Proposal Piece.
2011 Fall:
“Déjà vu” (Workshop3), Performed in Student Concert, Dancer: Natalie Dansie, Jeffery Hiatt.
2011 Spring:
Quartette “The M-Bird” and Solo “Catch the Info” Workshop2, Performed in Grads Salon.
2010 Fall: Solo “Layers and Weight” created in Workshop I;
• Interdisplinary & Multimedia:
2012 Site-Specific Media Dance
2011 Dance Documentary “Shih-Ya Peng”.
2010 Installation Art Dance Showing; Screen Dance Film “Something in my mind”;
Languages
English & Mandarin
Skills
Choreography
Teaching
Video & Sound Editing
2010 - present
2010 - present
08/2010- 2013 University of Utah MFA UT, United States
Third Year Graduate Student in Modern Dance Department, graduate in 2013.
• Current Cumulative GPA:3.727
09/2006-06/2010 Nanjing Arts Institute Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
Bachelor degree, major in Dance Choreography
• GPA(overall):3.75/5.0 GPA(core course):4.03/5.0
Education
Teaching (Graduate School):
• Main Teaching: Non-major Dance Composition Class; Hip-hop Class
Assistant Teaching: Non-Majors Composition Class; Hip-Hop; Dance & Community Class.
• Taught dance classmates in non-profit organization, Odyssey House and Hartland. Front
house manager.
• Assisted the visiting scholar Xiaoying Wang, who came from Beijing Dance Academy, to teach and demonstrate Chinese Folk Dance and Traditional Dance in different classes and performed on Pau Hana.
Other Workshops & Internships:
• 2012: Attended 2012 ADF intense Summer School: 18 hours workshop with Monica Bill Barnes. Took classes with Mark Haim; Pamela Pietro; Jesse Zaritt; Work with Monica Bill Barnes. Took master class with Vertigo Dance Company (Isreal) and Shenwei Dance Company.
• A volunteer and student for 2012 ACDFA which was hold in Modern Dance Department, University of Utah; 2012 Audition for San Francisco Conservatory of Dance;
• 2011: Accept the training of Oral English training which provide by ITA program.
2011 Summer: Internship in Nanjing Art Institute to teach modern dance technique class. Taught Hip-hop class to young kids; Took master Hip-hop class.
2011 Spring: Attended 2011ACDFA in University of Idho;