Choreographer - Dancer
YIN-MEI

was born in China and started her professional career in traditional Chinese dance during the Cultural Revolution. Before going to America to study modern dance on a grant from the Asian Cultural Council, she was a member of a leading Chinese dance company. Yin Mei now choreographs and performs her contemporary work worldwide, having forged a dance style employing Chinese spatial principles as a means of creating dance within the rubric of Western dance-theater.
 
Yin Mei’s most recent work:
Nomad: The River premiered at Dance Theater Workshop in
New York City, March 2005
Prior work includes: Asunder a multi-media, cross-cultural dance
theatre work, premiered at Danspace Project in
New York City , May 2001 and toured to eleven
U.S. cities throughout 2002 to critical audience and acclaim.

Empty Tradition/City of Peonies, Premiered at the
Asia Society in New York City in August 1999
Yin Mei’s choreography has been presented at New York venues including:

Japan Society, DTW, Queens College Theater,
Mulberry Street Theater, La Mama ETC, Lincoln
Center Out-Of-Doors Festival, and PACE
Downtown Theater

 
Her work has been presented twice at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and at U.S. venues including Columbia College Dance Center–Chicago, University of California at Los Angeles and at Santa Cruz; the Kohler Arts Center–Wisconsin, the Universities of Massachusetts, Arizona, Alaska, Bard College, Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. and Arizona State University.