Yue Yin
Yue Yin is a choreographer, founder and artistic director of YY Dance Company and the creator of FoCo Technique™. 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. Under her direction, the company has recently been presented by Women Move The World season at 92NY, the company also performed at New York Live Arts, Chelsea Factory, BAM Fisher. The company toured to international venues and was invited four times to perform at Schrittmacher Festival in Germany, Belgrade Dance Festival in Serbia. The company has visited Italy many times such as Oriente Occidente in Rovereto, Orsolina28 Creative residency in Moncalvo, Florence Dance Festival, theaters in Modena, Verona and Padova. In 2026, YYDC will engage the first domestic tour to Ohio with Mutual Dance and Dancecleveland.
Yin is the creator of her signature FoCo Technique™ which is a unique contemporary form of dance movement rooted in Chinese classical and folk dance melded with the complex and diverse influences of the immigrant experience. Overall the form grows from Yin’s own blended international background and a deep appreciation for precision, contrast, fluidity and musicality.
Yue Yin was the recipient of the 2025 NYSCA/NAFA Artist Fellow in Choreography. 2021 Harkness Promise Award to recognize her innovation in choreography and education. In 2015, she was the winner of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago International Commissioning Project, winner of the BalletX Choreographic Fellowship, and an emerging choreographer in Springboard Danse Montreal. She was 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 Company, 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.
Commissions
2025 - SF Dance Works
2024 - Houston Contemporary Dance Company, Princeton, Purchase College, Juilliard School of Dance
2023 - BalletMet, Oregon Ballet Theater
2022 – Gibney Company, NW Dance Project, OutInner Space/Modus Operandi Dance Program
2021 – Martha Graham Dance Company, Boston Ballet
2020 – Gibney Company, Marymount Manhattan College
2019 – Philadelphia Ballet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet (postponed), Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, NW Dance Project, Western Michigan University, Point Park University, Barnard College
2018 – Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Whim W’him, Alberta Ballet Summer Creation Project, Bruce Wood Dance Company, 10 Hairy Legs Dance, Boston Dance Theater, Ludwig Forum Museum, Rutgers University, Tisch School of The Arts, NYU, George Mason University
2017 – Limon Dance Company, Balletto Teatro di Torino, Bodytraffic Summer Intensive, Juilliard School of Dance Summer Intensive
2016 – New Dialect, NW Dance Project, Backhausdance
2015 – BalletX, Hubbard Street Dance 2, Springboard Danse Montreal
2013 – NW Dance Project
Performance, Touring, Residency
2025 - Chautauqua Institution, Orsolina28, Florence Dance Festival, Oriente Occidente, 92NY
2024 - SOMEWHERE world premiere at New York Live Arts
2024 - NOWHERE European premiere at Schrit_tmacher Festival,
2024 - Tour to Belgrade Dance Festival, Verona, Modena
2023 - NOWHERE world premiere at Chelsea Factory
2023 - Residency at Chautauqua Institution, NOWHERE at Chelsea Factory, Gibney Presents
2022 - Asia Society Museum, Jacob's Pillow Inside Out, Rassegna Music in Italy
2021 - Residency at Bridget Street Theater, Works & Process at Guggenheim Museum, 92NY Harkness MainStage Series at Kaufmann Concert Hall
2021 & 2020 – Perry Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp, Steamboat Springs, CO; Work in Progress residency + Showing
2020 – City Center Studio 5 APAP Showcase, New York, NY
2019 – Schrittmacher Festival, Aachen, Germany
2018 – Schrittmacher Festival, Aachen, Germany; Work in progress residency + Performance at Ludwig Forum Musume
2016 – Schrittmacher Festival, Aachen, Germany
2019 – BAM Fisher, Brooklyn, NY; YYDC Production
2019 – Battery Dance Festival, New York, NY
2019 – Dance West Festival, Salt Lake City, Utah
2017/2013 – Peridance Theater, New York, NY; YYDC Production
2016/2014/2012 – Jacob’s Pillow Inside Out Festival, Becket, MA
2017 – SummerStage, New York, NY
2019 – Mason Gross Rutgers Summer Festial, New Jersey, NJ
2017 – Open Door Dance Festival, Coralville, Iowa
2018 – DanceNOW [NYC] Festival, New York, NY
2014 – Dixon Place, New York, NY
2013 – Irondale Theater, Brooklyn, NY
2013 – Jiangxi Grand Theater, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China
Awards
2021 - Harkness Promise Award presented by Dance Magazine
2019 – Nominated – Petronio Choreographer Residency Award
2018 – Nominated – Whim W’him – Princess Grace Award
2017 – Nominated – Bodytraffic – Princess Grace Award
2015 – First Place in Choreography – Shanghai Professional Dance Competition, China
2015 – Winner – BalletX Choreographic Fellowship
2015 – Winner – Hubbard Street Dance International Commission Project
2013 – Winner – NW Dance Project 5th Annual Pretty Creatives International Choreographic Competition
2013 – Audience Choice Award – DanceNOW[NYC] Festival
2010 – Finalist – The A.W.A.R.D Show by Joyce Theater Foundation