Dancer without boundaries---Original Journey of Dancing

Master Introduction
Yin Mei
DeTao Master of Dance


Yin Mei is a Professor and director of Dance at Queens College, New York City University. Yin Mei is also a category-defying director/choreographer/performance artist known for creating dance theater works that fearlessly bridge geographic, technological, artistic and cultural divides to conjure a unique brand of theatrical magic. Yin Mei was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship (2012 Hong Kong), a Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography in 2005, was a Choreography Fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2004 and was twice nominated for a Cal-Arts Alpert Award in Choreography. In teaching,she has twice been the recipient of a Queens College Presidential Research Award for her choreographic work and has four times received an Innovative Teaching Award from the College.

Yin Mei now choreographs and performs her contemporary works worldwide through her company, YIN MEI DANCE. Yin Mei’s choreography has been hailed by critics as“theatrical magic” (New York Times).

Yin Mei has offered master classes and seminars worldwide and has been a guest instructor and artist-in-residence at Brown University, the Shanghai Theater Academy, the University of Alaska, Arizona State University and the Beijing Dance Academy.


Speech Content

The lecture begins with a dancing performance. As Professor Yin Mei says, "using language to describe dancing and to share personal experiences is very difficult." Her dancing has become a silent communication with the audience, and it leads them genuinely into her created world. In the speech Yin Mei tells about her life stories from Hong Kong to New York, from a chief dancer to a college student in New York, and from a Chinese classical dancer to a modern dancer.


During her study in New York, Professor Yin Mei has studied ancient Greek tragedy, literature, psychology and other subjects, which had a profound impact on her later works. She believes that dancing is not just a feast to one’s eye, but she hopes the implied story can be ‘seen’ by the audience and students from the dancer’s body movements. Then they will ask themselves, "Who am I? Why do I dance? Where do I want to go? “Yin Mei herself has been pursuing answers to these questions in all her dancing performances and works.

these questions in all her dancing performances and works.


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