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Elsewhere & Through the Fracture of Light
During her residency at Orsolina28 Art Foundation, Yue Yin will focus on developing a new creation: “Elsewhere”, the third chapter of a trilogy (following Nowhere and Somewhere) dedicated to exploring the meaning of our existence, the journey of identity, and our deep connection with the universe. This work-in-progress will be presented at Orsolina28, while its world premiere will take place in October at 92NY in New York.
The residency at Orsolina28 will also be an opportunity to revisit and reinterpret “Through The Fracture of Light”, first presented in 2016 at Schrittmacher Festival in Aachen, Germany. This ensemble work features original music that matches and enhances the earthy, elastic and fluid movement rooted in FoCo Technique. The dance flows through 35 min of unstopped energy representing the force and spirit we carry.
Yue Yin
Founder and artistic director of YY Dance Company (YYDC), Yue Yin is an internationally recognized artist and choreographer. Yin studied at the prestigious Shanghai Dance Academy and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she received her MFA in 2008.
Yue Yin is a recipient of the Harkness Promise Award 2021. This prestigious award recognizes her innovation in choreography and education. She was the winner of the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago 2015 International Commissioning Project, winner of the 2015 BalletX Choreographic Fellowship, and winner of the Northwest Dance Project's 5th Annual Pretty Creatives International Choreographic Competition in 2013.
YY Dance Company
In 2018, Yin founded YYDC, a New York-based nonprofit contemporary dance company dedicated to teaching, producing and performing of Yin's original choreographic works. Over the past decade, Yin has refined and expanded an original movement vocabulary called 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. YYDC's mission is to showcase this signature, diverse movement style in original, emotionally charged and culturally influential performances nationally and internationally.