YU DANCE THEATRE

Yu Dance Theatre
Artistic Director: Cheng-Chieh Yu
Production Designer: Peter Melville



About Us

Yu Dance Theater, the home company of Los Angeles based choreographer Cheng-Chieh Yu (余承婕) stages Dance Theater works that illuminate diasporic issues intrinsic to contemporary culture. Yu's bold kinetics and provocative imagery are built from the acute corporeality of post modern dance techniques fused with the martial arts of Tai Chi Chuan and Ba Gua Zhang. Yu Dance Theater continually challenges the notions of an Asian and Asian American profile, crisscrossing issues such as gender ascription, social-political perspectives, and cultural boundaries.

Presentations of Yu in the USA have been hosted by many venues in New York City such as Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen, Danspace Project at St. Marks Church, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, P.S. 122, La MaMa, Etc., Pace University, Taipei Theater; Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center. Also on the east coast her work has been presented at The Yard/A Colony for Performing Artists, and at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Massachusetts. Yu Dance Theater's presentations have been seen in southern California in Los Angeles at The Japanese American Theater, Skirball Cultural Center, Highways Performance Space, UCLA’s Center for Intercultural Performance, The CalArts Redcat Theater, Grand Performances, Los Angeles Women’s Theater Festival, as well as the University of California at Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Yu Dance Theaters international presentations have been staged in China, Singapore, and Taiwan.

Yu has been presenting the choreographic project "The Swallow Touches The Water" in Los Angeles in 2006-07. This is an Irvine Foundation Funded that explores the potential of defusing of martial culture by the processes of artistic engagement.

Sen-Shire Dance Theatre of Taiwan has commissioned Yu for a new work in 2007. They will stage this interdisciplinary performance in Taiwan, and at international locations such as UCLA Glorya Kaufman Hall in 2007-08.




Contact information
Yu Dance Theater:
4738 W. 18th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90019
For more information, please contact Cheng-Chieh Yu at Whyoudance@aol.com
or call (323) 964-9848.