Yue Yin, Artistic Director and Choreographer, is an internationally recognized performer, choreographer and the founder and artistic director of YY Dance Company (YYDC). She began her training in China at the prestigious Shanghai Dance Academy and completed her artistic studies at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she received her MFA in 2008. In 2018, Yin founded YYDC, a non-profit dedicated to the teaching, production and performance of her original choreographic work. Yue’s work embodies her signature FoCo Technique™, a dynamic fusion of Chinese dance, folk and contemporary movement language into YYDC’s performances, choreographic commissions and educational endeavors.

Yue was the recipient of the 2021 Harkness Promise Award. This prestigious award recognizes her innovation in choreography and education. She was the winner of  Hubbard Street Dance Chicago 2015 International Commissioning Project, winner of the 2015 BalletX Choreographic Fellowship, and winner of Northwest Dance Project’s 5th Annual Pretty Creatives International Choreographic Competition in 2013. Yue’s work has been commissioned from acclaimed companies as well as other companies and organizations such as Gibney Company, Martha Graham Dance Company, Boston Ballet, Philadelphia Ballet, Limon Dance Company, Alberta Ballet,  Balletto Teatro di Torino, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, USC Kaufman  School of Dance, Tisch School of The Arts, Rutgers University, Point Park University, Western Michigan University, Juilliard School for Dance and more.