Currently in creation, SOMEWHERE is the second full length dance production within a trilogy or work conceived by YYDC artistic director Yue Yin. The work continues to showcase the endurance, nuance, dynamic quality of the YYDC dancers, and to explore the magnetic relationship of our existence that defines the purpose and meaning of our lives.
Choreographer
Yue Yin
Dancers
Sarah Allen, Sydney Chow, D’Angelo Castro, Joan Dwiartanto, Corinne Lohner, Kristalyn Gill, Alexsander Swader, Nat Wilson
Rehearsal Director
Grace Whitworth
Music
Michele Banabila
Lighting Design
Solomon Weisbard
Scenic Design
The Striped Canary
Costume Design
Mike Esperanza, Yue Yin
Production Manager
Tricia Toliver
Producers
Yue Yin, Joseph Tedeschi
Yue Yin
Artistic Director, YYDC
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About Yue Yin Dance Company
Based in NYC, YYDC is a contemporary dance company dedicated to the teaching, production and performance of original choreographic works by founder and artistic director, Yue Yin. Over the past decade, Yin has refined and expanded an original movement vocabulary – FOCO Technique™ – a fusion inspired by the Chinese folk and contemporary dance movement. The company has presented works at dance festivals such as SummerStage, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Inside Out and New York International Fringe Festival, and at venues such as Hanover International Choreographic competition, BAM Fisher, Joyce SoHo Theater, Peridance Theater, Lincoln Center Rosh Hall, New York Live Arts and many others. Yue Yin is an internationally recognized performer, choreographer and the founder and artistic director. She studied at the prestigious Shanghai Dance Academy and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she received her MFA in 2008.Yue Yin 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. Through these high-profile successes, Yin has received commissions from all three widely-recognized companies as well as other companies and organizations namely Gibney Company, Martha Graham Dance Company, Boston Ballet, Philadelphia Ballet, Limon Dance Company, Alberta Ballet, Balletto Teatro di Torino, Juilliard School for Dance and more.
The world premiere of SOMEWHERE will be on June 20 at New York Live Arts in NYC.
A special thank you to Chautauqua Institution for the generous support in providing creative space, and thank you to Joseph Tedeschi, the president of YYDC.
The development and production of SOMEWHERE is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional support is provided by the Chautauqua Institution, the Danse Mirage Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, and individual donors.
This piece was created with residency support from Chautauqua Institution.