Yang Sun is an award winning dancer, choreographer, and teacher, working in the intersection of movement, color, and poetry. Her strong bond with movements started with improvisation practices in the field, cafeteria, corridor, riverbank and other non-traditional spaces. Grew up in China and later found her path in the U.S., Yang holds a Summa Cum Laude Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College. She is also an alum for Trinity/LA MAMA Performing Arts Program in New York as well as NUOVAX Professional Dance program in Torino Italy.
As a dancer, she is the 3rd place winner for ImpulsTanz Freedom is a Dancer Dance Battle in 2023, Vienna. Yang has worked with choreographers including Shen Wei, Jonathan Frederick, Alleyne Dance, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Jenna Riegel, Elena Puchol Sola, Michael Getman, etc. She is currently performing with Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hardknocks as well as Petra Zanki. As a creator, she has presented choreographic works at Arts on Site, Kirby Theater, American Dance Festival Informal Concert, ACDA Northeast Regional Gala, La MaMa ETC etc. In 2024, her dance film Poet was selected by numerous international exhibitions & festivals in Portland, Quebec, Toronto, Venice, and London. As a teacher, she has taught Contemporary, Ballet, Improvisation, Hip Hop, etc. in both Nanchang, China and New York, U.S. since 2021.
Dance for Yang is a speech, and a visual poetry sung by the body. She values the sincerity in movement that captures all the liminal spaces words fail to express. She draws her inspiration from deep observation of the people, the environment, and the self. She believes in the art’s power to heal, reveal, and make a difference.
