Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month

SPOTLIGHTS

Saturday, May 4 • 5:30-7:30pm

Founder/Artistic Director, YY Dance Company
Recipient of the 2021 Harkness Promise Award, the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago 2015 International Commissioning Project, the 2015 BalletX Choreographic Fellowship, among others
Choreographic commissions include Gibney Company, Martha Graham Dance Company, Oregon Ballet Theater, BalletMet, Boston Ballet, and more
→ more about Yue Yin

Wednesday, May 8 • 8:00-10:00pm

“Sniper” in the Original Broadway Cast of the Disney musical “Newsies”
“So You Think You Can Dance” All-Star
Leading roles include Balanchine’s “Symphony In Three Movements,” “Agon,” “Western Symphony,” “The Nutcracker,” Twyla Tharp’s “Push Comes to Shove,” and more
→ more about Alex Wong

Friday, May 17 • 8:00-10:00pm

Dance captain as well as Swing in Broadway’s New York New York
Other credits include Christmas Spectacular (Radio City Music Hall), Candide (Carnegie Hall), The Perfect Game (Off-Broadway), Over Here! (Dance Captain/Associate Choreographer, Triad Theatre)
National Tour: The King and I (Eliza); Regional Theatre: Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, and more
→ more about Akina Kitazawa

The last 15 min of the class will be filmed
In-Studio:
Let’s Dance!
Virtual:
Let’s Dance!

Tuesday, May 21 & June 25 • 8:00-10:00pm

Choreographed the 76th Annual Tony Awards Opening number and tribute to John Kander
Choreographer of the Starz Network series Power Book III: Raising Kanaan
Favorite choreography credits include scenes in the Netflix film Tick, Tick … BOOM! (Lin Manuel Miranda); ENCORES Off-Center production of GONE MISSING; Somewhere, the new Duncan Sheik musical Noir, among others
→ more about Karla Puno Garcia

In-Studio:
Let’s Dance!
Virtual:
Let’s Dance!

Thursday, May 30 • 8:00-10:00pm

Artistic Director/Choreographer, chuthis
Created works for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Staatstheater Augsburg, Charlotte Ballet II, Orlando Ballet Theatre, Giordano Dance Chicago, among others
Premiered works for Giordano Dance Chicago & Gibney Dance Company, and choreographed for Cirque du Soleil’s Vitori
→ more about Peter Chu

Tuesday, June 4 • 8:00-10:00pm

Danced under world renowned choreographers Keone and Mari, Brian Friedman, Kyle Hanagami, and more.
Founded Shinsa the Collective
Received a residency from ArtX in New York City to extend Shinsa’s latest show called “LIMBO: The Echo”
→ more about Bo Park

Wednesday, June 5 • 8:00-10:00pm

Credits include: Cirque du Soleil’s Viva Elvis (original cast), The Power of Music Evening with Hans Zimmer, Freelusion, among others
Film: A Week Away, Valley Girl “Like Totally A Musical”, Fame, A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas, Dear Dumb Diary
Assistant to many choreographers such as Marguerite Derricks, Michael Rooney, Bonnie Story, Lane Napper, Dominique Kelley among others
→ more about Bobby Amamizu