ABOUT THE RESIDENCY
Half the Sky: Nothing That It Is is an evening-length dance and visual work rooted in the language of the body, responding to enduring mythologies surrounding women across generations. How does a woman inhabit her own body? How can she claim ownership of it in the shadow of history—if that is even possible? It then extends the inquiry: in what ways can art and movement heal or simply acknowledge all the ghosts that inhabit this body? It merges dance, projection, and installation art into a choreographic and visual act of reclamation: rescuing the “blank page” from blankness. It’s a laboratory for “becoming”, where there is room for the unexpected moment to strike through space and time, leading to the breakthrough of true creative power. Yin Mei explores how the “becoming” of sensation must happen in an unexpected moment, a moment of silence where the body’s unspoken histories surface.
CREATIVE TEAM
Yin Mei—Choreographer
Marie Lloyd Paspe—Dancer
Ching-I Chang—Dancer
Miho Ryu—Dancer
Christian Frederickson—Music
Zihan Xu—Projection
Yiwen Deng—Production Management
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Yin Mei is an interdisciplinary artist whose work integrates dance, visual art, and scholarly inquiry. As the Director of Dance and M.A. Performance and Media Studies at Queens College (CUNY), she crafts works that interrogate cultural identity and embodied experience. Her Yellow Woman Project exemplifies her innovative approach, employing techniques such as papier-mâché sculptural installations and image projection on paper to reimagine performance as immersive, interactive storytelling. Yin Mei’s artistry has garnered prestigious accolades, including awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright fellowship, and the MAP Fund.