Jin-Wen Yu

Visiting Performance Artist sponsored by the Office of the Provost

Jin-Wen Yu

Visiting Performance Artist sponsored by the Office of the Provost, Jin-Wen Yu is Dance Professor and Chair of the Dance Department at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also artistic director of Jin-Wen Yu Dance, a company that performs internationally. He is an active performer, choreographer and scholar. He recently received an Arts Institute Creative Arts Award in support of a 2-year “Poetics and Transformation” project. Yu’s residency is being sponsored through the Office of Provost Visiting Faculty Program.

Jin-Wen will be choreographing for Dancing in Our Time for the Department of Theatre's 2009-2010 Season