Sarah Hin Ching U 余衍晴 (she/her) is a Chinese-Canadian dance artist and choreographer, whose training spans a wide range of styles, including contemporary, breaking, hip-hop, and ballet. I gravitate toward narratives of human desire, identity, and relationships, often drawing deeply from personal experience.

 

My work has been presented by Dancing on the Edge (Vancouver), National Arts Centre, Capsule: Video series (Ottawa), The Dance Centre (Vancouver), NewWorks (Vancouver), REvolver(Vancouver), DanceWorks (Toronto), Toes For Dance (Toronto), Skampede (Victoria), Free Flow Dance Theatre (Saskatoon), Good Women Dance(Edmonton) among others.  I been awarded residencies at Circuit est (Montreal), Dance Arts Institute (Toronto), Impulse Theatre (Victoria), City of Port Coquitlam, ArtStarts (Vancouver), and Plastic Orchid Factory. Other notable performing/creation credits include 10GatesDancing (BBoy Crazy smooth/ Saffron Saxon), Danse Carpe Diem/Emmanuel Jouthe (Montreal) ,Jackie Latendresse (Saskatoon). I graduated from Simon Fraser University in 2021 with a BFA in dance and kinesiology, and have ongoing training, performance and battle experience in Hip Hop, Breaking and Popping with Higher Ground Dance Company (Natasha Gorrie).

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Photo by Chole Lam