COMMISSIONS & COLLABORATIONS
Yao is available for selected commissions, institutional invitations, teaching, movement direction, public programs, editorial projects, and interdisciplinary cultural collaborations.
She works with artists, institutions, festivals, schools, and cultural organizations on projects that need both artistic force and structural clarity: a performance that requires movement language, a public program that needs atmosphere and intellectual framing, an artist practice that needs sharper language, or an institution seeking a project that can hold cultural context, embodied research, and public encounter.
Selected areas of collaboration include performance and choreographic commissions, movement direction, guest teaching, research-based workshops, lectures, artist talks, public cultural programs, editorial framing, artist statements, project descriptions, portfolio direction, and artist-facing website architecture.
Yao works best with projects involving serious artistic practice, cultural memory, embodied research, public engagement, or the translation of complex work into a form that can be seen, read, supported, and remembered.
For inquiries, please include a brief description of the project, proposed timeline, location or format, and the kind of collaboration you are seeking.
PERFORMANCE & CHOREOGRAPHIC COMMISSIONS
Original performance works, site-responsive pieces, opening performances, and movement-based commissions for festivals, galleries, public programs, cultural institutions, and special events.
MOVEMENT DIRECTION
Movement direction for performance, film, interdisciplinary projects, fashion-adjacent presentations, and image-based productions that require a precise bodily language rather than decorative movement.
TEACHING, WORKSHOPS & LECTURES
Guest teaching, workshops, artist talks, and lectures in choreography, contemporary dance, performance studies, ritual and movement, artist research methods, and culturally situated practice.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS & CULTURAL EVENTS
Concept development, program structure, performance-based gatherings, salons, artist conversations, and public cultural events that require both intellectual framing and atmospheric control.
EDITORIAL & ARTIST FRAMING
Artist statements, project descriptions, grant narratives, interview framing, publication texts, and editorial structures for artists and cultural organizations whose work needs sharper public language.
PORTFOLIO / WEBSITE DIRECTION
Portfolio architecture, website language, project hierarchy, visual-textual positioning, and public-facing identity systems for artists, performers, and cultural practitioners.
