Half the Sky – Yin Mei Dance
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
7:30–8:30 pm
Brendle Recital Hall, Wake Forest University
Free Admission; Open to the Public

Renowned dancer and choreographer Yin Mei presents her latest work, Half the Sky, an evening-length dance and visual performance rooted in the language of the body, responding to enduring mythologies surrounding women across generations. It features Marie Lloyd Paspe, Ching-I Chang, Miho Ryu, and Yin Mei, with a music score created and performed by composer/sound designer Christian Frederickson.

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?

Half the Sky 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.

This project was presented at the Asia Society New York, supported by MAP Fund, RF CUNY, New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project Finalist, Baryshnikov Arts, and Danse Mirage Foundation.

https://wakethearts.wfu.edu/2026/02/half-the-sky-yin-mei-dance/

Additional Events in the Series

“Artist, Body, Rupture in Warped Time”
Guest Lecture: Prof. Yin Mei, CUNY–Queens College
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
5:00–6:30 pm
ZSR Auditorium (Room 404)

“Wellness through Dance and Somatic Education”
Guest Lecture & Demonstration: Prof. Yin Mei, CUNY–Queens College
Thursday, April 2, 2026
5:00–6:00 pm
Benson 409