Yvonne Ng |黄碧琬 (B.F.A., M.A.) is a dancer, choreographer, artistic director, curator, and arts educator. She is the Artistic Director and creative instigator of tiger princess dance projects, an artist-led organization she founded in 1996, and the founding director of the biennial dance: made in canada / fait au canada Festival, established in 2001 to present contemporary dance from across Canada.
Of Peranakan Chinese descent, Yvonne was born and raised in Singapore and has lived in Canada since the late 1980s. She completed her B.F.A. (Honours, Dean’s Award for Excellence) and M.A. in Dance at York University, where her graduate research focused on evaluating and developing arts-based intergenerational practice connecting older adults and youth.
As a choreographer and performer, Yvonne’s work is known for its intimacy, formal precision, and culturally layered perspectives. Her commissioned choreography and performance have earned multiple Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations and taken her work across Canada and internationally, including to Australia, China, Ireland, Italy, Singapore, and the United States. Her practice has been shaped through collaborations with artists including Peter Chin, Dominique Dumais, Deborah Hay, Tedd Robinson, José Navas, Menaka Thakkar, and others.
Yvonne’s artistic practice is inseparable from her commitment to education and knowledge exchange. Yvonne is a certified Open Source Forms© practitioner, Dance for Dementia facilitator (NBS / Baycrest Health Sciences Sharing Dance Seniors), Ashtanga Yoga teacher, and has trained in Partners for Youth Empowerment Creative Facilitation, Dance for PD®, C-I Training™, Senior Fitness (CCAA), and functional anatomy with Irene Dowd. She has taught at universities and training institutions in Canada, the United States, and Singapore.
Ng is the recipient of the 2022 Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts (Canada Council for the Arts), the Muriel Sherrin Award, the Jacqueline Lemieux Prize, the K.M. Hunter Artist Award, and other honours. She continues to work across creation, presentation, and education, with a focus on intergenerational exchange, care-based artistic practice, and performance as a site of relationship.
yvonne ng || 黄碧琬, B.F.A., M.A.
