Shannon Yu is a Taiwan-born, New York based dancer-choreographer, multi-disciplinary artist, and queer creator. Sha streamlines Hip Hop, Contemporary dance, and Wing Tsun Martial Arts with video projection and sound design, portraying connections between immigration and geometry. Shannon holds an MFA in Performance and Performance Studies from Pratt Institute and a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from National Taiwan University. In 2021, Shannon founded multimedia dance company SHA Creative Outlet in Brooklyn, New York.
Sha has shown work at Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, Abrons Art Center, National Sawdust, The Landmark Loew’s Theater, and has been awarded residencies with Caldera Arts, University Settlement, Dance in Bushwick, Chen Dance Center, New Dance Alliance, and The Center at West Park. Shannon has been in Performance Mix Festival, the Evolution Festival, YES! Dance Festival, Your Moves Dance Festival, Queer Mvmnt Festival, Inter-Grant Festival and WOW Festival. Sha has received grants from Brooklyn Arts Council and New York State Council for the Arts.
Shannon was named 2023 Asian American Arts Alliance’s Jadin Wong Fellow for Dance, and 2024 Bandung Fellow for Black and Asian solidarity by Asian American Arts Alliance and Museum of Contemporary Diaspora Art.
