Courses:
DNCE/THEA 240 Intro to Stage Production
DNCE 231 Intermediate Contemporary Dance Technique
DNCE 331 High Intermediate Contemporary Dance Technique
DNCE/THEA 370 Movement Improvisation
DNCE 371 Choreography I
DNCE 372 Choreography II
DNCE 431 Advanced Contemporary Dance Technique
DNCE 470 Dance Performance
DNCE 495 Senior Project
DNCE 499 Directed Work
DNCE 671 Advanced Choreography
DNCE 672 Dance Performance
DNCE/THEA 674 Interdisciplinary Collaborations
DNCE 679 Directed Choreography
DNCE 700 Thesis Research
Pei-Ling Kao is a Taiwanese choreographer, dance educator, and performer. Since moving to the U.S. in 2007, she has been working with choreographers of different aesthetic frameworks, collaborating with interdisciplinary artists, performing and teaching nationally and internationally, as well as presenting original work via her company PEILING KAO DANCES. Pei-Ling’s research and creative interests are focused on movement improvisation, choreography, bicultural movement, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
She has received the Board of Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching Award in 2022, Endowment for the Humanities Award in 2018, Junior Faculty Research Award in 2018 from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Pei-Ling was awarded one San Francisco Bay Area’s Isadora Duncan Dance Awards in 2012 and nominated for another in 2013. She is also a recipient of the Lo Man-Fei Dance Fund from Cloud Gate Foundation in Taiwan in 2016 and the MAP fund in 2021.