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 459 Topics in Dance
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
THEA 692 Practicum in Teaching
DNCE 700 Thesis Research
Pei-Ling Kao 高沛齡 is a Taiwanese dance educator, dance-maker and performer. She explores different styles of dance with the goal of intellectually and physically adapting to changes in the contemporary dance world. Her research and creative interests have focused on movement improvisation, bicultural and hybrid movement, dance lineages, choreography and interdisciplinary collaborations. Movement is the core of her work, in the belief that movement transcends what language offers to our experience of viewing and feeling. She has received the OVPRS Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research and Creative Work in 2025, the Board of Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching Award in 2022, the Endowment for the Humanities Award in 2023 and 2018, and a Junior Faculty Research Award in 2018 from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Pei-Ling was awarded a San Francisco Bay Area’s Isadora Duncan Dance Awards in 2012 and was nominated for another in 2013. She was also a recipient of the Lo Man-Fei Dance Fund from Cloud Gate Foundation in Taiwan in 2016 and the MAP fund in 2021.