Composer Byron Au Yong (歐陽良仁) focuses on intercultural collaborations and site-responsive experiences with events for ensemble, choir, film, installation, taiko (drum), dance, and theater. Born to Chinese immigrants in Pittsburgh and raised in the Pacific Northwest, his upbringing informs an attention to the ways people gather to listen to music and connect with the places they call home. Variety Magazine calls his work “intimate and existential, personal and political all at once.” Au Yong has composed music for choreographer Donald Byrd’s Farewell: A Fantastical Contemplation on America’s Relationship with China and The Mother of Us All, for Spectrum Dance Theater, as well as choreographers Marianne Kim, Archana Kumar, Edisa Weeks, Olivier Wevers, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Ying Zhou. Music for theatrical productions include The Orphan of Zhao (趙氏孤兒), starring BD Wong, directed by Carey Perloff for the American Conservatory Theater and La Jolla Playhouse, The War of the Roses, directed by Eric Ting for Cal Shakes, as well as collaborations with playwrights Eugenie Chan and Christopher Chen. Honors include a Creative Capital Award and Sundance Institute Time Warner Foundation Fellowship. Residencies include the A/P/A Institute at NYU, Exploratorium, Montalvo Arts Center, and Yale Institute for Music Theater. Au Yong holds degrees in theater, dance, and music from NYU, UCLA, and the University of Washington. Dedicated to education as an anchor for imagination and knowledge, he serves as an Associate Professor and Director of Arts Leadership at Seattle University.

Hong Huo (霍弘) (Visual Artist) is a Chinese-American multidisciplinary artist who navigates through diverse cultures to express her identity while seeking a temporal “home” to celebrate and dwell in. Huo received her BFA degree in Kinetic Imaging from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2017 and graduated with an MFA degree in the 4D area from UW-Madison in May 2022. She was a Kohler art fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) during the 2021-2022 academic year. Her multidisciplinary practice wanders between multi-media installation, experimental animation, and performance art. Her works have been exhibited and screened nationally and internationally including the U.S., South Korea, Italy, and the Netherlands. Her ongoing body of work Strange Dwelling(异居图) was exhibited and performed in New York City for the Underground Art and Design (UAAD)’s hybrid exhibition Jukebox of Dissonance in October 2024. As a visual artist, independent animator, graphic designer, and educator, Huo is constantly searching for a unique visual narrative about animation, material, body, and spirit through various mediums and processes of experimentation. She is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Digital Media at Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, PA.

Director/Choreographer Li Chiao-Ping’s (李秋萍) work has been praised in the NY Times, Village Voice, Dance Magazine, LA Times, Washington Post, & SF Bay Guardian. She “takes us to a different place in dance. The vision is both Asian and western, combining the essence of both worlds." (Martha's Vineyard Times) Known for her originality, trademark physicality, humanism, & visual design, her work has been shown in major venues/festivals in the U.S. & abroad, including Jacob’s Pillow, Bates, American Dance Festival (ADF), Kennedy Center, Dance Place, Danspace Project, ODC Theater, CounterPulse, & around the world. Named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to watch”, Li Chiao-Ping is a multi-hyphenate artist, a 9-time NEA grant awardee, and a MAP Fund grant recipient, who creates layered works that combine multiple art forms to explore themes of culture and identity. Li was Director of Dance at Hollins College & former Chair of UW-Madison’s Dance Dept, where she continues to teach. Honored to be a recipient of an Outstanding Woman of Color in Education Award, NEA grants, & US representative in ADF’s International Choreographer’s Program, Li’s work addresses topics of identity, diversity, inclusion, space, & place. She recently won the Best Direction Award for her screendance work “Provenance: A Letter to My Daughter” from the 2023 Experimental Dance & Music Film Festival and Best Picture, Best Experimental Film, and Best Dance Film from the 2024 Los Angeles Chinatown International Film Festival for her most recent screendance work “in silence is the offering presented”. Ms. Li was recently inducted as a fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.

Katelyn Altmann (she/her) is a Milwaukee-based movement artist, choreographer, and educator. She graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in Contemporary Dance Performance and Choreography from UW–Milwaukee (Peck School of the Arts). Altmann has served on faculty in UWM’s Dance Department, guest taught at UW–Madison, and leads masterclasses across the Midwest specializing in site-specific work, Contact Improvisation, and improvisation for performance. As a performer, she has appeared in works by Larry Keigwin, Joe Goode, Daniel Burkholder, Li Chiao-Ping, Maria Gillespie, Simone Ferro, Holly Johnston, and Debra Loewen, and has collaborated with artists including Shura Baryshnikov, Kathleen Hermesdorf, and Ishmael Houston-Jones. She is a company member and collaborator with Wild Space Dance Company, Li Chiao-Ping Dance, and Danceworks Performance MKE, and has performed with The Seldoms, Gina Laurenzi Dance Project, Milwaukee Opera Theater, and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Her choreographic work has been presented at Gibney (NY), Velocity (WA), RAD Fest (MI), Milwaukee Fringe Festival, and she was a selected choreographic winner for the Wisconsin Dance Council’s Dance Festival (2022–24). In 2025, she choreographed and directed the evening-length work IN WAKE with live music by Allen Russell. Her practice centers embodied research, improvisational inquiry, and radical attunement.

Gelline Guevarra is an artist, choreographer, and massage therapist currently based in Las Vegas, NV. Originally from Sacramento, CA, she has danced professionally with Dayton Contemporary Dance Company 2 (DCDC2), BBmoves, and TwoPoint4 Dance Theatre. Gelline began her professional dance journey in the Fall of 2015, discovering a passion for Modern dance. She holds a BA in Dance and Deaf Studies/American Sign Language from Sacramento State University, a dual foundation that enriches her connection to movement and community engagement. She has trained extensively with Diavolo, Elisa Monte Dance, the Bates Dance Festival, Visceral Dance Chicago, and Raja Feather Kelly, performing works by acclaimed choreographers such as Lula Washington, Gary Masters, and Maurice Watson. Gelline’s movement style emphasizes the seamless connection of phrases and the storytelling power of contact improvisation. In 2018, she founded GGProjects, presenting her original works at venues including the Austin Dance Festival, MODArts, and Dance Bloc NYC. Gelline is honored to be making her debut performance with Li Chiao-Ping Dance Company, bringing her passion for meaningful movement and connection to this new chapter.

"Piper" Morgan Hayes has danced with LCPD since 2019 and is a Dance Lecturer at UW-Whitewater.  She has taught at several colleges throughout Wisconsin and accompanies students at the American College Dance Association festivals. Choreographically, Hayes’ work is seen in the annual UW-W dance and musical theatre productions where she also teaches primarily Tap, Jazz, Contemporary and Ballet courses. Soon, she will premier a new course in heels to embrace body positivity through sensuality. Her solo choreographic works are presented throughout the USA and involve eclectic props used as metaphor/personal significance.  A generous “Thank You!” to LCP for the opportunity to present her works since 2019!      ~Love to O & B

Elisa Hildner, originally from Naperville, IL, is a movement instructor and dance artist based in Madison, WI. She practices and teaches Pilates, strength training, and dance to educate and empower the unique bodies of all individuals. Her practice emphasizes the exploration of anatomy and the utilization of embodied information to develop functional and powerful movement. She strongly believes that Pilates and mixed movement practices benefit physical, mental, and emotional health—she advocates for movement for all. Elisa is a graduate from the UW-Madison, where she received her BS in Dance and a certificate in Pilates. While in undergrad, Elisa was awarded the Buff Brennan Senior Honors Award supporting choreographic research in the form of an evening-length concert. Upon graduation, Elisa was awarded the Anna R. Nassif Dance Award for her choreographic works. She is currently a company dancer with Li Chiao-Ping Dance, as well as working on independent choreographic projects.

Kaori Kenmotsu is an Assistant Professor in Mitchell Hamline School of Law's Dispute Resolution Institute. She was formerly a Senior Lecturer at Hamline University and the Artistic Director for the Hamline Dance Ensemble.  From 2007 – 2013 she was a company member of Carl Flink’s Black Label Movement and a member of TimeTrack Productions. Theater/Dance credits include Mu Performing Arts, Pangea World Theater, Offleash Area Productions, 10,000 Dances, and Gomez Dance.  For the last 25 years she has studied with numerous prominent yoga teachers, and in 2000, she completed a two-year teacher training program with senior Iyengar yoga teacher, Patricia Walden.  Her studies have also included Laban Movement Analysis, aerial arts, Feldenkrais and Global Somatics. She has her MFA from UW-Milwaukee and Juris Doctorate from Mitchell Hamline Law School focusing on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) with a focus on embodied practices of conflict negotiation.

Cassie Last is a Madison, WI based dance artist. She values an athletic foundation in her dance work and supports this through her career in fitness and strength training. Cassie joined Li Chiao-Ping Dance in 2019 and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from UW-Madison in 2020.  Her dancing endeavors have allowed her performance and learning opportunities locally, nationally, and internationally.  Through her dance career she has also worked with Scott Ewen, Dyane Harvey-Salaam, Brooke Smiley, Carol Teitelbaum, Christian von Howard, Chris Walker, and Jin Wen-Yu. Cassie is grateful for the continued learning and challenges that each new choreographic process brings..

Mayu Nakaya (she/her)  is a contemporary dance artist based in New York originally from Japan. Currently, Mayu has danced with Obremski/Works, Drye Marinaro Dance Company, Helen Simoneau Danse, SAXYN Dance Works, Rogue Wave with Catherine Messina, One Day Dance, Six Degrees Dance, sarAika Movement Collective, Faustine Lavie Dance Project, and Yoshito Sakuraba. She began ballet at the age of three and graduated from the contemporary dance course at Tokyo Metropolitan High School of Arts, and the dance laboratory | Physical Education at Tsukuba University in Japan. She gained extensive experience in contemporary dance, improvisation, and choreography during her studies through numerous performances and competition experiences. She moved to New York and learned at The Ailey School from 2019-2021. Mayu received several awards as both a solo dancer and a choreographer in various competitions in Japan and South Korea from 2016-2019. As a contemporary dance artist, Mayu founded the platform “MNiverse” to present her work and pursue creative freedom. Through physical expression, she believes in the profound value of contemporary dance—those moments when not only the audience, but also the performers themselves, experience a deep resonance of the heart—and continues her artistic activities based on this belief. MNiverse presented at several dance festivals in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Japan. 

Born in South Korea and raised in Wisconsin, Elisabeth Roskopf 이지영 is a dancer, performer, choreographer, educator, pianist, and a mother to her daughter. She is a company member of Li Chiao-Ping Dance, Danceworks Performance MKE, Wild Space Dance Company, and the Gina Laurenzi Dance Project. Elisabeth received her Bachelor of Arts in Piano and a minor in Dance from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She earned her Master of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she was honored to be a recipient of the Graduate Student Excellence Fellowship award. Elisabeth’s Dance MFA thesis concert, | Out of Place |, became a platform for her to create the first Transracial Asian American Adoptee Dance Project in the city of Milwaukee. Elisabeth co-produced and performed in Provenance: A Letter to My Daughter, an award-winning screendance work created with director and choreographer Li Chiao-Ping and cinematographer and editor Christal Wagner. Her new dance film, 결코 잃지 않았다 (Never Lost), created in collaboration with director and choreographer Li Chiao-Ping, cinematographer and editor Christal Wagner, and featuring performance, unscripted narration, and additional choreography by Elisabeth, is an official selection for several festivals and special awards. Elisabeth is the Founder and Creative Director of Dance For Diversity, a screendance project that is made explicitly for Artists of Color to elevate their unique voices and share their stories of identity through their dance-making and performance work.