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House of Chow is a dance theater company rooted in Asian identities, stories, and embodied traditions. We blend Hip-Hop, Asian folk dance, and martial arts to create work that explores spirituality, philosophy, and lived experience through powerful, honest performance.
We are proud to have been presented by organizations including Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, the Asian American Arts Alliance, and Culture Lab LIC. Our work has received support from Admerasia’s 2023 Community Spotlight & Grant, Culture Lab’s 2024 Emergence Artist Residency, The Center for Cultural Power, and Goddard Riverside’s 2025–2026 Artist-in-Residence program.
Our dance works have been featured in:
AAPI Dance Festival at APAP (City Center,2023)
The Estrogenius Festival (Kraine Theater, 2023)
ARISE Spring Dance Festival (Culture Lab LIC, 2024)
Family Programming Series (Perelman Performing Arts Center, 2024)
New Works Festival (Culture Lab LIC, 2024)
Call for Performers
Values
We are always excited to meet new artists who:
are community-oriented and invested in contributing to and being nurtured by community
have a learner’s spirit and are open-hearted
are invested in uplifting the Hip-Hop/Street Dance community through active participation, education, and advocacy
are open to engaging in dialogue and movement expression that draws from one’s cultural identity and experiences
are willing to be emotionally honest and vulnerable on stage
Representation
As our work centers Asian women’s perspectives, we primarily seek women, femme-identifying, non-binary, and gender-expansive individuals who identify as Asian (inclusive of those identifying as multiracial, mixed-race, and/or adoptees).
Experience
We welcome both professional dancers (5-8+ years of training and experience) and pre-professional (limited training and experience) to build in rehearsal. All members will receive training and mentorship tailored to their role. Limited rehearsal and performance honorariums are available for select professional artists.
Dance Background
We are rooted in Hip-Hop Dance/Street styles specializing in the following foundations BRS (Boogaloo, Robotting, Strutting), Popping, Locking, Rocking, Breaking, Waacking, House, and more, as well as Asian cultural practices (folk dance and martial arts). We also welcome movers from diverse disciplines who are committed to expanding their practice and exploring storytelling, acting, and character development.
If our values, commitment to representation, approach to experience, and dance background requirements resonate with you, we invite you to join us in co-creating a movement community that honors the intersection of Hip-Hop and Asian culture and courageous expression.
Performer Testimonials
Hear from our performers how their experience has been:
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“House of Chow is a sisterhood. I came into HoC looking to build my hip hop foundations and refine my dance skills but what I got out of it was so much more. Yvonne built a community for Asian female-identifying creatives to be themselves, to be heard and seen. Very often, Asian stories and struggles get overlooked but Yvonne used our shared experiences and turned it into art and in some way a therapeutic experience for all of us involved…”
Fiona Tsang, Asian American Dancer, Choreographer, Educator, & Author
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“Working with Yvonne is a combination of effective cooperation, supportive mentorship, structured guidance and warm friendship. I like how Yvonne is very structured with her training curriculum, organized with her yearly to weekly agendas, clear with her goals in developing HoC, detailed with her artistic concepts and good with understanding strength and specialties of each member in HoC. I enjoy working and performing in her projects for HoC, which are inspired by her life stories, cultural values and missions to stand up for her people. It's beautiful how she transformed her experiences into creative storylines, visual concepts and dance movements. Besides, I respect her work ethic. She makes the workplace feel like home in which she creates a safe, non judgmental, open-minded, uplifting and sharing environment that every member can take part in…”
Hovie Nguyen, NYC-based, Vietnamese, Multidisciplinary Dance Artist
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“Yvonne is so focused and creative…and always trying to push her performers and herself to really get her goals, whether that be in choreography, or essence, or the message behind the piece…Performing with House of Chow is one of few times I’ve performed with a cast of all Asian people, and especially all Asian women. That means a lot to me because…our stories as Asian women are often silenced and minimized. We don’t even know how to…express ourselves, and our hardships, and our joy most of the time because of our conditioning and culture, so it’s just really powerful to have that exposure and have people see that.”
IJ Chan, Boston-based, Chinese American Dance Artist
Joining Our Company
We prioritize building relationships that are generative for both the artist and the company. We believe in creating a space where each performer feels seen, supported, and empowered to grow — and where their unique presence contributes to our shared artistic goals.
Interested in working with us? Start by getting to know us – explore our website, check out our Instagram @house.of.chow to get a sense of who we are and what we do.
Interest Form - Fill out the interest form to see if our values align.
Meet & Greet - If so, we will schedule a time to get to know each other through a 20 minute virtual or in-person meeting to see if we’re a good fit.
Attend a Trial Rehearsal — If so, you’ll be invited to a rehearsal to experience a low-pressure space to see if our values, vibe, and vision align!
Note: We do not typically host traditional auditions. Instead, we invest in building authentic connections with artists and collaborators that are rooted in care and generative experiences.
