grace yi - li tong

Grace Yi-Li Tong (she/her) is a  Chinese-American movement and performance artist from the Pacific Northwest. Influenced by make-believe games, clowning, paper collage, puppetry, and contemporary dance theater, her work ridiculously collages “regular” events onstage to decontextualize bodily and social identity, fairytale, and comedy. In 2021, Grace graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies. She now works as a choreographer, performer, educator, and arts admin. 

Grace has recently presented work at Triskelion Arts, Arts on Site, Art Cake Dance Series II, Laguardia Performing Arts Center with the Emerging Choreographer Series, and Governor’s Island with The Craft: NY. Film credits include choreographic collaborations with brands Tod’s Shoes and Yayi Chen.