Cynthia Ling Lee (she/they)
Artist Cohort
Cynthia Ling Lee instigates postcolonial, queer, disabled, and feminist-of-color interventions in the field of experimental performance. Committed to intimate collaborative processes and foregrounding marginalized voices and aesthetics, her interdisciplinary performance work has been presented at venues such as Dance Theater Workshop (New York), East West Players (Los Angeles), Taman Ismail Marzuki (Jakarta), and Chandra-Mandapa: Spaces (Chennai). Cynthia was the recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, an Asia-Pacific Performing Arts Exchange Fellowship, and a Hellman Fellowship. Recent publications include a chapter in The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies (2019) and co-written chapters with Sandra Chatterjee in Dance Matters Too: Markets, Memories, Identities (2018) and Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings (2017). Cynthia is an associate professor of dance in the Department of Performance, Play, and Design at UC Santa Cruz and was a long-time board member of the Network of Ensemble Theaters.
Along with supporting Aviva Arts’ development, Cynthia is an active member of our Artist Cohort ensemble. Notably, she served as choreoraphic consultant for (dis)Placed[d], and as co-director and choreographer for Burning Wild at 3GT’s The 9th New Works Festival: Rebuild, Renew, Reinvent in March 18, 2023.