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Image Description: Biracial White/Asian American man wearing a white button down shirt and blue and silver silk Chinese tuxedo jacket. Photo by Eli Schmidt.
Phil Chan
he/him/his
Canarsie; Brooklyn, NY
Phil Chan is a co-founder of Final Bow for Yellowface, and author of Final Bow for Yellowface: Dancing between Intention and Impact, and the President of the Gold Standard Arts Foundation. He is currently a ‘21/’22 Visiting Scholar at the A/P/A Institute at NYU (New York University), the Manhattan School of Music’s ‘21/’22 Citizen Artist, leading Boston Lyric Opera’s Butterfly Process, and was just named a Next 50 Arts Leader by the Kennedy Center. He is a graduate of Carleton College and an alumnus of the Ailey School. As a writer, he served as the Executive Editor for FLATT Magazine and contributed to Dance Europe Magazine, Dance Magazine, Dance Business Weekly, and the Huffington Post. He served multiple years on the National Endowment for the Arts dance panel and the Jadin Wong Award panel presented by the Asian American Arts Alliance. He serves on the International Council for the Parsons Dance Company, the Advisory Board of Dance Magazine, and was a 2020 New York Public Library Jerome Robbins Dance Division Research Fellow. His latest choreography project, the Ballet des Porcelaines, premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in December 2021 and will tour throughout 2022. In ‘22/’23, he will be a visiting fellow at Houghton Library at Harvard University, a Rankin Scholar at Drexel University, and a Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of Dance at Carleton College.
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