Peggy Choy
Professor, Dance and Asian American Studies
125 Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706
Biography
Peggy Myo-Young Choy (M.F.A., 2006) is a Professor of Dance at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Specializing in Asian dance (Korean and Javanese forms), Asian martial and vital energy arts, she teaches her contemporary Dance Noetics that encompasses Asian/Asian American dance, martial arts and vital energy thought, practice, and explorations into Afro-Asian fusion. Her courses include Asian American Movement, Afro-Asian Fusion, Taijiquan, and Javanese dance. She is a choreographer and dancer, and the artistic director of Peggy Choy Dance (2010), a New York-based dance company, and President of The Ki Project, Inc., a non-profit organization that committed to performance and creative thinking for future generations.