About Grace

Grace Yi-Li Tong (she/her) is a joyful, goofy Asian-American artist committed to reimagining reality through dance and performance. Inspired by her 2-D collage practice, she creates movement collages that decontextualize scraps of everyday life, chunks of hegemonic histories, and samples of codified “dance” training. Grace aims to invite audiences into experimental, physical theater worlds that re-define oppressive phenomenons often accepted as “regular".

Grace attended New York University, graduating summa cum laude in May 2021 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and a minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies. In 2023, Grace was an artist-in-residence at ReMo Studios in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her work has been presented at Flushing Town Hall (2024), Triskelion Arts (2023), Arts on Site (2023), Art Cake Dance Series II (2022), Emerging Choreographer Series (2022), and more.

Recently, Grace has been in process with Beth Gill, Luis Lara Malvacias, Patricia Hoffbauer and more. Though currently based in New York City, she has also presented recently in Amsterdam, Munich, Berlin, and Seattle.

Additionally, Grace works as an educator and administrator in programs such as NYU Tisch Summer High School, Steps Youth on Broadway, and more.