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Yu’s dancing takes you to sun, moon

Jin-Wen Yu knows, like Bob Dylan, that there’s really no direction home. Life is rarely so simple or banal for such restlessly creative souls.

….Yu, possessed of startling physical grace and a vivid imagination, is steadily building a reputation as one of America’s most gifted and accomplished dancers. His company has performed throughout the United States, South America, Korea and Taiwan. Among his most recent honors include, in 2004, the Wisconsin Dance Council Award for Choreography/Performance and the Emily Mead Baldwin professorship in the creative arts at the UW-Madison. This year he performed at UNESCO in Paris for the celebration concert of 2005 international Dance Day.