Ms. Yiyun Li

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    Yiyun is an artist-researcher, choreographer, dancer, and screendance maker. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Dance at the University of Plymouth. Her research and creative practice are grounded in an eco-somatic approach, integrating site-specific dance, screendance, phenomenology, and ethnographic fieldwork to explore the interrelations between body, environment, and culture.

    In her work, Yiyun focuses on the interaction and resonance between the body and its surroundings, weaving together academic inquiry and artistic experimentation. She understands dance not merely as a form of expression, but as a way of co-existing with the world, a mode of sensing, perceiving, and thinking through movement.

    Her practice spans stage, site, and screen, combining formal dance training with eco-somatic movement, screen-based art, and site-specific performance. Through these interdisciplinary explorations, she seeks to cultivate a sense of co-being between body, environment, and culture. Selected works include The Flowing Shore Within (2025), With the Boat (2025), and Co-being (2024).

    Research Interests

    • Ecosomatic Movement
    • Site-specific Dance
    • Screendance

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