An older Chinese woman with black hair with streaks of gray. She wears glasses and a blue shirt. Her hair is tied back.

Lily Eng
choreographic collaborator

Lily Eng, pioneering Chinese-Canadian choreographer, performer, and movement specialist, is the granddaughter of the early historic vanguard of Chinese settlers to Canada’s Golden Mountain. Lily’s eclectic dance/movement and arts practice incorporates Asian spiritual, energetic and healing arts principles with animal-movement dynamics. As Toronto Chinatown’s Hong Luck Kung Fu Association’s very first woman practitioner/teacher, Lily has earned the Sie Jie (senior sister) honorific. In the early 70s, Lily formed Missing Associates with fellow choreographer, multidisciplinary artist, and filmmaker, Peter Dudar, to present their unique, cross-cultural creative expressions to national and international audiences. Lily’s work has been seen in spaces including Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the AGO, Artists’ Space NYC, Pavlychenko Dance Studio, Centre for Experimental Art and Communication, Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival, X6 Dance Space, Poland’s Art Forum, and Germany’s Documenta.

For Peggy Baker Dance Projects: Lily’s original works Hitting it Sideways and Withheld were distilled and adapted for the stage play Beautiful Renegades, and filmed for Choreographic Gems

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