Zihao Yuan | 袁子豪
Contact Information
Job Title
Graduate Fellow
He/They
- yuan.1380@osu.edu
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Education
- MFA in Dance, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- BA in Dance Performance, Shanghai Theater Academy, Shanghai, China
Zihao Yuan | 袁子豪 is a Seattle-based "Kuer 酷儿" (or queer) Chinese dance artist-scholar.
He is also a second-year PhD Student | Graduate Fellow in Dance Studies at The Ohio State University, pursuing a minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from the Shanghai Theatre Academy (2016) and a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Washington (2024).
Publication:
Yuan, Zihao. 2025. “A Call for Advocacy and Empathy: A Study of Gay Men in Chinese Dance.” Journal of Dance Education 25 (3): 229–38. https://doi.org/10.1080/15290824.2025.2522092
(Winner of the 2024 Doug Risner Prize for Emerging Dance Researchers)