Dance Alumni Receive Honors at Dance City Festival Chicago

M.F.A. Dance graduates Yinqi Wang and Maggie Liang recognized for their choreographic work A Touch of Sin

UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts Department of Dance alumni Yinqi Wang, M.F.A. ’24 and Maggie Liang, M.F.A. ’24, co-founders of the ensemble Omnivore Dance, have been honored with two awards at the 2025 Dance City Festival Chicago: the Best Choreographer Award and the National Exchange Award for their collaborative work A Touch of Sin.

The piece explores the complexities of human behavior and moral ambiguity through movement. With a combination of difficult movement structures and improvisational elements, Wang and Liang’s choreography highlights their shared interest in tension, vulnerability and the boundaries of form. 

Omnivore Dance, founded by Wang and Liang in 2024, is a project-based company committed to collaborative and interdisciplinary creation. The ensemble’s practice ranges from choreographic experimentation with visual and sonic design to challenge traditional boundaries of performance.

With this recognition, Wang and Liang have been invited to present A Touch of Sin at the 2026 Dance City Festival Detroit, further extending the reach of their work to wider audiences.

For more information about the Dance City Festival and Omnivore Dance, visit dance.osu.edu.