Board Member

  • Founder

    Passionate about bridging cultural traditions with modern artistic expression, Miaotian leverages her extensive experience in the performing arts to nurture early-career talent and build sustainable artistic careers. With a rich background as a choreographer and dancer, she also founded the New York City Chinese Dance Company (NYCCDC), a sub group under QIAA and a platform that showcases Chinese dance and honors cultural heritage in a contemporary context.

    With over 20 years of training in classical Chinese dance & folk dance and seven years’ experience of contemporary dance, she collaborated with choreographers from XieXin Dance Theatre, Suzanne Dellal Center, and cooperated with many New York City based choreographers. Through QIAA and NYCCDC, she has spearheaded initiatives to support emerging artists, promote cultural education, and foster cross-cultural exchange. Passionate about preserving traditional culture and inspiring the next generation of talent, as a devoted cultural communicator, Miaotian aiming to facilitate cultural exchange between East and West through dance. She was also featured in press including Woman Around Town, Women's Journal, and NewsBreak.


  • Board Member

    An Asian female choreographer, earned her MFA from The Ohio State University. Andi integrates metaphorical symbolism into her work to explore reflections on human nature and social dynamics, stimulating profound thought about the complexity of the human experience. Her work also combines Eastern philosophy and aesthetics with Western culture, emphasizing the expression of inner spirit through condensed abstract artistic conception. Additionally, she is dedicated to promoting Asian culture and acting as a bridge between cultures, igniting reflection and fostering appreciation for the inclusive richness of human expression’s diversity. She is also the artistic director of NYCCDC.

Artistic Advisor

  • Fay Van Alstyne Simpson

    Fay Van Alstyne Simpson

    Artistic Director｜Arts Professor

    Fay Van Alstyne Simpson is the Artistic Director of Impact Theatre, co-founded in 1990 as a collective of physical theater artists devising work with a social bite. Her latest physical theater pieces, Red-Winged Blackbird and Song for Sybil which she wrote and directed are in development. She adapted Raymond Carver’s short story, A Small Good Thing, into a piece called SCOTTY, co-produced with the Harold Clurman Theatre. She directed Speechless, by Frederick Johntz, which is a portrait of a white male teenage gunman. Lucid Body House hosts a monthly Performance Salon, giving voice to artists from all mediums of visual and performance art.

    Fay is the Founder of the Lucid Body. a psycho-physical process of introspection, exertion, and mental challenge that empowers actors and dancers to express their fullest potential. She conducts private classes and workshops at her Manhattan studio, Lucid Body House, coaches actors on TV, stage, and screen, and has a two-year Teacher Training Program. She is an Intimacy Choreographer as well as an Associate Arts Professor and Head of Movement at the Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Acting Program.

  • Careitha Davis

    Adjunct Faculty, NYU | Dancer | Choreographer | Educator

    A native of Brooklyn, NY, with ancestral roots from Trinidad and Tobago, Careitha is a multifaceted artist whose teaching philosophies and work reflect her deep connection to the power of dance traditions and rituals in the arts. As an artist, dance educator, and choreographer, she uses dance as a tool to decolonize the Eurocentric approach to dance. After being a performer for choreographer Dianne McIntyre and graduating from SUNY Purchase and New York University, Careitha has pursued many education pathways to develop leadership, curriculum development, and community-building skills. She has been a teaching artist for Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, Ballet Hispanico and Harlem Stage. She has lead classes internationally in Switzerland, Uganda, Trinidad and St. Maarten. After receiving her Professional license, Careitha currently leads the Department of Dance for Wadleigh Secondary School of the Performing Arts. She is also an adjunct professor at NYU Steinhardt Dance Education MA Program, serving as an advisory committee member for the African Diaspora track.

  • Vivake (Vive) Khamsingsavath

    Teacher | Dancer | Choreographer

    Vive is a Laotian American dancer, teacher and choreographer from Brooklyn, New York. He has performed at notable venues including Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, Broadway at Bryant Park, Battery Park, and Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. Vive has appeared on the Today Show, The View and Good Morning America. Vive served as choreographer for The US Open, Bravo TV, Bloomingdales, PUMAxMaybelline, NARS Cosmetics, TNT’s “I Am The Night”. Vive is director at Dance United, an arts organization which provides cultural dance workshops to underserved public school across NYC. Currently, Vive dances for Battery Dance Company, where he teaches “Dancing To Connect” a program which offers arts to communities throughout the world who do not have access to it. Vive aspires to share his passion for dance in hopes to inspire the world to connect to humanity.

  • Zhiying Deng

    Documentary Filmmaker | Producer | Influencer

    Zhiying Deng is an independent documentary filmmaker working between China and New York. After earning her sociology master's degree from LSE, she founded 2020 Film Studio, focusing on social inequalities and marginalized groups. Her projects illuminate the lives of "unseen" communities, such as rural migrant children and female factory workers. With filming experience across more than 20 countries, Zhiying excels at cross-cultural storytelling, with her work featured on platforms including NHK and Tencent Video. Her latest producing work, "Girl Of Wind," received nominations for "Best Short Documentary" at the 60th Golden Horse Film Festival and won "Best International Short Documentary" at Doc Edge Festival 2024.

    Beyond traditional filmmaking, Zhiying is a digital storyteller/influencer with over 1.5 million followers on multiple social media platforms, where her documentary-style content has garnered more than 200 million views, expanding the boundaries of documentary filmmaking in the social media era.