Open Studio with Annie MingHao Wang

Open Studio with Annie MingHao Wang
Sunday, July 13th at 4pm
TOPAZ ARTS, 55-03 39th Ave.  > directions
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TOPAZ ARTS presents an Open Studio with Annie MingHao Wang, AAPI Artist in Residence culminates in a showing of a new work-in-progress. Wang shares new material and methods explored during their residency at TOPAZ ARTS, with performer Ching-I Chang.

“At Topaz, I am deeply grateful for the chance to work on early ideas for a new piece driven by my practices in dance and textile work. In addition to generating desirable end results which are highly commodified, these two fields contain skill, cultural significance, histories, and wisdom. They are sensitive to migration, translation, and innovation, which makes maintaining them a slippery and fragile process. Those that hold this knowledge are both empowered since it cannot be stolen from them, but also in danger of being themselves stolen, controlled, and commodified. I have received further support for this work from the Bogliasco Center and Pioneers Go East Collective and I hope to premiere it in 2026/2027. My time at Topaz has been invaluable in the charged and vital beginning stages of this project.”

About the Artists:

Annie MingHao Wang (she/they) is a choreographer/dancer based in New York. They are a 2025 Fellow of the Bogliasco Center and have been Artist-In-Residence at Movement Research (2022-2024), Topaz Arts (2024-2025), Marble House Project (2024). Leimay Foundation (2022), BRIC (2016), and the Atlantic Center for the Arts (2015). They have been awarded grants by LMCC (Manhattan Arts Grant) and Brooklyn Arts Council. Their work has been presented by Pioneers Go East at the Out-FRONT! festival, Movement Research @Judson, Leimay’s OUTSIGHT series, BRIC, Five Myles, and the Exponential Festival. Annie dances for Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, Maho Ogawa’s 水素co., Marie Lloyd Paspé, and Sugar Vendil.

Ching-I Chang is a migrating breeze. She has rested in Taiwan, the U.S., India and Africa. Wherever beauty and kind people call, she is there. She is a dance/dream concept maker, curator, performer and listener. She holds an MFA from the University of Utah and has a deep love for the arts and nurturing harmony. Ching-I & Penelope curate the Inter-grant Festival: an annual platform at Arts On Site celebrating the voices of international artists who have successfully navigated the US immigration process. She received the 2025 Individual Artist Finalist award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and is also the recipient of the Create Change Fellowship from the Laundromat Project. Ching-I loves bananas. chingichang.com

Annie MingHao Wang is a TOPAZ ARTS 2024-25 AAPI Artist in Residence which supports and celebrates new works by Asian American and Pacific Islander dance artists.

The program is made possible by TOPAZ ARTS, Inc. in part with funds from the NYS DanceForce, a partnership program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

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