Renowned New York-based dancer and choreographer Yin Mei (CUNY-Queens College) presented her latest work, Half the Sky, an evening-length dance, music and visual art performance rooted in the language of the body, responding to enduring mythologies surrounding women across generations in Brendle Recital Hall at Wake Forest University on Tuesday, March 31, 2026. The event was organized by the Department of History and the East Asian Studies Minor Program and sponsored by Office of the Dean of the College through the Blaisdell Fund, Wake The Arts Center, and 17 other organizations, departments, and programs.
Wake Forest University students and faculty attend a guest lecture by Prof. Yin Mei of CUNY–Queens College entitled ‘Artist, Body, Rupture in Warped Time’ in the ZSR Library Auditorium on Wednesday, April 1, 2026. This lecture examined how the artist’s body became a living archive during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), a decade when ideology reorganized aesthetics, labor, and memory. Through philosophical reflection, archival materials, and performance excerpts, this lecture situated the artist’s body as witness, sensor, and counter-memory—revealing how history persists not linearly, but through embodied recurrence.
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©2026 Wake Forest University / Photos by Dallas Agnew (’27)