Creator/Artistic Director

Aly Rose was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Galveston, Texas. After graduating from Claremont McKenna College in California, she researched, danced and choreographed in China from 1994-2007. Now based in New York, her creative work focuses on pioneering art that incorporates natural, architectural or cultural environments as a point of departure for mass movement exploration.

In 2003, she was the head choreographer for Lady in the Dark, the first American Broadway musical to be seen on a Chinese stage. She then helped to create Warner Brother's Casablanca, the Dance and is the producer and director of dance theater production, Phoenix. Her work has also been commissioned by the Chinese National Song and Dance Operatic Troupe, the Beijing Dance Academy of China, Dashanzi International Art Festival, CCTV, C.W. Post Dance Co. in conjunction with the Peter Norton Symphony Space Theater, and by Hou Ying of Shen Wei Dance Arts.

Rose currently teaches Chinese Contemporary Dance and the History of Stage Performance in China after 1949 at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She also is an Asia 21 Young Leader of the Asia Society and an active member of the US-China National Committee. She lectures and performs at the United Nations, China Institute, Columbia University, and Sarah Lawrence College in New York. In 2002, she received her M.F.A. in choreography, becoming the first and only Westerner in the history of China to graduate from the Beijing Dance Academy, the finest institution for dance in Asia.