Gin Dance Company’s mission is to create and present innovative and thought-provoking contemporary dance works that explore the human experience, inspire connection and empathy, and celebrate diversity. Our Northern Virginia-based company, founded by Artistic Director Shu-Chen Cuff, is committed to fostering cross-cultural understanding through the universal language of dance. With a focus on collaboration and community engagement, we strive to make dance accessible to all audiences and to cultivate a love of the art form in future generations. Through our performances, workshops, and outreach programs, we aim to ignite the imagination, challenge perceptions, and inspire positive social change
About US
Gin Dance Company (GDC) is a highly respected and critically acclaimed Metropolitan DC/Northern VA based performing arts modern dance company. GDC was founded in 2011 to provide a professional environment for artists to learn, grow, and express themselves and to bring refreshing and vitalizing works of Artistic Director Shu-Chen Cuff to the community. Each of GDC’s works uniquely reflects Shu-Chen’s rich Asian Dance heritage and Eastern philosophy blended with Western fluidity of movement and culture that touch the soul through visuals arts and movement. GDC’s works have been recognized and named finalists at the Dance Metro DC Awards in the categories of Outstanding Choreography and Outstanding Individual Performer. Gin Dance Company is a recipient of the Dolly Vogt Community Arts Award presented on behalf of ArtsFairfax and Capital One Hall. This distinguished award recognizes artistic merit, percentage of facility capacity and programmatic growth. GDC has been selected and invited to numerous prestigious events and venues including performances at Capital One Hall, the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, The DC Mayor’s Arts Awards at the Lincoln Theatre, The Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relation between China and the United states at the Embassy of The People’s Republic of China, DUMBO Dance Festival at the Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center and SoloDuo Dance Festival at the Dixon Place in New York, Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, VelocityDC Dance Festival at the Sidney Harman Hall, ‘Yes! Dance Invitational’ at the Dogtown Dance Theatre in Richmond, Taiwan Night Concert at the Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center, Professional Touring Artists Series at the Reston CenterStage, and the Reston Multicultural Festival, Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival, and more.
GDC has performed in support of many worthy charitable causes through our Outreach Performance Program including the American Diabetes Association, Child Rescue Center, Benefit Habitat for Humanity, The Angel Fund’s Remembrance Cabaret, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Catholic Charities U.S.A. Hurricane Relief, Life After Domestic Violence, Benefit Concert for Wounded Warriors and many others.
