New Dance Partners

Meet the Choreographer

Caili Quan is a New York City-based choreographer whose work has been commissioned by New York City Ballet, BalletX, Vail Dance Festival, Ballet West, The Juilliard School, New York Choreographic Institute, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, American Repertory Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, Flight Path Dance Project, and Ballet Academy East. Beyond concert dance, she has choreographed productions of Guys & Dolls and She Loves Me for Opera Saratoga. From 2012 to 2020, Quan danced with BalletX, performing new works by Matthew Neenan, Nicolo Fonte, and Penny Saunders. She toured with the company to Jacob’s Pillow, the Belgrade Dance Festival, and DEMO by Damian Woetzel at The Kennedy Center. Her short documentary Mahålang—an exploration of her Chamorro Filipino upbringing on Guam through conversations and choreography from BalletX’s Love Letter—was accepted into the Hawai’i International Film Festival and screened at the Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center. Ballet West presented her work Play on Impulse in 10,000 Dreams: A Celebration of Asian Choreography curated by The Kennedy Center and Phil Chan. She was a 2022 Artist-in-Residence at the Vail Dance Festival, a 2023 Artist-in-Residence at the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, and has been an Arnhold Creative Associate at The Juilliard School since 2021.