Yu Jiayue is a Beijing-based young director and choreographer, founder and artistic director of WHITE MIST, and a member of the Beijing Dancers Association. She serves as an artistic mentor at the School of Performance, Beijing City University, and is an award-winning film director whose works have received dozens of top prizes at international film festivals.

Yu’s directing credits include films that have won Best Experimental Film at the Hollywood Gold Awards, Best Young Director at the HIFF – Halo International Film Festival (Russia), Best Choreography at the New York International Film Awards (NYIFA), and Best Dance Film at the Cannes World Film Festival, among others. Her works have been screened and invited by festivals and platforms in Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and more, and she has been interviewed by multiple international film weeklies and magazines. She was honored by the Royal Television Society (UK) with an honorary laurel, with one of her projects selected as one of their best works of the past five years. In China, her creations have been featured on major national media platforms including China Military Online, China Military (App), and China Youth Daily.

Yu Jiayue holds both a Bachelor’s degree in Choreography and a Master’s degree from the Beijing Dance Academy, where she was admitted to the undergraduate choreography program with the top national entrance exam score. Her contemporary dance works have received the Gold Award at the FDC Dance Competition, and pieces she has directed have won Best Choreography at the Korea International Modern Dance Competition. She has served as director/choreographer for the large-scale red-themed dance epic Family Letters, presented physical theatre works at the Beijing International Youth Theatre Festival, and created invited works for the PLA National Defence University’s Military Culture College (formerly the PLA Arts Academy).

Her choreography and directing projects include invitations to the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area Dance Week, the Beijing Jin Xing Dance Theatre / LDTX Theatre “National Showcase”, and commissioned work by the Shanghai International Dance Center for the piece Three Admonitions: Nie Yinniang (trailer director). She has also served as video director and choreographer for a dance evening at Tsinghua University, contributed choreography to Beijing’s urban renewal demonstration project Multi-fusion, Borderless Growth, and been invited as director for screenings at the Beijing International Dance Film Festival, including directing and choreographing the immersive physical performance for its press conference opening. Most recently, she was commissioned as director and choreographer for a featured work at the 11th Zhongguancun International Youth Art Season.