PEGGY MYO-YOUNG CHOY re-envisions/re-embodies the politics, history and cultural aesthetics of what it means to be an Asian woman in America. Originally from Hawai'i, she has performed her work from Honolulu to New York. Most recently she was awarded the Danspace Project's Commissioning Initiative with funding from the Jerome Foundation, Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts for the premier of her work, "Ki-Ache: Stories From the Belly." She received a fellowship for choreography of her suite, "Seung Hwa: Rape/Race/Rage/Revolution" from the Atlantic Center for the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts to collaborate with composer Fred Wei-han Ho which premiered at Dance Theater Workshop in 1995. She has also worked collaboratively with Indonesian playwright Putu Wijaya, poet/playwright Genny Lim, poet Kalamu ya Salaam and composer/musician Roscoe Mitchell. She has danced with Son Ock Lee's Zen Dance Company and is a certified teacher of Son Mu Dance. In 1994, she was awarded the Woman of Achievement award for her work as an artist and activist by the Wisconsin Minority Women's Network. Her articles on Asian American performance have appeared in Forward Motion, Movement Research Performance Journal, Inside Arts and the Encyclopedia of Asian Americans. She has been featured as feminist choreographer in Ms. Magazine (1995). She has produced and directed arts festivals including "Decolonizing the Body: Asians/Asian Americans Seeking New Intersections of Gender, Race and Class" in 1966, "Landscapes From the Belly," in 1997, and "Moving the Center: Geographies of Interracial Identity in the Media and Arts," in 1998. She founded the Pacific and Asian Women's Alliance in 1987, and has taught on the dance faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1993.

Thanks to Peggy for submitting a grant proposal inviting Fred Ho to campus as Guest Artist in Residence supported by the UW-Madison Arts Institute in Fall 2008.