Natalie Tin Yin Gan (顏婷妍) is an award-winning writer, dance artist, and facilitator based in so-called Vancouver. She lives and learns on the unsurrendered ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Natalie is the Co-Artistic Director of Hong Kong Exile, an interdisciplinary collective committed to devising new stories and expressions of the Chinese diaspora. She is Narrative Designer and lead writer at sunset visitor studios, responsible for the Peabody Award-winning video game 1000xRESIST.

Passionate about facilitation and community care, Natalie is a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, a body-centered trauma-aware approach to the voice. She teaches contact improvisation at EDAM Dance where sheis passionate about dance class as co-created laboratory, as somatic playground, and as rehearsal for collective liberation.

Natalie is the younger daughter of a mother from Hong Kong and a father from Malaysia. She speaks Cantonese poorly but frequently.

Email: gannat.12@gmail.com