Cindy Yunha Jang (Jang Huddle)
Cindy Yunha Jang is a 1.5 generation Korean–Aotearoa (New Zealand) choreographer and community arts advocate based in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau. She creates immersive, multidisciplinary works that blend contemporary movement with various mediums often centering diaspora narratives.
Cindy Yunha works across professional and community settings, welcoming both trained dancers and those new to movement. She aims to foster inclusive spaces where all bodies and stories are valued. Her choreographic practice is shaped by lived experience, community engagement, and experimentation across forms. In 2017 Cindy created Jang Huddle to build the kind of space she needed growing up – a space of belonging, creativity, and connection.
Her work is an ongoing conversation between her past and future selves, shaped by the desire to hold space for others navigating similar in-between places.
Cindy’s largest production was with The Auckland Arts Festival for “I Don’t Wanna Dance Alone,” a production supported by the Asian Artists Fund. The show featured a diverse cast of 12 individuals who were of Asian descent and varied in age. Notably, none of the cast members came from a contemporary dance background.
Cindy has recently come back from being in South Korea doing an Artist in Residency at Horanggasy Creative Studio for four months, she was awarded the Creative NZ fellowship grant as well as support from the organization.
She is now working with different mediums such a moving image, zines, sound performance art and more to create choreographic works in theatre, galleries and public spaces.
