About Phil
New York, NY
Phil Chan (CBA ’25) is co-founder of Final Bow for Yellowface, an organization dedicated to eliminating outdated and offensive stereotypes of Asians onstage, and president of the Gold Standard Arts Foundation, which champions Asian voices in the arts. A graduate of Carleton College and an alumnus of the Ailey School, Chan is the author of Final Bow for Yellowface: Dancing between Intention and Impact. He has held fellowships with NYU, Harvard, the Manhattan School of Music, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Drexel, and the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris. As a writer, he served as the Executive Editor for FLATT Magazine and contributed to Dance Europe Magazine, Dance Magazine, Dance Business Weekly, and the Huffington Post. He served multiple years on the National Endowment for the Arts dance panel and the Jadin Wong Award panel presented by the Asian American Arts Alliance. His latest choreography project, the “Ballet des Porcelaines,” premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in December 2021 and toured throughout 2022.
Project: “Asian American Pipeline Study” Through the founding of the Gold Standard Arts Foundation, Chan will look at structures that actually build equity and opportunities for underrepresented groups in the field. From 10,000 Dreams Choreography festivals to the pipeline study with Drexel University and Brigham Young University, he will examine what building resources and opportunities looks like in practice in the ballet world.
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