ABOUT ME

Yuanting Qiu (she/her) is a Cambridge Trust Scholar as a doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge with research interests in embodied pedagogies, affects, interspecies relationality, feminist new materialism, practice-as-research, and decolonial and post-qualitative inquiries.

As a published non-fiction writer and a dancer, her research takes an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of writing/words and dancing/movements by attending to embodied practices in everyday life. Her research about hugging and embodiment has been selected and presented as creative workshops and art installations in international exhibitions and conferences in London, Cambridge, Shanghai, Changsha and more. Her new book, an autoethnography about love, hugging, and feminist is to be published in China in 2025.

A woman crawling on all fours inside a space decorated with fake foliage, pink and purple lights, and leaves scattered on the pink yoga mat.

BOOK MY WORKSHOPS/CLASSES

Event poster for 'Shades of Magina,' organized by Arts and Creativity Research Group at University of Cambridge, presented by Yuanting Qiu and Lushi Liu. The event is scheduled from 10:00 to 12:30 on March 18, 2025, at Murray Edwards College. The design features an abstract gradient background with stylized text.

Shapes of Hugging workshops

Duration: 2-4 hours (or more)

Number of participants: 2 to 30+

Venue: Outdoor/lawns are preferable

Two women in a room with a black upright piano; one woman is playing the piano, and the other woman is standing behind her with her hands pressed together in a prayer position. Artworks rest on a shelf above the piano, and there is a potted plant in the foreground. Large windows reveal an outdoor seating area with chairs and graffiti art on the wall outside.

Music + Body Movements Improvisation workshops

Duration: 2-4 hours

Number of participants: MAX 30

Venue: Outdoor or Spacious indoor spaces

Poster for an upcoming event titled "See u Soon!" featuring a hand reaching through a torn hole in the wall, promotional details in Chinese and English, and logos at the top for Sandwichina, STORBook store, THE DOOR TO, and PAGES CAFE & COMMUNITY.

Creative Embodied Writing workshops

Duration: 2-4 hours (or more)

Number of participants: 5 to 20

Venue: Spacious indoor spaces are preferable

A dark room with a table covered in papers and small lights. Two screens display a natural scene of branches and leaves in bright sunlight.

Tutoring/Editing (Chinese language and literature; Uni applications)

Duration: 30-60 mins per session

Number of participants: 1-1

Venue: Online

Blurry image of a woman with arms outstretched, appearing to dance or move dynamically in a dark setting with Chinese text vertically aligned on the right side.

Beginner Street/Movement Class

Duration: 1-2 hours

Number of participants: MAX 30

Venue: Dance studios are preferable

(one-to-one/small group welcome)

A man playing guitar and a woman holding a flower sitting on a wooden bench in a garden during daytime. The background includes green foliage and sunlight filtering through the trees. Overlaid text reads 'Dreambox / Sunny Day' and 'KEKI'.

KEKI Live Music Performance

Duration: flexible

Number of participants: flexible

Venue: flexible (e.g. house party or pubs)