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Joyce Kushner
Joyce Kushner

Joyce Lien Kushner is a Taiwanese American dance artist, teacher, and maker. She is also a certified Progressing Ballet Technique® instructor. Throughout her years, Joyce has trained dancers of all ages and has performed and collaborated with artists all over California – Modern City Repertoire, Strong Pulse Dance, Epiphany Dance Theater, Surhabi Suraf, Sarah Bush Dance, Amy Lewis, Five Feet Dance, and Chris Black Dance.


In 2015, Joyce founded TILTshift Dance in San Francisco. Now in San Diego, she continues to teach, make work, and holds space for other dance artists to create and work. In 2024, she was awarded an 18-month artist residency by NTC Foundation in ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station to help further these endeavors. In 2025 under TILTshift Dance, she co-organized and presented AADF, San Diego's first Asian American Dance Festival and residency program, centering AAPI dance artists and stories.


Joyce currently teaches at Lynch Dance Institute and Malashock Dance, as well as guest teaches throughout San Diego County. She has proudly serves on the board of Disco Riot since 2014.


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Joyce Lien Kushner is a Taiwanese American dance artist, teacher, and maker. She is also a certified Progressing Ballet Technique® instructor. Throughout her years, Joyce has trained dancers of all ages and has performed and collaborated with artists all over California – Modern City Repertoire, Strong Pulse Dance, Epiphany Dance Theater, Surhabi Suraf, Sarah Bush Dance, Amy Lewis, Five Feet Dance, and Chris Black Dance.


In 2015, Joyce founded TILTshift Dance in San Francisco. Now in San Diego, she continues to teach, make work, and holds space for other dance artists to create and work. In 2024, she was awarded an 18-month artist residency by NTC Foundation in ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station to help further these endeavors. In 2025 under TILTshift Dance, she co-organized and presented AADF, San Diego's first Asian American Dance Festival and residency program, centering AAPI dance artists and stories.


Joyce currently teaches at Lynch Dance Institute and Malashock Dance, as well as guest teaches throughout San Diego County. She has proudly serves on the board of Disco Riot since 2014.


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