Pei-Ling Kao 高沛齡 is a Taiwanese choreographer, dance educator, and performer. Since moving to the U.S. in 2007, she has been working with choreographers of different aesthetic frameworks, collaborating with interdisciplinary artists, performing and teaching nationally and internationally, as well as presenting original work via her company PEILING KAO DANCES. Pei-Ling is an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her research and creative interests are focused on movement improvisation, choreography, bicultural and hybrid movement, and interdisciplinary collaboration. She has received the OVPRS Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research and Creative Work in 2025, Board of Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching Award in 2022, Endowment for the Humanities Award in 2023 and 2018, and Junior Faculty Research Award in 2018 from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Pei-Ling was the recipient of the MAP fund in 2021, Lo Man-Fei Dance Fund from Cloud Gate Foundation in Taiwan in 2016, and San Francisco Bay Area’s Isadora Duncan Dance Awards in 2012.