Awards & Achievements
Accolades
- Outstanding School Award (Youth America Grand Prix)
- Outstanding Champion for the Arts (Arts and Culture)
Gold Medals/First Prizes
- Vienna International Ballet Experience, USA
- Genée International Competition (Royal Academy of Dance), England
- Prix de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Tanzolymp Festival, Berlin
- Vienna International Dance Competition (Wien Welt Wettbewerb)
- Global Dance Challenge
- World Ballet Competition
Medal Recipients
- Varna International Ballet Competition
- Asia Pacific International Ballet Competition
- Helsinki International Ballet Competition
- Japan National Pas de Deux Competition
- Korean International Ballet Competition
- New York International Competition
- Seoul International Dance Competition
- Genee International Ballet Competition
Founders' Awards
- Induction into the Dance Collection Danse Hall of Fame - William J.S. Boyle Dance Luminary Award (2024)
- City of Vancouver, Mayor’s Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement (2017)
- Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013)
- S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award (2012)
- British Columbia Community Achievement Award (2006)
- City of Vancouver Civic Merit Award (2003)
- Induction into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame (2003)
- Chinese Cultural Centre of Great Vancouver Artistic Achievement Award (2001)
Chan Hon Goh C.M., D.Litt Awards
- Lifetime Achievement Award, Women Empowerment Awards (2024)
- Best Teacher Award, Youth America Grand Prix (2018 & 2023)
- Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal (2022)
- Chinese Canadian Legend Award (2022)
- Shelebration Lifetime Achievement Award (2022)
- Honorary Degree Recipient, University of British Columbia (2020)
- Order of Canada (2019)
- Best Teacher Award, World Ballet Competition (2018)
- Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award (2017)
- CPAC Professional Achievement Award (2014)
- Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013)
- YWCA Women of Distinction Award (2013)
- FMA Vancouver Art Achievement Award (2010)
- National Association of Asian American Professionals Top 100 Award (2010)
- Mandarin Profile Female Entrepreneur Award, Fairchild TV Canada (2010)
- Chosen Ambassador for Rolex Canada (2006 – 2009)
- Mandarin Profile Award, Fairchild TV Canada (2008)
- ACCE Entrepreneurial Award for Innovation (Principal Shoes) (2005)
- New Pioneers Arts Award (2005)
- Rocky Mountain Book Award – Finalist Nominee: Beyond the Dance (2005)
- Norma Fleck Award – Finalist Nominee: Beyond the Dance (2003)
- Named an “Outstanding Person of the 20th Century” International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England (2000)
- Named as one of the “Women of Achievement”, Chatelaine Magazine (1988)
- Genèe International Ballet Competition – Silver Medal (1988)
- Honours in Royal Academy of Dance Examinations & Solo Seal Award (1987)
- Finalist, Prix de Lausanne International Competition of Dance, Switzerland (1986)