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

  • 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. Awards

  • Beat Teacher Award, Youth America Grand Prix (2018 & 2023)
  • Honorary Degree Recipient, University of British Columbia (2020)
  • Order of Canada (2019)
  • Best Teacher Award, World Ballet Competition (2018)
  • Top 25 Immigrant Award (2017)
  • YWCA Women of Distinction Award (2013)
  • Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013)
  • FMA Vancouver Art Achievement Award (2010)
  • National Association of Asian American Professionals Top 100 Award (NAAAP) (2010)
  • Mandarin Profile Female Entrepreneur Award (2010)
  • New Pioneers Arts Award (2005)
  • Rocky Mountain Book Award – Finalist Nominee: Beyond the Dance (2005)
  • Norma Fleck Award – Finalist nominee: Beyond the Dance (2003)
  • Genèe International Ballet Competition – Silver Medal (1988)
  • Prix de Lausanne (1986)