In addition to her career as a ballerina, she serves as artistic director and choreographer for her own ballet school, theYen Han Dance Center, in Zürich, Switzerland.
[citation needed] Yen's father Vi Han is a composer, and her uncle Dali Cao is a painter and professor at the Beijing Art Academy who was awarded the title First Class Artist of China.
[8] Furthermore, Yen Han danced as a protagonist in ballets by Patrice Bart, Bernd Roger Bienert, Mauro Bigonzetti, William Forsythe, Lionel Hoche, Johan Kobborg, Jiří Kylián, Paul Lightfoot & Sol Leon, Hans van Manen, Lin Hwai-min, Filipe Portugal, Heinz Spoerli, Christian Spuck, Alexey Ratmansky, Martin Schläpfer, Twyla Tharp, Jorma Uotinen and Christopher Wheeldon.
Her comic talent found an outlet in a role Christian Spuck created for her in his new ballet Nussknacker und Mausekönig (October 2017), where Yen interprets the Female Clown.
[15] In 2013, while bestowing the first Swiss Dance Award upon her, choreographer and jury member Brigitta Luisa Merki[16] said that "Yen Han is one of Switzerland's best-known female dancers.
Her virtuosity, coupled with a fantastic versatility in the interpretation of a wide range of roles, makes Yen Han a truly exceptional dancer and an extraordinary artist.
"[19] In 2011, Swiss daily newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) described her appearance in the title role of Mats Ek's Sleeping Beauty: "Her defiant glance, her sweeping momentum, those hunchbacked, fast movements, this rage and at the same time forsakenness within her family and the world – incredible how this delicate dancer, who is well-known as a refined classical ballerina, absorbs the Swede's choreographic vocabulary.
It is impressive how the arms of the dancers melt into endless lines, how Yen Han's introspective demeanour attains an absence of gravity which becomes the climax of the evening.