Born in Hong Kong, Yau graduated from Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the program of Bachelor of Fine Art (honors) Degree, majoring in contemporary dance.

During her study, she was awarded the Mainland Exchange scholarship from HSBC to Inner Mongolia for cultural exchange. She represented the HKAPA to perform in Beijing normal university-International Creative Dance Seminar and Hong Kong Dance Company 2011 Macau tour. She was a dancer of Y-Space and now she is a freelance artist.

She is active in different creative media and passionate in improvisation. Recent performance: ON & ON & TURNTURNTURN 20 years with Y-space in 2015; Diffusion of the silence in 2015and Heaven behind the door in 2014 of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Contemporary Dance Series in Hong Kong Arts Festival; The Common Cold in 2014 and 1894 Hong Kong Plague in 2015 with Hong Kong Repertory Theatre; Nature performed in Taiwan with Theatre Ronin in 2016; Christmas around the world in 2013 with Hong Kong Philharmonic.

In 2016, She studied in Vertigo Dance Company and different courses in Israel.