Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company announces 9/20-9/23 Schedule for The Bridge, Free One-Hour Company Classes on Zoom
Announces
The Bridge
Virtual Dance Institute of boundary-breaking dance experiences
Free One-Hour Company Class on Zoom
Open to All Dancers at an Intermediate to
Advanced Level
In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company has established a new dance institute through Zoom, The Bridge. The Institute’s aim is to bring together dancers, choreographers and directors around the world to experience the master teachers of color whose practices are embedded in the community and are focused on advancing the art of dance that transform the personal, environmental and metaphysical spaces.
Interested
dancers can join the class by registering on Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company’s
website: https://www.nainichen.org/thebridge.
As a virtual dance institute, The Bridge will invite world renowned as well as up and coming dancers and choreographer to come to guest teach the class. Advanced/Intermediate level professional or pre-professional dancers who are looking to explore beyond their own boundaries and looking for new dance experiences are encouraged to participate. The core program is based on Nai-Ni Chen’s Kinetic Spiral, which is a cross-cultural dance vocabulary that integrates the Chinese martial arts philosophy in TaiChi with contemporary dance practices she studied in America. Guest artists will cover a wide range of folk and classical dance styles.
The Bridge Class schedule are as follows: (all classes meet at 11 AM)
Week of 9/20/2021
Monday Nai-Ni Chen (Kinetic Spiral)
Tuesday Zhongmei Li (Chinese Classical Dance)
Wednesday Greta Campo (Kinetic Spiral)
Thursday Peiju Chien Pott (Graham (Modern)
About Nai-Ni Chen's
Kinetic Spiral
Tap into the creative
energy of the universe through Kinetic Spiral. Nai-Ni Chen’s signature
technique is based on the principle of ever-changing universal forces of Yin
and Yang. Dance phrases from Nai-Ni Chen’s repertory will be taught.
Zhongmei Li will teach
one of the most well known Chinese classical dance technique, the Duanghuang
technique based on contemporary interpretation of the movement of the painted
figures in the ancient caves of Duanhuang Grotto. The fantastic paintings in
the caves were created in the Tang Dynasty by Buddhist monks travelling on the
Silk Road.
Graham Technique is part
of the foundation of modern dance today. Join Peiju for a great graham class
today!
In this trying time of change and uncertainty, the arts is a source of healing and unity, we would like to encourage everyone to support dance as dance is an essential medicine for the society to recover from the pandemic that has caused injury to our bodies and our hearts. Support for The Bridge can be sent through https://nainichen.org/donate.
About the Artists
Greta Campo is the Associate Artistic Director of the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, She began her dance training in her native Milan at the Carcano Theater, where she was first introduced to Martha Graham’s work. She performed with the Martha Graham Dance Company in their 2012 New York Season and later on their international tour. Greta is a recipient of the 2016 Rising Star Award from the Fini Dance Festival.
Peiju Chien-Pott joined the Graham Company in 2011. She received
the Positano Premia La Danza 2014 award for Best Contemporary Dancer, was named
one of the year’s “Best Performers” in 2014 and 2017 by Dance Magazine, was an
honoree of the “Women’s History Month” by Hudson County and received a 2017
Bessie award for Outstanding Performer. Ms. Chien-Pott has created lead roles
by many of the world’s most celebrated choreographers including Nacho Duato,
Mats Ek, and Andonis Foniadakis. She graduated with a BFA. from Taipei National
University of the Arts, and has since been honored with their Outstanding
Alumni Award. She recently received an Outstanding Dance Artist Award from the
government of Taiwan.
Zhongmei Li began her dance training at the Beijing Dance
Academy, China’s foremost dance institution, and continued in the U. S. winning
full scholarships to study at both the Alvin Ailey and Martha Graham schools.
She performed on Broadway in the long-running musical “The King and I,” and she
earned a master’s degree in fine arts at the Tisch School at New York
University. In 1994, she created the Zhongmei Dance Company, with which she
performed all over the United States. In addition, she has performed in many
other countries, including Singapore, France, Israel, and Brazil. She is a regular
guest performer with the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. Zhongmei’s story is available
in a non-fiction book, “A Girl Named Faithful Plum,” by Richard Bernstein.
About Nai-Ni Chen
Hailed as a Spiritual
Choreographer by Dance Magazine and recipient of multiple choreographic
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and New Jersey State
Council on the Arts, Nai-Ni Chen has been creating dances professionally
for over thirty years in the United States. She has built a diverse repertory
of over 80 original works and toured to major venues in the US and
international contemporary dance festivals in 12 countries. She will be
teaching her signature technique KINETIC SPIRAL which is a blend of the
dynamic, ever-evolving spirit of contemporary dance and the grace and splendor
of the Asian artistic traditions.
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
A blossom of color, energy and motion, “like endlessly proliferating forces of cosmic energy,” said The New York Times.
