Celebrating the Chinese New Year of the Ox

For Immediate Release

November 11, 2008

Contact: Nancy Nicolelis

718.898.7002

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Celebrates the Year of the Ox at
South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC)
January 24 and 25, 2009

Golden Phoenix Award to be presented to Dr. Jane Aronson,
Founder of Worldwide Orphans Foundation,
at Chinese New Year Banquet Gala on Sat. January 24th, 2009

Fort Lee, NJ - The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company will celebrate the Year of the Ox at the South Orange Performing Arts Center in South Orange, NJ with a colorful and diverse program of music and dance that includes new and innovative works, as well as the traditional Chinese music and dance favorites.

The Company's celebration will include its annual Chinese New Year Banquet and Performance. This year, at the Banquet on Saturday, January 24, the Company will honor renowned adoption medicine specialist Dr. Jane Aronson, Founder and Executive Medical Director of the Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO), which is headquartered in Maplewood, NJ.

This year there will be two performances to celebrate the Year of the Ox at SOPAC: Saturday, January 24, at 2PM, and Sunday, January 25, at 2 PM. Continuing one of its most colorful traditions, at 4 PM on both Saturday and Sunday, the Company will host a festive New Year Banquet and Gala on the premises of SOPAC. A12-course Chinese New Year Banquet will be prepared by award-winning chef Ni of the Chinatown Restaurant in Harrison, NJ, which was awarded a five star rating from the New York Daily News food critic.

Ticket prices for both the banquet and performance are $95 per Adult and $39 per Child. Tickets for the performance only are $35 per Adult and $19 per Child. For those who have already purchased tickets for the performance from SOPAC, the additional cost of the banquet is $60 per Adult and $20 per Child

About The Celebration of Year of the Ox

On the Chinese lunar calendar, each year is symbolized by a different animal, and each cycle is represented by one of the five fundamental elements that the ancient Chinese believed made up the universe: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth.

This auspicious 4707th Chinese New Year is the Year of the Wood Ox. To celebrate this great occasion, the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company will perform some of the most treasured traditional dances performed at the Chinese New Year—the Lion Dance and the Dragon Dance. Originated during the Tang Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago, these dances celebrate the coming of the spring and the harmony between nature and humankind. Showcasing the diversity of the traditional and contemporary Chinese performing arts, the company will perform a colorful folk dance from the Xingjian Province, an area near Central Asia on the Silk Road.

Besides the traditional favorites, choreographer Nai-Ni Chen will also premiere a new dance she has choreographed, New Frontier, which will be accompanied by live music performed by four-time Grammy Award-winning musician Glen Velez (www.GlenVelez.com).

This special Chinese New Year Celebration also will present some of the most skillful craft artists in New Jersey’s Chinese-American community in SOPAC’s lobby on the day of the performance. More Info about the performance and the Company can be found online at: www.nainichen.org

About World Wide Orphan Foundation (WWO) and Dr. Aronson

Founded in 1997, WWO’s mission is to transform the lives of orphaned children around the world by addressing their unique needs through medical, developmental, psychosocial and educational programs. WWO programs are designed to take children out of anonymity and help them to become healthy, productive members of their communities and the world. Among WWO’s worldwide endeavors is a humanitarian program in China. Dr. Aronson also has served as a medical consultant and provider to numerous American families who have adopted children from China, many of whom regularly attend the performances of the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company throughout the U.S. For more info on Dr. Aronson and WWO, please visit: www.wwo.org.

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What: Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Chinese New Year celebration
Where: South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC)
One SOPAC Way, South Orange, NJ 07079
When: Saturday, January 24th, 2 PM and Sunday, January 25th, 2 PM
(each performance followed by a New Year Banquet at 4 PM)
Tickets: Performance and Banquet: $95 per Adult; $39 per Child
Performance Only: $35 per Adult; $19 per Child
Group discounts and special packages are available.

To Order Tickets
Call: 973. 313.ARTS (2787)
Online: www.sopacnow.org

Special sponsorship packages are also available:

Individual Contributor Package, $120: Includes one Performance and Banquet ticket and a DVD signed by the dancers.

Corporate Table Package, $2,000: Includes Performance and Banquet tickets for 12 Adults and 2 Children, a half page ad in the event program and a DVD signed by the dancers.

Review by Joel Benjamin for TheatreScene.net

TheatreScene.net

The NAI-NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY offers six works combining an Asian sensibility with western modern dance styles danced by eight terrific, talented performers.




NAI-NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY
at the Ailey Citigroup Theater

by

Joel Benjamin


Nai-Ni Chen, a Taiwan native, brought her attractive company to the Ailey Citigroup Theater for two performances on May 23rd & 24th (at 8 p.m.). She showed six works all inspired by events, sites and legends of her native China.


"Raindrops" for four women dressed in pale, long, tunics over brighter-colored pants, was an homage to her hometown, Keelong, known as Rain Harbor. To the sounds of bells and bongs the four dancers--Julie Fiorenza, Chu-Ying Ku, Teri Miller & Lindsay Parker--rose out of a group pose into little worlds of their own in different sections of the stage. They came together in pairs and threes, skittering and lunging and finally, carrying lovely parasols, playfully interacted in elegant, picturesque ways. They ended in a tight group, posing quietly. "Raindrops" had an almost picture postcard feel, tempered by the light sensuality of the free-flowing modern dance steps.

"Incense," danced by Ms. Firorenza, Ms. Miller and two men, Noibis Licea & Qiao Zeng, has meant to recall the lightness of a rising incense haze, but came ac=oss as much heavier in tone. The dancers, all in white, the men barechested, kept grouping and regrouping, swooping about the stage using un=ulating gestures and some light lifts. Sometimes three dancers danced against a faster moving soloist and sometimes they formed two couples but most often they danced alone, coming together in a sculptural pole in which three dancers crouched together while one hovered above them, raised arms lightly moving as in a benediction. The incense imagery simply didn't come across, not helped by a score by Joan La Barbara which featured humming over harsher, machinelike sounds.

"On the River of Dreams" showed the closest thing to an emotional relationship in the entire program. To a boinging score of percussion and strings by Forr=st Fang, Lindsey Parker and Ziao Zeng portrayed a ferryman and his fare who= according to the Ms. Chen's program note, was the "spirit of the water."&n=sp; Mr. Zeng, barechested, in loose black pants, hoisted a long bamboo pole pulling Ms. Parker, in rose & gray along with him. (Costumes by Karen Young.) Using swift, flatfooted steps, they travelled about the stage, often entwining. The ferryman's pole was used to lift his passenger and became, in turn, a bridge over the water, his oar and a symbol of high connection to his spirit. She leapt at him and hung off the pole, movements interrupted by more peaceful periods of movements
tranversing the stage. Ms. Chin created a lovely picture here with just the hint of sexuality.

"The Way of Five, No. 2 - Fire" was a part of a longer work dealing with the five elements of Chinese mythology: wood, fire, water, metal and earth. Dressed in tights. Chen's bright red costumes and moving to a score of cello against drums by Tan Dun), the five dancers followed the pattern set by earlier work and kept coming together and then apart, with the lone man, Mr. Licea, lifting some of the women. The movements had a slightly sharper quality and the ending in which all fall into slides on their stomachs along a good portion of the playing was exciting.

"The Way of Fire, No. 3 - Water" opened the second half of the program. The six dancers wore lovely, translucent white robes designed by Anna-Alisa Belou and danced to a multi-dimensional and subtle percussion score commissioned from Gerald Chenoweth. The featured movement motif here was softly treading whirling, perhaps to indicate the water theme. Again, the dancers worked in groups against each other and combined undulating upper body movements with curlicue arm gestures and, again, the work ended in a sculptural pose with one lovely dancer on top gesturing out to the audience.

The final work was, by far, the most interesting movement-wise. "Unfolding" was ori=inally performed out of doors at Wave Hill in the Bronx and this expansiveness showed even on the smallish stage of the Ailey Center. The three men (now including Wei Yao), barechested and in dark pants were discovered curled up on the stage as the four women in layered, diagonally patterned costumes in red, gold and blue entered and variously touched and rearranged them. The men variously carried and lifted the women and moved amongst them creating many combinations of partners. This was the first work to have large jumps and some movements that resembled martial arts jabs and falls. The music by Harry Lee featured voices humming and shouting above percussive sounds and it created a lively environment in which the dancers related combatively in almost a battle of the se=es in which both sexes pretty much moved the same way. "Unfolding" built to a solid climax of jumps.

NAI-NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY has eight terrific dancers who are completely immersed in Ms. Chen's style of movement which combines a kind of Martha Graham-lite with Asian gestures and philosophy. They are all beautiful to look at and very much involved in whatever they are asked to do.

However, Ms. Chen needs to introduce some humor into her work. The works were almost too beautiful, lacking any deep emotion and sexuality. Mind you, the ballets weren't dreary or even too dark, just too meditative with say too many slow motion movements, as if the dancers were moving through water. The moods of these six works were made to seem different through the brilliant lighting Susan Summers and A.C. Hickox. Ms. Chen's over-achieving program notes didn't help, either. She clearly wanted u= to understand what inspired her to choreograph each piece, but fewer words and clearer choreography would paint the pictures better. Each of the program notes could have been reduced to ten words and have a stronger effort, letting the audience decide what each work meant.

In the end, the NAI-NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY displayed an original artist=c vision, fine performances by eight beautifully trained dancers, great cos=umes and lighting and a yearning for depth not quite found. The works were never uninteresting to the eye, but more variation would have spiced up the show.


NAI-NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY
Nai-Ni Chen, Artistic Director and Choreographer
Dancers: Selena Chau, Julie Fiorenza, Chu-Ying Ku, Noibis Licea, Teri Miller, Lindsey Parker, Wei Yao & Qiao Zeng

at the Ailey Citigroup Theater
405 West 55th St.
New York, NY 10019

NY Season Release in Chinese

陳乃霓舞團
週五， 六 (五月廿三日及 廿四)
于艾力劇場 公演
水 火

本週五， 六 (五月廿三日及 廿四) ， 華裔現代舞蹈家陳乃霓將率領她的精華
舞者于 405 W 55 ST ( 9th Ave) 艾力劇場 (Ailey Citigroup Theater) 演出她
的最新作品(五行之二) 水 ，(五行之一) 火 ， 以及她近年發展的數支代表性的作
品。

陳乃霓舞蹈團是紐約哈林區著名哈林藝術學校的駐校藝術團體。她個人在新州潛心
發展以天地的自然為師的舞蹈語言，並在主流社區中發揚中華文化的真精神。以她
在文化大學中所受到的中國古典文化的熏陶，加上她從美國各現代舞蹈宗師的課堂
作品中，領悟到的兼容並包、寬大自由的情懷，自創一派。她的風格獨特，與一般
時下的前衛風格完全不同。在紐約舞蹈節中演出時，紐約時報主要舞評珍妮佛‧鄧
寧曾說：[ 陳乃霓慧眼獨具，妙法自然，她的編舞手法極具自信，如海中的暗濤洶
湧，使舞蹈進入一個個新的高潮 ]。由於她的努力不懈，她的舞蹈團已發展為美國
舞蹈界中極少見的純表演性質的職業舞蹈團。她的藝術成就，並得美國國家藝術基
金會的認同，年年的巡迴演出，在美國各大劇院佳評如潮。在歐洲及亞洲也到極高
的評價。去年，她得到美國總統藝術協會的獎金，巡迴墨西哥七大城。

最近， 星條報(Star Ledger) 專業舞評強森(Robert Johnson) 指出 她的舞蹈[
優雅具活力，充滿了無形的氣勢]，波士頓鳳凰報權威舞評希高(Marcia Siegel)
說 [ 她的舞蹈將中華文化的養料帶入了現代舞的世界]。

這次演出，除了她的最新作品(五行之二) 水 以及(五行之一) 火 之外，
陳乃霓將演出她的兩首得意作品-- 香 及 衍。 香 以希臘神壇雕塑為主題，由作
曲家瓊芭柏拉(Joan La Barbara) 作曲。 衍是數年前，陳乃霓得到中大西洋藝術
基金會(Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation) 藝術獎金與韓國丈鼓(Chang-Go)名家李
伍碩聯手合作，發展以易經中天行健為題的越界現代舞(Cross-Cultural Contemporary
Dance)。

觀眾若想看陳乃霓舞蹈團的演出，請早訂票 ( 成人$30 / 學生$15 )，訂票電話(800)650-
0246 (留言)，網址: www.nainichen.org
劇院地址是 405 West 55 Street (9th Ave), New York, NY 10011. 門口售
票。

Combat and rain
Nai-Ni Chen at John Hancock Hall
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL
The Phoenix
May 13, 2008 11:58:40 AM



Taiwanese choreographer Nai-Ni Chen danced with Cloud Gate Dance Theater before moving to New York in 1982, and her work, like theirs, is a suave amalgam of traditional Chinese elements and modern dance. Chen’s company of 10 dancers appeared Saturday night at John Hancock Hall, sponsored by the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts. The program demonstrated how the traditions can nourish contemporary dance, with practical tools like movement and symbolic objects as well as philosophical and literary themes.

Chen’s movement style was showcased in the opening piece, Raindrops, for four women. Wearing pastel silk halter-top jumpsuits with flying panels of silk front and back, the women clustered together at first, revolving and lifting their arms with palms upraised. They skimmed across the floor in tiny sidesteps and tilted swirls, their torsos undulating in elegant zigzags and curves. With small sudden jumps or abrupt tumbles to the ground, they’d interrupt their swift trajectories, then recover.

The music, by three composers (Henry Wolff, Robert Rich, and Sainkho Namtchylak), changed from high, resonant bells to deep gamelan gongs to rhythmic drumming with Jew’s harp and electronics. After the meditative beginning, the women danced with rice-paper umbrellas, possibly celebrating the rain they’d been praying for. Then they returned to their quick running and jumping patterns for a lively celebration.

Following Chinese dance conventions, Chen’s men and women almost always dance separately, or at least in separate styles. But though the women looked decorative and moved in small spheres most of the time, they never looked cute or doll-like to me. In fact, with the incorporation of martial-arts skills, they could oppose the men in contests of attack and evasion — a duet or a duel with fans in The Way of Five — No. 2, an escalating group counterpoint of dominance, submission, and recuperation in Unfolding.

To show the classical roots of these encounters, Chen included a dance for an acrobatic warrior from China’s Kunqu opera, as adapted and performed by Yao-Zhong Zhang. A former actor with the Shanghai Kuan Opera troupe, Zhang stomped on his platform shoes, stroked the long feathers streaming out of his headdress, and twirled two spear-like batons while doing helicopter turns.

In Chinese opera, you overcome your opponent with athletic prowess and intimidate him by means of resplendent costumes, headgear, and make-up rather than brute force. Weapons evolved into fans, to deceive and surprise. Similarly, long sleeves attached to a robe could conceal and, when flung out around the character’s body, dazzle and distract. Nai-Ni Chen described gorgeous white halos and ripples around herself in Passage to the Silk River. But she wasn’t only manipulating the sleeves, she was dancing herself, in clever chaîné turns and flourishes that animated the silk.

Six women carried eight-foot-long rods in Bamboo Prayer, making the flexible props into extensions of their bodies. Held vertical as the dancers ran in circles, the sticks swayed like saplings. Thrust along the floor or placed in certain patterns, they could link the dancers, provide grids for stepping games, or perhaps even invoke magic spells.

Chen’s program notes told us about the legends and metaphysical images that underlay all these dances. Lindsey Parker represented the spirit of the river and Qiao Zeng the fisherman getting his sustenance from her spring floods. But watching the dance, I thought they could have been lovers or even lifelong companions on a fateful journey, as he poled an invisible boat and she hovered around him.

For the finale, Festival, the whole company joined in a procession of dancing, tumbling, flag dances and a calligraphic extravaganza of long silk scarves in bright colors, foaming and spurting above the stage.

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company New York City Season 2008!

Book tickets now by calling 800-650-0246 or visit www.nainichen.org

Nai-Ni Chen Teaches Technique and Repertory Workshop at Peridance

Nai-Ni Chen will be conducting an intensive workshop at Peridance

June 9-13
11:30 am

Call Peridance at 212-505-0886
or visit Peridance

Peridance Center
International Dance School
890 Broadway
6th Floor
New York, NY

NAI-NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY SEEKS DANCERS FOR OUR 2008-09 SEASON

The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company is seeking full-time male and female dancers for
our 2008-09 season.
Strong dance technique and
performance background are required.

All ethnic backgrounds are welcome.

Appropriate attire required; leotard preferred.
Please bring current résumé and photo to the audition.

National touring and
educational programs year round

Work begins in July 2008
Call the Company to make an audition appointment at 800-650-0246

or email matthew@nainichen.org

Auditions
June 12 & 13, 2-6 pm

Callback
June 16, 12-4 pm

at
Harlem School of the Arts
645 St. Nicholas Ave. (between 141 & 145 Sts)
New York

Subways
A/B/C/D to 145 St

To find out more about the Company,
visit our website
www.nainichen.org

REMINDER!
Join us for our 2008

New York Season!
Ailey Citygroup Theater
May 23 & 24 at 8 pm

Call for tickets: 800-650-0246
or visit
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company

Adult
$30
Student/Senior/Child
$15

Ailey Citigroup Theater
405 W. 55 St.
New York, NY

Review: Graceful and dynamic, Nai-Ni Chen troupe summons potent flow of Chinese energy

Monday, April 21, 2008
BY ROBERT JOHNSON
Star-Ledger Staff

DANCE

Although she spends most of her time now sculpting movements that other people will perform, choreographer Nai-Ni Chen remains a wonderful dancer. Whenever she returns to the stage, in a solo like "Passage to the Silk River," Chen's grace and agility elevate performances by her Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company to a higher plane.

Chen danced "Passage to the Silk River" again, on Friday, probably so her company could recover between two athletic, full-throttle dances. Yet once again Chen's unassuming presence, draped in a white robe with long sleeves that descended below her hands, immediately brought the evening into sharper focus. The troupe, which is based in Fort Lee, appeared at the Theater of Raritan Valley Community College, in North Branch.

Curiously in this quiet, inward-looking solo the gushing images that the performer creates with the traditional "water sleeves" of her costume seem to emerge from her reverie. Despite the fleeting definition of sharply cut shapes, the dance has a restless quality and it can surprise -- for example, in a passage where Chen drops suddenly for a roll on the ground that exposes her feet. While "Passage to the Silk River" seems to hold opposing tendencies in balance, Chen's gentle expression lends the work poetry. She seems as spontaneous and free as a cloud passing overhead.

The group numbers on this satisfying program of (mostly) contemporary dance evinced a broad, dynamic range, from the delicacy of "Raindrops," where hands extended to catch the spattering rain or mimicked the torrent's course along the ground, to the impassioned duel between Selena Chau and Noibis Licea that comes at the center of "The Way of Five -- Fire." Yet in all these pieces, the transfer of energy seems to complete a cycle.

Rooted in traditional Chinese philosophy, Chen's work has a holistic quality that relates to the guided flow of "chi" energy through the body and across the stage. In "Raindrops," the dancers relay a movement impulse across space without touching, as if exchanging an air kiss. In "Unfolding," the dancers' wrists connect as if to pass an electric current. The performers draw deep breaths and empty their lungs, yet their motion remains calm, effortless and sustained. This use of breath may remind some viewers of the way a swimmer turns his head to gulp a mouthful of air, without interrupting his body's efficient slice through the water.

Chen sometimes uses simple props, as well as bodies, to define the stage space. Qiao Zeng was a fisherman punting upstream in "The River of Dreams," where his pole became a line dividing up and downstage areas, back and front. The pole also connects Zeng to the river spirit (Lindsey Parker) who is his constant companion; and it supports their intermingling.


In contrast, the batons that guest artist Lu Wen-Long deployed in his solo "The Legend of the Double Spear Warrior," were for virtuosic effect, making this spectacularly costumed but slightly off-balance excerpt from Kunque Opera resemble a kind of halftime show.

With its masked folkloric characters and towering giantess, the concluding "Festival" offered more than just a reduced version of the beloved Chinese New Year celebration that is a highlight of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center's dance season. Yet here, too, intensely hued ribbons dazzled as the dancers tossed the ribbons in vivid streams, and wrapped themselves in whorls of bright fabric.


Robert Johnson may be reached at rjohnson@starledger.com.

NEW YORK CITY SEASON 2008

NEW YORK CITY SEASON
May 23 & 24, 2008
Limited Engagement - Book your seats now!

NAI-NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY
New York City Season 2008
at the
AILEY CITIGROUP THEATER
A diverse program of contemporary dance
celebrating the extraordinary work of
Nai-Ni Chen

"Three-dimensional poetry" - The Village Voice

Friday, May 23
Saturday, May 24
8 pm

Featuring
The Way of Five, No. 3 - Water
The Way of Five, No. 2 - Fire
(New York City premieres)
Raindrops
Incense
Unfolding
The River of Dreams

Artistic Director/Choreographer
Nai-Ni Chen

Dancers
Selena Chau, Julie Fiorenza,
Chu-Ying Ku, Noibis Licea, Teri Miller,
Lindsey Parker, Wei Yao, Qiao Zeng

THE AILEY STUDIOS
405 W. 55 Street
New York, NY


Tickets
$30 Adults
$15 Students/Seniors/Children

"Like endlessly proliferating forces of cosmic energy"
-The New York Times

To make reservations, call the Company at
(800) 650-0246
or visit
www.nainichen.org

Spring News!

Spring Newsletter

March 2008

The 2007-08 season is proving to be one of our busiest and most successful to date. With performances at home in New York and New Jersey and a busy touring schedule, as well as extensive dance-in-education involvement across the tri-state area, Nai-Ni and her talented dancers continue to be in high demand for performances, master classes, and workshops throughout the year.

"Chen... brings wide-ranging experience and sophistication."
-Robert Johnson
Star-Ledger

If you are a presenter, school or university interested in booking the Company or would like further information about our programs, please contact us at:

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
PO Box 1121
Fort Lee, NJ
07024

info@nainichen.org
www.nainichen.org

(800) 650-0246


The Year of the Rat Celebrating the
Chinese New Year!
The Company recently presented its tenth annual Chinese New Year celebration at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center's Victoria Theater in Newark.

During a week-long series of performances, the Company entertained both school and family audiences with a diverse program, from the traditional Lion and Triple Peacock dances to the premiere of Nai-Ni's latest contemporary work, The Way of Five, No. 3 - Water, with a commissioned score by Gerald Chenoweth performed live onstage by The Rutgers Percussion Ensemble live onstage.

"...a dynamic work that crackled and burned with passionate energy."

-Robert Johnson
Star-Ledger
(on The Way of Five, No. 2 - Fire)


Winter Tour

Continuing their winter engagements, Nai-Ni and the dancers recently traveled to cities in Virginia, Wisconsin, Michigan, New Jersey and New York, exposing new audiences to the Company's unique style.

A highlight of this tour was the performance at the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit, home of the prestigious Detroit Symphony Orchestra. From an audience of over 1,500 people, thedancers received a standing ovation for their program of works celebrating the Chinese New Year.

Moving into Spring, in addition to performances in Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Maryland, and Texas, the Company performed on March 9 as part of the Dance New Jersey Show Up & Dance Showcase at the Two Rivers Theater, Red Bank, New Jersey.
A Leader in Dance Education!

Education remains a strong focus for the Company. Programs at Shuang Wen School in Manhattan's Chinatown, the Asian Studies program at Symphony Space, also in Manhattan, and Project Poetry Live! in partnership with Litchfield Performing Arts, Connecticut, continue to enhance the Company's strong reputation in the field of dance and cultural education.

Company dancer Noibis Licea is currently guest teaching at Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) in New York. His dynamic and challenging Afro-Cuban class is proving very popular among the Lower Manhattan dance community!

Visit DNA for class times and prices!

NNCDC Performs at Two Rivers Theater, Red Bank, NJ

See Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company perform the exhilirating
Way of Five, No. 2 - Fire
at
Dance New Jersey's
Show Up & Dance event this Sunday, March 9!

Performance at 4 pm

Two River Theatre
21 Bridge Avenue
Red Bank, NJ

Dance New Jersey
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
PO Box 1121
Fort Lee, New Jersey 07024
1-800-650-0246

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Presenting the cross-cultural works
of Nai-Ni Chen at the
American Performing Arts Presenters Conference 2008

"... dripping with powerful emotion, wet and raw with new life."
Tresca Weinstein, Times Union, Albany, NY

The Company will present a diverse and entertaining selection of Nai-Ni's choreography, from traditional Chinese dances to challenging and thought-provoking contemporary works. Demonstrating the versatility of the Company's repertory and the performance and residency options available, the program will include Festival, a traditionally inspired work based on dragon boat races in China; The Way of Five, No. 2, a contemporary work with martial arts influences; and an excerpt from the multimedia piece Tianji/ Dragons on the Wall. Please visit our representative, Joanne Rile Artists Management, during the conference, and we look forward to seeing you at one of the showcase performances listed below.

City Center Studios
130 West 56th Street
New York, NY

Saturday, January 12
8:00 pm
Studio 5

Sunday, January 13
10:00 am
Studio 4

8:00 pm
Studio 5

Residency and education programs available
Represented by Joanne Rile Artists Management
215-885-6400/ info@rilearts.com
Booth: Americas Hall 2, #708