Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Announces Dancers For “The Bridge” April 26-30

(FORT LEE, NJ) —  In the midst of the COVID-19 disaster, the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Business has recognized a new dance institute through Zoom, The Bridge.  The Institute’s goal is to convey collectively dancers, choreographers and directors all over the globe to knowledge the grasp instructors of shade whose practices are embedded in the group and are targeted on advancing the art of dance that completely transform the personalized, environmental and metaphysical spaces. 

Fascinated dancers can be a part of the class by registering on Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company’s website.

As a digital dance institute, The Bridge will invite globe renowned as perfectly as up and coming dancers and choreographer to arrive to visitor educate the course. Advanced/Intermediate level specialist or pre-qualified dancers who are wanting to check out past their possess boundaries and searching for new dance ordeals are inspired to participate.

The core system is primarily 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 modern dance techniques she studied in The us. Guest artists will include a huge variety of folk and classical dance styles.

In this trying time of adjust and uncertainty, the arts is a resource of therapeutic and unity, we would like to persuade every person to aid dance as dance is an critical medicine for the modern society to get well from the pandemic that has prompted injury to our bodies and our hearts. Support for The Bridge can be made on-line.

The Bridge Class agenda are as follows for 7 days of 4/26/2021

Monday Seyong Kim (Ballet)

Tuesday Yuka Notsuka (Kinetic Spiral) at 11:00am

Wednesday Nai-Ni Chen (Kinetic Spiral) at 11:00am

Thursday Barkha Patel (Modern day Indian Dance) at 11:00am

Friday Greta Campo (Kinetic Spiral) at 11:00am

Greta Campo is the Associate Inventive Director of the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, She started her dance training in her indigenous Milan at the Carcano Theater, where by she was 1st launched to Martha Graham’s operate. She executed with the Martha Graham Dance Company in their 2012 New York Time and later on on their intercontinental tour. Greta is a recipient of the 2016 Increasing Star Award from the Fini Dance Pageant.

Seyong Kim, Assistant Professor at Western Michigan University, holds an MA in Dance Education and learning from NYU. He is a Licensed Movement Analyst, a Registered Somatic Motion Educator, and an ABT® Licensed Teacher. He has taught in Rutgers University, Kent Point out University, Randolph Faculty, Peridance, and Charlottesville Ballet. He has professionally labored with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Albania National Ballet Theatre, Baltimore Ballet, Neglia Ballet, Oakland Ballet, Traverse Town Dance Project, Just take Dance, and Landestheater Coburg Germany.

Yuka Notsuka was born in Fukuoka, Japan, is a member of the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Corporation. She started her Ballet schooling in her hometown at age four. Afterwards she broadened her coaching to consist of Jazz and Tap. Later Yuka moved to New York City to even further go after her occupation as a dancer. In 2015 she entered the Ailey University as a scholarship student. She executed in Ailey Spirit Gala Concert at Lincoln Middle choreographed by Tracy Inman (Co-Director, The Ailey College) and Robert Battle (Creative director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater). Yuka joined the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company in 2017. She also has been in training and served as Instructing Assistant at the Luigi Jazz Dance Centre under Francis J. Roach.

Barkha Patel is an Indian classical Kathak dancer, choreographer, and educator. As a preservationist of Kathak dance, Barkha believes in sharing tales via abhinaya, deep facial expressions, and nritta, traditional and ground breaking movement. Just lately, Barkha done her choreographic fellowship with Jersey Moves and obtained the prestigious Choreographer Fellowship from the New Jersey Condition Council on the Arts. As an educator, Barkha conducts dance courses and grasp workshops in New York and New Jersey.

Hailed as a Religious Choreographer by Dance Magazine and recipient of numerous choreographic fellowships from the Countrywide Endowment for the Arts and New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Nai-Ni Chen has been creating dances skillfully for in excess of thirty years in the United States. She has constructed a varied repertory of about 80 original will work and toured to key venues in the US and worldwide modern day dance festivals in 12 nations. She will be training her signature method KINETIC SPIRAL which is a blend of the dynamic, at any time-evolving spirit of contemporary dance and the grace and splendor of the Asian creative traditions.

A blossom of colour, strength and movement, “like endlessly proliferating forces of cosmic strength,” said The New York Periods.

About the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Firm

Bringing the dynamic independence of American contemporary dance jointly with the elegant splendor of Asian art, the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Business is 1 of the most noticeable Asian American dance providers in the United States. Ms. Chen’s distinctive choreography transports audiences further than cultural boundaries to the prevalent floor involving tradition and innovation, discipline and flexibility, and form and spirit.

Given that its inception in 1988, the company has attained a wide base of general public guidance and has toured extensively to key carrying out arts facilities through a lot more than 30 states. Presented by some of the most prestigious concert halls in the United States, from the Joyce Theater in New York to the Ordway Center in Minnesota and the Cerritos Heart in California, the Corporation has mounted more than 20 national tours and 9 excursions abroad. Ms. Chen’s function has been presented by this kind of acclaimed international festivals as the Silesian Global Up to date Dance Festival and the Konfrontations Intercontinental Dance Pageant, both in Poland, the Chang Mu International Arts Competition in Korea and the Fulfill in Beijing Intercontinental Arts Competition. The Enterprise was also honored by a unique grant award from the two the President’s Committee on Arts and Humanities and the Section of Point out to symbolize the United States in a seven-city tour arranged by the Tamaulipas International Arts Pageant in Mexico. Also, the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Enterprise has the unique honor of owning gained a lot more than fifteen awards from the Nationwide Endowment for the Arts and various Citations of Excellence and grants from the New Jersey Condition Council on the Arts.

In addition to its comprehensive season of touring and doing, the organization has created Arts in Training residency plans in university districts to convey tradition and arts into educational options. It’s colourful and participating in-university assembly system “The Artwork of Chinese Dance” has been presented in hundreds of schools in NJ, NY, CT and PA, reaching hundreds of 1000’s of youth. The Corporation is at present in-residence at New Jersey City College and assisting NJCU in the growth of a new BFA in Dance.