Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Announces Dancers for The Bridge: Week of July 5

(FORT LEE, NJ) — In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company has founded a new dance institute as a result of Zoom, The Bridge.  The Institute’s intention is to provide alongside one another dancers, choreographers and directors close to the environment to experience the learn teachers of shade whose tactics are embedded in the community and are focused on advancing the artwork of dance that transform the particular, environmental and metaphysical areas. 

Fascinated dancers can join the course by registering on Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company’s internet site.

As a virtual dance institute, The Bridge will invite environment renowned as well as up and coming dancers and choreographer to appear to visitor educate the course. Superior/Intermediate stage specialist or pre-qualified dancers who are looking to explore outside of their possess boundaries and hunting for new dance activities are encouraged to participate.

The core plan 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 up to date dance tactics she examined in America. Guest artists will address a huge variety of folks and classical dance designs.

In this trying time of transform and uncertainty, the arts is a source of therapeutic and unity, we would like to stimulate all people to help dance as dance is an crucial medicine for the modern society to get well from the pandemic that has induced injury to our bodies and our hearts. Support for The Bridge can be built online.

The Bridge Class agenda for the week of 7/5/2021 is as follows:

Tuesday Seyong Kim (Ballet) at 11:00am

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

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

The Bridge will hold courses Monday-Thursday for the remainder of the summer due to the schedules of instructors and contributors.

About the Artists

Greta Campo is the Affiliate Inventive Director of the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Business, She started her dance training in her indigenous Milan at the Carcano Theater, the place she was initial released to Martha Graham’s operate. She performed with the Martha Graham Dance Business in their 2012 New York Season and afterwards on their international tour. Greta is a recipient of the 2016 Increasing Star Award from the Fini Dance Pageant.

Seyong Kim, Assistant Professor at Western Michigan College, holds an MA in Dance Training from NYU. He is a Licensed Motion Analyst, a Registered Somatic Motion Educator, and an ABT® Accredited Trainer. He has taught in Rutgers College, Kent State University, Randolph Faculty, Peridance, and Charlottesville Ballet. He has skillfully labored with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Albania National Ballet Theatre, Baltimore Ballet, Neglia Ballet, Oakland Ballet, Traverse Metropolis Dance Challenge, Consider Dance, and Landestheater Coburg Germany

Hailed as a Non secular Choreographer by Dance Magazine and receiver of various choreographic fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and New Jersey Point out Council on the Arts, Nai-Ni Chen has been building dances skillfully for in excess of thirty yrs in the United States. She has designed a varied repertory of over 80 initial functions and toured to main venues in the US and global contemporary dance festivals in 12 countries. She will be training her signature strategy KINETIC SPIRAL which is a mix of the dynamic, ever-evolving spirit of modern day dance and the grace and splendor of the Asian inventive traditions.

Bringing the dynamic liberty of American modern dance collectively with the stylish splendor of Asian art, the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Enterprise is one particular of the most visible Asian American dance businesses in the United States. Ms. Chen’s exceptional choreography transports audiences over and above cultural boundaries to the prevalent floor involving custom and innovation, discipline and freedom, and sort and spirit.

Considering that its inception in 1988, the company has acquired a broad base of public help and has toured thoroughly to significant performing arts facilities through much more than 30 states. Presented by some of the most prestigious live performance halls in the United States, from the Joyce Theater in New York to the Ordway Heart in Minnesota and the Cerritos Centre in California, the Firm has mounted more than 20 nationwide excursions and nine excursions abroad. Ms. Chen’s work has been offered by such acclaimed intercontinental festivals as the Silesian Global Modern Dance Festival and the Konfrontations Global Dance Competition, each in Poland, the Chang Mu Worldwide Arts Pageant in Korea and the Fulfill in Beijing International Arts Competition. The Company was also honored by a exclusive grant award from equally the President’s Committee on Arts and Humanities and the Section of Point out to characterize the United States in a 7-city tour arranged by the Tamaulipas International Arts Pageant in Mexico. Also, the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company has the exceptional honor of owning gained extra than fifteen awards from the Countrywide Endowment for the Arts and a lot of Citations of Excellence and grants from the New Jersey Point out Council on the Arts.

In addition to its comprehensive period of touring and executing, the firm has produced Arts in Education and learning residency applications in university districts to convey lifestyle and arts into instructional settings. It’s vibrant and participating in-faculty assembly application “The Artwork of Chinese Dance” has been introduced in hundreds of educational institutions in NJ, NY, CT and PA, reaching hundreds of countless numbers of youth. The Corporation is now in-home at New Jersey Town University and assisting NJCU in the development of a new BFA in Dance.