Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Announces Lineup for The Bridge Classes, July 19-22

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Business announces The Bridge digital dance institute of boundary-breaking dance experiences totally free a single-hour company class on Zoom open to all dancers at an Intermediate to Innovative Degree July 19-July 22, 2021. Interested dancers can sign up for the class by registering on Nai-Ni Chen Dance Firm’s web-site: https://www.nainichen.org/thebridge.

The Bridge Course routine are as follows:

7 days of 7/19/2021

Monday Yuka Notsuka (Kinetic Spiral) at 11am

Tuesday Rio Kikuchi (GyroKinesis) at 11am

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

Thursday Eunkyung Kim (Contemporary Ballet) at 11am

Faucet into the artistic electrical power of the universe via Kinetic Spiral. Nai-Ni Chen’s signature system is dependent on the principle of at any time-changing common forces of Yin and Yang. Dance phrases from Nai-Ni Chen’s repertory will be taught.

Gyrokinesis is gradual, fluid, physical exercise exercise based on the purely natural components of spinal movement. By carefully doing the job the joints and muscle mass by means of rhythmic and undulating movements coupled with calming respiration designs, the workout routines stimulates the body’s interior organs although corresponding breathing patterns stimulate the nervous procedure, open up electrical power pathways, and oxygenate the blood.

In the midst of the COVID-19 disaster, the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Organization has set up a new dance institute by means of Zoom, The Bridge. The Institute’s goal is to bring collectively dancers, choreographers and administrators about the earth to practical experience the grasp teachers of shade whose tactics are embedded in the local community and are centered on advancing the artwork of dance that completely transform the private, environmental and metaphysical spaces.

As a digital dance institute, The Bridge will invite globe renowned as properly as up and coming dancers and choreographer to appear to visitor instruct the class. State-of-the-art/Intermediate stage specialist or pre-expert dancers who are searching to take a look at further than their own boundaries and wanting for new dance ordeals are encouraged to participate. The core plan is dependent 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 procedures she analyzed in America. Visitor artists will go over a broad assortment of folks and classical dance models.

The Bridge will maintain courses Monday-Thursday for the remainder of the summer because of to the schedules of lecturers and contributors.

In this striving time of transform and uncertainty, the arts is a source of healing and unity, we would like to really encourage all people to assistance dance as dance is an necessary medicine for the culture to get better from the pandemic that has brought about injury to our bodies and our hearts. Assistance for The Bridge can be despatched as a result of https://nainichen.org/donate.

About the Artists

Eun-Kyung Chung retains a BFA and an MA in Dance from Ehwa University om Seoul. Mrs. Chung is an ABT Accredited Teacher, and a certified Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis trainer. Ms. Chung was a principal dancer at Seoul Ballet Theatre. She moved to Germany in 2010 and joined Mainfranken Theater Würzburg and Landestheater Coburg as a principal dancer and choreographer. Ms. Chung moved to the United States in 2016 and worked with Charlottesville Ballet Business, Traverse Metropolis Dance Job, Neglia Ballet, and Choose Dance. She is presently a traveling to professor at Randolph College or university, an adjunct faculty at Western Michigan College, and college at Ballet Kalamazoo.

Born in Tokyo,Japan. At age of 3, Rio Kikuchi started ballet coaching at Studio Benus in Japan and later on she was released to Tap and Jazz. She took Summer time Intense at Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington DC in 2015. She also analyzed Ballet technic and Position operate privately with Luis Villanueva. In 2017, Rio moved to New York and was offered Scholarship to research at The College of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. In addition, she received Scholarship at Alonzo King Lines Ballet Summertime Program in 2019. She has performed with Alvin Ailey Dance Theater at New York Metropolis Heart in 2018. A member of the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Enterprise, Rio is also a qualified Gyrokinesis instructor.

Yuka Notsuka was born in Fukuoka, Japan, is a member of the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company. She began her Ballet education in her hometown at age 4. Later on she broadened her schooling to include Jazz and Faucet. Afterwards Yuka moved to New York Metropolis to even more go after her occupation as a dancer. In 2015 she entered the Ailey College as a scholarship pupil. She done in Ailey Spirit Gala Concert at Lincoln Centre choreographed by Tracy Inman (Co-Director, The Ailey Faculty) and Robert Battle (Artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater). Yuka joined the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Business in 2017. She also has been in instruction and served as Educating Assistant at the Luigi Jazz Dance Middle beneath Francis J. Roach.