The timeless grace of traditional Chinese dance coupled with dynamic contemporary works will take the stage at the Fall Dance Symposium concert, presented by the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience on Wednesday, September 24, 7:30 p.m. at Bradley Hall Theater on the Rutgers University-Newark campus.
Cross-Currents: A Symposium on Traditional & Contemporary Chinese Dance features the renowned New Jersey ensemble, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, in a full concert, choreographed by Nai-Ni Chen, at the Bradley Hall Theater, 110 Warren Street, Newark. The evening program will explore both traditional Chinese dance and its influence on contemporary works, and is free and open to the public. A meet-and-greet with the artists will follow the performance in the theater lobby.
The dances of Nai-Ni Chen fuse the dynamic freedom of American modern dance with the grace and splendor of Asian art. The company's productions take the audience beyond cultural boundaries to where tradition meets innovation. 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 Center in California, the company has mounted twenty national tours and seven tours abroad.
The Dance Symposium Series is mounted semi-annually by the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, an interdisciplinary academic center that offers the Newark metropolitan area the finest thinkers and artists engaged with key issues of modern life. For nine years, the Institute’s Dance Symposium Series has brought internationally acclaimed dance artists directly to an urban audience, including diverse groups of students, families, and lifelong learners. Former dance programs have included Middle Eastern, Indian, African, and Afro-Brazilian, North African, Flamenco, Cambodian, South African, hip-hop, contemporary, and Bharatnatyam dance.
Cross-Currents: A Concert of Traditional and Contemporary Chinese Dance With Nai Ni Chen Dance Company is presented by the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University-Newark. The Symposium is supported in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/ Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and administered by the Essex County Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs; by an ArtStart Project Grant from the Newark Arts Council; by the Rutgers Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes; and by the Cultural Arts Programming Fund at Rutgers-Newark. For more information, visit the Institute’s website at ethnicity.rutgers.edu.
For Information Contact: Marisa Pierson (973) 353-3896
