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State University of New York Presents
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company

November 13 / 7:00PM
Dowd Fine Arts Theate
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company



Where: Dowd Fine Arts Center Theatre

When: Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 7:00 P.M.

$5.00 SUNY Cortland Students

$8.00 Senior Citizens (65 and older)

$10.00 General Admission
The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company is a nationally acclaimed troupe with an international cast that combines the rich tradition of Chinese art with contemporary dance. The Company's production takes the audience on an extraordinary artistic journey to places beyond cultural boundaries where tradition meets innovation and freedom arises from discipline.

Celebrating the diversity of ideas shaped by the immigrant experience, the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company bridges the gap of understanding between East and West.

The program offered here will be a mixture of selections from their The Dragon's Tale and Cross-Cultural Contemporary Dance programs.

The Company has been awarded Citations of Excellence numerous times by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and received The Golden Lotus Award from the China Dance Association after participating in the First China International Dance Festival in Kunming, Yunan China. Since 1997, the Company has been a resident company at the Harlem School of the Arts and receives support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. The Company also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

". . . choreographer Nai-Ni Chen has created a work that whispers as quietly as it shouts, alternately reaching out to audiences with symbolism and imagery that is by turns mysterious, subtle, and overt." Asbury Park Press

". . . like endlessly proliferating forces of cosmic energy. . ." The New York Times