FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 28, 2008
Contact: Demetri Lallas, Company Manager, LCPD, (608) 263-5735 or
mgr@lichiaopingdance.org
LI CHIAO-PING DANCE is pleased to announce our summer, fall, and spring season. Be
on the look out for Li Chiao-Ping in the
July issue of Dance Magazine!
Auditions
The company will be holding auditions for new company members June 6th in NYC at
Dance New Amsterdam, and on Sunday,
June 29th in Madison, WI. Please visit our website at
www.lichiaopingdance.org for
more information.
Upcoming Performances
Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 7:30pm
Tribeca Performing Arts Center (at Borough of Manhattan Community College), 199
Chambers St, NYC
UW-Madison dance program students perform “ETA Movements.” Please visit the UW
Dance Program website at http://
dance.wisc.edu/suppages/default.asp?id=36 for more information.
Sunday, June 29 - Wednesday, 2008, July 2, 8pm
MH’ Doubler Performance Space, Madison, WI
LCPD will perform “Crossing the Line” and “Points of Departure.” Li Chiao-Ping will
also conduct an Extreme Moves master
class. Please visit the UW Dance Program website
http://www.dance.wisc.edu/suppages/default.asp?id=24 for more
information.
Thursday, September 25 - Saturday, September 27, 2008, 8pm
MH’ Doubler Performance Space, Madison, WI
LCPD presents it fall concert “Points of Departure.” There will also be a matinee
show on Saturday at 2pm.
Thursday, March 5 – Saturday, March 7, 2009, 8pm
Overture Center for the Performing Arts, Promenade Hall, Madison, WI
LCPD presents its spring concert “A Little Off Kilter.” There will also be a matinee
show on Saturday at 2pm.
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 8pm *One Night Only*
Wisconsin Union Theater, Madison, WI.
Li Chiao-Ping debuts her solo concert “Women Dancing”, featuring works choreographed
by leading artists Cynthia Adams,
Molissa Fenley, Heidi Latsky, Victoria Marks, Bebe Miller, Elizabeth Streb, and June
Watanabe.
“Li’s done more to put Madison on the dance map than any other choreographer in
recent city history.”
Isthmus
“The physics of dance—the visible measurement of thrust, momentum, speed and
weight—are rarely as palpable as they are in
the body of Li Chiao-Ping.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
LI CHIAO_PING (Artistic Director/Choreographer/Performer) was named by Dance
Magazine as one of the 25 to watch. She
formed LI CHIAO-PING DANCE in 1990. Renowned for her solo work (Yellow River,
Entombed Warrior, Chi, Men’s Project,
Women Dancing) she is equally well-known for her multimedia and/or intergenerational
productions (Odyssey, Venous Flow:
States of Grace, Painkillers, Laughing Bodies, Dancing Minds) Her collaborations
with Douglas Rosenberg include dance films
such as DE L’EAU, RESIDUES, PERIPHERY, GRACE, and a new production co-funded by
Wisconsin Public Television and Bravo!
FACT of Canada. Her work has been shown throughout the world, including New York,
Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, Los
Angeles, Paris, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Riccione, Toronto, as well as festivals
such as Jacob’s Pillow, Bates Dance Festival,
The Yard, the International Festival of Video and Dance in Argentina, and the
American Dance Festival. Ms. Li has received
numerous awards, grants and honors, including several grants from the NEA and
choreographic fellowships from the Wisconsin
Arts Board and Scripps/ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limon. She was the American
representative in ADF’s International
Choreographer’s Program. Having taught previously at Hollins University and Mills
College, Professor Li is a faculty member at
the UW-Madison Dance Program and is the recipient of the Romnes Award, the Creative
Arts Award from the Arts Institute, and
the Emily Mead Baldwin-Bascom Professorship in the Creative Arts. She recently
received the Wisconsin Dance Council Award
in Choreography and Performance.
For more information about LI CHIAO-PING DANCE, visit
www.lichiaopingdance.org.