Events

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company will present three dances that chronicled Nai-Ni Chen's choreographic history and personal journey as an immigrant.  The Company will show a range of works that take inspiration from nature to telling a story that pays tribute to the contribution of Asian American who came to build the Continental Railroad that connected the eastern United States with the west.   The Company will begin with Raindrops, a meditation on the childhood memory of the choreographer before she came to America, Way of Five - Fire explores the element Fire in the context of the five elemental energies in the cycle of nature which manifests in all aspects of life, including the inner fire that enable us to move forward with confidence and faith. The new dance, Ten Miles A Day chronicles a record-breaking day for Chinese immigrants laying tracks for the transcontinental railroad.