Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company announces its participation in the 2023 NuVu Festival, in the Little Theater of the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, on Wed/Thu April 12 and 13, 2023 at 7:30pm. The 2023 NuVu Festival will be dedicated to honor the life and work of Nai-Ni Chen. Tickets are $20 and are available online at La Guardia Performing Arts Center website: https://www.lpac.nyc/upcoming-events/nuvu-festival.
The 2023 NuVu Festival will showcase Nai-Ni Chen's iconic work Movable Figures, a dance commissioned by the Morningside Dance Festival in 1991. In this dance, Nai-Ni Chen re-visits her memory of watching shadow puppetry and her recollection of the mesmerizing music and images juxtaposed on the two dimensional screen, manipulated by the puppet masters. The dance was also a response to a challenge made by her husband Andy Chiang, who asked her to create a dance with connected, yet unpredictable rhythms like watching different branches of willows flying in the wind.
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