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A graduate of The Juilliard School, Dian Dong studied with Shirley Ubell, Vladimir Doukodovsky, Alfredo Corvino and Doris Rudko. She has worked with Anna Sokolow’s Players’ Project, Kathryn Posin, Janet Soares, Lance Westergard, Kazuko Hirabayashi, Lincoln Center Institute, the ADF 25th Anniversary Repertory Co, Walter Nicks, and the national tour of The King & I. She has taught at NYU School of Ed., Montclair State College, the Center for Modern Dance Ed. and Chen Dance Center. Ms. Dong organizes and designs the education programs for CDC’s homebased and residency programs. She has participated in the Kennedy Center’s Capacity Building Program led by Michael Kaiser, and attended the Executive Program for Non-Profit Leaders - Arts at Stanford Graduate Business School. She and H.T. Chen are the proud recipients of the 2012 Mid-Career Award from the Martha Hill Dance Fund.
H.T. Chen is a leading Asian-American artist who has worked as a choreographer, performer, and arts advocate since the 1970s.
Find Out MoreRenouard first performed and toured with H.T. Chen & Dancers in 1988, and was a lead dancer with the company for over a decade.
Find Out MoreReceived her certificate from The Merce Cunningham Dance School, and has been with H.T. Chen & Dancers for eleven seasons.
Find Out MoreMaki Shinagawa began training under Aiko Ohtaki at the Ballet Arts of Carnegie Hall in Japan.
Find Out MoreGraduate of New World School of the Arts/University of Florida, and has been dancing with the H.T. Chen & Dancers for five years.
Find Out MoreGraduate of The University of Texas at Austin where he earned his BFA in Dance.
Find Out MoreGraduate from Marymount Manhattan College with a BFA in Dance and minors in Biology and Chemistry.
Find Out MoreGraduate from Marymount Manhattan College with a BFA Modern Dance and B.A Business.
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Pawel and her dancers and composer/musicians are longtime collaborators, combine improvisation in both movement and music and improvised talk in many of the dances