H.T.Chen & Dancers Artist Bios

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Renouard Gee

Renouard Gee received a BA from St. Thomas Univ in Houston, TX before coming to NYC. He has toured in the U.S., Europe and Asia with numerous companies, including Laura Dean Dancers & Musicians, Senta Driver/HARRY, Michael Mao, and Catherine Turocy’s New York Baroque Dance Co. Renouard first performed and toured with H.T. Chen & Dancers in 1988, and was a lead dancer with the company for over a decade. He also serves on the Chen Dance Center Board, and is a proud member of The La Mama ETC’s Great Jones Repertory Company, founded by the late Ellen Stewart.

South of Gold Mountain: Renouard Gee from Chen Dance Center on Vimeo.

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H.T. Chen

H.T. Chen is a leading Asian-American artist who has worked as a choreographer, performer, and arts advocate since the 1970s.

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Dian Dong

A graduate of The Juilliard School, Dian Dong studied with Shirley Ubell, Vladimir Doukodovsky, Alfredo Corvino and Doris Rudko.

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Ari Someya

Received her certificate from The Merce Cunningham Dance School, and has been with H.T. Chen & Dancers for eleven seasons.

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Maki Shinagawa

Maki Shinagawa began training under Aiko Ohtaki at the Ballet Arts of Carnegie Hall in Japan.

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Keyasha Williams-Bailey

Graduate of New World School of the Arts/University of Florida, and has been with H.T. Chen & Dancers for six years.

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Gary Champi

Graduate from Stanford University with a B.S. in Cognitive Science and a minor in Dance.

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Glenna Yu

Graduate of Princeton University, Glenna is an NYC-based movement artist.

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Yuki Fukui

Graduate of The New School University Eugene Lang College in Dance.

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Dutch deCarvalho

H.T. Chen & Dancers Apprentice. Received a BFA in Dance from SUNY Brockport.

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