Winning critical acclaim worldwide, Nai-Ni Chen has
received
Choreographer’s Fellowships from the National Endowment
for
the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her
work
has also been commissioned by the Joyce Theater
Foundation,
the Lincoln Center Institute, the Geraldine R. Dodge
Foundation,
Dancing in the Streets, and the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.
She has taught master classes at colleges and universities
throughout the United States and at dance festivals in
Russia,
Poland, Taiwan and China. Besides creating dances for her
own
Company (Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company), she has
choreographed
the opera Turandot for both the Westfield Symphony’s
production at the PNG Center and the Boheme Opera
Company’s
production at the War Memorial Hall in Trenton, NJ. As a
guest
choreographer, she created “The Unconquered Warrior” for
the
Dancing Wheels Company of Cleveland, OH and was also
invited
as one of the choreographers for Ballet Met’s 30X30 project
in
Columbus, OH. In 2010, she choreographed a new ballet,
“The
Three Riddles of Turandot,” for New Jersey Ballet. In New
York,
she has taught at Mary Anthony Dance Studio, Peridance
and
New York University, where she received her MA in Dance
and
Dance Education.
She has been a principal affiliate artist of the New Jersey
Performing Arts Center since its inception. On television, Ms.
Chen is an often-featured artist on PBS/NJN’s “State of the
Arts.”
