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Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company performs at
UW-M/WC
MARSHFIELD – “A Dragon’s Tale,” presented
by the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company will be performed at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 22, in the Helen Laird Theatre in the Helen Connor
Laird Fine Arts Building at UW-Marshfield/Wood County, 2000 West
5th St., Marshfield.
The performance is sponsored by the Laird
Endowment Fund for the Arts. The event kicks off the Marshfield
Area Cultural Fair which will be 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb.
23, on the campus.
“A Dragon’s Tale” features traditional
Chinese dances, including “The Lion Dance,” which one of the
most popular dances performed in the Chinese New Year
Celebration. The dance is said to have originated in the Tang
Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago. Authentic costumes are highly
symbolic. For example, the long sleeve on the dancer’s costume
worn for “Passage to The Silk River,’ is called the water
sleeve, and is used to express the motion of the water as well
as the emotion of the dancer.
Since its inception in 1988, the Nai-Ni
Chen Dance Company has toured extensively to major performing
arts centers both nationally and internationally. The company
has also developed Arts in Education residency programs for many
school districts to bring culture and arts into educational
settings. Its residency program for Chinese American heritage
has been selected by the Chinese Language Teachers Association
for Primary and Secondary Schools as a new model for
collaborative language and arts education in primary and
secondary schools.
Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the
Campus Box Office from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4-6 p.m. Monday-Friday
and one hour prior to performances. To order tickets, call (715)
389-6534 any time, and leave a message. MasterCard, VISA and
Discover cards are accepted.
The Spotlight Series brings a
dazzling variety of professional entertainers from around the
world to the UW-Marshfield/Wood County campus. The Lascivious
Biddies, an all-female pop quartet, which blends jazz, pop and
cabaret, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 15, in the
Helen Laird Theatre. Tickets are $16. For more information on
the Spotlight Series, contact
Jeannie Pitsch,
at UW-Marshfield/Wood County, at 715-389-6520.
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