Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company

The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company is an Asian American professional touring company with programs for educational settings, community organizations, and mainstage venues. The Company aims to be a premier provider of innovative cultural experiences that reflect the inspiring hope and energy of the immigrant's journey. Each of the Company's works aims to increase the visibility of the struggle, triumph, despair, and joy of this experience.

The Company's productions provide cross-cultural experiences and raise issues of identity, authenticity, and equality. Most of the dancers in the Company are immigrants.

Choreography is developed with dancers from diverse backgrounds, and each rehearsal is an immersive, boundary-crossing journey that contributes to the creative process under the direction of the choreographers.

In addition to domestic touring, the Company has also performed at international festivals in Mexico, Canada, BVI, Guatemala, Germany, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, South Korea, and China with support from the Fund for Mutual Understanding, The President's Committee for the Arts, Arts International and the State Department of the United States.