Dance Department, Li Chiao-Ping Dance present “I CHING 20 : On Seeing and Being Seen”

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Dance Department and Li Chiao-Ping Dance (LCPD) present “I CHING 20 : On Seeing and Being Seen” March 7-9, 2024 at the H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall.

“I CHING 20 : On Seeing and Being Seen” features five new works by Li Chiao-Ping and works by special guest artist Omari ‘Motion’ Carter.

Li will present five new works as part of her NEA-funded “DIRTY LAUNDRY” project, a new multimedia dance performance work that explores the history of Asian immigration, culture, identity and experience. The project features collaborations with visual artist Hong Huo, composer Byron Au Yong. Dancers include LCPD Company members Katelyn Altmann, Piper Morgan Hayes, Elisa Hildner, Cassie Last, and Elisabeth Roskopf, and guest dancers Kaori Kenmotsu and Jessica Robling. Li and cinematographer/editor Christal Wagner will also premiere their new screendance work titled “in silence is the offering presented,” featuring Li and her son Jacob Li Dai-Loong Rosenberg.

Omari ‘Motion’ Carter, a hip hop artist, body percussionist, and Screendance maker, has recently come from the UK to join the faculty of the UW-Madison Dance Department. His work in this concert will include a screendance piece and a live body percussion solo.

ABOUT LI CHIAO-PING DANCE
Li Chiao-Ping Dance (LCPD) was founded in 1990 and has made Madison, Wisconsin its home since 1993. We are a resident company of Overture Center for the Arts, and produce three major performances each year. We also offer workshops and touring programs throughout North America.The company is dedicated to offering programs of emotionally charged and athletic works, with striking visual design and the music of contemporary composers.We also are committed to making dance accessible to a variety of people—as audience members and participants. LCPD collaborates with K-12 schools to offer performances as residencies, and we continue to teach movement workshops at senior center communities.“…marvelously imaginative…engrossing, intelligently put-together piece of work.” Li Chiao-Ping Dance has been praised in the New York Times, Village Voice, Dance Magazine, Los Angele Times, Washington Post, and San Francisco Bay Guardian. Known for her originality, trademark physicality, humanism, and visual design, Li Chiao-Ping creates layered works that combine multiple art forms to explore themes of culture and identity. LCPD has performed at Jacob’s Pillow, Bates Dance Festival, ADF, DanceNOW, Highways, as well as: The Kennedy Center, Links Hall, Dance Place, Symphony Space, DTW, Joyce SoHo, P.S. 122, ODC Theater, Theater Artaud, CounterPulse, Danspace Project/St. Mark’s Church, Roulette, and more.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LCPD’s work and events are made possible in part by the generous support of Altrusa nternational of Madison; Fund for Children administered by the Madison Community Foundation; Dane County COVID Relief Fund; Dane County Nonprofit Assistance Fund; Dane County Arts with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation, The Evjue Foundation Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation Inc., and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation; UW-Madison Dance Department, the OVCRGE, WARF, Vilas Trustees, and the School of Education Virginia Horne Henry Fund; Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts; the Arts Midwest GIG Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from Wisconsin Arts Board; National Endowment for the Arts; and LCPD’s Circle of Friends.

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