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Session 13

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Global Voices Series

Part I: Chinese Cultural Dance

Presenters: Nico Li and Jun Zhou, with Coco Cao

On Demand

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About the workshop

Dance for PD’s global network of teaching artists spans 6 continents—and those teachers integrate an impressive range of dance styles and traditions in their teaching practice. The Global Voices Series, a highlight of Dance for PD's 20th Anniversary season, aims to provide a platform through which teaching artists welcome colleagues to learn about adapting and translating specific dance forms from around the world.

Inspired by a popular professional development format featured at our in-person advanced workshops, these CPD sessions will encourage you to explore new dance styles, enhance your understanding of dance traditions, and view your current practice in a new light.

In this month's workshop, Dance for PD teaching artists Nico Li and Jun Zhou, along with Coco Cao - founding teachers of our Dance for PD in Mandarin program, will lead a 50-minute community class that integrates elements of Chinese cultural dance and music, culminating in an excerpt from traditional choreography. After class, Nico, Jun and Coco will lead an analysis and conversation that provides background and history while addressing adaptive techniques. Class will be led primarily in Mandarin (with basic English provided as a guide), while the post-class workshop will take place in English.

Join us for this unique opportunity to broaden your perspective and enrich your movement vocabulary.

Access and fees

This workshop is offered On Demand.

The tuition rate for this workshop is $10 for Dance for PD Members, $15 for non-members. If you currently have financial need and are unable to afford tuition for this workshop, please click here to complete a brief fee waiver form.

Participation, through online or on-demand platforms, earns you Dance for PD training credits toward certification or recertification, just like our in-person workshops.

About our presenters

Nico Li

Nico Li’s range and adaptability stem from her global exposure as an esteemed young dancer performing throughout China and spreading into Southeastern Asia (Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore), Europe (France, Austria, UK, Romania & Malta), and the US, where she earned her BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase College in 2009. Nico has since been living in New York where she performs, teaches, and creates. Her teaching credits include SUNY Purchase College, University of Utah, Brigham Young University, Mark Morris Dance Center, Grosse Pointe Dance Center, and the New York Chinese Cultural Center, among others. Her teaching expertise encompasses Chinese classical and folk dance, contemporary technique, somatic practice, composition, improvisation, and devised performance. Certified as a Gyrotonic trainer and Dance for PD instructor, her teaching is informed by her diverse training background and ongoing interest in anatomy and bodywork modalities. Supplemental to her research of the body, Nico also humbly serves as a producer, facilitator, and programs manager at the New York Chinese Cultural Center, promoting culture and art in the global and local society.

Jun Dream Zhou

Jun Zhou is a dance educator, dance artist, choreographer, with a Master Degree in Dance Education. He performed the opening piece at New Year's Eve ball drop in Times Square. He has performed at such major theaters as Lincoln Center(New York), Park Theater(Las Vegas), and MGM National Harbor Theater (Maryland). In China, his dance work had been selected for TV shows and performed live on CCTV3. Mr. Zhou has expertise in Chinese ethnic dance and other genres such as Ballroom, Jazz and Modern dance. He has more than five years of teaching experience.

Coco Cao

Coco Cao is originally from Nanjing, China. She graduated from Emory University with a B.S. in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology and a minor in Dance and Movement Studies. She then pursued a M.A. in Dance Education at a partnership program between New York University and American Ballet Theatre. Coco started volunteering for Dance for PD while in New York and realized this is this perfect program to combine her passion for neuroscience and dance. During the pandemic, she continued supporting DfPD as an intern and facilitated the development of the first-ever DfPD in Mandarin classes. Currently, she is a teaching artist of DfPD and a clinical trial coordinator at the Emory Neurokinesiology Laboratory, investigating partnered adapted tango as a therapy for individuals with Parkinson’s Disease or prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease. Coco looks forward to sharing her experience leading the DfPD in Mandarin classes and her dance-based research.

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