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Celebrate the 2024 Asian American Pacific Islanders Heritage Month with Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company at Hostos Center for Arts and Culture.

(LEONIA, NJ) -- The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, which has worked with the Leonia Senior Center since 2022, has announced two new eight-week seniors residencies, in both music and creative dance, thanks to a $10,000 grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Creative Aging Initiative.

The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company has been awarded a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the Year of the Snake Celebration in the NY and NJ area.

Saturday, February 10 marks the beginning of the lunar calendar, and several events celebrate the Year of the Dragon with food, music and dance performances, and kid-friendly crafts. Winter Lantern Festival When: Every evening through Sunday, February 18th Where: 8025 Galleria Dr., Tysons This collection of over 1,000 handcrafted lanterns is leaving town this month

Join the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company and Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) for an exciting AAPI dance festival at APAP.

The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company is commencing a new season with fresh commissioned works, collaborations, and the addition of new dancers following their recent performances in Seattle, WA, and Tennessee.

The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company announces a season of performance, residencies, and exciting community activities that features new works, new productions, and most importantly welcomes new choreographers, dancers, artists, and collaborators to create groundbreaking work that bridges the cultural divide, gives honor and justice to diverse heritage, and amplify the artistic voices seldom heard outside the immigrant community.

(MONTCLAIR, NJ) -- Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company will be a part of Dance on the Lawn on September 9, 2023 at 3:00pm, at St. Lukes Episcopal Church (73 S. Fullerton Ave) in Montclair. The Company will be performing one of Nai-Ni Chens most beautiful duet, created in collaboration with the world renowned Ahn Trio, Lullaby for my Favorite Insomniac, part of their 2015 production, Temptation of the Muses, which toured 7 states across America. The dance will be performed by company members: Esteban Santa...

Read BroadwayWorlds interview with Mary Rose Lloyd as she discusses the 10th Anniversary Season of New Victory Dance, a program that celebrates the artistry and diversity of NYC dance.

Below are events in New York City — listed in chronological order — to engage with Asian American and Pacific Islander culture and heritage.