Women Dancing Screening & Talk Back | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center

Women Dancing Screening & Talk Back

On Monday, February 28, 2022 at 7:00pm, join Li Chiao-Ping in a screening and conversation about her Women Dancing project, in which she commissioned 7 esteemed choreographers to make unique solos for her. Seven Solos: A Documentary follows the process of dancer Li Chiao-Ping as she prepares to perform the work of seven postmodern choreographers including Elizabeth Streb, Heidi Latsky, June Watanabe, Victoria Marks, Cynthia Adams, Molissa Fenley and Bebe Miller. As Li immerses herself in the choreographic language of each choreographer and learns the solos created specifically for her, the camera captures and witnesses the passage of embodied knowledge and the hand-to-hand transfer of the creative impulse. This film communicates the value of artistic generosity and shared wisdom.

This event is part of 7DaysDancing, a series of seven dancing events free and open to the public taking place over the 2021-22 season to highlight dance’s omnipresence and availability.

Li Ciao-Ping

Li Chiao-Ping has been praised by critics in the New York Times, Village Voice, Dance Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and San Francisco Bay Guardian, calling her work “…marvelously imaginative…engrossing, intelligently put-together piece of work.” As a performer, Dance Magazine said “Li Chiao-Ping in performance is a case of the dancer transcending the dance…When Li’s onstage, you don’t want to blink.”

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. “[Li Chiao-Ping] is taking post-modern dance to a new edge, one that... Read More

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