TOPAZ ARTS’ 23rd Year Celebration featuring Terrain

Join us! On Saturday, Oct 21st at 4pm, TOPAZ ARTS’ 23rd Year Celebration features Terrain 長江頭  by AAPI Dance Artist-in-Residence Huiwang Zhang.

TOPAZ ARTS presents Terrain 長江頭
Saturday, October 21, 2023, 4:00pm
TOPAZ ARTS, 55-03 39th Ave: directions >
Free with RSVP >

Through echoing of each other’s essence, the mirage of Terrain 長江頭 forms. How do our bodies — moving fields of knowledge, synchronize and syncopate with each other through various distance of mis/understandings?  Terrain 長江頭 is a new dance work-in-process, created and developed at TOPAZ ARTS through the 2022-23 AAPI Dance Residency Program.

Terrain 長江頭
Dance by:  Ching-I Chang and Huiwang Zhang
Sound design by: Todd B. Richmond

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About the Artists:

Ching-I Chang
Made in Taiwan, active in America and quiet places. She has a deep love for dance and nurturing harmony. She has worked with Gesel Mason, Michel Kouakou, Punchdrunk, Susan Marshall, Wendy Jehlen and many brilliant artists. She received her MFA from University of Utah in 2017. She is a Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst, Yoga and Yoga Nidra Meditation Facilitator. And she loves bananas.

Huiwang Zhang 

Has been a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane company since 2017. Thanks to TOPAZ ARTS’ pristine studio space in Woodside, Queens, the two dancers are able to attend moves and ideas with a fresh perspective.
 He is grateful to work with the incredible Ching-i Chang.

Zhang is a 2022-23 AAPI Dance Artist-in-Residence at TOPAZ ARTS. His choreography, often through a sociocultural lens, gives voices to communities at risk of social exclusion and people whose stories are lost in the official narratives, carefully structuring an alternative history from the personal and private stories of individuals. His work has been exposed internationally in China, U.S. and Germany. He danced with China Opera and Dance Drama Company and Paper Tiger Theater Studio in Beijing. He joined the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company in 2017 after the completion of his Master study in Dance and Choreography from the U.S and Germany under great mentorships of Stephen Koester, Sharee Lane, Ellen Bromberg and Katharina Christl. He has also performed with Pearsonwidrig dance theater and Yin Mei Dance. Huiwang’s movement research and teaching are inspired by his traditional training in Chinese Classical Dance, Martial Arts and all teachers like Jennifer Nugent, Sarah Pearson, Leah Cox, Patrik Widrig, Tao Ye, Eric Handman, and Janet Wong. Huiwang voluntarily edits a dance e-journal “upsidedown” in China where he writes and translates perspectives in contemporary dance making into Chinese language.

Celebrating AAPI dance artists, TOPAZ ARTS supports choreographers with time and space to focus and develop the creation of new works. TOPAZ ARTS’ AAPI Dance Residency Program is supported, in part, by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, NYS DanceForce, and by public funds from NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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