Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Executive Director Andy Chiang will be joined by Deborah Damast, Clinical Associate Professor and Program Director of NYU’s Dance Education Program, to discuss the work of Nai-Ni Chen and her relationship with one of her mentors, the modern dance icon Bertram Ross, as part of NYPL’s The Dance Historian is In on Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 1pm ET online via Zoom and in-person at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Bruno Walter Auditorium, 111 Amsterdam Ave. between West 64th and 65th Streets. The event is free, but registration is required at eventbrite.com/e/the-dance-historian-is-in-andy-chiang-in-person-and-virtual-tickets-483209301027.
Bertram Ross taught at NYU and the nearby Mary Anthony Dance Studio on Broadway, where he met and taught Nai-Ni Chen. Nai-Ni Chen became one of his favorite students and, in his words, a formidable choreographer. To introduce Nai-Ni Chen to the dance…