The Company

Collette Stewart in "Of Momentous Order"
( Photograph by Del Brown)

Artists

Li Chiao-Ping
Douglas Rosenberg

Dancers

Robin Baartman
Rachel Krinsky
Emily Miller
Liz Sexe

Li Chiao-Ping (artistic director, choreographer, dancer) was named by Dance Magazine as one of the 25 to watch. She formed Li Chiao-Ping Dance in 1990 and co-directed Dziga Vertov Performance Group from 1992-94. Renowned for her solo work ("Yellow River," "Entombed Warrior," "Chi," "Men's Project" and "Women Dancing") she is equally well known for her multimedia and intergenerational productions ("Odyssey," "Venous Flow: States of Grace," "Painkillers," "Laughing Bodies, Dancing Minds"). Her collaborations with Douglas Rosenberg include dance films such as "De L'eau," "Residues," "Periphery," "Grace," and a suite of dances made for the camera which were co-funded by Wisconsin Public Television and Bravo! FACT of Canada. A prolific choreographer of more than 130 works for stage and screen, Ms. Li's dances have been shown throughout the world, including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Paris, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Riccione, and Toronto, as well as at festivals such as Jacob's Pillow, Bates Dance Festival, The Yard, the International Festival of Video and Dance in Argentina, and the American Dance Festival. Ms. Li has received numerous awards, grants and honors, including several grants from the NEA and awards from the Asian Pacific Women's Network, National Arts Association, and the Los Angeles Arts Council first prize awards for performance and choreography. She has also received choreographic fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board and Scripps/ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limon. Ms. Li earned her Master of Arts degree from UCLA and has been on the dance faculty at Hollins University, Mills College, and UW-Madison where she continues to teach. Professor Li is the recipient of the Romnes Award, the Creative Arts Award from the Arts Institute, the Emily Mead Baldwin-Bascom Professorship in the Creative Arts, the Wisconsin Dance Council Award in Choreography and Performance, and recently the Vilas Associate Award and Artist Fellowship from the Wisconsin Arts Board.

Douglas Rosenberg (visual artist) has shown his work in video and video installation both in the United States and internationally in museums, galleries, on public television, and in festivals around the world. He has received numerous grants and awards including an NEA Dance/Film/Video grant (with choreographer June Watanabe), an NEA/Southeast Media Fellowship, two Zellerbach Foundation grants, a Painted Bride Art Center New Forms Grant (co-recipient with Li Chiao-Ping), a Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship, an IZZIE award for his work with Ellen Bromberg and John Henry on "Singing Myself A Lullaby," and a fellowship from The Project on Death in America for another project with Ms. Bromberg. His video dance, "My Grandfather Dances" with Anna Halprin, was awarded the Director's Prize at the Jewish Video Festival, Judah Magnes Museum, in Berkeley. He has been an artist in residence at The Institute for Studies in the Arts, Bates Dance Festival, and the International Festival of Video Dance in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His writing on dance for the camera has been published in journals including LEONARDO. Recent shows include Dance on Camera Festival, New York; Video Festival Riccione Teatro Televisione, Riccione, Italy; The Contemporary Art Museum in Buenos Aires; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY; and Mostra de Vídeo Dansa de Barcelona, Spain. He was the director of the American Dance Festival's video archival program for over a decade and continues to direct ADF's Dancing for the Camera Festival.

Robin Baartman (Dancer) began her dance training under the instruction of Charlotte Wendel of Southwest School of Dance, Marshall, MN. With this studio, Robin toured the Baltic States and performed her international debut at Red October Hall, Moscow. Continuing her education in dance, she had the pleasure of working with Julie Kerr-Berry, Maggie Desenberg, Sherone Price, Jin-Wen Yu, Li Chiao-Ping, Ed Groff, Pat Catterson, Sean Curran, and others. After obtaining a B.S. in Dance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Robin continued her second season with the nora.new.dance.company. Shortly thereafter, she began performing with Li Chiao-Ping Dance. Since, she has obtained certification in Pilates, served as an adjunct instructor for UW Division of Continuing Studies, and is currently an instructor at Capital Fitness.

Rachel Krinsky (Dancer) studied dance at the Wisconsin School of Ballet in the 1970s and '80s and was a member of Jazzworks in 1985 before leaving dance for other pursuits. She began dancing again in 2006 and became a member of Li Chiao-Ping Dance in 2007. Rachel is the executive director of The Road Home Dane County, a non-profit agency providing shelter and housing to homeless families.

Emily Miller (Dancer) Emily Miller grew up in Palm Bay, FL and Milton, WI. She took ballet at the age of 3, hated it, and then did gymnastics for most of her childhood up until high school. Movement was always a big part of Emily's life, but she did not begin her formal dance training until she entered the Dance Department at UW-Madison in the fall of 2004. During her undergraduate studies, Emily performed at the American College Dance Festival and received numerous scholarships and awards which allowed her to study in Miami, North Carolina and New York City. She had the pleasure of working with Li Chiao-Ping and other distinguished artists such as Peggy Choy, Larry Keigwin, Luis Lara Malvacias, Jeremy Nelson, Chris Walker, Nina Watt and Jin-Wen Yu. After receiving her BS in Dance, Emily joined Li Chiao-Ping Dance in June of 2008. Emily enjoys the athletic and full-bodied style that Li's repertoire has to offer and is pleased to be performing with LCPD. Emily teaches ballet, hip-hop and modern at Kris Pickar's School of Dance in Sauk City, WI.

Liz Sexe (Dancer) received her BA in Dance and Biology from St. Olaf College, and an MFA in Dance for Performance and Choreography from Mills College in Oakland, CA. She has performed works by Robert Battle, Rachel Berman, Alyce Finwall, Kimiko Guthrie, Lionel Popkin and, of course, Li Chiao-Ping. Since returning to Wisconsin, Sexe co-founded Dear Heart Dance with a mission to create "fresh, local and seasonal dance." Her own choreography has appeared with Li Chiao-Ping Dance and with Madison's Barebones Dance Collective. She teaches beginning modern through the UW-Madison Division of Continuing Studies, and creative movement for adults at the LCPD Studio Farm in Oregon, WI. She received her Pilates certification from Movement Insights and teaches Beginning Pilates Mat Classes at Mound Street Yoga in Madison, WI. She also teaches dance to all ages at Studio 3-D in Deerfield, WI. Sexe is passionate about dance/movement education as a mode of creative self-expression and healthful living.

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