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Quotes: Li Chiao-Ping Quotes: Li Chiao-Ping"...a study in steadfast devotion...[Li's] unwavering physical strength a metaphor for her sureness of purpose"—Dance Magazine "Ms. [Li] Chiao-Ping's work takes us to a different place in dance. The vision is both Asian and western, combining the essence of both worlds. Her work depict the end of an era, the beginning of the next; a refugee from every world." —Martha's Vineyard Times "In her complex and engrossing 40-minute solo, Entombed Warrior, Li Chiao-Ping evokes archetypal images of women while also demonstrating the specific resources of a highly articulate dancing body." —Los Angeles Times "...marvelously imaginative...engrossing, intelligently put-together piece of work." —The San Francisco Bay Guardian "...a powerful and mysterious dance..." —The Village Voice "Dancer's power leaves sellout crowd spellbound. Li packs ferocity, flexibility into Danceworks program." —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Chiao-Ping is strong, graceful, and expressive in every bone in her body." —The Herald-Sun "...pure unbridled Li: strength, elasticity, drama, and athleticism." —Dance Magazine "Lithe and athletic, with ferocious bursts of gymnastic leaps and twists balanced by movements of languorous sensitivity and sensuality, Li Chiao-Ping dances with energy and grace."—Wisconsin State Journal "Li Chiao-Ping...is a sort of one-woman movement theater revolution. Both her abstract and programmatic dances share elements of traditional Western and Oriental dance, but utterly rethought and transformed into an individual statement by dint of her own illuminating creativity and magnificently gymnastic conditioning...If the quest is for a new plane of theatrical movement, she may already be grasping the Grail."—Anchorage Daily News "[Li Chiao-Ping] is taking post-modern dance to a new edge, one that pushes the metaphors of the body, form and culture to the farthest reaches of strength and beauty....Li Chiao-Ping compressed the symbols of East and the West into an exquisite tapestry of hard truth and polished steel. The effect was stunning: the nod to the Asian gods, the scene from performance art, the turn at muscular gymnastics."—Spectator Magazine "Her intense drive to succeed and push boundaries has characterized her career as a dancer and choreographer from the very beginning."—Isthmus "Li...is known for her fierce and physical style, which often incorporates aspects of martial arts."—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel return to the top Quotes: WorksVenous Flow:"Venous Flow...managed to be highly emotional while stripped of sentimentalism, profoundly personal while never self-indulgent." — Dance Magazine "...Venous Flow: States of Grace, a rich multimedia mosaic that melds the agony of the accident with the grace and redemption found in the caring and touch of other people." —Capital Times Fin de Siècle:"Li Chiao-Ping's Fin de Siecle,Parts I & II is a big dance featuring six excellent dancers from Madison, rich movement from Li, great costumes by Elizabeth Prince, and glorious music by David Byrne... Li's movement is assured modern dance, inventive and continually interesting." —Chicago Reader "...she was a powerful other-worldly creature warning of physical danger..."—Cleveland Plain Dealer "'Fin de Siècle' was the most powerful dance on the program."—Richmond Times-Dispatch “...stark, throbbing statements about machine and humanity.” —The Capital Times Odyssey:"Li and her partner Patrice Naparstek created mysterious characters from Homer's 'Odyssey.' As Naparstek struggled against long strips of fabric that trailed from her black velvet costume, Li slowly emerged from a white veil and knit the fabric into a goddess' crown. Like a tantalizing preview of a coming attraction, the intriguing excerpt whet the appetite for the full-length production."—Cleveland Plain Dealer “These dances seem hermetically sealed and utterly self-contained; you get the feeling they could be performed every morning as prayer, without an audience. Still, they carry the house; the scale and vividness draw and fix the eye and mind. The surreal quality of the movement, which sometimes suggests pixilation but more often gives the impression that dancers are moving through a heavy, viscous atmosphere, also arrests attention.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Aria:"Aria...was a study in steadfast devotion...[Li's] unwavering physical strength a metaphor for her sureness of purpose" —Dance Magazine "Aria...was an inspired meeting of choreographic vision and the perfect dancer to execute it. Chiao-Ping is strong, graceful, and expressive in every bone of her body." —The Herald-Sun Chi:"Li's Chi [is] an incredible dancing tour de force in which she folds her gymnastics training ever so carefully into modern dance. And she makes it all look so easy." —The Raleigh News & Observer Yellow River:"Yellow River...is near perfection. It has a full maturity that makes Li's search for cultural identity so moving and potent." —The Raleigh News & Observer Refrain:“Li at her choreographic best, obliquely portraying episodic defeat and redoubled effort over a season’s frustration.” —The Capital Times Satori:“Filled with images of the afterlife, from Christianity to ancient Egypt, it was a surreal look at humanity’s historical flirtation with death.” —The Capital Times Mandala:Mandala “was a visual harkening of an altered state through which to approach God...it was dynamic and precise.” —The Capital Times return to the top Reviews
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