{"id":11475,"date":"2021-02-12T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/?page_id=11475"},"modified":"2024-01-30T21:38:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T21:38:36","slug":"chia-ying-kao","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/education\/our-community\/teaching-artists\/chia-ying-kao\/","title":{"rendered":"Chia-Ying Kao"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Chia-Ying Kao | Modern & Chinese Folk Dance<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\"\"Chia-Ying Kao is a Taiwanese choreographer, teacher and performer\u00a0based in Brooklyn since 2006. She received her MFA in Dance from\u00a0Sarah Lawrence College in 2012 and is the founder of Chia-Ying Kao
Dance. She has presented work and taught modern dance, Ballet, Jazz\/K-Pop,Chinese folk dance, composition, and improvisation\u00a0internationally. She continues exploring multiculturalism by\u00a0collaborating with artists and her community.<\/p>

Ms. Kao has collaborated and performed with Sara Rudner, Yvonne\u00a0Rainer, Bill T. Jones, Paz Tanjuaquio, Asian-American Cultural Circle of\u00a0Unity, Chinese Theatre Works, and Hou Ying Dance Theater. Her work\u00a0has been commissioned by the American Dance Festival, Chen Dance\u00a0Center, Topaz Arts, Asian American Cultural Circle of Unity, Triskelion\u00a0Arts, Center for Performance Research, Broward College, Dixon Place,\u00a0Roulette NYC, Tanzart \u2013 Zentrum f\u00fcr Tanz, Bewegung & Kunst in\u00a0Germany and Hualien Cultural Arts in Taiwan.<\/p>

As a choreographer, she aims to create imaginary worlds and put them\u00a0on display for those on the outside looking in to be utterly captivated by.\u00a0In these worlds, Ms. Kao creates tension from juxtaposing images of\u00a0extreme realism and abstraction. These images deconstruct the human\u00a0experience, dealing with issues of identity, power struggle,\u00a0psychological trauma and the trials and tribulations of daily life. Though\u00a0mostly abstract, these images utilize movement that is organic and\u00a0conceptual in nature. Stylistically, a blending of dance forms from Asia\u00a0with contemporary Western idioms is what informs her as a\u00a0choreographer and performer.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Chia-Ying Kao at City Lore:<\/h3>

Creative Dance for Primary school students<\/b><\/p>

Dionne Kamara focuses on conceptual based dance pedagogy. She works with teachers to adapt to the grade level and particular needs of the students. Dionne creates lessons that develop partnered and individual dance, literacy-based (books\/rhymes), dance of different cultures, and multi-sensory experiences. Her \u201cBrain Dance,\u201d is a warm up exercise based on the neurological development that we go through in the first year of our lives as humans. Dionne uses a poster to illustrate the patterns of the dance to the class and uses every week session to dive into a particular theme or focus, such as gravity and balance or repetition<\/span>. In the last session of the residency, teachers are encouraged to invite families, but it is meant to be like an open studio rather than a finished performance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

What students and teachers say about Chia-Ying:<\/h3>

\u201cThe first thing I want to say is\u2026 THANK YOU! Thank you for teaching us how to dance.\u00a0 It was great and awesome.\u00a0 I hope you come back.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cDear Ms.Kao, thank you for teaching us how to dance.\u201d<\/p>

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Chia Ying Kao with students and teachers of P.S. 69Q after a culminating performance<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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Students and Chia Yin rehearsing their dance<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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Students performing Chia Ying Kao's choreography for the culminating performance<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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Students performing Chia Ying Kao's choreography for the culminating performance<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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Chia Ying Kao's work as an artist<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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