Ms.
Chan also involves with theater
works and was the choreographer of the Four Seas Players
productions of Caucasian
Chalk Circle, 1989
and Fou Lei and
Fou T'song, 1991,
as well as Gallop Apace Theatre Company's Off-off Broadway
production of the new musical, The
Winds of Change,
1992. In 1993, she became a resident choreographer of
the Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America. Her original
works were featured in the Yangtze Repertory Theatre's dance
concerts, Among
Us in 1996, and
Variations in a
Foreign Land I, II, and III
in 1997, 1998, and 2001, and the Lower
East Side Festival of the Arts
at Theater for the New City from 1996 through 2001.
She was also invited to perform in The
Horse's Mouth Greets the New Millennium
presented by Danspace at St. Mark's Church.
In 1992 and 1993, Ms. Chan began a collaborative work and
created two series of Chinese dance
lecture-demonstration workshops, i.e., Chinese Folk Dance,
Lecture and Demonstration with fan and handkerchief, and Chinese
Traditional Dance, Lecture and Demonstration with sword and
long sleeves. The workshops were presented at Teachers
College, Columbia University, Hunter College, New York Public
Library, Pace University, and Ballet Arts Studio, City Center
(New York); Salem State College (Massachusetts); as well as
Lake Erie College (Ohio).
Ms. Chan is
the founder of eDance dance company. The Company will
be presenting works that integrate contemporary choreographic
concepts with Chinese staging technique. One of its
activities, a touring college-level lecture series,
China Then and Now: A Poetic Journey through Dance,
has joined the Yangtze Repertory Theater as an affiliate program.
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