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Cha-lee Chan began her dance training in Hong Kong.  From 1981-1985 she was a member of the Hong Kong Dance Company (a Chinese and modern dance troupe), and toured throughout Australia, England, and Japan. She came to New York City in 1985 to study ballet, modern dance and choreography.  Her lectures and demonstrations of traditional Chinese dance have been sponsored by various arts, cultural and educational organizations in Columbus, Ohio; Wayne County, Michigan; and in New York City.  She was being invited by Allegheny College (Pennsylvania) and Lake Erie College (Ohio) as a performer and a guest choreographer. Her choreographic works have also been seen at Manhattan Community College's Triplex Theatre, Theater of Riverside Church, Hunter College, and Teachers College, Columbia University, where she earned her M.A. in Dance and Dance Education.

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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