[Sat Oct 17, 6-8pm] A unique immersive night of live arts experience unfolding through the windows of the Think!Chinatown Studio. Traditional and contemporary dances, Cantonese opera, sizhu 丝竹 (silk and bamboo) instrumental music intertwine with delicate papercut-inspired window installations, transforming the windows into a living stage of movement, color, and sound.
Featuring:
Ling Tang — traditional Chinese dance
Ba Ban Chinese Music Society of New York — traditional Chinese instruments
H.T. Chen & Dance — contemporary dance
MeeMee Chin & Sau Chun Chung — Cantonese opera
Jennifer Wen Ma — visual collaborator
This event is a FREE outdoor event. RSVP above to get the latest info in case of changes due to weather or any other reason.
Donate any amount to support our artists and Think!Chinatown’s work.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Ling Tang 湯泠 is a NYC-based dancer, educator, and arts manager. With professional training in traditional Chinese and contemporary dance styles, Ling has performed at many prestigious venues and festivals. She has been awarded a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Folk/Traditional Arts. Ling holds an MA in arts admin from Columbia University, and a BA in dance and intercultural performing arts from the University of Maryland.
Ba Ban Chinese Music Society of New York 紐約八板中樂團 Founded in 1999, Ba Ban is dedicated to the preservation, creation and presentation of Chinese traditional and contemporary performing arts led by pipa virtuoso Zhou Yi 周懿 and bamboo flute master Yimin Miao 繆宜民, who have performed silk and bamboo music at renowned concert halls around the world.
H.T. Chen & Dancers 陳學同舞蹈團 is a professional contemporary dance company touring original choreography that speaks to the histories, complexities, and living present of the Asian American experience.
Jennifer Wen Ma (1973, Beijing, China) is a visual artist who moved to the United States in 1986, and received her Master of Fine Art degree in 1999 from Pratt Institute, New York. Ma works and lives between New York and Beijing. Ma’s interdisciplinary practice bridges varied media such as installation, drawing, video, public art, design, performance, and theatre; often bringing together unlikely elements in a single piece, creating sensitive, poetic and poignant works.
MeeMee Chin (陳美美) is a prominent, well-known Cantonese Opera performer, organizer, and teacher based in Manhattan's Chinatown, New York. Originally a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) who ran her own local bridal shop, she pivoted to Cantonese Opera later in life in 2004 to help preserve and support the historic Man Chee Dramatic and Benevolent Association (民智劇社)—one of the oldest opera clubs in Chinatown.
Sau Chun Chung is a respected singer often performining in Manhattan’s Chinatown.
Chinatown Arts Festival, presented by Think!Chinatown, celebrates the cultural richness of Manhattan’s Chinatown. We present Chinatown folk artists and emerging Asian American artists in dialogue with each other, so that we can bring generations together and connect with a wider arts audience.
Think!Chinatown 心目華埠 is a creative placekeeping non-profit here to create intergenerational spaces of art, joy, belonging and connection in Manhattan’s Chinatown. At the intersection of arts, storytelling and neighborhood engagement, T!C works to grow community agency in our own neighborhood’s built environment as well as the narrative of our own stories. T!C is the team behind Chinatown Nights (fka Chinatown Night Market), Chinatown Arts Festival, Chinatown Block Party, Chinatown Storytelling Festival. Our home is the Think!Chinatown Studio, at 1 Pike Street, where you can find exhibitions, cultural and food workshops, small performances and talks. Learn more at www.thinkchinatown.org. To stay up to date on program offerings, subscribe to Think!Chinatown’s email list. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Want to be a patron of Think!Chinatown’s work? Donate here