Choreographers’ Forum is generously co-sponsored by Dance Salad Festival.

Dance Salad Festival's Choreographers’ Forum offers an opportunity to glimpse the creative process through some of the festival´s invited choreographers. This year’s forum features choreographers from Asia: Willy Tsao from Hong Kong; Li Han-zhong from Beijing; Tibetan-born Sang Jijia, now living in China; and Chinese American Nai-Ni Chen, born in Taiwan and now based in New York. Serving as moderator is Maggie Foyer, the remarkable writer from Dance Europe in London.  

Beijing Dance / LDTX, under the artistic direction of Willy Tsao—China’s foremost figure in modern dance—and deputy artistic director Li Hanzhong, brings multiple selections to Houston audiences this year, including the signature piece All River Red, a powerful reinterpretation of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, and Sang Jijia’s Standing Before Darkness. Chinese American choreographer Nai-Ni Chen, whose work fuses the dynamic freedom of American modern dance with the elegance of Asian art, collaborates with the Ahn Trio from Korea to present a new version of Temptation of the Muses.

A reception to meet the panelists follows the lecture.

The 2011 Dance Salad Festival takes place April 21, 22, and 23 at Wortham Center.
Visit www.dancesalad.org for information and to purchase tickets online.