Nai-Ni Chen

Nai-Ni Chen (October 31, 1959 – December 12, 2021) was a Taiwanese-American dancer and choreographer.

[1][2] Chen was born in Keelung, Taiwan, on October 31, 1959, and started dancing when she was four.

In a 2017 interview she said: “I was so excited about the dancing in New York, that I decided to stay rather than teach in Taiwan.”[4] Chen drowned while on vacation in Hawaii on December 12, 2021.

Productions frequently include a hybrid fusion with traditional Chinese dance.

[7][8] They began to tour in the early 1990s, originally on the East Coast, and later internationally.