The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company is a rare Asian American woman led professional touring company with programs for educational settings, community organizations and mainstage venues.  The Company's mission is to be a premier provider of innovative cultural experiences that reflect the inspiring hope and energy of the immigrant’s journey.  It was founded with the vision that the immigrant’s journey of crossing cultures and adapting to a new home provides endless inspirations and opportunities for creative expressions that can enrich the human experience.  Each one of the company’s work is aimed to increase the visibility of the struggle, triumph, despair and joy of this experience.   The Company's productions provide cross-cultural experiences and bring forth issues of identity, authenticity, and equality. 

Choreography is developed with dancers from diverse backgrounds, and each rehearsal is an immersive, boundary-crossing journey that contributes to the creative process under the direction of the choreographers.  Our diverse repertory of Nai-Ni Chen's original works  bridge the grace and power of Asian arts and American dynamism which incorporated her broad influences.  The company also preserves a variety of festive dances from different regions of China choreographed by guest immigrant artists bearing the tradition.