Oakland, CA - Li Chiao-Ping, Mills College professor of dance, will present “Home Works,” an exciting program of new and recent contemporary dance works at the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts, Friday, March 30, 2007, and Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 8 pm.

Contemplative and exhilarating, the concert will include a high energy solo West Coast premiere, "FoRAY," created and danced by Ms. Li to James Grant's compositions for clarinet and piano.

The Julia Morgan Center is located at 2640 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA,  94704. Tickets cost $15 for general admission and $10 for students, seniors, and children 12 years old and under.  Tickets are available in advance by calling CBON: 925.798.1300 or at the performance.

Tammy Cheney, a former ODC dancer, will perform in a premiere work choreographed by Li. Guest artist Cynthia Adams of Fellow Travelers Performance Group will offer wry humor to the program with "The Hunt," taking the audience along a frenzied search for shelter in the Bay Area housing market.  

Li's latest ensemble work, "Home," will be performed by Robin Baartman, Jessica Vokoun, and Zach Zube in a West Coast premiere. The work is an imaginative free flow of ideas about land and space, traversing the disciplines of dance and theater.  Li will also perform "Mendelssohn Piece," one of the newest solos created for her by June Watanabe, Bay Area-based choreographer and retired Mills professor of dance. Completing the program is “Past Forward,” danced by Li, Baartman, and Vokoun, with music composed and performed live by violist Nils Bultmann.

Li Chiao-Ping is the artistic director of Li Chiao-Ping Dance, a choreographer, and a performer. She was named by Dance Magazine as one of the 25 "we'll be watching in 2001 and for years to come!"  Renowned for her solo work as well as multimedia and/or intergenerational productions, Li’s work has been shown worldwide in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, and Toronto, as well as festivals such as Jacob's Pillow, Bates Dance Festival, the Yard, the International Festival of Video and Dance in Argentina, and the American Dance Festival. Li has received numerous awards, grants and honors, including several NEA grants and choreographic fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board and Scripps/ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limon. 

Mills College is a nationally renowned, independent liberal arts college offering innovative degree programs for undergraduate women, and graduate degree and certificate programs for women and men. Consistently recognized as one of the top 100 liberal arts colleges in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, Mills currently ranks among the top 20 most diverse liberal arts colleges. The New York Times recently selected Mills as one of three leading California colleges for students to consider.

In 2006, the Washington Monthly College Rankings named Mills a leading liberal arts college based on community service, research spending, quality of preparation for graduate education, and social mobility. In addition, The Princeton Review’s annual guide, the Best 361 Colleges (2007) included Mills for the second year in a row among top U.S. institutions offering students an outstanding undergraduate education.

Nestled in the foothills of Oakland, California on 135 lush acres, Mills provides a dynamic liberal arts education fostering women’s leadership, social responsibility, and creativity.

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