Fall Arts Celebration presents Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers

Grand Valley State University’s Fall Arts Celebration dance event will feature one of the foremost contemporary Asian-American dance companies in the U.S.

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers present “Meditations in Motion: Virtuosity and Imagination in Dance – Innovation and Modernity in Music" Monday, November 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Performing Art Center's Louis Armstrong Theatre located on the Allendale Campus.

Based in Philadelphia, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers will showcase an evening of dance set to music composed by Grand Valley alumnus Dan Rhode, ’12, and performed by Grand Valley's award-winning New Music Ensemble.

The performance will be preceded by a carillon concert from 7-7:20 p.m. featuring Julianne Vanden Wyngaard, university carillonneur, and followed by a reception.

Internationally renowned for their superbly trained dancers and inventive choreography, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers integrate body, spirit and mind into their dances while inviting audiences to engage in their own journeys of self-discovery.

Danny Phipps, Music and Dance Department chair, said the group takes some of the more movement-oriented Asian traditions, such as martial arts or Tai Chi, and creates a language that follows musical and other choreographic ideals.

“It’s a coming together of disparate things in music to create a single unified sound, together with the disparate nature of athletic-based movements,” Phipps said.

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers performance will be enhanced by the musical styling of Grand Valley's award-winning New Music Ensemble. Founded in 2006 by director Bill Ryan, the undergraduate ensemble is actively engaged in the creation of new works promoting the music of our time. The ensemble has released three critically acclaimed recordings that have appeared on “best release" lists by The New York Times, Washington Post, LA Weekly and Time Out Chicago.

All Fall Arts Celebration events are open to the public with free admission. For more information, visit www.gvsu.edu/fallarts, or call (616) 331-2185.