Jessica Chen // Dance Lab New York

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Jessica Chen

Fall 2021 Lab Cycle Choreographer

JESSICA CHEN is a freelance choreographer and Artistic Director of J CHEN PROJECT, a modern dance company based in NYC. In 2013, she made a miraculous journey back to the stage after suffering a horrific car accident, which rendered her in a coma for 13 days after eight hours of brain surgery.

Jessica’s professional theater credits include choreographing INTERSTATE (NYMF), Fiddler on the Roof at Timberlake Playhouse, The Portal at Minetta Lane Theater (Off-Broadway). Other choreography credits include Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, TEDx Semester at Sea, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, World Expo – USA Pavilion in Shanghai, China, and International Human Rights Arts Festival.

Her new work ‘You Are Safe’ was commissioned by the Museum of Chinese in America. She is a 2021 GALLIM Moving Women Artist-in-Residence and performed in Andrea Miller’s new work for Lincoln Center’s Restart Stages. Jessica is a proud member of SDC.

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“Josh Prince has created a critical platform — a safe space to rise and fall without the pressure of having to produce a finished, competitive product. Dance Lab New York is a celebration of process.”

“I would recommend Dance Lab New York to anyone who's trying to choreograph. You get some of the most talented dancers in the city and all the resources are there. Really the full package for a choreographer.”

“It was an honoring of someone who's a creator who needs space, time, and dancers. I extracted what we worked on and put it on the Ailey company dancers — no changes. Everything I was able to do went on stage. That was the biggest blessing.”

“Dance Lab is one of the very few artistic institutions in New York that's offering genuine opportunity because it's not stemming from product, stemming from offering, and it's stemming from opportunity.”

"Dance Lab New York is a gift. It's a gift to choreographers. It's a gift to create. There's nothing like it — where you are given a beautiful space and exceptional dancers to create anything you want."

“Dance Lab New York is the opportunity for creation, for development, and for artists to meet like-minded artists and to make something fresh and brand new.”

Jessica Chen

Fall 2021 Lab Cycle Choreographer

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Lab Cycle

Early Bird Discount Ends April 26

Early Bird Discount Ends April 26

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