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🩰 725 Salon: Chun Wai Chan – From Lingnan Boy to Ballet Prince (New York)
📅 Date: Monday, July 7, 2025
🕒 Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM ET
📍 Location: 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021
🌐 Organizers: China Institute in America
Languages: Chinese (with AI-translated English subtitles)
Registration & Info: $30 Nonmembers / $25 Members – This event is sold out
🏷️ Description:
In this special 725 Salon event, Chun Wai Chan—the first Chinese principal dancer at the New York City Ballet—shares his remarkable journey from Guangdong to the global ballet stage. Known for breaking barriers and redefining Asian representation in classical dance, Chan will perform live ballet excerpts and offer commentary on emotional expression, movement, and storytelling through body language.
Born in Huizhou and trained at the Guangzhou Art School, Chan rose from the Houston Ballet to NYCB, earning praise from The New York Times for “shattering the glass ceiling of the ballet world.” This evening is both a performance and a personal story of passion, perseverance, and cultural pride.
Topics: Chinese Diaspora, Performing Arts, Ballet, Representation, Culture and Identity