Don’t miss this chance to see Li Chiao-Ping Dance‘s inventive and intimate hour-long production, DIRTY LAUNDRY! Chicago is the first stop on this company’s tour of this multimedia collaboration by director/choreographer Li Chiao-Ping, composer Byron Au Yong, and visual artist Hong Huo.

In a work that  investigates the history of Chinese labor, systemic racism, and generational trauma through a balance of expressive choreography, visual imagery, spoken word, text and soundscapes, DIRTY LAUNDRY tells the untold stories of struggle and survival that characterized the Asian experience in America—the institutionalized violence and the treatment of Asians as perpetual foreigners. 

Filled with the athletic and dynamic choreography Li is known for, this emotionally charged production will leave audiences with a deeper understanding of the Asian immigrant experience, while witnessing the transformative power of live performance.

Dancers Katelyn Altmann, Gelline Guevarra, Piper Morgan Hayes, Elisa Hildner, Kaori Kenmotsu, Cassie Last, Li Chiao-Ping, Mayu Nakaya, and Elisabeth Roskopf bring their personal histories to life on stage, creating a vivid tapestry of resilience, pain, and humanity, that transforms into a shared, communal act of remembrance and healing.