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Mark Willis is a dance artist, teacher and choreographer from NYC. Mark has graced both national and international stages as a dancer with WHITE WAVE Dance Company and the José Limón Dance Company, performing at renowned venues such as the Lincoln Center, Jacob’s Pillow, The Joyce Theatre, and Asia Cultural Center (South Korea).  He began his formal dance training at Montclair State University, where he earned his B.F.A. in Dance. He’s had the pleasure of working with BARKIN/SELISSEN Project, Douglas Dunn and Dancers, Jody Oberfelder, ChristinaNoel and The Creature among others. Mr. Willis has taught and performed in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and throughout North America. His teaching credits include The José Limón Dance Foundation, Montclair State University, Broadway Dance Center, Peridance Center, Seoul Tanz Studio and more. His other creative passions include composing, singing, and playing the trumpet.

Ying-Da Chen 陳穎達, a guitarist, composer from Taiwan. Considered a jazz guitarist first and foremost, his fourth album of original music came out and, again, showing that he has reached an audience beyond jazz lovers.

“A man with renaissance spirits, using modern tools.” Ying-Da continues to showcase his love for chamber music, played in the form of a jazz quartet, through his free improvisation and musical interpretation of expressionism, and his obsession with love and death as a common theme throughout his compositions has become more clear.

Before moving to New York in Sep 2021, Ying-Da studied classical music in Taipei, jazz music in Amsterdam, and performed frequently at local venues, small and major festivals, and did several tours in Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, and Europe. Performing and writing music had been a big part of his daily life. And of course, in his musical journey there have been dancers. In 2013, one magical semester of weekly free-improv session with graduate students at Taipei National University of the Arts opened a new window for him, a new way to feel and breath, it started to gradually change his music. Since then there have been occasional Improv sessions with dancers, mostly with groups of dancers with several males holding their instruments. In 2018, YD was chosen to perform with the Primal Chaos 混沌身響 -Dance X Sounds improvisation event held by HorseDance 驫舞劇場 in Taipei, where he performed a solo set with a solo dancer Su-Lien Lin. Being the only instrumentalist on set, he was humbled but the responsibility of moving the music forward and liberated by the freedom that came with it.