Li Chiao-Ping, Professor in the UW-Madison Dance Program, is also the Artistic Director of LI CHIAO-PING DANCE, a professional modern dance company that offers powerful programs packed with highly physical, elegant and inventive works. Originally from San Francisco, she has created, produced and performed over 60 works for the stage and screen and toured extensively as a solo artist with her acclaimed evening-length works YELLOW RIVER, ENTOMBED WARRIOR, and a concert of six solos titled THE MEN?S PROJECT, which was supported by the American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, Evjue Foundation, Madison CitiArts, UW-Madison School of Education, and the Graduate School. A documentary about THE MEN'S PROJECT was broadcast on Wisconsin Public Television. Her work has been presented and screened throughout North and South America, including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, and Toronto, as well as at festivals such as Jacob?s Pillow, Bates Dance Festival, The Yard, the International Festival of Video and Dance in Argentina, and the American Dance Festival. Ms. Li has received numerous awards, grants, and honors, including grants from the NEA and choreographic fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board and Scripps/ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limon. She was selected for one of the first UCLA National Dance/Media Fellowships. The Asian Pacific Women's Network and the National Arts Association have given her awards and she has been nominated twice for a Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund North American Award, and recently the Cal Arts Alpert Award. She also received first place awards in Choreography and in Performance from the Los Angeles Arts Council in consecutive years. In 1996, Ms. Li was invited to be a U.S. Representative in the International Choreographers Program at the American Dance Festival. She has served as a grants panelist for both the Philadelphia Dance Alliance and the Illinois Arts Council as well as an adjudicator for the American College Dance Festival (ACDFA)/Mid-Atlantic region. She was awarded an Arts Consortium Faculty Development Award in the Creative Arts in 1998 and the prestigious Romnes Award in 1999. In 2000, Li received a fellowship from the Kennedy Center ?Artists As Educators? Fund. She is one of the founders of the Madison Dance Alliance and recently released her innovative ?Extreme Moves? Training Method? videotape. E?