"...a study in steadfast devotion...[Li's] unwavering physical strength a metaphor for her sureness of purpose”
— Dance Magazine
Li Chiao-Ping in “Becoming”. Photo credit: John Maniaci
"...marvelously imaginative...engrossing, intelligently put-together piece of work."
— The San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Ms. [Li] Chiao-Ping's work takes us to a different place in dance. The vision is both Asian and western, combining the essence of both worlds. Her work depict the end of an era, the beginning of the next; a refugee from every world." — Martha's Vineyard Times
"[Li Chiao-Ping] is taking post-modern dance to a new edge, one that pushes the metaphors of the body, form and culture to the farthest reaches of strength and beauty....Li Chiao-Ping compressed the symbols of East and the West into an exquisite tapestry of hard truth and polished steel. The effect was stunning: the nod to the Asian gods, the scene from performance art, the turn at muscular gymnastics."
— Spectator Magazine
“These dances seem hermetically sealed and utterly self-contained; you get the feeling they could be performed every morning as prayer, without an audience. Still, they carry the house; the scale and vividness draw and fix the eye and mind. The surreal quality of the movement, which sometimes suggests pixilation but more often gives the impression that dancers are moving through a heavy, viscous atmosphere, also arrests attention.”
— Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Li Chiao-Ping, photo credit: Craig Schreiner
"Li Chiao-Ping...is a sort of one-woman movement theater revolution. Both her abstract and programmatic dances share elements of traditional Western and Oriental dance, but utterly rethought and transformed into an individual statement by dint of her own illuminating creativity and magnificently gymnastic conditioning...If the quest is for a new plane of theatrical movement, she may already be grasping the Grail."
— Anchorage Daily News
Here Lies the Truth. Photo Credit: Cat Quirk
“This moment was so intimate - all about questions of trust - in one live multi performance. I could almost feel their breath, and the quicksilver change of narrative”
-Wendy Perron (former Dance Magazine editor-in-chief)
“insightful and riveting…brought audience members out of their seats as the lights went out”
Nile Lansana, Madison 365
Alfonso Cervera and Piper Morgan Hayes in “here n o w here”. Photo credit: Maureen Janson Heintz