Beside the three choreographers, artists appearing will include: April Aubert, Asami Tomida Carl Ka-Ho Li, Sarah Lin Ying, Ashley Liang, Mike J McNulty, Jennifer Radcliffe, Mark Taylor, Stephanie Willing and Shelly Qianni Wu.

There will be an opening night reception on September 22 at 8: 45 p.m.

Although Yangtze Rep (www.yangtze-rep-theatre.org), under the artistic direction of Joanna Chan, is more prolific in producing plays, it is also firmly committed to its dance program, which makes the organization well-rounded and offers an opportunity to present non language-based works to its polyglot (multi-Asian and American) audience. Yantgtze's second production after its founding was a dance work presented at Pace Downtown Theater, "4 Makes 5," featuring the work of four choreographers, one Chinese (Yung Yung Tsui) and three non-Asian choreographers (who were associates of the Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey Dance Companies). This concert set a high standard for succeeding work and was extremely successful. It led to the presentation of another work of similar format, "Among Us" (1996), with all Asian choreographers. Realizing it had an affinity for these group works, Yangtze coined the title "Variations in a Foreign Land" in 1997 and began a series of dance productions in that name. Over the years, the "Variations in a Foreign Land" series has presented a succession of well-received dance concerts featuring both new and established artists from Japan, Korea, China, The Philippines, the U.S., Guatemala, India and Hong Kong.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Ae-Soon Kim was born in Okayama City, Japan. She began training in Traditional Korean Dance at the Okayama Korean School, and then progressed into Classical Ballet at the Sonoko Sugimoto Ballet Studio. In 1998, she moved to England to train at Elmhurst Ballet School and the Laine Theatre Art School, and then toured for a year and half with the King and I UK National Tour. Ms. Kim came to the United States in 2003. She received her B.F.A. in Dance through a full scholarship at the Boston Conservatory. After graduation, she worked with Ballet Rox, Naganuma Dance, L&L Dance Company, and Contemporary Ballet Theater and Sudden Enlightenment Theater. Ms. Kim joined Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company in 2009.

Young-Sil Kim was born in Okayama City, Japan. She began her ballet training at age 5 at Sugimoto Sonoko Ballet with Svetlana Assaouliak. At age 17, Ms. Kim came to New York City to study dance at the Joffrey Ballet School and later at Ellison Ballet professional training program, where she graduated in 2008. Ms. Kim has performed principal and soloist roles in The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Diana and Acteon, Paquita, La Sylphide, La Bayadere, Le Corsaire, Sylvia, Royenne by Susan Jaffe, What's happened to us? by Michael Shannon . She has worked with Configuration Dance Theatre, Connecticut Ballet and Eglevsky Ballet. Currently she works as a freelance artist with Exit 12.