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Mission
Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville is established to promote awareness, understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of Chinese visual and performing arts. We bring diverse arts and culture to the Middle Tennessee. Our programs are ranged from traditional Chinese dance to modern and contemporary dance that involved Eastern and Western artistic skills and elements. We also promote local visual artists, dancers, choreographers, and other artists with various disciplines.Our organization embraces diversity. We fuse different artistic disciplines into our creations. We also provide out-reach and arts education, especially Chinese arts, to our community, city and Middle TN.
Background
Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville (CAAN) is organized to promote the awareness, understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of the Chinese visual arts and performing arts since Dec of 2012. CAAN uses various forms of activities to share with the community about Chinese arts and culture.
CAAN has created and produced theatrical dance productions to tell Chinese stories, demonstrated Chinese dances to illustrate their intricacy, run Chinese Summer Blast and the Student Lion Dance Program for kids. CAAN's Lion dance performing team was established in 2006, and in 2012 CAAN established Nashville Dragon Dance Team, which was premiered in 2012 at the Chinese New Year of Dragon Celebration. This special dragon was re-built by more than 50 volunteers and artists after cutting and sewing 1500 dragon scales to complete.
Other than traditional Chinese dances, CAAN created "Asian Fusion" performances to express Asian American's experiences applying modern and contemporary dance techniques fuse with Chinese martial arts and Chinese dance elements.
CAAN's most recent endeavor is bringing the most significant Chinese tradition to the city. CAAN has conducted Chinese New Year Celebration at Hillsboro Village since 2016, Chinese New Year Celebration at Plaza Mariachi since 2019, and Chinese New Year Celebration at Nashville Zoo since 2020.
CAAN's Lion Dance Team and Nashville Dragon Dance Team continue to present their exciting presentation at various arts and cultural event. Newly establish Chinese dance group, Dance Nashville, have been presenting unique Chinese dance at various occasions. CAAN also continues it's creativity, research to create contemporary dances that address current issues and themes.
For more info on Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville's programs and events, please go to CAAN's website: www.ChineseArtsAlliance.org
Impact
Goals: We are bridging the unique arts and culture among our society by doing the following events and activities:
1) Create and promote high quality arts that are in associate with Chinese themes and Asian experiences.
2) Produce and present traditional Chinese performing arts, such as Chinese dance, music, lion dance, and dragon dance.
3) Conduct successful events and programs that promote awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the Chinese arts and culture.
4) Increase funding sources to create and produce professional arts that are associate with Chinese theme.
5) Support arts in general, especially arts created by under-served population; and present arts to under-served populations as well as the general public.
Major Accomplishments:
1) Produced and presented original dance theater productions. All performances received standing ovations with many compliments and positive feedback. They are Our Stories, Moon Goddess, Touching Clouds, MuLan & Poetry, Dragon Tales, and Across the Milky Way. Most recent endeavor is to present 'Asian Fusion,' a program that investigates how Eastern and Western dance elements fuse together!
2) CAAN's Lion Dance and Drumming team has been performing since 2006. We performed extensively throughout Middle TN, especially during the Chinese New Year Celebrations. We bring joys, cultures, arts, and excitements to the public.
3) We established 'ABC Education Program.' ABC stands for arts built connections, communication, and community. We use arts education as a venue to outreach young kids, socioeconomically disadvantaged population, and general public to be in touch with arts, especial Chinese arts.
4) CAAN's 60 feet long is one of its kind in the US. The dragon was rebuilt by 50 volunteers and artists after cutting and sewing 1500 dragon scales to complete. We invited Nashville Mayor Dean dot the dragon eyes and performed Dragon Dance performed by 11 dancers at the Chinese Dragon New Year Celebration in 2012. The events attracted more than 1000 people.
5) CAAN organized 'Chinese New Year Celebration at Hillsboro Village' with the support of Vanderbilt University's Community Out-Reach and Government Relation Department. We created a program that celebrate the most significant holiday for the Chinese culture. We mixed with professional performing groups and students' presentations of their Chinese language learning from schools.
6) CAAN collaborates often with various organizations. We have collaborated with Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville Shakespeare Festival, ACT 1 Theater, TN Women Theater Project, VSA TN, former Renaissance Center, Vanderbilt University Dance Program, Vanderbilt Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University Community Out-Reach and Government Relation Department, Cumberland River Compact, and Centennial Performing Arts Dance Department and New Dialect Contemporary Dance Company.
7) CAAN established "Dance Nashville" to provide community dancers to dance and perform Chinese dances at the middle Tennessee.
CAAN has establish partnership with Vanderbilt University's Office of Community and Government Relation to build Chinese New Year Celebration at Hillsboro Village since 2016. We grew in audience's attendance , and participation from artists, arts group, school and local communities. The event includes Workshops of Juggling, Chinese yo-yo, TaiChi, and Arts/Crafts. Performing arts programs includes Public Truck, Playing By Air, and CAAN's own group drumming, Chinese dance, lion dance, and dragon dance. Recent years, we extended our unique programs to Plaza Mariachi and Nashville Zoo.
We welcome arts organization and non-arts organization to collaborate together to create and share arts for our communities. For more info and communication, please go to CAAN's website: www.ChineseArtsAlliance.org .
Needs
We welcome volunteers to assist us in many levels from administration, marketing to help out at CAAN's ever growing Chinese New Year Celebration events.
We welcome artists of any discipline (dancers, musicians, graphic designers, set designers, composers, visual artists, and martial artists) to collaborate with CAAN's artists. Please contact us through our website: www.ChineseArtsAlliance.org
We welcome your donation, you may donate to CAAN using paypal, or mail a check payable to CAAN at PO Box 121841.
Info to donate: https://www.chineseartsalliance.org/donate
-Use your Kroger Plus card number from any Kroger customer, and go on-line (krogercommunityrewards.com) to select Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville (organization #: 23841) as your preferred organization. This is a very easy way to support CAAN! When you shop, Kroger Community Reward Program will donate a % to CAAN!
-When shop at Amazon, please go to amazonsmile.com and select Chinese Arts of Nashville as a non profit organization to support. Amazon donate % to CAAN. Link is https://smile.amazon.com/ref=smi_ext_ch_06-1666626_dl?_encoding=UTF8&ein=06-1666626&ref_=smi_chpf_redirect&ref_=smi_ext_ch_06-1666626_cl
CEO Statement
CAAN takes pride to offers unique programs and events that may not be found anywhere else in Middle Tennessee. CAAN serves to introduce the community to different kinds of arts and brings enjoyment to all of its audiences. CAAN is proud to share high quality performances and exhibits focused on Chinese stories, culture, and Asian experiences with the public. We rely on the public and governmental or private funding to support our events, programs, and endeavor.
Board Chair Statement
Open to your children, grandchildren and the community the engaging world of Chinese music, dance and art with a gift to CAAN. Only through your gift will you introduce them to these colorful arts and throw open their windows of imagination. Your children and grandchildren - and Nashville's residents - will thank you.
Service Categories |
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| Primary Category: | Arts, Culture & Humanities - Dance |
| Secondary Category: | Education - Educational Services |
| Tertiary Category: | Arts, Culture & Humanities - |
Areas Served
We serve mainly at the greater Nashville areas: Nashville, Brentwood, and Franklin. We also served at Murfreesboro, Dickson, Cookeville, Hendersonville, Clarksville, and Mount Juliet areas.We would like to venture further out in TN in the near future.
| TN - Davidson |
| TN - Williamson |
| TN - Dickson |
| TN - Rutherford |
| TN - Franklin |
| TN - Sumner |
| TN - Wilson |
| TN - Montgomery |
