Six solos Li Chiao-Ping dances (1998)

Streaming video - 2014

This documentary, directed by Douglas Rosenberg, follows the progress of "The Cross-Cultural Choreography Commissioning Project" or "The Men's Project," a bold and innovative undertaking in which dancer Li Chiao-Ping commissioned six male choreographers of international stature to choreograph solo dance works for her. This project explores how cultural factors including issues of race, gender, age, and sexuality bear on the production of dance. The choreographers collaborating with Ms. Li on The Men's Project are Mark Dendy David Dorfman Joe Goode Daniel Nagrin Gus Solomons, Jr. Mel Wong. Highlights from all six works are featured in the piece as well as interviews with each choreographer.