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Chungliang Al Huang

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Chungliang Al Huang is an internationally renowned Tai Ji master and performing artist, teacher and author. He grew up in China with a rich
background in the classics, fine and martial arts, and the Beijing Opera techniques. He came to America to study Architecture at the University of Oregon, received his BA from UCLA, and MA from Bennington College in
Cultural Anthropology and Choreography. He was a doctoral research scholar
at the Academia Sinica in the Republic of China, received the highest gold medal from the Ministry of Culture; and was elected a fellow at the World Academy of Arts and Science in Stockholm, Sweden.
In the '60s, Chungliang performed with Sammy Davis, Jr., Bruce Lee, and was
a featured dancer in the film, Flower Drum Song; later as soloist with his own theater/dance company at the Jacob's Pillow, New York City, and American
Dance Festivals. He was artist-in-residence at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Illinois, director of the Oriental Theater Program at York University, Toronto; and of the Hong Kong Dance Company. Chungliang lectures and consults in global business, arts, and education to
enhance cross-cultural diversity and understanding between the East and West.

He was keynote speaker, along with his Holiness, the Dalai Lama, at major world gatherings in India, Switzerland, Germany, Bali; and as an assembly member in Cape Town, South Africa at the Parliament of World Religions.
His innovative and inspiring mentoring with musicians include residencies at Yehudi Menuhin School in England, and the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland. In the early '80s, he co-created with the Paul Winter Consort, The
Tao of Bach: A Tai Ji Musical Offering concert series at the St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York City and at the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Since then, his many music collaborators include pianist Lorin Hollander, flutists Alexander Murray, Michael Faust, jazz flutist Paul Horn,
cellist David Darling, singers John Dener and John Baez, and harpist Andreas Vollenweider.

Chungliang was also a featured presenter in the inaugural segment of the PBS TV series, A World of Ideas moderated by Bill Moyers. He is thefounder-president of the international Living Tao Foundation, and the director of the Lan Ting Institute in the sacred Mountains in China and at
Gold Beach, Oregon. Chungliang is the author of numerous books, including the seminal Essential Tai Ji, Quantum Soup, and the perennial best-selling classic, Embrace Tiger, Return To Mountain; and co-author with Alan Watts of Tai Chi is an individual discipline; it's not the kind of unison movement you find in set choreography. When you look at nature, everything has its own motion: the tree and the rock and the water running- they somehow tie together without making a point to fit. Embrace Tiger Return to Mountain
Chungliang Al Huang writes beautiful books about the freedom of movement to be found within tai chi practice.
He is unconcerned with lineage, masters, forms and formality.
Tai chi for him is a dance of inward expression.
His books speak of following your inner voice.

I'm not here to teach you anything. I'm here to share with you how I learn about Tai Chi So hopefully by the end of the week you will begin to learn about Tai Chi through you.

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