Shen Wei
Choreographer
About Love...encompasses an experience of a foreigner, either from Japan or China, with a native of the opposite country. The film was directed by Shimoyama Ten, Yee Chin-yen, and Zhang Yibai. It was written by Haruko Nagatsu, Shen Wei, and Yee Chin-yen. In this article: Yee Chin-yen, Shanghai, Shen Wei, Zhang Yibai, Mandarin, Tokyo, Taipei, Japan, and China |
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New York Post | October 22, 2009
Weekend Guide
...p.m. and Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m., Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave.; 212-242-0800. "SHEN WEI DANCE ARTS AT 10": Chinese choreographer Shen Wei, who contributed to the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, previews his company's 10th season.
In this article: The Pink Panther, Inspector Clouseau, and Beijing Olympics
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The Huffington Post | October 19, 2009
Charles Fabius: Chinese Fall at Carnegie Hall
...in order to orchestrate the "greatest show on earth": film-maker Zhang Yimou, explosive artist Cai Guo-Qiang and choreographer Shen Wei. All three went out of their way trying to strike a balance between ancient and modern China,...
In this article: Carnegie Hall, Beijing, Zhang Yimou, China, and Fortune cookie
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New Yorker: Everything | October 11, 2009
Goings on About Town: Dance
...with the Guangdong Modern Dance Company, China's first modern-dance troupe, which debuted in 1990 (the celebrated choreographer Shen Wei was an original member). The piece is a meditation on symmetry and balance, and also, inevitably,...
In this article: Step dance, Japan Society, and Montclair University
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The Daily Orange | September 28, 2009
Chinese dance company gives three-part performance
...named "Re-," had three separate parts, an art form known as a triptych. The first, "Re- I," was inspired by choreographer Shen Wei's visits to Tibet. The scene concentrated on a large mandala, a two-dimensional model of a place of...
In this article: Buddhist, Tibet, Syracuse University, MTV Networks, MtvU, and College Publisher
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Wikipedia | September 26, 2009
Shen Wei
...New York City Opera (2005), and Alvin Ailey Dance Theater II, among others. As a visual artist independent of Shen Wei Dance Arts, Shen Wei is a painter, designer, and photographer. A series of paintings created in conjunction with his...
In this article: Rite of Spring, New York City, New York City Opera, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and United States Artists
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United States Artists
...carver and sculptor Susie Silook. Dance: Joanna Halgood, Anna Halprin, Rennie Harris, Bill T. Jones, Benjamin Millepied, and Shen Wei. Literature: Poet Marilyn Chin, poet Henri Cole, short story writer and essayist Charles D'Ambrosio,...
In this article: United States Artists, Benjamin Millepied, Michael Doucet, Laura Kasischke, Alonzo King, and George Kuchar
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Prime Newswire | June 17, 2009
Wall Street Journal Brings Culture to Life Through New Series of Summer Events At Lincoln Center
...2009 series of summer cultural events includes: * July 1 - East Meets West on the Upper West Side: Celebrated choreographer Shen Wei and artist Cai Guoqiang talk with Wall Street Journal reporter Geoffrey Fowler about border-crossing and...
In this article: The Wall Street Journal, Robert Thomson, Dow Jones & Company, NEW YORK, Walt Mossberg, and Beijing
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NPR | December 26, 2007
Choreographers to Watch in the New Year : NPR
...of "Dance Magazine," on dancer Kumiko Tsuji Briana Blasko A performance of Re-, choreographed by Shen Wei. "Because I'm a painter," Wei says, "I want to see how dance movement relates to music, and also how music and dance relate to...
In this article: Dance Magazine, Alvin Ailey, and NPR
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www.washingtonpost.com | November 01, 2005
A Crack in the Door
...freedom to criticize their homeland -- there were only the barest hints of darker political truths throughout the month-long festival. Shen Wei, a New York-based choreographer who left China because of limits on his creative growth, used some...
In this article: China, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lao She, Western music, Cherry Blossom, Ministry of Culture, and National Symphony Orchestra
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Shen Wei is a renowned Chinese choreographer, director, dancer, painter and designer. Shen Wei is recognized for his vision of an intercultural, interdisciplinary, original mode of movement-based performance, and his innovative blend of traditional Chinese opera, dance and music with Western performance art such as ballet.
Shen Wei was born in Hunan, China in 1968, year of the monkey. Son of Chinese opera professionals, he left home at the age of nine to study the form; he subsequently won a position at the Hunan State Xian Opera Company, with which he performed leading roles from 1984-1989. In 1991, he became a founding member— dancer and choreographer—of the Guangdong Modern Dance Company, the first such company in China. Upon receiving a scholarship from the Nikolais/Louis Dance Lab, Shen Wei moved to New York City in 1995.
The subsequent five years laid the groundwork for an international career that continues to this day. In 1995, the young émigré was approached to present his work by the American Dance Festival. Almost immediately, an international audience took notice, and soon his work was to be seen at the National Theater of Taiwan (1996), The Place Theater (1997), Asia Society New York (1997), Stockholm Dance House (1999), Brighten Arts Festival (2000), the Edinburgh Festival Theater (2000), and the Millennium Moves Festival (Germany, 2000). In July 2000, he formed Shen Wei Dance Arts with performances of Near the Terrace at the American Dance Festival.
Shen Wei was named a 2007 USA Prudential Fellow by United States Artists, an arts advocacy foundation dedicated to the support and promotion of America's top living artists.
Wei was a lead creative consultant for the opening ceremony at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Shen Wei will also teach master classes examining connections between traditional and modern dance, and present part of his Re- (Part 2) program, at the Duke University at the end of 2008.
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