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  20 - 21.10.2006 (Fri-Sat) 7:45pm $360 $260
  Hong Kong Cultural Centre Grand Theatre $180 $120

  • Programme duration is about 1 hour and 30 minutes with an intermission of 20 minutes
  • This production contains nudity
  • Some $120 seats may have restricted sightline
  • Post-performance talk on 21 October
  • Please click here for details of Exhibition Movements: Paintings by Shen Wei and Talk

 
 

Shen Wei Dance Arts (USA)
 
Well-known for fusing dance and visual arts, choreographer, dancer and painter Shen Wei utilises the performance space as a piece of canvas, dedicating himself to creating new dance for 21st century audiences.
 
"There has been much discussion and worry in the dance world about where the new important choreography will come from. Shen Wei delivers an answer..." ĦV Washington Post
 

Choreographer: Shen Wei
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Commissioned by the American Dance Festival for 7 consecutive years (2000-2006)
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The Company was featured at the Lincoln Center Festival, New York, for 3 consecutive summers (2003-2005)
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Winner of the Nijinsky Award for Emerging Choreographer 2004

"Made in China" through and through, Shen Wei is the only Chinese contemporary dance choreographer to also enjoy major success in the US today. A talented painter, Shen Wei in addition takes care of the "look'n'feel" of his works. In his Hong Kong debut, featuring The Rite of Spring and Near the Terrace, Shen Wei is set to test the physical and technical limits of his dancers.

In The Rite of Spring, dancers interact with a 13-by-14- metre canvas painting, visually amplifying the majestic score of Stravinsky's Le Sacré du Printemps.

The Rite of Spring  
Choreographer: Shen Wei
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Lighting Designer: David Ferri
Costume, Set & Make-up Designer: Shen Wei

Near the Terrace marries delicate Oriental physique with Western aesthetics. Appearing as translucent figures of white jade, the dancers delve down into the intense emotional depths of Arvo Pärt's music, drawing the audience into the surreal and infinite void, and onwards to the inevitable realisation of the "unbearable lightness of being".

A dazzlingly beautiful performance!


Near the Terrace  
Choreographer: Shen Wei
Music: Arvo Pärt
Lighting Designer: David Ferri
Costume & Set Designer: Shen Wei
 
 
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