Shen Wei his way.NY The rising choreographic cho·re·og·ra·phy n. pl. cho·re·og·ra·phies 1. a. The art of creating and arranging dances or ballets. b. A work created by this art. 2. star Chinese-born Shen Wei Shen Wei was a founding member of China’s first contemporary dance company, the Guangdong Modern Dance Company, after performing traditional Chinese Opera for five years with the Hunan State Opera. has his feet in two worlds--Chinese opera and modern dance. His works are a beautiful, distinctive fusion of the two. Map, set to Steve Reich's Desert Music, premieres this month in the Lincoln Center Lincoln Center New York’s modern theater complex. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1586] See : Theater Festival and is his largest work to date. With seven sections, he has created, he says, "seven different ways to dance." Shen Wei edits movement with the discerning eye of a painter--which he also is. The quiet intensity, the purity of his work--east meets west in the truest sense--is evident in the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of premiere Near the Terrace, Part I (above), also on the program. July 19, 23, 24. See www.lincolncenter.org.--AMANDA SMITH |
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