Contemporary Dance "Shanghai Tango" by Jin Xing Dance Theatre May 14, 2008

Time: 2008/5/14-2008/5/15
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Shanghai choreographer and superstar Jin Xing and her dance theatre will take her latest dance performance Shanghai Tango on Beijing stage in May. Shanghai Tango is a series of ten short works with music by several European and Chinese composers.

The production has been invited to perform in France to celebrate the Sino-French Culture Year in January 2004 and the ensuing performances were held in France, Belgium, Germany and other European countries.

Theproduction embraces 10 pieces of work choreographed by Jin Xing. Theyare "Steps", "Dance02", "Red Wine", "Four Happiness", "Shanghai Tango","Half Dream", "Island", "Black and Red", "No Way Out" and "Senses of Colors".

"Someof are newly-made, some of are my favorite creations from several yearsago. However, I hope all these pieces will depict the current mentalityof Shanghai people," said Jin Xing.

About Jin Xing
Ms. Jin is China's most celebrated modern dancer. Coming from the unlikely background of an ethnic-Korean military family in Shenyang, the 31-year-old artist has performed and choreographed in Beijing, New York, Brussels and London. She has received the American Dance Festival award for best choreographer (New York 1991), trained under dance luminaries like Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham, run her own nightclub in Beijing,and been a PLA colonel in an army dance troupe. She speaks Korean,Mandarin, English, Italian and French. She has worked as an in-housechoreographer for Italian TV (RAI Uno) and taught dance as a professorat the Belgium Royal Dance Academy in Brussels. But the glamorous, feminine mistress of movement is also famous because she spent the first 27 years her life as a male.

Althougha controversial artist, Jin Xing tends to strike the most delicatestring of the viewers' hearts with her thrilling and daring movements.

Biography

1978: Jin Xing joins the Qianjin Song and Dance Troupe in Shenyang, Northeast China's Liaoning Province, at nine after winning the permission of his parents after fasting for two days.

1984: Jin graduates from the Art Academy of the People's Liberation Army with honors.

1985: A choreographer makes Jin stand on his toes for one performance, making him the first man to dance this way in China. He wins the highest prize at the first "Taoli Cup" Dance Competition.

1988: Jin gains a special scholarship and goes to study modern dance in New York.

1991: Jin wins the top choreographer prize at a US festival of dance. He is then invited to become the choreographer for an Italian TV station.

1992: Jin is granted a professorship at the Belgian Royal Dance College to teach modern dance.

1993: Jin is invited by the Chinese Culture Ministry to organize a training course for choreographers around the country.

1996: Jin becomes art director for the Beijing Modern Dance Company, and produces the modern dance performance, "Sun Flower".

1998: Jin's work "Red and Black" wins the prestigious "Wenhua Prize" of the Chinese Culture Ministry.

1999: Jin stages her solo performance, "The Last Red Butterfly", in London.

2001: Jin premieres the modern dance entitled, "The Eternal Present Tense" in Germany.

2002: Jin collaborates with British pianist Joanna MacGregor to produce "Cross Border", a multi-media dance drama.

2003: Jin produces "Shanghai Tango", whose European tour will start in January 2004.

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