Untitled, Fleeing by Night, In,Visible (Cities), and Vortex

Performance Week

7.23 7.24 7.25 7.26 7.27 7.28 Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun 1 3 5 7 9 09:00-10:30 Masterclass Masterclass Masterclass Masterclass Masterclass 2 4 6 8 10 10:45-12:15 Masterclass Masterclass Masterclass Masterclass Masterclass Dance Studio China Dance Station Forum 10:00-12:00 3 3rd Floor Exhibition Hall 1 2 3 4 5 14:00 YDM YDM YDM YDM YDM Lab Theater 10:00-18:00 SPRINGBOARD SPRINGBOARD SPRINGBOARD SPRINGBOARD SPRINGBOARD () Masterclass 00:01 Enrollment () () · () () () () () Youth Dance Marathon (YDM) - () Vortex Registration () · · () () 17:00 Wayson POON (HK) Six Stories 00:01 Good Dance Centre (Nanning), Yokohama Dance Näss Gui Hua Yuan GENG Zi-bo (Shanghai) Next Modern Dance Company Collection Exchange Massala Dance Company (FR) New Village (Nanchang), The Ignited Body Virtual Lotus Ergao Dance Gardenfield Concept Futome Performance Stella & Artistas (Macao) Production Group Dance Company (Changde) Do You Copy Houston? (GZ) Shambhala Goblin Party Padma Dance Company (Dali) Floating (JP) Daiweiwu Arts Troupe Nereo Drowning (Shenzhen) Joaquin COLLADO PARREÑO (ES) Studio Theater OPENING CLOSING FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS · () - () () () () () () Winterreise · Asylum 20:00 Dancing in Beijing Sheng The Thirteenth Month Wreck - List of Extinct Species The Rite of Spring Kibbutz Contemporary Dance BeijingDance/LDTX (BJ) Mid-Mountain Dancers (Changsha) Retrograde Dance Theater (Nanjing) INSIEMI IRREALI Company (BE) CCDC (HK) Company (IL) Nanjing Dance Theater (Nanjing) Lyric Theater Lyric Theater Grand Theater Lyric Theater Grand Theater Lyric Theater Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center 在北京跳舞 hi laig hi hmpae o oe to come to Beijing todance. homeplace their leaving of their journey inner the on months, more three for than explore, dancers 14 LDTX’s and Shu-yi, CHOU Taiwan, from choreographer acn i Beijing in Dancing 舞 FOCUS Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center Beijing Tianqiao Arts Performing Lyric Theater 北京天桥艺术中心中剧场 20:00 07.23 Dancing inBeijing Choreography: 编舞 BeijingDance/LDTX ：周书毅

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舞 FOCUS FOCUS 穹Asylum Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company (IL) 舞

编舞：拉米·贝尔 Choreography: Rami BE’ER

Eyal Hirsch Asylum by Rami Beer - Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company - Photo by Eyal Hirsch_©

Asylum explores on many concepts such as: refugees, migrants, identity, freedom, belonging, endorsement, longingness, homeland, and home. Regardless of where one lives, during war or peace time, one’s foundation of his/her existence is his/her pursue on home.

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Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company performs and represents the works of its artistic director, Rami BE’ER, along with its agile with exquisite technique dancers exempliﬁes the pinnacle Israeli dance. The late Yehudit ARNON founded the company in 1973 and laid the foundation the company’s international dance village. The village, situated atop the hills in Kibuttz Ga’aton, is comprised of nearly 100 Israeli and international dance artists. This makes up the company, KCDC, the second company, KCDC 2, and the International Study Abroad Dance Program – Dance Journey.

Asylum by Rami Beer - Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company - Photo by Eyal Hirsch_© Eyal Hirsch

07.27 微店购票 20:00

北京天桥艺术中心大剧场 Grand Theater Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center www.kcdc.co.il 支离-灭绝物种清单 Wreck – List of Extinct Species INSIEMI IRREALI Company (BE) WRECK_© Sarah Melchiori

编舞：皮耶特罗·马鲁洛 Choreography: Pietro MARULLO

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Wreck – List of extinct species is a cross medium work combining 2014 movement, sound and visual art. Begins with a huge black plastic soft sculpture (like a pillow), an abstract object with its happenings on stage as a metaphor of Capitalism and on the human conditions, leaving room — 2015 — 2017 for the audience to further interpret its power. —

Founded in 2014 and based in Brussels, INSIEMI IRREALI is made up of artists and technicians from all over the world. Its artistic concept

WRECK_© Sarah Melchiori derives from the effects and development among the society, economy and human survival power of today. The company created a trilogy to critical acclaim in Europe; they are: ARANCE - Avoid shooting blacks (2015), WRECK - List of extinct species (2017), and ARIANE (eu) phonie - Soundwalk in a refugee camp in Greece.

Coproduced by FOCUS 微店购票 07.28 Festival Internazionale Danza 20:00 With ﬁnancial help of Supported by 北京天桥艺术中心中剧场 Lyric Theater

Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center Pietromarullo.com 舞 00:01 编舞：耿子博（上海） Choreography: GENG Zi-bo (SH) SPRINGBOARD

2017 微2018 GENG Zi-bo is an independent choreographer, dancer graduated from Shanghai Academy of Drama with a Masters in Choreography. He has received various awards include: Choreography Award in 11th Seoul International Choreography Competition, Bronze award in 30th Hannover International Choreography Competition, top 10 ﬁnalists of Zhejian TV’s Chinese version of So You Think You Can Dance. GENG was executive choreographer for Valley of the Wind, Wolf, Soul of the Mountain, Southern Red Beans, Couples River, Nine Colors Deer, Shambhala, 2017 Cyprus Moving lmages International Dance Micro Film Festival The Kitchen, and 2018 French Des Arts Des Cinés Dance Film Jury Award Gatha.

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Erik TAM Erik TAM Virtual Lotus Stella & Artists (MACAO) In collaboration with Ergao Dance Production Group (GZ)

Virtual Lotus © 编舞：二高 Choreography: Ergao

2012 Founded in 2012, Stella & Artists is a contemporary dance company in Macao which aims to promote culture of Chinese dance while taking inspirations from our daily living and incorporating them into the dance creation. The group endeavors to promote dance education and cultural exchange between Macao and other places through active collaborations. Stella & Artists enhances dance and cultural development of Macao and has organized dancers in Macao to participate in performances and exchange activities in Lisbon, Brisbane, Seoul and Daejeon, and Beijing, Guangzhou, Guizhou, Hong Kong, Ningbo, and Zhuhai.

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Academic Consultant: Dr. WANG Wei www.stellanartists.com

香巴拉-理想国 Padma Dance Theatre (Dali) Shambhala 编舞：万玛尖措 Choreography: Padma © 2013 Padma Dance Company is a private dance company established in 2013 by Padma (Wanma Jiancuo) upon his return from US. The company dancers and members consists of Han, Tibetan, Mongolian, Manchu and Hui ethnicities living in a harmonious, united, sincere, wise and acquiescent ambience. The group’s creations assimilate elements from the various traditional and ethnic cultures and dance while combining these with concepts in contemporary arts.

07.24 微店购票 17:00

北京天桥艺术中心小剧场 Studio Theater Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center 涡Vortex 编舞：盘彦燊（香港） Choreography: Wayson POON (HK)

·3.0·,(); 2016 Wayson POON is a Hong Kong contemporary dance artist with notable works include Behind 3.0, Untitled, Fleeing by Night, in,visible (cities), and Vortex. His creations combine oriental spirit and western methodology, decipher the essence of body from different aspects, study the language of dance from several levels and bring out the harmonious chord in the vibration of many elements. POON has led workshops on his body research around the world and received the Hong Kong Arts Development Award for Young Artist (Dance) in 2016.

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桂花园新村 Ergo Dance Production (GZ) Gui Hua New Village 编舞：张典凌 Choreography: ZHANG Dian-ling

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/ Ergao Dance Production Group was founded by dancer/choreographer ErGao (QiWo HE) in Guangzhou, China in 2007. The group includes dance production and a dance center, with a focus on dance theatre, dance ﬁlm, community art and dance education.

Ergao Dance Production Group’s dance production work prioritizes dance theatre, dance ﬁlm and community art; at its ‘core’, the body is the site of artistic investigation and the primary medium of work. The work uses diverse strategies to explore Chinese social and cultural identities, sex, gender and other topics. The dance center focuses on the participation and creative processes of non-professional dancers, providing dancers with the opportunity to explore movement in different social and cultural sites, creating a self-determined community and dance space.

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Academic Consultant: Dr. WANG Wei www.ergaodance.cn 浮流 Floating Daiweiwu Arts Troupe (Shenzhen)

编舞：谢欣 Choreography: XIE Xin 2008 Daweiwu Arts Troupe, founded in 2008, is the only modern and Contemporary dance group in Shenzhen. Its dancers come from various cities of China with exquisite technique and dedication to the arts. Since its establishment, the group has devoted itself to create works which emphasizes on individuality, mindfulness of present times and originality in various shapes, thinking and emotions. SPRINGBOARD 07.25 微店购票 17:00

北京天桥艺术中心小剧场 Studio Theater Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center 七情·六遇

概念及编导：黄纯军 Concept: HUANG Chun-jun

SPRINGBOARD Six Stories Good Dance Centre (Nanning), NEXT Modern Dance Company (Nanchang), Gardenﬁeld Concept Dance Company (Changde)

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2001 2007 30 2014 Next Modern Dance Company, co-founded by XU Shui-liang and ZHONG Lin in 2007, has Good Dance Centre/GuWu Theater was established in 2001 as the combination been dedicated to education and promotion of contemporary dance in the Nanchang Jiangxi of Guwu and DianDian Corridor groups. It has presented more than 10 dedicated area. It has since created many contemporary dance special performances and has been special performances and created more than 30 original works, crosses among invited to perform in festivals in Seoul and Busan of South Korea, Singapore, Fukuoka Japan, multimedia, drama, site specific performances connecting traditional culture and Dusseldorf, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xian, Hunan, and Guangxi. Its major contemporary arts. The group has been invited to perform and received acclaims works include: Asking Chan, The Trail, Moss on Stones, Too late to say goodbye, Dual, Di zi gui, in Beijing and Guangdong Dance Festivals, Hong Kong’s Fringe Festival, Busan A world of sand and one, Four seasons. International Dance Festival. Its Lost Track received Excellence Prize from Tel- 2016 Aviv and Yokohama Dance Collection, and M-cident received the Outstanding Achievement in Independent Production from 2014 Hong Kong Dance Award. Gardenfield Concept Dance Company was established in 2016, charged with artistic direction of creating original works to develop and promote contemporary dance in the Changde Hunan area. The group has been invited to perform in South Korea New Dance Festival, Fukuoka Dance Fringe Festival, Macao City Fringe Festival, Wuzhen Theatre Festival, Shenzhen Bay Fringe Festival, Beijing and Guangdong Dance Festivals, Busan Dance Festival. Its major works include: Migrants, Fragmented Memories, Unorderly Connection, Loveletters, Goldfish, I Love Balls.

07.26 微店购票 17:00

北京天桥艺术中心小剧场 Studio Theater Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center 燃烧身体休斯顿、听到吗？ The Ignited Body Do you copy Houston? Yokohama Dance Collection Exchange (JP)

概念及编导：崔明玄、乘松薰、铁田咲编舞/演出：李庚苟、李连珠 Choreography: CHOI Myung Hyun, Kaoru NORIMATSU, Choreography/Performance: LEE Kyung Gu, LEE Yeon Ju Emi TETSUDA

Futome Performance Goblin Party

2009 2007 Futome Performance was established after its founders graduated Okayama University Goblin Party was founded in 2007. The group uses the Korean goblin image as its in 2009. Futome in Japanese translates to chubby. All of the group’s performances representation and has performed throughout Korea and overseas many times. It is are meticulously choreographed and directed by Kaoru NORIMATSU. Radiating with devoted to creating performances which can expand the vision of the audience. Goblin tremendous energy, Futome Performance has been performing in many occasions ranging Party has created many works based on scenarios of how humans react to familiar or new from small scale local events to major stages and venues. The group’s motto is: Have fun! situations, and the emotions and body languages it arouses. It is through these creations to imagine and appreciate all that we become aware.

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Dat Nguyen 编舞/演出：胡奥丁·格拉多·帕连诺（西班牙） Choreography/Performance: Joaquin COLLADO PARREÑO (ES)

··2014 ·· Joaquin COLLADO PARREÑO is a Spanish choreographer based in Brussels, Belgium. Since 2014, PARREÑO has been putting his aesthetics thinking into reality and began his choreographic works. He has held residency at La Caldera Dance and Scenic Arts Creation Center and El Graner in Barcelona, Garcia Lorca in Brussels and Theatre El Musical in Valence as these served as important starting point for his creation development. He has engaged on various dance projects in Germany, Holland and Spain for more than 10 years. SPRINGBOARD 07.27 微店购票 17:00

北京天桥艺术中心小剧场 Studio Theater Acknowledgement EMBAJADA

DE ESPAÑA Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center EN LA R.P.CHINA SPRINGBOARD

人 Näss Massala Dance Company (FR) 编舞：福阿德·布苏夫 Choreography: Fouad BOUSSOUF

·2006 · & Massala Dance Company was founded by Fouad BOUSSOUF in 2006. Since then, BOUSSOUF has created several multi-disciplinary programs such as Zoom, Deviation, Témoin(s), A Condition, Afﬂux, Concept Lavoir, Transe, The Elements, Esperluette, Le Moulin du Diable, and Näss. The company’s performances have received critical acclaim in France, Europe, Asia, The Caribbean, the Middle-East and North Africa.

07.28 微店购票 17:00 Acknowledgement 北京天桥艺术中心小剧场 Studio Theater www.massala.fr Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center 舞 The Beijing Dance Festival is one of the biggest celebration of dance 天300多舞艺术，200多舞，及5000 in Beijing and among cities in China with more than 300 dance artists, over 200 dance students and more than 5000 audience attendance congregate in Beijing 中、港， every summer. These participants come from cities throughout China, Hong Kong, 及、、及 Taiwan, as well as across the world from North & Central America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. 北京舞周北京天舞及香港舞中 The Beijing Dance Festival is co-presented by BeijingDance/LDTX and Hong Kong 舞，北京天桥艺术中心北京舞 City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) China Dance Development, and 周2008，周， co-organized with Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center. The annual Beijing 舞演2012，周 Dance Festival began in 2008 as a one-week festivity alternating focus between international and Chinese artists. Since 2012, the Festival had combined both 北京舞周周周，二周演周: international and Chinese artists and expanded to become of two-weeks duration. 周天、导舞 The two-week Beijing Dance Festival is composed of two parts: First part as an 演周演出：舞上演 Educational Week followed by second as Performance Week. The educational week is composed of an intensive six-day Dance Camp taught by an international 舞大、演大 faculty. The performance week is composed of three modules: Focus presenting 、舞编舞 full evening productions; Springboard showcasing works that are more edgy and daring; and Youth Dance Marathon (YDM) offering an open platform especially catered for young choreographer to showcase his/her original works.

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