One of the premier international dance companies, Shen Wei Dance Arts has won worldwide acclaim. The work choreographer Shen Wei makes for his Company draws on influences as varied as traditional Chinese culture and arts, European Surrealism, American high modernism, and the ritual power of ancient drama.
Transcending East and West, Shen Wei Dance Arts fuses these disparate forms to forge a new hybrid form of dance. The Company’s dances reflect the compositional rigor of Shen Wei the visual artist, dancer, and choreographer—incorporating vivid colors, striking design, and imaginative use of space into theatrical, kinetic paintings.
The program will feature Shen Wei's latest work Neither.
In Neither, Shen Wei suggestively reflects on Morton Feldman and Samuel Beckett’s 1977 anti-opera of the same name. In tackling this singular score, with its sphinx-like 16-line libretto by Samuel Beckett, Shen sought not only to respond to Beckett and Feldman’s aural and poetic landscape but to add another poetic and philosophic layer of possibility to their exquisite, piercing lament
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
SATURDAY, MARCH 25th @ 8 PM
