Beijing Dance Festival

The Beijing Dance Festival is one of the biggest celebration of dance 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 every summer. These participants come from cities throughout China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, as well as across the world from North & Central America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

The Beijing Dance Festival is co-presented by BeijingDance/LDTX, Hong Kong City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) China Dance Development and Beijing TianQiao Performing Arts Center. The annual Beijing Dance Festival began in 2008 as a one-week festivity alternatingly focus between international and Chinese artists. Since 2012, the Festival had combined both international and Chinese artists and expanded to become of two-weeks duration.

The two-week Beijing Dance Festival is composed of two parts: First part as an Educational Week followed by second as Performance Week. The educational week includes an intensive six-day Dance Camp taught by an international faculty. The performance week composes of three modules: Focus presenting 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.

July 19 to 31: 2018 Beijing Dance Festival

July 20 to 26: Education Week

– Camp (Registration on 19th)

July 27 to 31: Performance Week

– Focus (opening performance on 26th), Springboard, Youth Dance Marathon, Masterclass.

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2018 Beijing Dance Festival

Calendar

Dance Camp

7.19 四 Thurs		第一天 Day 1 7.20 五 Fri	第二天 Day 2 7.21 六 Sat	第三天 Day 3 7.22 日 Sun	第四天 Day 4 7.23 一 Mon	第五天 Day 5 7.24 二 Tues	第六天 Day 6 7.25 三 Wed	7.26 四 Thurs
10:00-16:00 在雷动天下签到 Sign-in at LDTX 16:00 大巴开往营地 Bus to Camp Venue	09:00-10:30 10:45-12:15 14:00-15:30 15:45-17:15	上课 Classes	上课 Classes	上课 Classes	上课 Classes	工作坊 Workshop	工作坊 Workshop	退营 Check-out
19:00 开营前聚会 Orientation	19:00 -20:30	老师见面会 Meet your Teachers	跳格国际舞蹈影像放映及分享 Jumping Frames International Dance Video Screening & Talk 黃沛杰、又一山人 (黃炳培) Danny WONG, anothermountainman (Stanley WONG)	作品进行中展演 Work-in-progress 《冲浪》 The Great Wave 吴卉 WU Hui 戏剧构作分享 Dramaturgy Talk 丰翼 Fabrizio MASSINI	作品展演 Performance 《尘土》Dust 林一滴 LIN Yidi （美国佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔大学 Jacksonville University, US ）《四位（为）女人》 Fo(u)r Women 石瑾珊 Sandra PARKS （美国德雷塞尔大学 Drexel University, US）灯光分享 Perspectives on Light 设计 Design by 甄丽嫦 Eva YAN	示范讲座《不光是光》主持：甄丽嫦 Lecture Demonstration: More Than Lights Speaker: Eva YAN	大汇演 Gala Performance

Performance Week

		7.26 周四 Thurs	7.27 周五 Fri	7.28 周六 Sat	7.29 周日 Sun	7.30 周一 Mon	7.31 周二 Tues
早上 Morning	09:00 & 10:45 舞蹈排练室	大师班报名 Masterclass Enrollment 青年舞展注册 Youth Dance Marathon (YDM) Registration	大师班 1 & 2 Masterclass	大师班 3 & 4 Masterclass	大师班 5 & 6 Masterclass	大师班 7 & 8 Masterclass	大师班 9 & 10 Masterclass
下午 Afternoon	14:00 多功能剧场 Lab Theater		青年舞展 1 YDM	青年舞展 2 YDM	青年舞展 3 YDM	青年舞展 4 YDM	青年舞展 5 YDM
下午 Afternoon	17:00 小剧场 Studio Theater		另类平台 1 Springboard *踩过界* *Crossing Borders* 《天黑以后》 *After Dark* 张曦/无限未知舞蹈剧场 (中国杭州/韩国) ZHANG Xi /X-zero Dance Theater (Hangzhou, CN/KR) 《下一站，彩虹》 *A Short, Thick Rainbow* 不加锁舞踊馆 (中国香港) /反转运动社 (日本) Unlock Dancing Plaza (HK, CN) /Namstrops (JP)	另类平台 2 Springboard *单身狗* *Lonely Dog* 《功》 *Kudoku* 编码人类舞蹈社 (意大利) Association Coded Uomo /Compagnia Daniele NINARELLO (IT) 《倒立之树》 *Inverted Tree* 渡边尚/头之口 (日本) Hishashi WATANABE /Atama To Kuchi (JP) 《半月》 *Half Moon* 欧里·康臣拉 (法国) Olet KHAMCHANLA (FR)	另类平台 3 Springboard 糖黐豆 *Sticky Beans* 《商务范》 *Business World* 哈维尔·格雷罗 (西班牙) Javier GUERRERO (ES) 《类人鱼》 *Pez Esfinge* 艾利亚斯·阿吉雷 (西班牙) Cia Elías AGUIRRE (ES)	另类平台 4 Springboard *南山男* *Southern Boys* 《烂柯：一盅两件》 *Limb Clock:* *Dim Sum Hour* 何其沃/二高表演 (中国广州) Ergao Dance Production Group (Guangzhou, CN) 《有人喜欢蓝》 *Some Adore Blue* 刘沛麟 (中国澳门) LAO Pui Lon (Macao, CN) 《顺》 *Along* 曹德宝 (中国香港) Hugh CHO (Hong Kong, CN)	另类平台 5 Springboard *走西口* *Marching West* 《?》 ? 黄纯军/谷舞点典舞蹈中心 (中国南宁) HUANG Chun-jun /Good Dance Center (Nanning, CN) 《街头》 *Street Corner* 伽巴拉舞蹈剧场 (中国银川) Kabala Dance Theater (Yinchuan, CN)
晚间 Evening	20:00 中剧场 Lyric Theater	开幕演出 Opening 焦点舞台 1 Focus 《无梦可梦》 *Enigma* 雷动天下 (中国北京) BeijingDance/LDTX (Beijing, CN)	焦点舞台 2 Focus 《漂亮漂亮》 *Colors* 布拉瑞扬舞团 (中国台东) Bulareyaung Dance Company (Taitung, CN)	焦点舞台 3 Focus 《本初》 *Point One* 广东现代舞团 (中国广州) Guangdong Modern Dance Company (Guangzhou, CN)	焦点舞台 4 Focus 《同一天空下》 *Under One Sky* 奥斯纳布吕克舞蹈剧团 (德国) Dance Company Theater Osnabrück (DE)	焦点舞台 5 Focus 《易季》 *Season(s)* 城市当代舞蹈团 (中国香港) /艾斯普森舞蹈团 (澳大利亚) City Contemporary Dance Company (Hong Kong, CN) /Expressions Dance Company (AU)	焦点舞台 6 Focus 《冰树芳华》 *Ice Tree* 平头舞蹈团 (以色列) Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company (IL)

Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center

Dance Camp

2018 Focus

2018 Springboard

2018 YDM

「Master Class」Profile

Qingyu LIU（China）

Qingyu Liu worked as a full time dancer of Guangdong Modern Dance Company from 2009 to 2017. LIU has performed with the company in the Europalia International Arts Festival in Belgium, Karmiel Dance Festival in Israel, Dance Season of Suzanne Dellal Center, Jumping Frames International Dance Video Festival, Beijing Dance Festival, Guangdong Dance Festival, etc. She likes to work with different artists. Now, as an independent artist, LIU would love to explore something interesting with her body.
Dominic WONG（Hong Kong，China）

Dominic Wong studied modern dance in The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. He joined CCDC after his graduation in 1996 and was promoted as Assistant Artistic Director in 2016. Wong’s choreographic work Men’s Chop Suey (All of A Sudden, 2003) was invited to rerun in the 1st Guangdong Modern Dance Festival. Dominic was awarded the Outstanding Medium Venue Production at The 19th Hong Kong Dance Awards.
MUI Cheuk Yin（Hong Kong，China）

Recognized for her skills in merging the East & West culture, MUI Cheuk-yin achieved her fame at a young age and preferred dancing solo. MUI was a principal dancer of the Hong Kong Dance Company; then had forsaken her position at the company to travel to Europe where she worked with many dance artists. In 2000, MUI was invited by Pina Bausch and Folkwang Tanzstudio to choreograph Whispering Colour, and performed as a guest dancer in the Rite of Spring with Tanztheater Wuppertal.
Hiroaki UMEDA（Japan）

A choreographer and a multidisciplinary artist, Hiroaki UMEDA is being recognized as one of leading figures in the pioneering art scene in Japan. Since the founding of his company, S20, his subtle yet sensational choreographies have been performed around the world. His works are known to incorporate digital technologies as its base with highly integrated method of arts approach. He incorporates not only the physics, optics, and sensory elements, but even with spatial factors. At the same time, he is a composer, lighting designer, scenographer and visual artist. UMEDA received an Honorary Mention in Prix Ars Electronica in 2010.
Johanna NUUTINEN（Finland）

Graduated from the Finnish National Opera Ballet School in 2002. Upon graduation, she joined the Finnish National Ballet that same year and embarked on a successful career with the company while dancing in works by Ohad NAHARIN, William FORSYTHE, Sylvie GUILLEM among others, as well as creating her own productions on stage and on film. In 2017, NUUTINEN received artist subsidy from the Finnish Cultural Foundation. In her latest works, she explores the themes of identity, metamorphosis and the life maintenance durational aspect of performance.
Ferenc FEHÉR（Hungary）

Ferenc is a dancer and choreographer from Hungary, he has a very distinctive performance style and full of expressions filled with improvisations, physical and animal-like movements. Ferenc's dance is the result of constantly improving and perfecting his repertoire of unique moves, and he has been making and performing his own choreographies all over the world since 2007. Ferenc has won numerous critical international awards, for example, ATELIER International Theatre Festival, The best choreography award, 2014; National Independent Theatre Festival, Best dance-theatre performance
Eyal DADON（Israel）

Born in Beer Sheva, Israel, Eyal DADON and has been a very active dancer and choreographer. In 2011, Eyal joined Kibbutz dance company and was awarded the “Annual Best Dancer” of the YairShapira Prize.
In 2016, DADON was invited to be the Artistic Director of the "House of Dance" Beer Sheva Theatre where he has established his dance company, SOL. Meanwhile, DADON continues to work as a Rehearsal Director, House Choreographer & Assistant Sound Engineer for the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company.
Sabrina Sadowska（Germany）

Sabrina Sadowska is the manager of ballet in the Chemnitz theater. Then she became the dancer of Trier Theater, Bremerhaven City Theater and The Halle Opera House. During 1986 to 1992 she obtained the scholarship in Royal Danish Ballet owing to her study of Bournonville ballet. She was invited many times as an Ballet educator to the Warschau National Ballet school, etc. Sabrina has over 50 ballet choreograph works for musicals and drama since 1998, and she started to lead the Chemnitz ballet with Reiner Feistel since the 2013/2014 show season.
WU Yi San（Taiwan, China）

Born in China Taiwan, WU Yi San was a dancer with the City Contemporary Dance Company for years and is now a teacher at the Taipei National University of the Arts. In 2016, she, along with GOH Boon Ann and Sunny SUN Mei Hui, co-founded Yi Production. In the spirit of “understanding impermanence, so we change; perceiving difficulties, so we act”, the three artists built up Yi Production as an international, cross-generational, and interdisciplinary platform. Through productions and performances, Yi Production aims to convey modern dance is full of contemporary multiple disciplines and spirits, and to reinterpret the essence of ‘presence’ and ‘human being’.
Kevin WILLIAMSON（America）

US Los Angeles-based movement artist, a Lester Horton Award recipient, and a faculty member at Scripps College in Claremont, Kevin WILLIAMSON’s mission is to create unusual dance experiences about modern life. Collaborating with a group of interdisciplinary artists, the group celebrates the body as a malleable vessel to explore evolving dis-identities contemporary aesthetics. Moving across different disciplines and perspectives generate movement narratives that are layered, multifaceted and unruly. Together, the group disrupts binary logic by drawing on discordant sounds and physical imagery, while celebrating queer ideas in excess, empathy, and compassion.

BEIJING DANCE FESTIVAL

Dance Camp

Email：dc@beijingdancefestival.com

+86-10-64054842 ext 8001
Youth Dance Marathon

Email：ydm@beijingdancefestival.com

+86-10-64054842 ext 8022

Performance Week

Email：marketing@beijingdancefestival.com

+86-10-64054842 ext 8022

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Beijing Dance Festival

2018 Beijing Dance Festival

Evening Programs

Introduction

Enrollment

2018 Teachers

Online Application

Enigma

COLORS

Point one

Under One Sky

Season(s)

Ice Tree

Crossing Border - After Dark

Crossing Border - A Short, Thick Rainbow

Lonely Dog - Kudoku

Lonely Dog - Inverted Tree

Lonely Dog - Half Moon

Sticky Beans - Business World

Sticky Beans - Pez Esfinge

Southern Boys - Limb Clock: Dim Sum Hour

Southern Boys - Some Adore Blue

Southern Boys - Along​

Marching West​ - ？

Marching West​ - Street Corner

2018 Beijing Dance Festival - Youth Dance Marathon – Opens for Submission

2018 Youth Dance Marathon (YDM) Selected Works Announcement

2018.07.27 Programs

2018.07.28 Programs

2018.07.29 Programs

2018.07.30 Programs

2018.07.31 Programs

北京舞蹈双周：展现最具创意作品

Dance Festival Frolics Through Beijing

美好即是全部

Contemporary dance fans set to see a world of works

“北京舞蹈双周”六大现代舞作品上演

京舞蹈周設慶港回歸節目

Beijing Dance Festival to bring overseas performances to the capital

2017北京舞蹈双周启动 7月18日至30日将如约而至

艺术创新——无个性不突破

烟花炫放14天

感动人的身体像天堂像海洋

北京舞蹈双周-天桥艺术中心

林文中舞团长河 跨海北京演艺

2016北京舞蹈双周精彩纷呈

Get Set for Poetry In Motion

舞蹈“自助餐”给你更多选择

“北京舞蹈双周”有朵易冷“烟花”

2016北京舞蹈双周即将开幕

Southern Boys - Along

Marching West - ？

Marching West - Street Corner

林文中舞团长河跨海北京演艺