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It is a masterwork that the choreographer XIE Xin spent four years creating by breaking through herself
The classic melody has been deconstructed in cooperation with musician FU Yifei
In Satie · Weight of Lightness
Satie’s Gymnopedie (three pieces) and Gnossienne (six pieces) have been rearranged
Classic pieces will be performed live by four renowned musicians
Ethereal, mysterious music and contemporary dance will be performed in an illusionary and mystical atmosphere
The Rite of Spring · The Road to Life
The Rite of Spring will once again be staged with music played on two pianos and two sets of percussion instruments
A performer will play more than 10 percussion instruments in different combined ways
The dancers, musicians, and audience will resonate at the same frequency…
A live communication is about to take place!
In Satie and The Rite of Spring are the latest masterpieces to come out on the 10th anniversary of the founding of the XIE Xin Dance Theatre. Choreographed by Artistic Director Xie Xin with music arranged by renowned percussionist FU Yifei, this production brings together four musicians—two pianists and two percussionists—with the company's dancers to perform two masterpieces.
The work will be interpreted live this time, with the four musicians and 12 dancers to perform together on the stage. An unprecedented feast of crossover art will thus be offered. That’s not only a bold and innovative attempt made by Chinese artists, but also a brave exploration of the boundary between music and dance. In Satie / The Rite of Spring is a mixture of light and dynamic vigour with torrid and mighty primitive vitality. It is leading us onto an immersive journey of art, where we will resonate at the same frequency with the performers in a blend of melody and dance steps.
Creative
Artistic Director: XIE Xin
Music Director: FU Yifei
Choreographer: XIE Xin
Music: Erik Satie, Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky
Music Adaptor & Arr.: FU Yifei
Planner: XU Peijin
Co-producers: LIU He, XU Peijin
Lighting Designer: GAO Jie
Set Designer: HU Yanjun
Costume Designer: LI Kun
Dancers: XIE Xin, FAN Xiaoyun, MA Siyuan, WANG Shaoyu, CHEN Yalin, HU Haiqing, XU Junkai, LI Yu, ZHANG Yan, LIU Yuqi, ZHANG Geyu, HUANG Yongjing (The cast is subject to change in the performance)
Musicians: FU Yilin / LUO Lin, XIE Ya’ou, XIE Yashuangzi, LYU Zhengdao
The above information, including performance times, lineups, programmes and ticket prices, are all subject to change without prior notice and for reference only.
In Satie · Weight of Lightness (First Half)
Satie’s Gnossienne and Gymnopedie, composed over a century ago, have been rearranged by two performers and will soon be presented in a new order. The music itself expresses something erratic and meaningless, i.e., fighting meaninglessly against the asperity of life and society.
Music and dance try to fold the space and distort time, so as to bring together the connections between you, me and him that have been forgotten, neglected and engraved on the mind. As music unfolds at slow or fast pace, virtuality and reality appear alternately with things far and near in each other. The music is over, but the audience is not gone.
The Rite of Spring · The Road to Life (Second Half)
The Rite of Spring, a world-renowned, epoch-making musical masterpiece, has been rearranged into a stunning version for two pianos and two sets of percussion instruments by the musician FU Yifei. Played by four performers hand in hand, the music itself has a rich connotation - live fusion between music and dance is an extensional interpretation, an externalised experience of life, and a dialogue with the predecessors. It helps to be less ego-centric and more awake.
The suffering is a gift from life, which becomes purer in the blazing fire, primitive rebellion and power of pain. No one can avoid being burned by fire, which brings a loss and also activates another instinct! Is the truth visible or hidden?
Not to hide or retreat,
life becomes purer in flames.
returning to the starting point,
returning to the place where it started.
Born, dead, reborn, in an endless cycle…
XIE Xin
XIE Xin
XIE Xin is a young dancer and first-class actress, the founder and Artistic Director of the XIE Xin Dance Theatre, Grand Champion on Hunan TV Dance Smash 2, an executive director of the Shanghai Dancers’ Association, a delegate to the 15th Shanghai Women’s Congress, a co-artist at the Shanghai International Dance Center Theater, a guest choreographer at the Contemporary Dance Company of Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, a guest choreographer at BalletBoyz, the first female Chinese choreographer to be commissioned to create a work for the Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris, a guest choreographer commissioned to create a work for the La Biennale di Venezia, an artist supported by the China National Arts Fund, China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and China Dancers Association “Young Dancer Training Programme”, the initiator of the Shanghai “Vanguard Body” International Workshop, and the founder of the dancewear brand “Vanguard Body”. XIE Xin used to work at the Guangdong Modern Dance Company, JIN Xing Dance Theatre, TAO Dance Theater, and BeijingDance/LDTX. She followed these ensembles to art festivals held in more than 25 countries. In 2014, XIE Xin founded the XIE Xin Dance Theatre, making herself an independent choreographer. Jorma Uotinen, then Artistic Director of the Kuopio Dance Festival, Finland, made a comment on her - In XIE Xin’s works, I have seen the future that hasn’t ever been seen in the development of European modern dance. Hers is unique, extremely sensitive. Ms. Wendy Perron, former editor-in-chief of the American Dance Magazine, spoke highly of XIE Xin - (She is) an extraordinary dancer, and her works, as fluent as the ‘Cloud Gate’, are more powerful and primitive…
In recent years, XIE Xin’s works have appeared at many Asian and European festivals on invitation, such as the Kuopio Dance Festival in Finland, Colours International Dance Festival Stuttgart, Festival Paris Lete, France, STEPS Dance Festival in Switzerland, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Split Dance Festival and Šibenik Dance Festival in Croatia, Hong Kong Arts Festival, China Contemporary Dance Biennale, NCPA “Chinese Dance for 12 Days”, etc. Her From IN was the first Chinese modern dance to tour Europe in the post-COVID-19 era (2023). It toured Spain, Germany, Switzerland, France and other European countries. By 2024, it had been staged for 31 times, with a sellout crowd each time.
Her representative works include medium and large-sized dancing compositions - From IN, In Satie / The Rite of Spring, T.I.M.E, HORIZON, TIMELESS, RIPPLE, When I Am Facing U, UNKNOWN, OBSESSIVE, Listen to the Body, FLOATING, ……After……, Face to Face, Face to Face 2, Focus of Zero, etc., and small ones including +, Falling, Now and Then, MURMUR, Far but Near, Flow Mark, Seen in Light, Silhouette in Memory, 1+1+1+1-1-1-1, No More, Tide, Flow Mark, Origin, Absent, The End, Hello Dance, Fantasy Land, Get On, Left·Right and A Dancer’s Monologue.
Artistic Experience & Awards:
In 2012, XIE Xin won the Champion and Golden Qian Award in the Second “Top Dancer” National TV Dance Competition.
In 2013, she won the Silver Award and Best Performance Award in the Second Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition (IBCC).
In 2014, her Falling and + were invited to the Hong Kong Dance Festival “Asia-Pacific Division”.
In 2014-2016, she won the Gold Award for Performance and Gold Award for Choreography in the Sixth and Seventh Professional Dance Contest of East China.
In 2015, she won the Gold Award in the 14th Premio Roma Danza and the Contract Award at the Kuopio Dance Festival, Finland in 2016.
In 2015, she won the Silver Award and Audience Award in the 29th International Choreographic Competition Hannover.
In 2021, she won the Grand Champion on Hunan TV Dance Smash 2.
XIE Xin Dance Theatre
The XIE Xin Dance Theatre is devoted to developing a unique body language and making the best of the body technique to keep ahead of its worldwide counterparts in terms of technological style. In her creative works, XIE Xin is clever at transfering technic into an expression of the “dancer”, with all body possibilities used to find the most precise body language in each work. That’s her style, which is able to impress the audience most deeply with every abstract dance.
Artistic Director XIE Xin has won many gold awards in modern dance competitions held at home and abroad. Her works have been staged on invitation at the Kuopio Dance Festival, Finland, Colours International Dance Festival Stuttgart, Festival Paris l’Eté, STEPS Dance Festival in Switzerland, Oriente Occidente Dance Festival in Italy, Wiesbaden State Theater, Šibenik Dance Festival and Split Dance Festival in Croatia, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hong Kong City Contemporary Dance Festival, China Contemporary Dance Biennale, Beijing Spring Arts Festival for Overseas Chinese, NCPA Chinese Dance for 12 Days, Fall For Dance Festival in New York, Lyon Dance House Theatre in France, etc. Every year, the Theatre invites internationally renowned choreographers to China to create new works for the dancers and hold workshops. The Theatre is committed to building a platform for international exchanges on modern dance. It also specialises in creating and perfectly presenting internationally cooperative works. The Theatre successfully planned the “Vanguard Body” International Workshop from 2017 to 2024, and in 2024, it began organising the Greater Bay Area (GBA) Dance Festival Shenzhen.
The XIE Xin Dance Theatre’s representative works include From IN, T.I.M.E, The Ark, Nonet, Entropy, UNKNOWN, OBSESSIVE, Flow, As Four, Falling, +, Now and Then, FLOATING FLOW MARK, Face to Face, Face to Face 2, MURMUR, Seen in Light, Listen to the Body, Silhouette in Memory, etc.
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