Guest Choreographer With
The Dance Company of Purchase College of the Arts,
State University of New York
| In the Spring of 2001 Sadan was invited to view the work of Shen Wei who had just spent several months choreographing a new dance for a dance company at the Conservatory at Purchase College of the Arts comprised of the advanced students that was beyond any student performance I had seen before. Shen Wei who was relatively unknown had recently arrived from Mainland China where he had performed with the Chinese Opera/Dance Theatre and also Danced and choreographed with China's first modern dance company. |
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| The performance Shen Wei created in collaboration with the students was an elegant haunting expressionistic piece. It was a visual experience comparable to watching a dream or living painting in the colors of the pre Raphaelites, in the poetic dream state and trance of the Butoh. It had nothing in common with the rapid contemporary staccatto of a Tharp or a Morris. Or like a dream, half remembered, a passion yet to flower...... |
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