Festival showcase for modern dance
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The third annual Beijing Modern Dance Festival kick starts this month, but this time at a more prestigious venue - the National Center for the Performing Arts.
Presented by BeijingDance/LDTX in collaboration with the National Center for the Performing Arts, the festival will be held from Thursday to May 16.
During the festival BeijingDance/LDTX, Guangdong Modern Dance Company, City Contemporary Dance Company (Hong Kong), Systme Castafiore (France) and Inbal Pinto Avshalom Pollak Dance Company (Israel) will present nine performances.
In addition, the festival will also present workshops, lectures, master-classes, and film screenings from the Jumping Frames international dance video festival.
"Having presented a lot of classical dance performances, we would like to introduce some contemporary works to the audience," says Zhao Ruheng, director of the dance program with the National Center for the Performing Arts.
Willy Tsao, artistic director of BeijingDance/LDTX, gave a pre-festival lecture entitled Modern Dance in China at the National Center for the Performing Arts on April 25.
The festival will formally open on May 6 with the world premiere of Standing Before Darkness, a work by Tibetan Choreographer Sang Jijia performed by BeijingDance/LDTX.
The first modern dance group in China, Guangdong Modern Dance Company will perform two contrasting works called Upon Calligraphy and Rice Spice Zen Colors, while the City Contemporary Dance Company of Hong Kong will present Very Dance!, which they say "reveals the laughter and tears of the dancers as performers and as people".
Israeli troupe Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company's Rushes and More is a minimalistic work that employs quotidian objects such as chairs.
While another overseas group, the Systme Castafiore from France, will present Manuel of Marvels, a work featuring Chinese actor Wu Xiaodong who traveled to France in the winter of 2010 to rehearse with the company.
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