KANSAS CITY STAR

“The dancers—all fiercely virtuosic, starting with Mr. Shen himself—
are often floor based, with movements that recall martial arts, break dancing and Chinese opera.
There are no lifts, no partnering and lots of running.
It’s just dancing and patterns.
But the dancing is brilliant, and the patterns are powerfully compelling.”

NEW YORK TIMES

“Shen Wei’s singular imagination and brilliant stagecraft brings us to strange and wondrous places.”

WASHINGTON POST

“Powerfully theatrical, stylized and emotionally cool,
his productions are fed by both Asian traditions and American experimentation,
but they belong to neither camp.”

WASHINGTON POST

“The visual feasts that he creates, however, are quite apart from anything else that bills itself as dance, at least on this continent.
These are hypnotic works that sweep the viewer along at a pace that can be exquisitely glacial or violently urgent—sometimes both.
They are detailed in the extreme, and yet wholly consuming.”

THE NEW YORK SUN

“A vivid fusion of East and West, of Chinese opera and modern dance informed by the keen eye of a painter...
Limbs slice and slash, often rotating almost backward from fantastically flexible hips and shoulders.
Moments of solitary lyricism and breathtaking suspension contrast
with sections of powerful massed momentum... …riveting.”

BOSTON GLOBE

“Folding is a dignified, restrained and graceful expression of China,
although it is unclear whether this is a past or future world.
It doesn’t matter; it is simply enticing...
The program is an excellent display of modern dance that embraces the grace of classical forms,
held by the firm brush-stroke of elegant composure."

SUNDAY HERALD SUN, AUSTRALIA

“Performers as statues came to life, stepping mere inches.
No matter whether toppling to the floor or bumping into something beside themselves,
their movement spoke volumes with its gorgeous visual imagery.”

THE LONDON TIMES

“The big news concerns Shen Wei‘s reinvention of the dance vocabulary:
the way the movement impetus flows from any point in his dancers’ bodies to any other,
bypassing every convention of dance-as-steps or choreography as a predominantly vertical statement...
Glorious.”

LOS ANGELES TIMES

“We encounter an ethereal, refined—and sometimes unhuman—
space, gestures that invoke the ritual ceremonies of a culture that never was.”

FIDELIO, BUDAPEST

“Every Shen Wei dance feels like a journey to a place for the first time.”

SUNDAY HERALD SUN

“A superb opportunity to enter a rarely seen world,
done to perfection by a true artist of the theater."

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