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Choreography/ Shen Wei
Lighting/ David Ferri
Sets and Costumes/ Shen Wei
Music/ Igor Stravinsky (Four-hand piano version performed by Fazil Say)
COMMISSIONING AND PREMIERE
Premiere: American Dance Festival, July 7, 2003
Rite of Spring was commissioned by the American Dance Festival with support
from Philip Morris Companies, Inc. and the Doris Duke Awards for New Work,
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.
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Concept, Direction & Choreography/ Shen Wei
Lighting/ Jennifer Tipton
Music Direction/ Zhenguo Liu
Sets and Costumes/ Shen Wei
Music and Lyrics/ Traditional (17-18th Century)
COMMISSIONING AND PREMIERE
Second Visit to the Empress premiered at the American Dance Festival in 2005 as a work in process and in 2007 at the State Theater as part of Lincoln Center Festival. It was co-commissioned by New York City Opera, Het-Muziektheater Amsterdam, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the American Dance Festival with support from the Doris Duke Awards for New Work and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional support provided by the Asian Cultural Council.
This production was made possible by the Doris Duke Fund for Dance of the National Dance Project, a program administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Ford Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JP Morgan Chase Foundation and MetLife Foundation.
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Concept, Direction & Choreography/ Shen Wei
Lighting/ David Ferri
Sets and Costumes/ Shen Wei
Music/ Arvo Pärt
Inspired by the work of surrealist Belgian painter Paul Delvaux.
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Concept, Direction & Choreography/ Shen Wei
Lighting/ David Ferri
Set, Costumes, and Make-up/ Shen Wei
Music/ John Tavener and Tibetan Buddhist Chant
Folding was originally created in China for Guangdong Modern Dance Company
in 2000.
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