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Shen Wei (simplified Chinese: 沈 伟; traditional Chinese: 沈 偉; pinyin: shěn wěi) is a Chinese-American choreographer, painter, and director who resides in New York City.
Mar 7, 2024 · Shen Wei, the award-winning Chinese-American choreographer, dancer, director, painter and poet, took a break from rehearsal Tuesday afternoon for his upcoming production, “Dongpo: Life in Poems,” and spoke to me as he strolled the impressive halls of the Kennedy Center.
Shen Wei: Painting in Motion Dancer, choreographer, painter, and filmmaker, Shen Wei is a global citizen who synthesizes various art forms to find
Shen Wei Choreographer, director, dancer, painter and designer, Shen Wei is widely recognized for his defining vision of an intercultural, interdisciplinary, utterly original mode of movement-based performance. Shen Wei was born in a rural village of Hunan, China in 1968, year of the monkey.
Choreographer, director, dancer, painter and designer, Shen Wei is internationally renowned for his cross-cultural, boldly visual movement-based spectacles. He is perhaps best known as...
The Chinese American artist Shen Wei is perhaps best known as principal choreographer of the spectacular opening ceremonies at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. In Scroll Painting, his dancers performed across the stadium floor as a constantly changing, LED-lit ink-and-wash-scroll depiction of China’s evolution from ancient to modern times.
About Shen Wei. Hailed as “one of the most expansive, creative minds in the arts” (Pia Catton, The New York Sun), choreographer, director, and painter Shen Wei is internationally renowned for the breadth and scope of his artistic vision.
