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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, a Chinese-American choreographer and painter, creates a contemporary operatic dance based on the poems of Su Dongpo, a 900-year-old Chinese poet. He shares his artistic vision, spiritual connection and cultural insights in an interview with The Georgetowner.
Explore the multidisciplinary art of Shen Wei, a dancer, choreographer, painter, and filmmaker who synthesizes Eastern and Western influences. See his paintings, films, and sketches inspired by his residency at the Gardner Museum and his Olympic performance.
Shen Wei is a Chinese-born American artist who creates intercultural and interdisciplinary movement-based performances. He is a MacArthur Genius, a Nijinsky Award winner, and a painter, designer, and photographer.
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.
