Venue: Huang Hua Gang Theatre
Time: 20:00 on 07/27/2009
Tickets: ￥280/￥180/￥130/￥80 (Students, Senior Citizens: ￥90/￥40)
Tel.: 159 1810 9201, 159 1810 9202, 020-8704 9512 (Guangdong Modern Dance Troupe)
[The Sixth Guangdong Modern Dance Festival]
Approx 75 mins (15 mins Interval) World Premiere
Choreographer Liu Qi is well-known for the physical fluidity and movement sensitivity in her choreography. Her previous award-winning works were usually structured on her observation and commentary on real life situations. Yet, in "Untitled(无题三阕)," her latest creation for the dance festival, she will venture into the abstract and attempt to plunge the dancers and the audience alike into a state of uncertainty, so emotionally charged that what words fail to communicate has to find alternative physical expression in three respective creations.
Choreographer Liu Qi graduated at Beijing Dance Academy from Ethnic Dance faculty in 1991 and worked as lecturer in the Academy. Liu joined Guangdong Modern Dance Company in 1996 and has since then served the company as dancer, teacher and artistic master. In 2004, she was appointed deputy artistic director. In 2006, she was awarded Century Star by the Guangdong government for her outstanding achievements in the art. Liu has performed in major dance works and toured extensively with the company and took part in many international arts festival and dance festivals.
She has also choreographed many award winning works for the company. Her work Pagoda (1996) has been awarded a Gold Medal for choreography at the 1997 Tao Li Cup, a Silver Medal at the 1998 Lotus Award, and Grand Prize at the 2000 Moscow International Arts Competition. Fight Under the Table (2001) was awarded a Silver Medal for choreography at the 2001 National Dance Competition, a Gold Medal for choreography at the 2002 Lotus Award. Upon Calligraphy (2005) was awarded four medals for the outstanding choreography, performance, lighting design and repertoire at the Guangdong Arts Festival 2005. It was featured in China Festival at the Kennedy Centre, Washington D.C. and Dance Salad Festival , Houston, Festival Cina Vicina, Rome, Italy and Aarhus International Arts Festival, Aarhus, Denmark.
Other major works include: Opera Girl (1996), Hong Bo Qu (1998), Fight Under the Table (2001), Between... (2004), and Ambrosia (2006), Forward-For-Forward (2007), City Race (2008).
Guangdong Modern Dance Company (GMDC) is mainland China's first professional modern dance company. Internationally renowned for its exquisite and captivating performances, the company was founded in June, 1992 under the auspices of the Department of Culture of GuangdongProvince. Ms. Yang Mei-qi was appointed the first managing director, and Mr. Willy Tsao from Hong Kong was invited to be the first artistic director for the company. Tsao served his term till 1998 but in 2004, he was invited again to be the director and artistic director of the company.
GMDC is a company based in the fastest growing region of the fastest growing economy in the world. Its vision that modern dance is a tool for self-expression attracts some of the most talented dancers and choreographers in China, paving the way for the development of dance in a country with distinctly different social and cultural backgrounds from the West. Works created by its dancers, resident choreographers, artistic directors and international guest artists have been staged at home and abroad winning critical acclaims and overwhelming audience responses.
The company performs abroad frequently and has appeared at the India International Dance Festival, the Singapore International Arts Festival, Korea's Chang-Mu International Dance Festival, England's Edinburgh Festival, Millennium Moves of Germany, Japan's Tokyo Tinay Alice International Theatre Festival, Hong Kong Festival of Asian Arts, the Holland Dance Festival, the International Festival of Contemporary Dance in Venice and most recently the Festival of China in Washington D.C..
During the past decade, China's modern dance has witnessed not only the growing of a company but the rise of many sparkling stars. The Company's dancers and choreographers Qiao Yang, Shen Wei, Xing Liang, Sang Ji-jia, Li Han-zhong, Yang Yun-tao, Shi Xuan, Liu Qi, Long Yun-na etc., have gained international recognition with their outstanding artistries.
GMDC has also hosted the annual Guangdong Modern Dance Festival since 2004. Besides presenting performances by international dance companies, the festival also stages works by young independent dancers/dance groups from all over China. In May 2005, it gathered more than 200 dancers from 13 cities and provinces. Hailed as the nation's cradle of modern dance, GMDC continues to cultivate new grounds for the promotion and development of the art in China.
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