08 & 09.09.17
CN D Lyon
« In this workshop I will question the impact of Chinese philosophy in the contemporary dance and how the different bodies react to Eastern aesthetic. This research will include relationship between body and movement, exploration of martial art and Qi Gong. How our internal energy and awareness collaborate with an external movement logic? How much we can control and play with our organic energy? How the movement itself can bring a narrative into choreography without creating a tangible story? In the research and creative process, we will use both improvisation and set choreographies. We will discuss the meaning and importance of technique. Our focus will be to find the bridges between them to nourrish above questions ».
Dai Jian
Dai Jian lives in Lyon, France since June 2016 after 12 years dancing in New-York City with Trisha Brown Dance Company and Shen Wei dance Arts and choreographing his own works as a free-lance artist. He is also passionate about contact improvisation - a technic he developped working frequently with Kristie Simpson and Michael Schumacher.
Dai Jian is a Chinese artist with roots in contemporary dance, classical dance, and Martial Arts. He has created improvisations, performance installations, and visual art. He has begun creating his own work alongside a professional dance performance career since 18 year old. He was awarded at the National Dance Competition in China and won the New Stars in Performing Arts from Guangzhou City with his first solo creation, invited later in 2012 as the compulsory Male solo piece for the Boston International Ballet Competition.
From 2000, Dai Jian started modern dance and graduated from Madam Yang MeiQi program at BeiJing Dance Academy. Based in New York since 2005, he danced with Shen Wei Dance Arts and Trisha Brown Dance Company. He was Shen Wei’s assistant for the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Since then, Dai Jian presented his own creations: Blue Room and Silent Dialogue, respectively commissioned and premiered by New York Live Arts in 2014 and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2015. He also choreographed for Guang Dong Modern Dance Company a piece premiered at PLA Theater in Beijing and worked with Jin Xing Dance Theater. As a visual artist, he often crosses path between performance and visual arts.