Wang Xinpeng

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Wang Xinpeng

Wang Xinpeng (王新鵬, often incorrectly transcribed as Xin Peng Wang , born  September 1, 1956 in Dalian , People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese choreographer .

Life

From 1970 to 1974 Wang received his ballet training in his hometown. This was followed by a four-year (1985–1989) study of choreography at the Beijing Dance School . He was also granted a one-year additional course in modern dance at the Folkwang University of Applied Sciences in Essen . Since 1996 he has been traveling all over the world as a freelance choreographer. Professional engagements took him to Hong Kong , to the National Ballet of Beijing , to the Dance Festival in New York, to the Semperoper in Dresden, to the National Ballet in Amsterdam, to the Royal Ballet van Vlaanderen Antwerp and to Lithuania, where he also worked on choreographies for the National Ballet. Wang has been the ballet director at Theater Dortmund since September 2003 . As a dancer, Wang Xinpeng was engaged for many years as a soloist at the Central Dance Ensemble Beijing, the Ballet Ensemble Beijing and the Aalto Theater in Essen, for which he also created numerous choreographies. In 2000, he worked with the famous director Zhang Yimou . In 2001 the ballet evenings "The Red Lantern" at the Beijing Chinese National Ballet and "Death and Fire" at the Koninklijk Ballet van Vlaanderen Antwerp premiered. From 2001 to 2003 Wang Xinpeng was ballet director at the Meiningen State Theater , where in 2002 his choreography "Four Seasons" to music by Antonio Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolla was performed. "Petruschka / Firebird", "Image", "Cinderella", "Carmina Burana" and "Sheherazade" were also created in Meiningen . Wang designed the successful productions “Swan Lake” and “The Nutcracker”, “Mozart” and “The Song of the Sea” for the Dortmund Theater . He also celebrated great successes with “Homage to Bach”, “Manon Lescaut”, “Room X”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “War and Peace”, “The Last Future” and “Element X”. In the 2010/2011 season he continued the Dortmund series of new action ballets with “hamlet - The Birth of Zorn” and revised the ballet evening “Mozart” with music by Michael Nyman . In the 2011/12 season he showed a heavily revised version of his “Swan Lake” in Dortmund and brought the new fairy tale ballet “Fantasia” to the stage. In the 2012/13 season, “The Dream of the Red Chamber” based on Honglou Meng by Cao Xueqin , one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature, is a new, full-length narrative ballet on the Dortmund Ballet's program. Wang thus bridges the gap between the culture of his Chinese homeland and Western culture. In elaborate equipment and to Michael Nyman's music, Wang takes the audience on a journey through time from China's authoritarian imperial era to the present of the economic giant.

List of works (from 2005)

  • Schwanensee , Theater Dortmund (premiere on February 5, 2005, revised new version on May 1, 2012)
  • Das Lied vom Meer , Theater Dortmund (world premiere on May 28, 2005)
  • Bolero , Theater Dortmund (premiere on May 28, 2005)
  • The Nutcracker , Theater Dortmund (premiere on December 10, 2005)
  • Mozart , Theater Dortmund (world premiere May 12, 2006)
  • Mein Bach , Theater Dortmund (world premiere on November 11, 2006)
  • Manon Lescaut , Theater Dortmund (premiere on January 27, 2007)
  • Room X , Theater Dortmund / Harenberg City-Center (world premiere on June 2, 2007)
  • Romeo and Juliet , Theater Dortmund (premiere on October 27, 2007)
  • War and Peace , Theater Dortmund (world premiere on November 8, 2008)
  • Le Sacre de printemps , Theater Dortmund (premiere on June 7, 2009)
  • The Last Future , Theater Dortmund (world premiere on February 20, 2010)
  • Element X , Theater Dortmund / Harenberg City Center (world premiere on April 24, 2010)
  • Hamlet - The Birth of Zorns , Theater Dortmund (world premiere on November 6, 2010)
  • Identities , Theater Dortmund in Ballet Center Westphalia (world premiere on June 22, 2011)
  • Fantasia - Awake in Your Dream , Theater Dortmund (world premiere on November 12, 2011)
  • The Dream of the Red Chamber , Theater Dortmund / The Hong Kong Ballet (premiere of the Dortmund version on November 10, 2012)
  • No Constancy , Theater Dortmund (world premiere on March 16, 2013)
  • Le sacre du printemps , Chinese National Ballet , Beijing (premiere on May 9, 2013)
  • Stories from the Vienna Woods , Theater Dortmund (world premiere on February 22, 2014)

Publications

  • Xin Peng Wang, a retrospective . With photographs by Maria-Helena Buckley, Thomas M. Jauk, Bettina Stöß u. a., contributions by Christian Baier, Tobias Ehinger, Rebecca Schönsee and Dorion Weickmann. Dortmund 2012 (96 pages, 90 images)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. A triumph for the Dortmund ballet ensemble . In: Westfälische Rundschau , November 12, 2012