Dai Jian

Dai Jian is an artist settled in Lyon,  France from 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. Dai Jian 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 (choreography  & dancing) 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 (in collaboration with Elena Demyanenko) 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, Dai Jian enjoys mixing the performing arts with  the visual arts. He has collaborated with many artists from a wide  variety of fields.

Dai Jian is also a professor and a graduate of a Master of Fine Arts  (MFA). He taught at the renowned Bennington College, VT, USA. He is now  an external professor at the Beijing Normal University.

Source: MaiOui Danse Arts

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