MCLC: Lu Xun-inspired ballet at Kennedy Center

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Lu Xun-inspired ballet at Kennedy Center
Next week the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., will present one of China’s newest contemporary ballet companies, Beijing Dance Theater (founded in 2009 by Wang Yuanyuan), performing a collection of works called Wild Grass, inspired by poems of Lu Xun: https://www.kennedy-center.org/events/?event=DPDSB Wang is one of China’s most successful young female choreographers and dance entrepreneurs. Her adaptation of Jin Ping Mei generated controversy and attention a few years ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/arts/24iht-dance24.html http://blog.calarts.edu/2011/04/01/banned-in-beijing-calarts-alumna-choreographs-jin-ping-mei/ A post-show discussion will take place on Wednesday, Oct 22nd.
Emily Wilcox eewilcox at umich.edu
by denton.2 at osu.edu on October 18, 2014
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