Why China’s dance pioneer Wen Hui • Table.Briefings

Tanztheater-Pionierin Wen Hui — Wen Hui has brought experimental dance theater to China.

Wen Hui brought modern dance to China at a time when there was no audience for it. Much of her art focuses on the role of women in a patriarchal society. The pandemic has brought her to Germany, where she sometimes feels „like a child again.“

Her biography can be used to retell the Chinese history of the past 64 years, says Wen Hui. Whenever political doctrine shifted, her life also changed. The pioneer of modern Chinese dance theater grew up with the ideologically tinged model operas of Mao’s wife, Jiang Qing. During the Cultural Revolution, modern Western theater was considered bourgeois filth.

Why China’s dance pioneer Wen Hui feels like a child again in Germany

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