First Part - Echo

 

 

 

Second Part - Random Goodbyes

 

Moya Michael is a dancer,performer and choreographer born and raised in Johannesburg,South Africa.She has danced with the likes of Akram Khan,Gregory Maqoma,Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker(Rosas),Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet(Eastman),Faustin Linyekula,David Hernandez,and Mårten Spångberg.

 

Moya currently resides in Brussels,which is her base for creating her own work.Moya has worked on commissions in various parts of the world including China,India and South Africa.Her latest creation'Random Goodbyes'is acollaboration with David Hernandez and Moya's second commission for Jin Xing Dance Theatre Shanghai after 2013’ s'Echo'.

 

Moya is interested in ’performing the self' and developing projects with other artists and artistic fields and has an ongoing commitment to process and discourse.She continues to evolve as a creative maker of live performance.It is in this manner that she has established a working relationship with KVS(The Royal Flemish Theatre in Brussels)as one of their artists. As a skilled performer,Moya explores in her artistic pursuit all forms of expression and identity with the use of mixed mediums.

 

David's choreographic voice and detailed dance language has brought critically acclaimed work to stages across Europe for over two decades.

 

In addition to creating choreographic work, often in collaboration with other artists,he continues to influence new generations through his pedagogical activities as a faculty teacher at P.A.R.T.S and guest teacher for international education programs.He also created commissioned works for schools, companies and festivals such as Skånes Dansteater, Susanne Linke Company(Trier)or Folkwang Tanzstudio(Essen),to name a few.

 

Having begun his artistic career as a singer and student in Opera,Jazz and Studio Music at theUniversity of Miami in Florida,USA,David continues today to nurture his musicianship through various projects.With over 30 years of stage and arts experience under his belt,David continues to push the limits of his craft through his passion for multimedia, storytelling and composing richly poetic worlds on stage and off.

 

Random Goodbyes is a meeting or collision of unlikely friendships and alliances in times of uncertainty and flux'.

 

Everyone has a story they wear under their skin, as unique and varied as a fingerprint.What ties us together and defines our humanity are the inevitabilities - life, love and death.From the king to the politician to the businessman, servant or sage; in each face in a crowd lies a tale of their collection of hellos and goodbyes,  and the mythologies they become.

What they do and what is done to them, random yet specific in their intimate details, isolated in their need to belong.Random Goodbyes is a collaboration between Moya Michael, David Hernandez and Jin Xing Dance Theater that opens a window on a landscape of intersecting lives and cultures. A collaboration between two choreographers upon the invitation of Jin Xing dance company had it’s start the summer before the pandemic in Shanghai 2019. It never saw it’s premiere for the following three years. The cast is a mix of Chinese and foreign performers and a collection of stories both personal and communal.

 

The Shanghai Jin Xing Dance Theatre was established in 1999, the first private modern dance group in China. And Jin Xing is the artistic director of the Theatre.

 

Since the establishment, Jin Xing Dance Theatre has traveled to many countries and regions such as Asia, Europe and North America, also been invited to perform in significant art festivals and dance festivals around the world, such as the British and Swiss dance festivals, Venice Art Biennale in Italy, Salzburg Festival in Austria, World Expo Zaragoza 2008 in Spain, Macau Arts Festival, Singapore Arts Festival, Adelaide Festival in Australian, and many dance festivals in Germany, United States and France.

 

The Theatre is famous for several masterpieces, including The Shanghai Tango which was adapted from the stage-drama Thunderstorm, and Carmina Burana which was adapted from the opera Song of Beuren, and several repertoires which integrate Eastern and Western cultural conflicts such as From East To West, The Most Fascinating Shanghai, The Farthest And The Nearest, and the most oriental characteristic works like Made in China - Dream of the Garden, Chinese-style Communication. During 20 years, the Theatre has also invited several foreigner choreographers and musicians collaborating with Chinese talents to dedicate the repertoires like Trinity, Different Loneliness, Wildflowers.