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After six years of life as an actor, YIN Fang is returning to the theatre in the identity of a choreographer. Along by his side is XIE Xin, winner of the Dance Storm 2, and eight outstanding dancers from XIEXIN DANCE THEATER.

Get ready for the stunning world premiere of ENTROPY commissioned by Shanghai International Dance Center Theater!

Inspiration of Science + Live Music + TOP Creative Team

An interpretation of physics through movements of the body where a world of disorder shall find its order

ENTROPY is a brand-new work choreographed by Yin Fang and performed by Xie Xin Dance Theater. "Entropy" is a scientific concept which refers to the measure of the disorder undergone by a system. Things in our lives develop in a way much identical to the principle of the increase of entropy, meaning that the original order within a system never lasts long. In order to fight against the increase of entropy, people constantly establish rules in various scenarios, so that a system can operate in relative order.

By borrowing the concept of entropy, the work regards the body of a dancer as the physical existence of a system and builds order for it, simulating the dynamic process of the decrease and increase of entropy. Through the dancer's movements, we will see the establishment and changes of the order made by man in various scenes, and also take a close look at the relationship between a person’s behaviours and will in the frame of the human body.

Highlights

The switch between the identities of an actor and a choreographer

Yin Fang returns to the theatre with a brand-new piece

He is Zhong Hua in “Blue Sky Bone”. He is the policeman Zheng Yi in “Better Days”. He is Li Shaoqun in “Coffee or Tea?”. Many people have known Yin Fang through film and TV. But a dancer? Yes, he is also a dancer on the stage. Under the dual identities, Yin Fang has never given up his exploration in dance. His desire in creation has never stopped.

The creation of ENTROPY is a journey into the unknown. It started with a creative idea and that was all there was. There was never a clear picture of how this idea shall take form, but slowly, Yin found order in his spinning mind of disorder.

The humanistic connotation within scientific concept

Our life is a fight against entropy

Entropy is a physical concept of thermodynamics, meaning the measure of the disorder undergone by a system. Despite its scientific features, entropy has a rich humanistic connotation because it sums up the basic laws of the development of the universe that everything spontaneously grow in disorder, and this tendency is presented by the increase of entropy. Houses that are not cleaned for a long time will become messy; buildings that are in disrepair will become increasingly dilapidated; lovers that stop caring will gradually go separate ways.

In "What Is Life", Schrodinger said, “People live to fight against the law of entropy. What an organism feeds upon is negative entropy.” We have to keep fighting to push back the increase of entropy. Our life needs negative entropy.

“The process of creating ENTROPY is very similar to the scientific concept of entropy.”

Choreographer Yin Fang told us that the whole process of choreography is a gradual progress going from disorder to order, a fight between negative entropy and increase of entropy. The work regards the body of a dancer as the physical existence of a system and simulates the establishment and change of order made by man in various scenes. On the other hand, it is also a game between a man and his body. Is the “body” controlling the “man” or the “man” controlling the “body”? The conflict and confrontation in this process coincide with the concept of entropy.

Creative Team

Produced and performed by XIEXIN DANCE THEATER
Choreographer: YIN Fang
Artistic Director and Producer: XIE Xin
Producer: LIU He
Rehearsal Director: WU Mengke
Dancers: XIE Xin, FAN Xiaoyun, WANG Qizhi, SHU Yaohui, MA Siyuan, TU Youzhen, TANG Ying, WANG Shaoyu
Technical Director & Lighting Design: GAO Jie
Stage Art: HU Yanjun
Costume Design: CHEN Xuzhi
Composer: WANG Yubo
Operations Director: LIU Zhonglei
Commission Institution：Shanghai International Dance Center Theater

About choreographer YIN Fang

Born in Hunan, graduated from Beijing Normal University with a BA in Dance Studies and Business Management in 2006. Yin grew up to be a versatile creative talent whose achievements in arts range from dance, choreography, contemporary art performance, and motion pictures.

Starting from 11 years old, Yin has been receiving systematic dance trainings and attended professional academies before college to become a classic ballet dancer. But later he has shifted focus to more contemporary approaches in dance performance and choreography.

As a dancer and choreographer, Yin has been invited to perform in nearly all the major theaters and arts festivals around the world. From 2008 and 2012, he has worked for the Beijing Dance Theater as one of its' founding dancers. In 2012, he was selected into the “Rising Artist Works” project launched by China Shanghai International Arts Festival, and by commission he created “Sprawling Darkness”. In 2013, he has won the Bronze Medal of Choreography at the 2nd Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition for both his works - "Debt and Slow Slow Song" and "Leaves Falling". That same year, Yin has worked as one of the dancer collaborators in Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s contemporary dance Genesis, which had toured globally. Also in 2013, he has co-founded “Encounter”, a performance improvisation project set to experiment immediate dialogue among art, environment and certain communities, and to explore the form of “up-close theatre”. In 2014, supported by the Swiss Cultural Foundation, he went to Zurich, Rote Fabrik, for a three-month Artist in Residence program, and created the “The Presence of Absence”, a mixed media work of photography, video, and dance. In 2015, Yin Fang was selected into the “National Youth Dance Development” project , and by commission he created “Ensconced”, premiered at National Center for Performing Arts. In 2016, he had collaborated with Liang Shaoji in his exhibition "Cloud above Cloud", for which he created a dance work named "Breath". In 2019, his duet work “Where Two Ends Meet” was invited to perform at the 5th Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition opening gala.

In addition to his achievements as a dancer and choreographer, Yin Fang is also a renowned actor with a booming career. Since 2010, yin has been starring in a number of critically acclaimed movies. Among them, "Blue Sky Bone", a 2014 film directed by Cui Jian, has won numerous awards, including the special mention award at Rome Film Festival; "Walking Past Future'", directed by Li Rui Jun, in which Yin Fang was the actor in a leading role, was selected for the Un Certain Regard for the 70th Cannes Film Festival. "Operation Red Sea", directed by Dante Lam, which has so far scored RMB 3.6 billion at the box office, making it the fourth highest-grossing film so far in China. Also as a leading actor , started his first TV series "New World",directed by Xu bin, and Also in 2019, Yin Fang played Zheng Yi, a crucial supporting role in Derek Kwok Chung Tsang's movie "Better Days", a crime and teen romance movie that have won numerous
nominations at the 39th Hong Kong Film Awards, winning awards for Best Picture. In 2020, Yin debuted his first comedy work “Coffee or Tea” in October as one of the three leading actors. The movie has scored 100 million RMB during its first week of release. At this moment, Yin is shooting his second TV series in which he is also a leading actor.

Yin with his versatile creative talents and capacity, have been featured and interviewed in almost all the major magazines and medias in China in recent years, also he has been loved by the fashion community for his unique way to present and express the aesthetics of different designs and style.

About the artistic director and producer XIE Xin

XIE Xin, founder and artistic director of XDT (XIEXIN DANCE THEATER), a jury member of the "Lotus Cup" Modern Dance Competition (China’s largest contemporary dance competition), Champion of 2nd Dance Smash (a popular TV reality show), Executive Director of Shanghai Dancers' Association, the guest choreographer of HESSISCHE STAATS BALLET (Wiesbaden) and BALLETBOYZ DANCE COMPANY (London) Associate Artist of the Shanghai International Dance Centre Theatre, Guest Professor at the Shanghai University Of Sport, and guest choreographer at the Shanghai Dance Theater Co., Ltd. She is an artist sponsored by China National Arts Fund (CNAF), CFLAC Foundation and Young Artists Platform of Dance of China Dancers Association (CDA).

Successively, she worked in Guangdong Modern Dance Company (GMDC), Shanghai Jin Xing Dance Theatre, Beijing Tao Dance Theatre and BeijingDance/LDTX, and participated in performance tours with these dance troupes in art festivals held in over 25 countries. In 2014, she founded XIEXIN DANCE THEATER and started her career as an independent choreographer and artistic director of the company that bears her name. Jorma UOTINEN, then Artistic Director of the Kuopio Dance Festival in Finland, commented: "In Xie Xin's work, I have found the future I haven’t found in the development of European modern dance. Her works have extremely sensitive uniqueness and specificity". Ms. Wendy PERRON, former Editor-in-Chief of Dance magazine in America, praised XIE Xin: "An extraordinary dancer whose work is similar to that of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and resembles the floating clouds and waters, but more powerful and original.

In recent years, XIE Xin has been invited to dance with XTD works in many European and Asian art festivals, including Kuopio Dance Festival in Finland, Colours Dance Festival in Stuttgart, Germany, Festival Paris Lete in France, STEPS Dance Festival in Switzerland, Wiesbaden Theatre Performance Season in Germany, Croatian Sprite and Hibernik Dance Festival, Hong Kong Art Festival, Chinese Dance Biennale, Spring for Chinese Arts, National Center for the Performing Arts Chinese Dance For 12 Days, etc.

Repertoire

Full-length works:

From IN, Unknown, Obsessive, Listen to the body, Floating Flow Mark, .... After ...., Face to Face, Face to Face 2.

Short pieces:

Plus, Falling, Murmur, Moment, the Nearest Far, Flow Mark. etc

Awards and Honors

- In 2016, Moment《彼时此刻》, Gold Award, 10th Lotus Cup Contemporary Dance Competition, China ;
- In 2016, Murmur 《慢·漫》, Gold Medal, 13th Seoul International Dance Competition, Korea;
- In 2015, Gold Award, 14th Italian Premio Roma Danza 2015 choreography competition, Rome，Italy;
- Kuopio Dance Festival 2016 Contract Award, Finland;
- In 2015, Silver Award & Audience Award, 29th International Choreographic Competition, Hannover, Germany;
- From 2014 to 2016, Gold Award for Performance and Choreography at the 6th and 7th East China Professional Dance Competition;
- In 2013, Silver Award & Best Performance Award of the 2nd Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition (IBCC);
- In 2012, Championship and the Jinqian Award, 2nd Top Dancer National TV Dance Competition, Guizhou, China.
- From 2016 to 2017, invited to join the 47th and 48th Kuopio International Dance Festival in Finland for two consecutive years;
- From 2018 to 2019, invited by the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden to create a work called Special Moment, premiered at the Hessian State Theatre of Wiesbaden in Germany.
- In 2019, Invited by BalletBoyz to choreograph the Ripple, and premiered in London, UK.
- In 2018, Invited as a choreographer to co-produce The Rite of Spring and premiered at the Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre.
- In 2017, Invited by Young Artists Platform of Dance of China Dancers Association and the 46th Hong Kong Arts Festival to co-produce a new work, ..... After ......, and performed at the National Centre for the Performing Arts and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre.
- In 2016, her new work UNKNOWN was premiered at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing and STA Experimental Theatre, Shanghai;
- In 2016, Listen to the body 《听见身体》.was created for Shanghai Dance Theatre and premiered at the Shanghai Grand Theatre.
- In 2016, invited as the first guest dancer of Hong Kong Dance Company to co-create and perform Zero《零》 in the Japan Arts Festival and 8/F Platform, Hong Kong.
- In 2015, the invited work FROM IN by Young Artists Platform of Dance of China Dancers Association was premiered at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, and in 2016, it was invited for performance in the Lotus Cup Dance Competition.
- In 2014, Falling and Plus was invited to perform at the 42nd Hong Kong Dance Festival.

About Xiexin Dance Theatre

Xiexin Dance Theatre focuses on the exploration of body movements, contemporary dance education and the creation of original works of contemporary dance. Since its establishment in 2014, dance group gradually developed into the backbone of the development of contemporary dance in China. Xie Xin, artistic director, has won many gold medals in contemporary dance competitions at home and abroad. The works have been invited by Kuopio Dance Festival in Finland, Colors Dance Festival in Stuttgart, Germany, Summer art festival in Paris, France, Steps2020 Dance Festival in Switzerland, Oriente Occident Dance Festival in Italy, Wiesbaden Theatre Performance Season in Germany, Sibenik Dance Festival in Croatia, Split Dance Festival, Hong Kong Art Festival, Xianggang City Contemporary Dance Festival, Peiqing Plan China Contemporary Dance biennial, Chinese Spring Art in Beijing Festival, National Grand Theatre Chinese Dance 12 days and so on performance invitation.

Medium and long works are: “HARMONIC SERIES”, “From IN”, “UNKNOWN”, “Obsessive”, “Special Moment”, “Ripple”, “……After……”, “Listen to the Body ”, “Floating Flow Mark”, “Face 2 Face”, “Face 2 Face II-Time·Design·Boby”. Short works are: “Plus”, “Falling”, “Murmur”, ”Monent”, “ My Other Me”, “The Nearest Far”, “Flow Mark”. The troupe annually invite internationally renowned choreographer to created new works and give workshops for their dancers. XDT is committed to building a platform for international exchange of contemporary dance exchange platform and creating works of high quality with artists across the globe.