YIN MEI DANCE
2015-2023
2000-2014
1985-1999
2015-2023
2023
Beacon Town
Long Island Music Conservatory
Glow Cultural Center YinMei Dance
St Luckes Chruch Dream Letters
Yin Mei's work at the Jackie Chan Film Academy Wuhan China （2023）
2022
Princeton University Effron Center
https://ams.princeton.edu/news/2022/inking-movements-moments-collab-30
2022
May-June
Solo Exhibition YIN MEI: LIVING LINE Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York
2021 May
YIN MEI: Baryshnikov Art Center New York Artist Residency
2020 January
PEONY DREAMS: ON THE OTHER SIDE OF SLEEP
The Ringling Museum Asolo Theater
Review: History and memory collide in ‘Peony Dreams.’ By Carrie Seidman January 2020
2016 June – 2017 October
MOTION CAPTURE PROJECT De Tao Master Academy SHANGHAI
Prof. Mitsuru Kaneko is an Oscar winner and DeTao master. My work with his DeTao
Master’s Studio in Shanghai Visual Arts Academy.
2000-2014
FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE (2014)
Live Music: Jiaoyue Lyu
Performers: Guanglei Hui, Nico Li, Yahui Lu, Erick Montes, Chihiro Shimizu, Kanako Yokota
This video was taken at the end of Yin Mei's 2014 summer residency on Martha's Vineyard. The residency was provided in support of creating Farewell My Concubine. In total, the unfinished version of the piece is 36 minutes. Also to be noted, Jay Scheib began collaboration at a later stage and is therefore not included in this version.
"Farewell My Concubine" Residency Showing at Martha's Vineyard on Vimeo
RED DRESS (2014)
Director: Wang Xiao Ying
Set Designer: Dai Yan Nian
Principal Dancers: Cheng Lin, Zeng Ming
Lincoln Center, March 6-9
Red Dress on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/90193504
DIS/ORIENTED: ANTONIONI IN CHINA (2013)
YIN MEI work-in-progress (excerpt)
Music: Bora Yong
Text: Hansol Jung
Performers: Yin Mei & Fei Bo
Visuals: Sha Huang/David Bengali
Presenter: Rachel Cooper
Asia Society NY
YIN MEI dis/ORIENTED: ANTONIONI IN CHINA on Vimeo:https://vimeo.com/61438104
NIXON IN CHINA (2012)
Director: Chen Shi Zheng
Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, April
Nixon in china on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/56711848
SEVEN SAGES OF BAMBOO GROVE (2012)
Visuals/Dramaturgy: Jay Scheib
March
The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/60141952
Yin Mei "Seven Sages of Bamboo Grove" 殷梅《 竹林七贤》 on Vimeo
(5 minute excerpt) :
A SCENT OF TIME (2010)
Premiered at the Beijing Nationality Cultural Palace Theatre in December, 2010. This evening-length "post-modern ballet" was commissioned by the Beijing Dance Academy, China's leading dance school. Yin Mei choreographed this work for 36 dancers with multi-media projections and live and recorded music.
A Scent of Time Shortened on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/18612329
CITY OF PAPER (2010)《纸墨春秋》
Three contemporary choreographers—Yin Mei, Dai Jian, and Kota Yamazaki—explore a Wayang-like shadow world in which light, sound, paper, masks and movement converge in a post-modern meditation on history, fact, and the mutability of human perception. Set in a digitally interactive scenographic environment, the work weaves together personal vignettes, audio/visual fragments, a complex musical soundscape, and abrupt yet sensuous movement to create a dream landscape from which the events of a single momentous year during the Chinese Cultural Revolution gradually emerge.
City of Paper at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 2010:
http://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/dance/yin-mei-dance
CURSIVE (2006)
Premiered February 2006 at The Vision Festival (NY) as a version entitled Wild Grass. Mixed media solo installation/performance work performed on paper with ink. Also performed at Queens Museum Biennale and various New York City galleries under the title Ink/Paper/Body/Scent and at an exhibition at DeVos Museum, Northern Michigan University.
Cursive (Wild Grass) on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/6976988
NOMAD: THE RIVER (2005)
Sound/visual designer: Christopher Salter
Premiered March 2005 at Dance Theater Workshop (NY). Multi-media dance theater work for four performers. Toured the U.S. and was performed at Shanghai Contemporary Theater Festival.
NOMAD: TEA (2002)
Premiered April 2002 at The Asia Society NY. Solo work with green tea powder created in collaboration with artist Wenda Gu as part of “New Way of Tea” exhibition at Asia Society Galleries.
ASUNDER (2001)
Installation: Gai Guo-Qiang
Composer: Robert Een
Premiered May 2001 at Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church (NY). Evening-length intercultural dance theater work created in collaboration with Cai Guo-Qiang and Robert Een. Toured the U.S.
Past Work
1985-1999
The Tipsy Concubine (1999)
Jerusalem Museum, Israel
EMPTY TRADITION/CITY OF PEONIES (1998)
Composer: Tony Prabowo
Artist: Xu Bing
Empty Bell (1997)
The Japan Society
I Move To Keep Things Whole (1997)
Mulberry Street Theater, NY
Sun/Moon/Me (1997)
Pace Downtown Theater, NY
Love Suicides at Amijima (1996)
Chikamatsu Festival, Nagata, Japan
Book of Women (1996)
Indonesian Dance Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia
Solo I & II (1996)
Movement Research at Judson Church, NY
Fan and Shakuhachi (1996)
Theater X, Tokyo, Japan
Legacies (1995)
Lincoln Center Out-Of-Doors Festival, NY
Shaman (1995)
Contemporary Dance Festival, West Sumatra, Indonesia
The News (1994)
Beijing Dance Academy Theater, Beijing, China
Sacred Fire (1994)
Jakarta International Dance Festival, Indonesia
Portrait: Plunging Into the Sea (1993)
Asian Contemporary Dance Festival, La Mama ETC, NY
Threshold: A Dance Theater of Remembering and Forgetting (1990)
La Mama ETC, New York City
June Snow/Birds in Warped Time (1989)
Washington Square Theater, NY
Either Side of the Mountain (1987)
Jerusalem Museum, Israel
Listening to the Rain (1985)
City Hall Theater, Hong Kong (choreographed for Hong Kong Dance Company)
Shadow of the Moon (1985)
Prize in solo competition, International Young Choreographer’s Competition, Hong Kong