Xu Fangyi

Xu Fangyi

Xu Fangyi, born in 1971 in Ilan County, Taiwan, is an internationally renowned dancer.

Currently living in New York City and Taipei, USA, he was the former chief dancer of Martha gram dance company. In recent years, he has been active in the international arena and has been actively communicating with international artists and choreographers. In 2012, he guest starred in Taiwan's inspirational warmth film fly against the light.

background

Xu Fangyi grew up in the countryside of Yilan. His hometown is Nanxing pharmacy Bureau, a time-honored brand beside Nanguan market on Guangfu Road. He is well-known locally. He is a native of Yilan City, Yilan County. Since he was a child, he loved to dance. His performance was remarkable and his family fully supported him. He studied in the dance department of the National Academy of Arts (now the National Taipei University of Arts) and studied with Ross Parkes, Graham's chief dancer. After graduation, she received a grant from the national arts and Culture Award of Taiwan in 1994. In 1995, she joined the Martha gramme dance company. In 1997, she became a solo dancer in the company and was promoted to lead dancer in just two years.

experience

Work with many talented choreographers and dance groups, such as the Monte / Brown dance company and buglisi / foreman. She was also the principal dancer of cloud gate from 1998 to 2003.

In 2005, dance magazine listed Xu Fangyi as one of the "25 most eye-catching dancers" of that year, and became the cover character. In the same year, she was awarded the fifth class Star Medal by the president; in 2007, she won the National Arts Award for dance, the youngest recipient in history; and she was invited to the United States to participate in the modern photography art of David michalek, a famous American photographer "Slow dancing" project, presented in the form of a multimedia video exhibition at Lincoln Center in New York, USA. Xu Fangyi is also the first Asian resident artist at barisinikov Dance Center in New York.

In 2008, he was invited by ballettech to participate in the annual dance project, and performed in joycetheatre, New York, in cooperation with choreographer Eliot feld. Later, he performed in the weir International Dance Festival, James Pillow Dance Festival, and New York autumn Dance Festival. He won the praise of audiences and media at home and abroad, and was praised as "outstanding female dancer" by ballettanz magazine of Europe. In October of that year, she was invited by Martha Graeme dance company to participate in the world tour of the company, and performed the classic work Clytemnestra of Martha Graeme in Athens, Greece, D.C. of Washington, USA, New York City, Paris, France and other places.

In 2009, he was invited to perform at the American International Dance Festival, Macao Cultural Center and Jacob Pillow Dance Festival. In 2010, he performed at womadelaide Art Festival in Australia, Vancouver Winter Olympics Art Festival and duessedorf International Dance biennial exhibition, and participated in the film shooting of Taipei Pavilion of Shanghai World Expo.

Media review

Whoneedsavoicewhenyou’ vegotlegslikeMs.Sheu? -TheNewYorkTimes,ClaudialaRocco

Fang-YiSheuisoneofthemostbeauti fuldancersintheworld.Sheisawomanwhoseextendedarmcantellanepicstory ,whocansuspendherselfinspacelikeafloatingbodhisattvaandcurlupasifshecontainedtheworld’ ssuffering.Andsheisinthatspecialmomentofmaturitywhenherphysicalstrengthisequaledbyheremotionalrange .-TheBostonGlobe

Ms.Sheuseemstobethecriticallyandpubliclyanointedstar -TheNewYorkTimes,JohnRockwell

Ms.SheuprovedthatallittakestotransformGrahamfromarelictoaclassicis -asidefrompickingtherightrepertoryforrevival-superbperformers-TheNewYorkTimes,JohnRockwell

FangYiSheuispraisedasthefinestpresent-dayembodimentofMarthaGraham’stechniqueandtradition.-TheNewYorkTimes,JohnRockwell

NotonlySheuasuperbdramaticartist,butshedancesmagnificently-whoelsecombinesuchemotionalintensitywithsuchpowerfulyetlyricaltechnique?-NewYorkObserver,RobertGottlieb

Sheissointense,sofull,sosensitivetonuance-andsobeautiful–thatyouforgettowonderwhatGrahamwaslikeintherole.-NewYorkObserver,RobertGottlieb

Ms.Sheuholdsthestagewithunmistakableforceandsubtlety .-TheWallStreetJournal,RobertGreskovic

Rightnow,thechoreographyofMarthaGrahamlivesmostfullyinthevolcanicperformancesofFangYiSHEU-TheNewYorkSun

AdancerlikeMs.Sheualmostjustifiestheall -you-to-do-is-see-itidea,andherpresenceinthecompanyisthegreatestsignofitsartistichealth.-TheNewYorkSun

Character story

The second Beijing International Ballet and choreography competition is being held at the National Grand Theater. In this important art activity, Taiwan dancer Xu Fangyi, as a special guest, has become the focus of many dancers and dance lovers. Despite the heavy rain in Beijing the day before yesterday, the master class held by Xu Fangyi at the National Grand Theater welcomed 40 students. She told the dancers, "no matter who you are, everyone has their own potential. If you want to dance, you need to understand your body and make good use of its potential."

As one of the most famous and outstanding Chinese dancers in the world, Xu Fangyi not only served as the chief dancer in the world famous Martha Grimm dance company, but also was the main performer of Taiwan's famous Cloud Gate Dance Collection "water moon". Now she has successfully cooperated with many famous star dancers and choreographers in the world, and is known as "Martha Grimm of Taiwan" It's not "Sam". Xu Fangyi said in an interview with reporters after the master class yesterday: "I only discovered my body's potential when I was 19 years old."

Xu Fangyi told reporters: "before I was 19 years old, I had been" playing "in art school for three years. At that time, I was happy, but my parents didn't want me to dance. Their idea was to study hard, or they would not have a job. When I was 19 years old, rose parks, a famous dance teacher from Australia, came to our school. He saw the performances of us girls, and a casual remark touched me. He said that my body had great potential. At that time, I started a promise I had given myself to concentrate on dancing in order not to let him down. From that day on, my life changed. "

The second change of Xu Fangyi's dance career was after she arrived in New York. She said, "it was in my hometown first, and then in Taipei. When I arrived in New York, I found that Taiwan was just a small island, and the world was too big. But I had my first failure in New York. When I applied for a dance company, I was defeated at 3:20. Let me see this failure