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2022/2023 MASTER CLASS & WORKSHOP SERIES
CLASSICAL CHINESE
WITH MFA CANDIDATE JEREMY YUAN
In Chinese Dance, we will experience the ancient Chinese culture and the contemporary ethnic culture of China. Chinese dance includes Chinese classical dance and national folk dance. Among them, classical dance contains many elements of Tai Chi, martial arts (Kungfu), Chinese opera, and prop dance.
Based on the Chinese professional dance school settings, Chinese folk dances mainly focus on five major minority(ethnic) dances, such as Dai dance, Tibetan dance, Mongolian dance, Xinjiang dance, and Han dance.
ABOUT Jeremy Yuan
Jeremy Zihao Yuan is a creative, collaborative, driven individual with a diverse background in dance education, dance performance and dance making. He is a dancer, choreographer and instructor based in Seattle, WA. He has a BFA in Dance (2016) at Shanghai Theater Academy and will be receiving his MFA in Dance (2024) from the University of Washington where He is currently an M.F.A. candidate and instructor. As a dance instructor, he teaches in both China and America in Chinese Classical & Folk dance, Ballet, Modern & Contemporary dance. In his career as a dancer, he has had hundreds of performances, and he has toured to United Kingdom, South Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong. He is also a dance choreographer. In his dance works, he integrates eastern and western cultures to create unique works. In 2018, when he first came to the United States, he has created large-scale competition dances for many dance studios in the United States. He is involved in both Eastern and Western dance culture, which makes him an artistic ambassador who pays attention to multiculturalism development of dance.