<So Close Yet So Far>

Choreography：WU Mi

Music：Olafur ARNALDS, Max RICHTER, WU Mi

Lighting：Joy CHEN

Costume：XING Ya-meng

Poster Design：WANG Yuan-qing

It is not just of pure distancing

Perhaps it is more of a sense of self existence

All sorts of people

Coming and going

Never resting

In a crowd of people

We are not in a place where one can be easily spotted

Looking ahead

That is perhaps a beautiful city scenery

Undercurrents rushing forth

Tides flowing and ebbing

Rubbing, touching, striking, desires…

WU Mi

Choreography

Born in Yueyang, Hunan Province, WU Mi studied dance at Changsha Vocational Secondary School of Art from 1998 to 2003, majored in dance at LsSalle College of the Arts in Singapore from 2003 to 2005. In 2005, he was awarded full scholarship to study Ballet at Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts School of Dance and obtained Advanced Diploma in Arts in 2007. He also received grants and scholarship from Asian Cultural Council and HSBC Banking Corp to attend summer intensive program at Ailey School of the Alvin Alley American Dance Theater in New York. WU joined Singapore Dance Theatre as a soloist in 2007 and later with T.H.E. (The Human Expression) Dance Company as both a dancer and rehearsal assistant. WU joined BeijingDance/LDTX as a dancer in September 2017. Major choreography includes: Invisible Duo, Morphing at a Distance and Flow.

Company Introduction

BeijingDance/LDTX (LDTX) is China’s first officially registered private professional modern dance company co-founded by Willy TSAO and LI Han-zhong. LDTX is an acronym for Lei Dong Tian Xia which translated as “thunder rumbles under the universe”. The company’s mission is to provide a platform where Chinese dance artists may freely express their multi-dimensional thoughts and sentiments of today’s China, embodying the modern dance attributes of individuality, mindful of zeitgeist and originality. Its dancers come from cities across China, infusing individuality with exquisite techniques and excellent creativity. The company performs not only in cities across China, it also presented in more than 20 countries across five continents. The company presents and organizes annually the Beijing Dance Festival, which has become an important international cultural exchange festivity.