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International Arts Nexus
International Arts Nexus
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Shenming Xiao
Director, Choreographer
Graduated from the Choreography Department of Beijing Dance Academy, he is currently employed by China Railway Art Troupe. He once served in the Mobile Unit of the Border Defense Armed Police in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, boasting both military experience and professional heritage from a top art institution.Taking top dance competitions as the benchmark, his works have won numerous core national and provincial honors, with outstanding performances in folk dance and dance drama competitions. He has also served as the chief director of several landmark live-action cultural and tourism plays and participated in the choreography of national-level dance dramas. He is familiar with the entire process from the incubation of competition-level works to the implementation of large-scale art projects.His dance video works have been shortlisted and recognized in international film festivals many times, demonstrating both professional dance skills and the ability to integrate diverse arts.As a core creator in China's dance creation field with both professional competition competitiveness and diverse practical capabilities, he spans stage art, cultural and tourism IP development, and dance imaging. He can deeply integrate dance with various art forms to form a distinct creative style.
Ning Li
Experimental theater and film director, Body-based performance artist
Li Ning (together with his collective “Lingyun Flame”) was born in 1972 in Jinan, Shandong, China. Experimental theater and film director, Body-based performance artist, Director of photography, Editor, and Curator of site-specific projects.
He works across multiple roles as an experimental theater and film director, body-based performance artist, director of photography, editor, and curator of site-specific projects.
Li graduated from the Fine Arts Education Department of Shandong University of Arts, with additional studies in sculpture.
In 1997, he founded the “Lingyun Flame Physical Guerrilla Group,” and for many years has carried out cutting-edge explorations in physical theater and film.
As a theater artist, he has been invited to perform, screen work, and give talks at festivals such as JULIDANS in Amsterdam, the CULTURESCAPES Festival in Switzerland, and others. He has participated in devising work with the French situational theater company Ilimitrof Company, and has led the Lingyun Flame Physical Guerrilla Group on touring performances at the Avignon Festival, the Aurillac Festival of Street Arts, the Gent Arts Festival in Belgium, the Tokyo Festival, the Wuzhen Theatre Festival, the New York “Innovative China” Festival, the Beijing International Youth Theater Festival, the Shenzhen–Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, the Dashanzi Arts Festival in Beijing, and many other events.
As a contemporary practitioner of body-based education, he emphasizes the development and systematization of training methods. Drawing on his own background in visual art, he created the performance and training course “Body Sketching and Re-Sketching.” For many years he has actively carried out workshops in universities and communities across different regions, building a bridge between ordinary people and contemporary art, and helping to enhance participants’ physical–mental creativity and aesthetic awareness.
He has been invited by institutions such as New York University (NYU), the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, China Academy of Art, Shandong University, and others to give lectures or teach longer-term courses, and has served as artistic advisor for graduation presentations in fashion design and new media.
As an image-maker, he has been selected for and awarded at multiple international film festivals. Representative works such as TAPE and Untitled-3 have been collected by university libraries, art museums, and other museums in Europe and North America. He has received support from multiple foundations to complete his films, including the DOEN Foundation in the Netherlands (which supported Li Ning for three consecutive years in 2006, 2007, and 2008), the EU cultural project “Chin-A-Moves,” as well as the Indie Cinema Fund for Chinese independent film, the Goethe-Institut, and others.
As a curator, he has initiated and run platforms for rural and community-based art such as the Fangyu ART Festival in Jinan, the Laiwu International Factory Theatre Festival, and the Qichangcheng Rural Arts Festival.
His core belief is: “Space is not merely a stage on which people perform. It is itself a work.”
His ideal is: “To let theater once again become a form of public entertainment in everyday life.”
He has been called “the initiator of public theater.”
Chun Heehyun
Composer, Performer
Chun Heehyun is a composer and performer who transforms sound into music, crafting immersive and evolving soundscapes in which music assumes the narrative role traditionally occupied by sound effects. Her work invites audiences to experience sonic texture as an integral cinematic language rather than a supporting element. Drawing on modular synthesis, Eurorack systems, gayageum, haegeum, and janggu compositional structures, she creates richly layered auditory environments that develop organically within filmic and performative contexts.
Rooted in a Korean identity shaped by her upbringing in Korea and her musical training in the United States, Chun’s practice is grounded in interdisciplinary inquiry, experimental performance strategies, and a sustained commitment to expressing cultural identity through sound.
Chun Heehyun composes original soundtracks for film, live performance, and immersive installations, integrating modular, Eurorack, and electronic instrumentation to expand the boundaries of auditory experience. Through computer-based MIDI orchestration, she reimagines Western orchestral instruments to suggest the timbral qualities of traditional Korean instruments such as the gayageum, haegeum, and janggu, bridging cultural memory and contemporary sonic exploration.
Guan Fang
Director, Choreographer
Guan Fang is a Beijing-based young artist, choreographer, and director, and the founder of WHITE MIST Art Studio, where he focuses on contemporary dance creation and the multidimensional integration of dance and film. He graduated from the Choreography Department of the Beijing Dance Academy and is a member of the Beijing Dancers Association.
Guan has served as choreographer for works presented at China’s 13th Tao Li Cup and 14th Lotus Award, and was selected as a choreographer for the 36th International Choreographic Competition Hannover. Works he has directed have received the Best Choreography Award at the Korea International Modern Dance Competition. His creations have been featured on major official media platforms including China Military Online, China Military, and China Youth Daily.
He has been invited to create repertory for the Classical Dance Department of the Beijing Dance Academy for the Tao Li Cup, and to develop commemorative works for the PLA National Defence University’s Military Culture College (formerly the PLA Arts Academy) marking the 80th anniversary of the victory in the War of Resistance Against Fascism. He has taught as a resident artist at the Master Workshop of Changchun Humanities Institute, and co-developed the teaching material Chinese Dance Movement Motif Library together with Professor Yuan He and Associate Professor Zeng Huanxing of the Beijing Dance Academy. He also serves as a mentor for site-specific dance creation workshops organized by the Jinhua Dance Association in Zhejiang Province.
Guan’s stage works include Night’s Finale, One-Track Mind, Visible and Invisible, Calling the Mountain, The Approaching Train, and Wives and Concubines. His dance films include Dream of the Inner Chamber, The Elephant in the Room, Imprint of the Burning Heart, Next Second, Dust, Uncontrolled Reason, Blue Delusion, Floating and Falling, and The Mission Left Behind.
His works have been invited to platforms such as the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area Dance Week and the 2022 Beijing LDTX Theatre “National Showcase” – Wangshu Project. As a filmmaker, his projects have been screened at art festivals and film events in more than twenty countries, including Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France, and the United States, and have been featured in international film magazines. He has received over forty “Best Work” awards at international film festivals, including Best Experimental Short at the Hollywood Golden Age Festival, Best Experimental Film Director at the Europe Film Festival, and Best Dance Choreography at ARFF Amsterdam International Film Festival. His work has also been honored with an honorary laurel from the Royal Television Society in the UK, where critics selected his project as one of their best works of the past five years.
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