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Allen Xing

Dance, Performance

Awards Received

Individual Artist

2020

About the Artist

Allen Chunhui Xing is a dancer, choreographer, educator, and producer based in Maryland. He holds an M.Ed. from Salisbury University and an MFA in Dance from the University of Maryland. He is the founder of Xing Dance Theater and City Dance Festival. He is a former member of Huajin Dance Drama Ensemble (China) and toured internationally from 2007-2011, as a soloist in the production "A Man's Requiem" with the Korea Busan Metropolitan Dance Company in 2018, as well as multiple productions internationally toured with Xing Dance Theater from 2018 to the present. Xing is the recipient of the 2020 Baltimore and Maryland State Independent Artist First Place Award, the 2021/2022 Baker Artist Award, the 2021 Baltimore Artist Relief Grant First Place Award, and the 2021 Singapore International Dance Festival Choreography Gold Award. His work has been presented nationally and internationally, including at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Battery Dance Festival, Dance Gallery Festival NYC, Booking Dance Festival NYC, the Kennedy Center, NextNow Festival, Washington International Dance Festival, Palm Desert Choreographer Festival, Washington DC Global Perspectives Festival, Maryland Dance Festival, Beijing Dance Festival, Richmond Dance Festival, Peabody Dance! Festival, Detroit Dance City Festival, SpectorDance's Choreographers Showcase, Japan SAI International Dance Festival, Seoul Choreography International Festival, Asian Contemporary Ballet Festival, Mexico International Contemporary Dance Festival, Finland International Gala, Dance Place season production, the Clarice second season production, Men in Dance Festival, Washington DC Choreography Dance Festival, and Global Valve Festival Alexandrinsky Theater premiere in St Petersburg, Russia. As an educator, he has taught master classes and workshops in the States, Asia, and Europe. Some of the institutions and events where he has taught include the Shanxi Academy of Arts (2010-2014), the University of Maryland (2015-2018), Boris Eifman Dance Academy as the head of the Contemporary Department, the Kennedy Center, Detroit Dance City Festival, Taiyuan New Choreography Festival, MadDash Dance Festival, American College Dance Association, NextLook Festival, Miyazaki International Dance Festival, New Dance Festival South Korea, Towson University, and Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University. He is also the founder of the XDT International Intensive World Tour program, which brings interntional dance teaching artists to China, Japan, South Korea, Russia, and Europe. As a producer, he has produced and directed various international dance festivals and concerts in the US and China, including the Washington International Dance Festival, XDT International Intensive world tour, Xing Dance Theater Concert, and Taiyuan International Choreography Showcase. www.allenxing.com        

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Featured Work

Videos

  • Shape in Water

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    As a young child, my father taught me to swim. I enjoy swimming and go diving often. The feeling of weightlessness and lightness in the water removes pressure found on land and allows my inner-self to explore. I look to the sun through the surface, deep under water in awe. I am a good swimmer, but also afraid of the water. The silence below the surface; the danger lurking beyond sight; the seclusion; combining to create a sense of exhilaration, of anticipation. The inspiration of Shape in Water was from the image I had of a man falling to the bottom of the ocean. The subconscious thinking process that he had lingering between life and death. It embodies the memory of my sense of water and the conflict between desire and fear.

    Shape in Water has been selected and invited to perform at 2018 Beijing Dance Festival, 2018 Maryland Dance Festival, 2019 Richmond Dance Festival, 2019 Japan SAI International Dance Festival, 2019 Detroit City Dance Festival, 2019 Seoul choreography International Festival South Korea, 2019 Dance Gallery Festival New York City, 2020 The National Gala Finland, 2020 Mexico City International Contemporary Dance Festival, 2020 contemporary of Ballet Asia South Korea, 2020 Shanxi Modern Dance Exhibition of New Works China.
    Year: 2018
    Details: 6/10/12 minutes

  • Equinox and Solstice

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    Equinox and Solstice is a five-year research project that combines Chinese dance and Modern dance. It is also a collaboration project with designers. It is an after-life world following the theory of the circle of life. It starts from death and follows the soul after death through the journey to start a new life again. There are four main sections that follow the four seasons in terms to design elements, with the Equinox and Solstice representing the lightest and darkest days of the year. The five elements from "Fengshui" theory are used to highlight the Chineseness in this piece.
    Year: 2018
    Details: 60 minutes