Xin Peng Wang - In the Forest

01.05.2025

Saturn represents the work of Xin Peng Wang for this evening. This creation, which is reminiscent of the ballet Paradiso (Xin Peng Wang, 2021) and recently sparked great enthusiasm in Tel Aviv, is particularly dear to his heart.

Xing Peng Wang

Ballet Artistic Director and Chief Choreographer of the Dortmund Theater:

Born in Dalian, China. He has been ballet director since 2003 and ballet artistic director of the Dortmund Theater since 2020. He trained at the art academy in his hometown. His first engagement took him to the Peking Central Dance Company. He studied choreography at the Peking Dance Academy and the Folkwang University in Essen. After moving to Europe, he worked as a dancer with the Aalto Ballet in Essen, for which he also created numerous creations. Since 1996, he has been designing dance creations for, among others, the Aalto Ballet and the Dortmund State Ballet. He has performed for The Hong Kong Ballet, the National Ballet of China Beijing, the Contemporary Dance Festival in New York, the Ballet of the Semperoper Dresden, the Het Nationale Ballet Amsterdam, the Royal Ballet van Vlaanderen Antwerp, and the Bavarian Junior Ballet Munich. "The Red Lantern," a collaboration with director Yimou Zhang, attracted worldwide attention. From 2001 to 2003, he was ballet director at the South Thuringian State Theater in Meiningen. For the ballet at the Theater Dortmund, he created more than forty productions, including the highly acclaimed narrative ballets: War and Peace, Hamlet, Dream of the Red Chamber, Tales from the Vienna Woods, and The Magic Mountain. His world-first interpretation of both parts of Goethe's Faust, Rachmaninoff | Tchaikovsky, and the dance trilogy The Divine Comedy delighted audiences and the specialist press at home and abroad. In 2014, he founded the NRW Junior Ballet under the motto "Dance Needs a Future!", which, under his direction, has developed into an international "Dance Ambassador of Dortmund."