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Thu Mar 6 - Sat Mar 8

Shen Wei Dance Arts

Map; Re-


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$30 - $45
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Location
Date and Time
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)
701 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 map
cross street: 3rd St.
district: SoMa

Thu Mar 6 (8pm)
Fri Mar 7 (8pm)
Sat Mar 8 (8pm)

Description
Choreographer Shen Wei is the rare genius who uses classical techniques to challenge contemporary thinking, and integrates artistic disciplines with startling simplicity. His vision is epic and large-scale—to experience Shen Wei Dance Arts is to free-fall into a sublime world of poetry, painting and sculptural tableaux rendered in contemporary dance. In an era of cynicism and grit, the company stands apart as optimistic and unapologetically beautiful. Re-, Wei’s lyrical response to his journeys through Tibet, coinciding with the exhibition The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama which is on view in our galleries December 1–March 16. To the haunting chants of an exiled nun, dancers breeze across a Mandela made of confetti, which is destroyed to make way for a moment of stirring stillness.