Min Li
Min Li studied traditional Chinese dance at the Beijing Dance Academy, after which he danced for four years with the National Ballet of China.
With a scholarship, he then studied contemporary dance and choreography at the California Institute of The Arts. There he stood out and was asked by Ohad Naharin to dance with the Batsheva Dance Ensemble in Israel. Wanting to get to know different styles and cultures in Europe, he went to the Netherlands at the invitation of Ed Wubbe.
At Scapino Ballet Rotterdam he worked with various choreographers and began to create his own choreographies in which he explored the boundaries between dance and theatre, such as Find Me Please for TWOOLS14.
Since 2014 he has been a freelance choreographer. But Min is also a fashion designer and completed the fashion course at the Royal Academy of Art. Min Li is looking for ways to combine all his interests.
Curriculum Vitae
Born
China
Education
- Beijing Dance Academy
- California Institute of The Arts
- Royal Academy of Art (KABK), fashion design
Danced with
- National ballet of China
- Batsheva Dance Ensemble
- Scapino Ballet Rotterdam
Scholarships, nominations and awards
- Beurs van het California Institute of The Arts
- Excellence in Dance Lorna Strassler Award - Jacob's pillow Festival
For Scapino
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TWOOLS 15
TWOOLS celebrates its fifteenth edition with, according to the flyer, "a kaleidoscopic dance-zap evening in which dancers, technicians ánd spectators have to move fast." -
TWOOLS 14
TWOOLS 14 is a full edition with no fewer than ten titles by Felix Landerer, Voortman & De Jonge, Mischa van Leeuwen, Jan Kooijman and Ed Wubbe, among others. -
TWOOLS 13
A special collaboration of Ed Wubbe and Ellen te Damme, a Firebird by Marco Goecke and pieces by Min Li, Felix Landerer, Heidi Vierthaler and Alessandro Perreira.