Dancing in Beijing is not just a story about dancing in Beijing, instead it is on the mysterious 

motivation behind why every life chooses to move to here.

-- CHOU Shu-yi

Choices, arriving, departing, is a piece about a tacit journal of wanderers, a non-stop 

progression of the body.  For more than three months, CHOU Shu-yi, young choreographer 

from Taiwan, and LDTX’s dancers were exploring on the energy behind the migration of life.  

Together they produced an experimental work, Dancing in Beijing.

Dancing, began as a dream.  14 persons come to Beijing because they want to dance.  

It is like a long and dedicated practice, mirroring the loneliness and cheerfulness, reflecting 

an inverted image of dream and reality.

Dancing in Beijing dances on yesterday’s memories, today’s choices and in search of 

tomorrow’s oneself.

Choreography

ZHOU Shu-yi

Music

WANG Yu-jun

Lighting/Stage

 Joy CHEN

Costume

XING Ya-meng

Dancers

Alexis KAM, LI Ke-hua, SHEN Wan-ying, SUN Meng-yao, 

TIAN Ru-meng, LIU Shi-yu, HUANG Siang, MA Yue, 

FENG Xiao-ming, Hao ying, WU Mi, ZHANG Xue-feng, CHEN Wei-jie

Program duration

80 mins

Premiere

2019.07

Choreographer Introduction

Born in Taiwan, Chou Shu-yi started his dance training at the age of 10, and began 

his artistic career as an independent dancer and choreographer in his twenties. Through 

dance, he re-examines his own life, connecting dance and body with environment and 

society. He has performed his choreography or taken part in artist residencies at Sadler’s 

Wells Theatre in London; Fall for Dance Festival in New York; Internationale Tanzmesse in 

Germany; Festival d’Avignon OFF and Le Collectif Essonne Danse in France; and created 

commissions for Hong Kong Arts Festival and Taiwan National Theater and Concert Hall. 

He co-founded Horse Dance Company (Taiwan) in 2004 and established Shu-Yi & Dancers 

(Taiwan) in 2011 to explore further connections between art and society. Chou has focused 

on an exploration of vocabulary in Asian bodies in recent years. He continues to collaborate 

with artists from different fields.  His most recent choreographies include: Almost 55 for 

CCDC and Dancing in Beijing for BeijingDance/LDTX.