Degrees of freedom, Green Space, New York, US. An evening length work made possible by grants from New York Council on the Arts, The Mellon Fountain and MNE Emerging Choreographer series. Sound score by: Sam Crawford and Ai weiwei‘s 念
"One of the best work we've ever presented on our stage. --Paul Reynolds, Curator." This duet performance ask questions about personal identity living in Mormons' culture with dance and bilingual spoken words and is made possible by generous commission from the 12 Minutes Max Program at the Salt Lake City Library curated by Paul Reynold. Dancers: Kate Losser & Liu Chang Concept/Choreography: Huiwang Zhang Music: Michael Wall
Solo in Afterwardsness with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company at Park Avenue Armory, NY
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Cue Point: 3:26:15
The Bessies New York Dance & Performance Awards Nominated Performance of Our Labyrinth at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts
“…Zhang imbues commitment with focus, and connects time together through sensitized and accumulated gestures.”—Bessies Selection Committee
Terrain 長江頭, Topaz Arts, New York, US. Made possible by grant from NYS dance force and NY council on the Arts. Sound: Christian Scott and Installation by: Todd Richmond
Presented as part of the CrossCurrent Dance Festival curated by Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company. A performance based on an oral history recording with my mother. She talks about surviving and being "loose" through prohibited social dancing during the post cultural-revolution China in the late 70 and early 80s.
Solo to spoken words narrated by Bill T. Jones in What Problem? with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company.
Dancer/Assistant Choreographer
M. Butterfly Premiered at July 30 - August 24, 2022
@ The Santa Fe Opera
From L to R: Ryan Yamauchi, Kangmin Justin Kim, Huiwang Zhang, Jesse Campbell, and Hongni Wu
Huiwang Zhang in Curriculum III : People, Places, and Things at New York Live Arts. Photo: Maria Baranova
a new work by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, created against the backdrop of a memory of freedom, and with that memory comes a taste for self determination: living where one wants to live; loving who one wants to love, celebrating that youthful desire to be free and discover the world and oneself within it. Rehearsal Director: Janet Wong
Huiwang Zhang in Still/Here at BAM. Photo: Nir Arieli
A revival by the Bill T. Jone/Arnie Zane Company, is a two-act, evening-length dance-theater piece (premiered 1994) with a visual score made from edited interviews with people who were or are facing life-threatening illnesses. Rehearsal Director: Janet Wong
Spanish Trilogy, Swisher Theatre, Curated by Brian Palmer for the Spring Faculty Concert Series of the Department of Dance at The Jacksonville University. Sound Score by: Sam Crawford
Bright Segment, The work explores ideas of crossing and lining-up asking what it takes to arrive at a safe place in times of human massive (dis)placement. Presented at the Goldstein Theater, Kupferburg Center for the Arts. Dancer from Left to Right, Anna Yau, Luisina Alonzo, Aliyah Morris, Steven Jeltsch, Lan Fernandez, Wenhao Tan and Zihan Xu.
Duet with Bill T. Jones in Deep Blue Sea workshop at Lumberyard creative residency.
Principal Dancer/Choreographer
Monkey (Huiwang Zhang) bursts out of a stone. "The Monkey King" by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang On stage at sfopera.com