Sang Jijia

CCDC Resident Choreographer Sang Jijia has won numerous international dance awards and was awarded the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship to study in the US. In 2002, he was chosen by the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative to study choreography under William Forsythe in Germany and remained at Ballet Frankfurt and the Forsythe Company as assistant choreographer and dancer. Sang returned to China in 2006 and, since then, has created a number of full-length works for BeijingDance/LDTX, Guangdong Modern Dance Company and CCDC. He has received commissions from famous dance companies across the world, including Carte Blanche (Norway) and Spellbound Contemporary Ballet (Italy). Sang is celebrated for his extremely physical and emotional movement language and his use of electronic music to interpret abstract concepts.

Source: City Contemporary Dance Company