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Jamie H. J. Guan graduated from the Beijing Institute for Performing Arts and performed hundreds of wu sheng martial arts warrior roles during his 15 years with Peking Opera Troupe No. 1. Command performances included President Richard Nixon's historic visit to the People's Republic of China in 1972. He first appeared on the American stage in 1978 as part of the China Performing Arts Troupe, the first performing arts tour from mainland China to the U.S. after relations between the two countries were normalized. Performances on this historic tour included Lincoln Center and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and were presented on national television in PBS' "From China to US". Mr. Guan made his Broadway debut in 1988 as an actor and choreographer in the Tony-award winning M. Butterfly , written
by David Henry Hwang and directed by John Dexter, and on its national and international tours. Additionally, he choreographed Warner Brothers' feature film, M. Butterfly , directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jeremy Irons and John Lone. Other Broadway credit includes movement consultant to Tony-nominated Golden Child, written by David Henry Hwang and directed by James Lapine. Mr. Guan choreographed and appeared in the world premiere of the one-act opera, The Silver River ,
written by David Henry Hwang, composed by Bright Sheng and directed by Lisa Peterson, at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in 1997. In 1998, he choreographed the world premiere of Red, written by Chay Yew and directed by Lisa Peterson, at Seattle's Intiman Theater, and Carry the Tiger to the Mountain, written by Cherylene Lee and commissioned by the Contemporary American Theater Festival. In 1999 Mr. Guan was Fight Instructor for Soul Possessed, and in 2000 Mr. Guan was the Chinese Opera Consultant for Dreams—two shows written, choreographed and directed by Debbie Allen and presented at The Kennedy Center. He has continued his collaboration with Debbie Allen, most notably as associate choreographer of a live, globally-broadcast Chinese martial-arts dance performance celebrating the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for
the 73rd Annual Academy Awards, March 25, 2001. Ms. Allen and Mr. Guan cast two female and two male Chinese-born, U.S.-based martial arts dancers for the performance.Mr.
Guan worked with Robert Longbottom Chinese Opera Consultant and Warrior
Dance Staging Flower Drum Song at Mark Taper Foum 2001.Mr Guan
choreographer Beautiful Warrior at Vineyard Theatre and Chinese Movement
Choreographed Making Tracks at Village Theatre Seattle 2002. In 2000, in association with AtlanticPacific Music, Inc., Mr. Guan produced the first tour in 20 years of the Beijing Opera Theater Troupe with a company of
36 artists and musicians, appearing in Atlantic City and New York's Lincoln Center. His international credits include work with Manitoba Theatre Centre, Ottawa National Arts Centre, Haymarket Theatre and Singapore Repertory Theatre. Regional credits include work with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles, The Huntington Theatre Company, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, East West Fusion Theatre, Seattle Children's Theater, Syracuse Stage, Actors Company of Pennsylvania, American Conservatory Theater and New York State Theatre Institute choreographing The Woman Warrior, F.O.B., Last of the Suns,The Tempest, and Dragonwings. Additionally, Mr. Guan choreographed a television commercial for The Coca-Cola Company, Red Dragon, and has appeared in print and billboard advertisements for AT&T. Mr. Guan taught a studio course in Peking Opera at New York University's Undergraduate Drama Department and teaches Chinese Martial Arts and Peking Opera Dance at the Debbie Allen Dance
Academy in Los Angeles. He has presented many workshops on Peking Opera at regional and national conferences for educators and at the International Children's Festival at Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, Boston Children's Museum, Manhattan Children's Museum, Asia Society, China Institute, Yale University, University of Michigan, University of Massachusetts, University of Washington and University of Maryland. | |||||
Directing Producing Choreography
M. Butterfly Plus hundreds of other roles in many other shows during fifteen years of performing with the
Beijing Opera Troupe #1, including regular command performances for Mao Ze Dong, Jiang Qing, Zhou En Lai, other government officials nad visiting dignitaries such as President Richard M. Nixon. Film Television International Tours Residencies Special Performances Workshops on Peking Opera Yale University New Haven, CT
Programs Presented at Conferences for Educators Training Special Skills |
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