On the 4th of June 2018 there will be a special gala for the one year anniversary of the Landesjugendballett Berlin. To celebrate this event the Landesjugendballett invited several junior companys from all over Europe to join them in a gala evening. As one of these guest companys the NRW Juniorballett will perform pieces of Jacopo Godanis "Versus Standard" and Xin Peng Wangs "War and Peace".

For the "Internationale Ballettgala XXVII" Xin Peng Wang is currently working on a new creation to the music of Frédéric Chopin.

"His music is brilliant, a balancing act between the white and the black keys. Every note is bringing us closer to the heavens. And its possible to fail on each and every one of them", Xin Peng Wang admits. "To engage with Chopins music and create something with it was a matter close to my heart for a long time. Now the moment is finally here."

Xin Peng Wang is choreographing his new creation for the exceptional ballerina Polina Semionova and her brother Dmitry Semionov. "It makes me extremly happy to be able to work with these two fantastic artists. Together we approach Chopin, discover and redefine him."

The premiere of the new creation will take place in the course of the "Internationale Ballettgala XXVII" on June 30th 2018 in the Dortmund Opera.

In his new creation Xin Peng Wang risks a glimpse behind the curtain of artistic creation. He takes the audience on a tour of his inner struggle to find the mystic moment between action and standstill, between noise and silence – effect and affect. “Sometimes” says Wang “you have to pause and think about what you do and why. That’s part of the responsibility we take on by taking our first breath and which we can’t deny even after we'll take our last one.”

Premiere: November 11, 2017, Dortmund Opera

Additional shows: November 24, December 3 / 2018: January 17 & 27, February 23, March 4 & 24

Ballet from Xin Peng Wang
Music from Sergej Rachmaninow und Peter I. Tschaikowsky
Premiere: November 11, 2017
Dortmund Opera

Its official now. The Dortmund Ballet will go on tour to China, performing “Faust II - Redemption ”. There are still many things to do, and we are really looking forward to the tour.

On 30th of May 2017 Xin Peng Wang will travel to Moscow. Together with his team he will participate in the gala of the Prix Benois de la Danse. Two couples of the company will be dancing in the prestigious show: Lucia Lacarra and Marlon Dino will perform a duet choreographed by Russell Maliphant; Ida Kallanvaara and Giacomo Altovino will present a duet from the piece "Hora" by Edward Clug who is nominated for this year's Prix Benois. He created the piece especially for Ballett Dortmund earlier this year.

Xin Peng Wang interacts in this cooperation with the Opus Magnum of the famous composer Johann Sebastian Bach. He transforms it into a surface where the baroque capacity to suffer meets the pressure of modern life. The passion of christ becomes the passion of human kind.

A very interesting cooperation between the singers of the Bachchor, the musicians of the live orchestra and the young dancers of Ballett Dortmund.

Ballet from Xin Peng Wang
Light installation from Li Hui
Premiere: October 29, 2016
Additional shows : November 5, 13, 19, 25, April 2, 14; 2017, May 6, 20, June 2, 8, July 2

Ballet from Xin Peng Wang
with Light installations from Li Hui
Premiere: October 29, 2016

Special guests: Xander Parish, Steven Mc Rae + Francisca Hayward, Herman Cornejo, Oscar Chacon, Friedemann Vogel, Iana Salenco

Special guests: Tricia Albertson + Rainer Krenstetter, Anna Tsygankova + Jozef Varga, Melissa Hamilton + Istvan Simon, Dorothé Gilbert + Hugo Marchand

The NRW Juniorballett has been proved with great success and goes now to the second Generation. Within are: Victoria Grassmug, Gemma Gullefer, Jana Nenadovic, Beatrice Rosi, Tess Voelker, Madeline Andrew. Giovanni Cusin, Simone Dalè, Dayne Florence, Erik Sosa Sanchez, Matheus Vasz Guimares, Nikita Zdavkovic.  

Special guests: Lucia Lacarra & Marlon Dino, Polina Semionova & Dmitry Semionov, Iana Salenko & Stephen McRae, Adiarys Almeida & Joseph Gatti, Filipa de Castro & Carlos Pinilos

Xin Peng Wang is making research on his upsoming story - ballet “Faust”. He travelled to the Faust museum in Knittlingen, Germany, the birthplace of the original mold, the “Urfaust”.

Special Guests: Joachim de Luz, Ana Sophia Scheller, Osiel Gouneo, Whitney Jensen, Robert Tewsley

Since 1984 the theatre and the friends of concerts in Dortmund are promoting a program called the “Bajazzo” to support young artists. The Junior Ballet of Northrhine Westphalia was awarded this price in April. 

In February the Junior Ballet travelled to the consumer goods trade fair “Ambiente” in Frankfurt to put into scene the design of “Wesco”. Wesco is sponsoring scholarships for young dancers.

Since 1976 the City Ring Dortmund awards personalities for their outstanding services to the city of Dortmund  ( www.city-ring.do.de). This prize was awarded to Xin Peng Wang on January 13. City Ring president Dirk Rutenhofer honored the artist during his ceremony speech in the Westphalian Club of Industries: “Dortmund has been developed to be a reknowned centre for dancing and a main attraction drawing many visitors to the city of Dortmund.”

based on the novel of Thomas Mann, Ballet from Xin Peng Wang, Music by Lepo Sumera

Premiere: November 8, 2014, Theater Dortmund

On July 28, 1914 two gunshots fired in Sarajevo changed the world. Visions of the apocalypse in the decade before World War One were captured by Thomas Mann in his benchmark novel. An X-ray detects a small spot on the lung of young Hans Castorps. Though benign and not dangerous, it affords him the opportunity to escape his surroundings. He spends seven years in the striking landscape of the Swiss Alps, among suffering and dying patients in a tuberculosis sanitarium. He lives amongst the moribund. He learns that his increasing interest in death is in fact his hunger for life, and that illness is rather a cry for love. Until those gunshots are fired in Sarajevo. They also change his world.

Special guests: Eric Gaulthier, Steven McRae, Jiří und Otto Bubeníček

Special Guests: Iana Salenco, Eve Grinsztain, Alicia Amatriain, Marjin Rademaker, Lucia Lacarra

In June 2014  the Junior Ballet of Nordrhine Westphalia was founded in Dortmund.

It is based in the ballet center. Six female and six male dancers, aged 18-20, educated in a recognized ballet school or postgraduate program, will practice three years with the Dortmund Ballet company, performing with them on stage twice a year.

In addition, they work on their own performances with top choreographers  and perform at local and regional states, also working with schools and imigrants.

The Junior Ballet provides a supplement to standard education practiced and recognized worldwide. It provides for the first time additional courses like German (language), contract law, alimentation and nutrition and more. This gives an enhanced preparation for the challenges the professional dancer faces. 

The students come from seven different countries and have been selected from 4000 applicants. They commenced their training in August 2014.

Dortmund, Harenberg City-Center (HCC),
Saturday, January 18 at 7pm

With WIEN!!, a number of events around the city of Vienna, Xin Peng Wang in cooperation with the HCC introduces his new creation GESCHICHTEN AUS DEM WIENERWALD – Viennese Stories. The first event preceding the upcoming debut performance of this new story ballet based on a folk play and drama by Ödön von Horváth gives insight into the work of Xin Peng Wang. Enjoy an evening seeing behind the curtain, food is provided, so save the date!

Ballet from Xin Peng Wang
based on the novel „Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald“ of Ödön von Horváth and music by Johann Strauß (jr.) and Alban Berg. Dramatic Composition: Christian Baier

World premiere: February 22, 2014,
Ballett Dortmund.

Xin Peng Wangs new creation is based in Vienna and shines a light on the lives of ordenary people, their anxieties, hopes and dreams...

Ballet from Xin Peng Wang
Music by Michael Nyman

Premiere Hongkong: October 25, 2013
Additional shows in Hongkong Culture Centre: Oct. 26, 27 and Nov. 01, 02, 03.

The novel Hong Lou Meng by Cao Xuquin was crated in the middle of the 18th century during the empire and tells in a rich language about the rise and consequent fall of the Kia dynasty.

With great pleasure ballet director Xin Peng Wang starts the new season again with this grandiose event. International star dancers can be admired in Dortmund: Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg from London, Adiarys Almeida Joseph Gatti from the Boston Ballet, Grettel Morejón and Osiel Gounod from the National Ballet of Cuba, Xu Yan and Sun Ruichen from the National Ballet of China, Filipa de Castro and Carlos Pinilos from the National Ballet of Portugal, Noah Gelber and Katharina Markowskayain in a new play from William Forsythe, and last but not least excellent dancers from the Ballet Dortmund.

A special gift for ballet enthusiasts

The new photo book delivers insight into the artistic work of Xin Peng Wang. Visually scenic highlight of great ballet produktions. Essays of the famous dance critic Dorion Weickmann and the art historian Rebecca Schönsee engrosses the reflection about the creator of the „ballet miracle Dortmund“.

XIN PENG WANG. With Essays from Christian Baier, Rebecca Schönsee and Dorion Weickmann.
96 p., 90 colored pictures.

This illustrated book is purchasable at the thatre box office, before and after all Ballet performances in the Opernhaus and at Mayersche Buchhandlung, Westenhellweg for 28,- Euro (Softcover, japanesee Broschur). Furthermore a high-class, 100 pieces limitied special edition is released, alll autographed by Xin Peng Wang (Hardcover/japanese Broschur, 98,- Euro).