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Cast List

Director: Ginny Jiang, Xinge Li

Choreographer: Ginny Jiang

Cameraman: Wei Zheng, Wenxuan Shen

Performer: Ginny Jiang, Shun Jiang

Editor: Ginny Jiang, Xinge Li

Concept

"Tides" is an innovative dance film project with a female perspective at its core. It aims to shed light on the heightened vulnerability that women often experience under societal scrutiny. This artful endeavor involves the intricate folding of the human body into diverse spaces, serving as a powerful means of expression and resistance against insecurity and chronic oppression.

Ginny Jiang(She/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, teacher, and choreographer pursuing an MFA in dance at the University of Michigan. Their work focuses on the Interdisciplinary collaboration, improvisaiton, community and site-based creation, gender, bias and performance, dance and democracy, audience engagement and dialogue-building. Their research integrates Chinese Taoism, feminist theory, psychology, neurophysiology, visual arts. Jiang has been creating live performances, site-specific performances, and experimental video Which have been commissioned by 798 Gallery Week, Spurs Gallery, Peking University's Center for Business and Arts Research, Guardian Art Center, and BNU Experimental Dance Company, and have been shown in a number of galleries, conferences, and performance venues both nationally and internationally. Their awards and exhbitions include Florence Contemporay Art Exchange Exhibtion,Art week ltalia di Santa Maria Del Fiore, Xiamen Arts Contemporary Exhibition, London Temporal Collsion, Dance Camera West, BIG SYN International Film Festival, Fort Kauderdale International Film Festival, Daily Arts crossover performance,Sohu Short Film Award Ceremony, Indie Short Festival, Edinburgh Fringe  Festival, Video Art and Experimental Film, 33th Korea Dance Arts Festival,INternational Dance Colleges Biennial Concert, Asian International Culture&Arts Forum, Huagang Arts Festival, Aranya Arts Festival, Guangdong Contemporary Dance Week, Wuzhen Theatre Festival and Shanghai Dance Arts Festival.

Jasmine Mejia is a New York City native, choreographer, and teaching artist. She is an Assistant Professor of Dance and Co-Director of H2 Dance Company at Hope College. She received an MFA degree in Dance with a concentration in Pedagogy from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, a BFA in Dance and Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University, and graduated from Long Island High School for the Arts. Jasmine has performed at Radio City Music Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Kennedy Center as well as toured the states and performed abroad in Bulgaria, London, and Sweden as a company member of Von Howard Project, MADArt Creative, LMproject, and Jamal Jackson Dance Company. She has also worked with artists’ including Stefanie Batten Bland, Ronald K. Brown, Elizabeth Corbett, Leah Cox, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Her choreography has been featured Off-Broadway and across the country at festivals, residencies, and events. Jasmine’s current research is focused on developing her teaching practice and movement method, Rhythmic Motion, as well as expanding her creative palette through screendance.