About the company
Hou Ying established Horizon Dance Theatre in 2006 in New York City and has created and premiered several works: Floating (2006) NYU Tisch Theater; Whirlpool (2007) HT Chen Theater; Gone with the Wind (2007) Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival; Horizon (2008) Asian Culture Arts Festival at Queens Theater. Hou Ying trained in traditional Chinese classic dance, folk dance, ballet, traditional Chinese opera, and martial arts. In the United States, she has also studied the dance techniques of dance masters such as Martha Graham, José Limon, Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown. In addition she has studied yoga, Pilates and contact improvisation. With a strong passion for theater, Hou Ying has also studied from a theatre master in the U.S. Deeply influenced by the contemporary arts of the America, she has been passionately exploring the contemporary arts of the West alongside a continuous study of the ways of thinking of the East. Soon after returning to China in 2009, Hou Ying started to take on Chinese Wu Dang Tai Chi, a type of Chinese martial arts. The works of Hou Ying combine several dramatic elements including experimental music, multimedia art, and theater. Hou Ying is interested in creation and co-production with young artists and topics such as: practice, non-practice; improvisation, non-improvisation; theater, non-theater. In the field of modern art, Hou Ying seeks to find and establish a new artistic perspective. In her works we see the essence of Chinese traditional culture, ingeniously combined in a natural way with a modern consciousness and western rational and logical way of body movement. Hou Ying Dance Theatre has created a number of controversial and avant-garde works which oblige Chinese audiences to the re-thinking and re-interpretation of modern dance. The Works of Hou Ying Dance Theatre:
Tu Tu (July 2009) Dance work, premiered at Guangdong Modern Dance Art Festival
Invisible Cities (May 2010) Drama work, premierered at Beijing 46 Fangjia Hutong Theater
Interface(April 2011) Dance work, premiere at GuangDong Dance Theatre
Interface 2 (May 2012) Dance work, Beijing Nanluoguxiang Art Festival;
The Poetry of Tang and Song (December 2012) Contemporary Ballet, commissioned work
