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YUAN YUAN TAN
WESHINE CHIEF JUDGE
SF Ballet Richard C. Barker Principal Dancer
Liu Yan
WESHINE JUDGE
Liu Yan trained at the Beijing Dance Academy in Classical Chinese Dance and has received recognition and awards in dance competitions around China and for her participation in major performances, including a performance with Yuan Yuan Tan and Yang Liping on the televised broadcast of the 2006 Spring Festival Gala Evening. In 2016, she published her book "Dance with Hands: Research of the Hand Dance in Chinese Classical Dances," a research novel on the hand gestures of classical Chinese dance. She is currently a professor at the Beijing Dance Academy.
Pascal Molat
WESHINE JUDGE
Born in Paris, Pascal Molat trained at Paris Opera Ballet School. During his 23 years career he has been Soloist with Ballet Royal Wallonie, 1st Soloist with Royal Ballet of Flanders and Principal Dancer for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo and the San Francisco Ballet for 14 years. In 2017 Molat was awarded an Isadora Duncan “Sustained Achievement Honoree.” Molat received the honour of becoming “Chevalierde l’ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres”by the French Minister of Culture in 2017.
Zheng Lu
WESHINE JUDGE
Zheng Lu is the Deputy Director of the Department of Chinese Classical Dance at the Beijing Dance Academy. She has planned and organized many large-scale performances and has participated in the creation of Han and Tang classical dance. She has also served as an editorial board member for several textbooks. Among her published works are the Basic Training Textbook of Chinese Han and Tang Classical Dance and several other textbooks and academic papers. Her choreographic works include dance segments in the films House of Flying Daggers; and Confucius. She was also the Executive Director of group dance segments in the large-scale classical dance drama The Dancers of Bronze Sparrow Terrace, and was the director of the film The Beauty Beyond Words: Song of Treading Dance.
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