LEAD PERFORMERS
GUO YI
Xiao He HE SHANG
Xiang Yu HU SHENYUAN
Yu Ji
A Principle Actor in Shanghai
Peking Opera Theatre, Guo Yi
specializes in “old male” acting.
Guo graduated from Beijing
Opera School and Shanghai
Theater Academy, has studied
in many famous Chinese Peking
Opera schools and with many
famous Peking Opera masters
such as Chen Shaoyun. Chen is
the National Named Successor of
QI Style Performance. Guo won
the 2012 Shanghai Outstanding
Artist Award, Gold Award at the
Seventh CCTV Young Peking
Opera Performance Competition
and First in Yunnan Peking Opera
Performance Competition. He Shang began studying
classical Chinese dance at the
Shenyang Conservatory of Music
in 2009. He won the Young Men’s
Classical Gold Medal at the
9th Peach Blossom Cup Dance
Competition with the dance New
Life. This dance competition,
held by the Ministry of Culture,
is the most important youth
dance competition in China. After
graduating in 2010, He left the
world of dance but returned to
the stage in 2015 in search of
pure, sincere dance—joining Yang
Liping’s modern dance company
in this role and working as
a choreographer. Hu Shenyuan hails from Luzhou,
Sichuan Province. Hu studied
dance at the Sichuan Provincial
Institute of Art in 2004 and
entered the Minzu University of
China to study dance education
in 2009. Hu joined the Beijing
LDTX Dance Company in 2011 as
a professional performer, taking
part in classic productions as All
River Red, Layer Code, Standing
Before Darkness, Sorrowful
Song, Treading on Grass and Cold
Dagger, touring with the company
across Europe and Australia.
Hu joined TAO Dance Theatre
in 2013 to study modern dance
techniques, and became an
independent dancer in 2014. In
2015 Hu joined the European tour
of Yabin Wang and Sidi Larbi’s
project Genesis. Hu was featured
in the documentary TWIST,
which is currently travelling the
European film festival circuit. Hu
joined the cast of Under Siege in
2014, in the female role of Yu Ji,
which in Peking Opera has been
traditionally played by men.