Yingyu Lyu
Choreographer, Dancer at the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games / France
About
A young choreographer and freelance dancer from Paris, France, dancer of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics, graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse (CNSM), Paris, France, majoring in Contemporary Dance Performance and Choreography in 2024. Double Master's Degree in Chinese and French Dance.
Worked as a dancer with the Ballet Angelin Preyocaj in France and as an educational intern at the Edgar Varese Academy in France. Participated in Cannes Dance Festival, Pompidou Festival, Brittany Dance Festival, Carthage Dance Festival and French Dance Biennale. Her choreography has been invited to perform at the Guangdong Modern Dance Exhibition, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau Modern Dance Week, and Beijing Thunder World Dance Company. Her choreography won the highest award of the Korea Culture and Arts Exchange Association for modern dance and the gold medal of the Korea International Dance Competition.
In February 2025, she was invited to join the Asian Art Association Singapore (Modern Dance).
Artist Statement
Art can be a refuge from reality. As I accumulate experience and age and time, I dance in the midst of sadness, using my body to convey my thoughts and emotions. Constantly searching and discovering new energies in my creations, I explore an ideal country on the edge of reality.
Artistic Achievements
2025-2024 Dance performance at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, France, Pompidou Festival of Dance in Paris, Co-choreographer of the dance theatre "Jun Changan", a project of the Musée Guimet and the United Nations, France.
Choreography for Romanzen, a musical disc by Nikolai Arsenyevich and Françoise Buffet-Arsenyevich.
2024 Trainee dancer (Le ballet preljocaj), Angelin Preljocaj, France
2024 Trainee choreographer, National Theatre of Charlotte, France
2024-2023 Educational internship at College Edgar Varèse, France
2023-2022 Tour of theatre projects at the Cannes Dance Festival, the Brittany Dance Festival, the International Theatre of Martinique, the Tunisian Embassy's invitation to the Tunisian International Opera, the Carthage Dance Festival in Tunis, the Grand Théâtre d'Orléans, the National Theatre of Charlotte, the Biennale de la Danse in France, the Théâtre de la Malakoff, and others. Collaborating choreographers : Maud Le Pladec、Trisha Brown、Thomas Jolly、Angelin Preljocaj、Jacopo Godani、Dominique Bagouet、Noé Soulie、Mathilde Monnier、Richard Ouramdane、Xavier Leroy、Annabelle Bonnery、Philippe Katerina,etc.
Individual dance works:
2024 "The marginal man" Paris public performance
2022 "Fate of people" was invited to Zhuhai Youth Contemporary Dance Exhibition, Thunder World Dance Theatre, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay Area Contemporary Dance Exhibition.
2021 "Weaking Dead" invited to Guangzhou Modern Dance Exhibition
2020 "Wire Newspaper" invited to Guangdong Modern Dance Exhibition, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay Area Modern Dance Week, the first Guiyang Mountain Dance Art Exchange Week, Korea International Cultural Exchange Association Modern Dance Category Silver Award and Top Award
2019 "After one's death" invited by Guangzhou Modern Dance Exhibition, Korea International Dance Competition Gold Award, Korea International Modern Dance Competition Final Certificate