Contemporary Ballet with International Guest Artist Min Li | ŻfinMalta National Dance Company

Name: Contemporary Ballet with International Guest Artist Min Li | ŻfinMalta National Dance Company
Location: ŻfinMalta National Dance Company

By ZfinMalta - National Dance Company

Tickets

When

Sep 5 2026

SEP

Sat

10:00

SEP

Sat

13:00

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Description

ŻfinMalta hosts international guest artist Min Li (National Ballet of China, Batsheva Dance Ensemble, Scapino) for contemporary ballet workshops for both professional practitioners/advanced students (PROFESSIONAL) and students of dance aged 11+ (INTERMEDIATE.)

Date

Saturday 5th September

Times

10:00- 11:45 | Intermediate (11+ years)

13:00-14:45 | Professional Practioners and Advanced students (15+ years)

Location

ŻfinMalta Studios, Valletta

Price

€30

Min Li’s contemporary ballet class motivates participants to stay curious and keep discovering the essence of technique, whilst at the simultaneously finding the freedom within it’s structure, finding possibilities of the physicality and in sensation, developing t personal interpretation of the movement, and keeping an open mind to try and feel.

“Joy and the passion to move are very important, dance should be fun, not the mechanic routine of practice.”

Min wants to share his knowledge and understanding of dance with people. Finding the connection between the body and mind is essential for his class.

About Min Li

Min Li is an artist and designer who studied traditional Chinese dance at the Beijing Dance Academy before joining the National Ballet of China upon graduation. During his four years with the company, he performed a wide range of roles in both classical ballets and contemporary works.

Min was later awarded a full scholarship to study Contemporary Dance and Choreography at the California Institute of the Arts. During his studies, he received the Excellence in Dance Lorna Strassler Award at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.

Following his graduation, Ohad Naharin invited Min to join the Batsheva Dance Ensemble in Israel, where he performed in numerous works by Naharin while also creating his own pieces through the company's workshop programme.

After his time with Batsheva, Min moved to the Netherlands to explore different artistic styles and cultures across Europe. Invited by Ed Wubbe to join Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, he worked with a range of choreographers while increasingly developing his own choreographic practice, exploring the possibilities of dance and theatre through themes of human emotion, relationships, power, and vulnerability.

Since 2014, Min has worked as an independent artist.

Min also studied fashion design at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK). Where he learned to design and create his own garments with fabric and texture. Fashion has become another dimension where he can explore his creativity and imagination, considering how to create a certain atmosphere and identity with what we wear, how to define beauty and elegance with each individual mind, and how to reveal a certain emotion with texture and shapes. Min would like to combine all his experiences and ideas together to create something authentic both in Dance and Design.

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