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Nunukongwe23 (talk) 09:15, 7 July 2015 (UTC)nunu kong

Nunu kong, Chinese name Yandan Wu 吴艳丹 born 1982

Nunu kong is an Independent choreographer, performing artist and producer live in Shanghai

In 2004 nunu kong graduated from a unique 4-year program (the only comprehensive contemporary dance program ever in China) founded by Yang Mei Qi at the Beijing Dance Academy, She began her choreographic career with the Shanghai-based experimental performance collective Zuhe Niao which she co-founded in 2005, with their first physical theater piece-Tongue’s Memory of Home which successfully captured the ZKB Patronage Prize at the Theaterspektakel in Zurich in 2oo6. Following the success of her work with Zuhe Niao, nunu established her own independent project brand nu Dance in 2007 which is one of the few platforms for cultural exchange in the field of independent dance in China, With her natural engagement and artistic insight she has produced vital new creations and productions, performing them internationally, and presenting Chinese young artists beyond the underground.

Nunu was the first independent young choreographer from the PRC participating in the DanceWeb program of the Vienna Impulstanz Festival in 2008, and the first independent performing artist to obtain funding from the Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation. She is the winner of the Dutch Doen Foundation in 2007, and the 2011 and 2013 American Gluck Art Research Fund twice winner. nunu has received an ACC(Asian Cultural Council) fellowship for a six month long art research practicing plan to explore the boundary between performance art and dance in the U.S. in 2015, study and learn the latest development trend of performing arts and dance in more breakthroughs in the future.

In the emerging world market that is China Nunu kong is one of few who strive to realize a responsibility promoting an awareness of the art of dance in society and the recognition of its cultural value. She engages regularly with other Chinese and international independent artists for performances and various art media, blazing her way through a national cultural landscape that is yet in its formative stage and striving to be one of the influences in its new modern trajectory.