Her practice is informed by new materialist feminism, speculative narration, queer ecology, and bodily research, often taking the form of immersive performance environments and cross-media installations. She has exhibited work in both China and the UK, collaborated with institutions including Changsha Museum and NAFI Nanjing Art Fair, and is currently collaborating with the feminist dance collective WomanEwer.
Alongside her artistic practice, she runs a Chinese-language public platform with nearly 90,000 readers, focusing on queer studies, feminism, matriarchal anthropology in China, and sociology.
In 2014, Paxton joined Nederlands Dans Theater 2 and moved to Nederlands Dans Theater 1 in 2017. During his time with the company, he toured worldwide, performing work by world-renowned choreographers. He left the company in 2024. He has also performed with Ballet BC, Wen Wei Dance, Adam Linder Studio, Fran Diaz and Korzo Theater, among others.
As a choreographer, Paxton has created dozens of works for stage, film, and site-specific venues. In 2022, he studied choreography under Crystal Pite during her creation at The Royal Ballet. In 2023, he participated in the Pioneer Project hosted by Korzo Theater. Recently, Paxton has choreographed new works for GöteborgsOperans Danskompani (Sweden), Kammerballetten (Denmark), NDT Summer Intensive (Netherlands), Fabula Collective (UK), Korzo Theater (Netherlands), Sonder Ensemble (Germany), Arts Umbrella Dance (Canada), HD Theatre (USA) Club Guy & Roni Spring Seminar (Netherlands), and Thorvaldsens Museum (Denmark). His work was a semi-finalist in the 2022 Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition. He was selected as an Aerowaves Twenty25 Artist for his work “Live! Not to be missed. Touring Regionally.”
Paxton now lives in London.
With a fearless heart, Wenning is open to opportunities across the wide spectrum of performance. She has worked in both site-specific and traditional theater spaces, and her most notable collaborations include Punchdrunk, Mauvais Chausson Dance Theater, Belgium’s Needcompany, as well as independent artists Jan Lauwers, Shu-Yi Chou, and Wang Yu-Kuang.
She was a long-term cast member of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More Shanghai, performing multiple roles and choreographing for the production’s five-year anniversary. She was nominated for a Taishin Art Award for her choreographic work ㄍㄨㄟ (Turtle), and was sponsored by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture to attend the American Dance Festival with her piece Good.
She works at the intersection of dance, narrative, and visual rhythm, drawn to hybrid forms and emerging tools that open new ways of seeing and feeling. Her instinct gravitates toward the creation of hypnotic, immersive states - spaces where image and sound invite deep presence.
Noah Meteau is a multi-disciplinary artist based between Paris and London. His dance, both generous and introspective, draws from contemporary movement and physical theatre, exploring emotion and fragility as sources of motion.
Founder and choreographer of the Strange Birds Company, as well as a writer, he creates works that intertwine dance-theatre and poetry, where silence and movement converse.
Having graduated from Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Charlie has been working as a freelance dancer since 2021. Her credits include Jasmin Vardimon Company 2, BirdGang Ltd, Vinicius Salles and Birmingham Royal Ballet’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’. She also trains in Shway style and with Ménage.
Through improvisation, Charlie is creating and solidifying her own movement style in combination with her musical compositions which she will build into a company.
Specialising in the creation of human sculptures and the mastery of the overall look, her experience spans across
theatre productions, short films and brand commercials, with credits such as The Chinese Never Die, The Garden of Beans, and Habitat for the Soul. She has worked with renowned directors such as Ding Yiteng and in iconic venues such as the National Theatre of China.