Join us for an extraordinary cultural excursion beyond the city, where visual art and live performance meet in one unforgettable afternoon with the world-renowned artist and choreographer Shen Wei, known for his incredible work as Principal Choreographer for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony.

On Saturday, October 18, 2025, guests will travel by private charter bus from Manhattan to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s Pocantico Center and the Katonah Museum of Art (KMA) for an exclusive first look at the landmark exhibition Shen Wei: STILL/MOVING.

Your $50 ticket includes:

• Roundtrip charter bus transportation from Manhattan’s Columbus Circle
• Entry to both exhibitions at Pocantico and the KMA
• Exclusive live performance of Connect Transfer by Shen Wei Arts at the KMA
• Artists Talk between Shen Wei and the KMA’s Director and Chief Curator Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe
• Drinks and hors d’oeuvres served at the Katonah Museum during post-performance reception
• Complimentary bottled water on the bus (guests are welcome to bring their own snacks)

Your Saturday Journey with Shen Wei:

• 2:00 PM | Depart Manhattan (Columbus Circle)
• 3:00 – 4:00 PM | Explore Shen Wei: STILL/MOVING exhibition at The Pocantico Center, Tarrytown, NY 
• 4:00 – 4:30 PM | Bus from Pocantico Center to Katonah
• 4:30 – 5:00 PM | Explore Shen Wei: STILL/MOVING exhibition at the KMA
• 5:00 – 6:30 PM | Live Performance of Connect Transfer and Artist Talk at the KMA
• 6:30 – 7:00 PM | Cocktail Reception at the KMA
• 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Return to Manhattan

Shen Wei: STILL/MOVING commemorates thirty years of Shen Wei’s visionary career as a dancer, choreographer, visual artist, filmmaker, and global cultural ambassador. This unprecedented joint exhibition between the Katonah Museum of Art and The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund illuminates the full scope of the artist’s trailblazing practice, offering rare access to Shen Wei’s paintings, works on paper, choreographic compositions, short films, and video highlights from the Shen Wei Dance Arts repertoire—including new pieces never before exhibited in the United States.

Shen Wei’s visual art transcends cultural and geographic boundaries, capturing the body in motion with dynamic brushwork that seamlessly incorporates Chinese calligraphy, allusions to post-World War II abstract movements such as Action Painting and Gutai, and traditional Chinese shan shui (mountain-water) painting. The resulting works evoke both abstraction and visionary landscapes, often monumental in scale and cinematic in quality, compelling the viewer’s gaze to move and dance across the surface.

At The Pocantico Center, the exhibition emphasizes Shen Wei’s dialogue with nature through his recent landscape paintings, whose immersive scale invites sustained contemplation.

At the Katonah Museum of Art, the presentation highlights the interdisciplinary nature of his oeuvre—the generative influence of music on his choreography, and the central role of movement in his paintings. Together, these two venues offer audiences a complete experience of Shen Wei’s multidisciplinary vision.