The Clouds are Always Dancing Above Us

The Clouds are Always Dancing Above Us is a durational dance performance from Patricia Zhou, a London-based freelance dancer, choreographer and award-winning filmmaker. The performance is set to the music of Phillip Glass, exploring the relationship between the repetitive nature of Glass’s music and the lone performer’s interpretation, creating serendipitous moments of endurance and rest over the span of an hour.

Patricia Zhou is a London-based freelance dancer, choreographer and award-winning filmmaker. She has previously danced for the Royal Ballet in London, Staatsballett-Berlin and Benjamin Millepied’s L.A. Dance Project. After only four years of serious ballet training at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington D.C., she was awarded gold and silver medals at the 2010 Beijing International Invitational Ballet Competition and at the Youth American Grand Prix Competition in Paris, was a prize winner at the Prix de Lausanne and was also featured on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, becoming the first solo performer to dance on the show. In 2020 Patricia went freelance to pursue choreographing and directing her own dance films as well as dancing on a project to project basis. She recently made her West End debut performing in Dr. Semmelweis and created the role of the “Sugar Plum Fairy” in the recent McOnie Company jazz remake of The Nutcracker.