# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shen-wei
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:34:16.953Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shen-wei"
name: "Shen Wei"
slug: "shen-wei"
description: "Shen Wei is a Chinese-American choreographer, painter, and artistic director based in New York City. He is known for founding Shen Wei Dance Arts in 2000 and for choreographing the opening segment of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony."
tagline: "Chinese-born American choreographer, visual artist and director (born 1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Self-portrait_by_Shen_Wei.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1968"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.9
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.487582666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.shenweidancearts.org/about-shenwei/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Wei"
    title: "Shen Wei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%8A"
    title: "شن وي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%89"
    title: "شن وى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B2%88%E5%81%89"
    title: "沈偉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%92%D1%8D%D0%B9"
    title: "Шэнь Вэй"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "شین وی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7494134"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump