The Endless Dance
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About Hannah Peel
Mercury Prize, Ivor Novello and Emmy-nominated, RTS and Music Producers Guild winning composer, with a flow of solo albums and collaborative releases, Hannah joins the dots between science, nature and the creative arts, through her explorative approach to electronic, classical and traditional music
From her own solo albums to composing soundtracks like Game of Thrones: The last Watch, or to orchestrating and conducting for artists like Paul Weller, her work is ambitious, forward-looking, always adapting and re-inventing new genres and hybrid musical forms
Hannah is a regular weekly broadcaster for BBC Radio 3’s Night Tracks
About Beibei Wang
Beibei Wang is recognised as one of the most distinctive voices in percussion today, celebrated for her ‘high energy virtuosity’ (Wall Street Journal) and her singular ability to unite classical and traditional Chinese percussion traditions. She has performed as soloist with the world’s leading ensembles, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic and Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Recent highlights include premieres of her new immersive visual concert of contemporary percussion at TICAfest, Hong Kong, and the premieres of her new compositions at LSO St Luke’s. A champion of new music, Wang collaborates closely with living composers, leading contemporary choreographers and ensembles, among them the RPS Award-winning Manchester Collective.
The Endless Dance is the first collaborative project by composer and producer Hannah Peel and percussionist Beibei Wang.
Inspired by the 24 solar terms of the traditional Chinese calendar, the project brings together electronics, piano and an expansive palette of percussion to explore cycles of nature, time and transformation.
The album reached No. 1 in the UK Dance Chart.
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Creative Team
Hannah Peel • Beibei Wang
Collaborators
Real World Records • Barbican • Kings Place • St Luke's, Glasgow • The Glasshouse International Centre for Music
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Technical Specification
Dates
26 May 2026 – Album release (Real World Records)
20 October 2026 – The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead, UK
21 October 2026 – St Luke's, Glasgow, UK
24 October 2026 – Barbican Hall, London, UK
About The Endless Dance
The Endless Dance is the first collaborative album from Northern Irish producer and composer Hannah Peel and Chinese percussionist Beibei Wang.
Electronics meet traditional Chinese instrumentation.
Inspired by the 24 solar terms of the Chinese calendar, the album unfolds as an immersive cycle of sound: playful, meditative and alive with curiosity. In Wang’s words, it is ‘two women talking in totally different languages that had a wonderful chat.’
Wang was struck by Peel’s titular composition; a speculative portrait of the noise and lights of Tokyo’s Shinjuku district. Peel’s uncanny ability to evoke the atmosphere of a city she had never been to led the pair to collaborate on a series of performances, beginning with a fully improvised show at Kings Place in London, June 2023.
They immediately began to map out a new, imagined space through sound. “In our heads, it was a place that neither of us had been to,”explains Peel. Perhaps this is somewhere no-one has been to before. “We wanted to create a different type of world through imagination,” she adds. The artistic freedom and chemistry of these performances led to The Endless Dance, something of a permanent record of their shared musical landscape, informed by the flora and fauna that emerge and retreat through the seas.
