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Contemporary Dance - All and None

Evolution has brought suffocating high pressure to modern life. To meet their desires, people subconsciously step into a net impossible to shake off. The work describes the dilemma between a high speed city life and our pursuit for inner peace. Yang ChangGraduated from the Dance College in Korean National University of Arts and is currently a dance choreography teacher in Sichuan Conservatory of Music. From 2006 to 2010, as a dancer and a choreographer of Beijing Modern Dance Company, he had participated in important arts festivals in America, France, Britain, ltaly, Sweden, Finland and Spain, and started working on experimental dance, collaborating with celebrities such as Tian Zhuangzhuang and ChenKai-Ko. In July 2013, he was awarded the gold medal in the Second Session of Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Match.

Dance 2014

Physical Theatre - 123·45

Walking in prosperous cities, we played the roles of A, B, C and D in others eyes, to be home mortgage slaves, car slaves and "office building slaves". How much time could we provide to ourselves? Accidents happened every day and speed being prioritized seems to be a way of modern life. Memories and beauty in our heart is almost dead, in our formula of pursuing external things. Huang XinShe has graduated from Master Degree of Dance in Shanghai Theatre Academy and focuses on dance performance and creation, currently is engaged in directing and teaching in dance in Jia Xing College. Some of her works such as Time and Journey have gained success in Beijing, Shanghai, Hang Zhou, etc. ln2007, she had participated in great music epics performance of Himalaya as the main actress; and she had also acting as a screenwriter and director for various kinds of grand evening parties.

Dance 2014

Experiment Kinqu Opera - Inscription

Inscription is adapted from the traditional Kunqu opera Soup For Treat-ment of Jealousy. lt tells the story of woman in civilian clothes, QiaoXiao-qing, who has both talent and beauty, but was sold to a man as his concubine and later to suffer the wrath of his wifes jealousy. This work concentrates on the role transformation in Inscription. The performer plays different roles, transforming from QiaoXiaoging, to DuLinaingand others, and then back to Xiaoging. In the 20 minutes performance, a folded drama form appears with transformation and crossing among soundless performance, sounded performance and tune names. Shen YiliShe is graduated from drama performance major in Shanghai Theatre Acade-my (STA) and had ever acted a leading role in Peony Pavillion, Palace of Eternal Youth, The Jade Hairpin, The Story of Sima Sheug-yu, Pei Shaojun and Li Qian-jun, and also participated in performance of some opera highlights such as Dream in the Deserted Garden, Pursuit of a Dream, The Drunk Beauty, and she has ever participated in performance and lectures in Britain, France, Spanish America, and Taiwan and Hong Kong in China, to promote the development of Kunqu Opera art actively. With strong and solid basic skills, elegant costume and makeup, rich classic appeal, she acted vividly and voiced mellowly, show-ing a dignified and elegant stage appeal and exquisite performance.

Drama 2014

Theatre - An Expressionless Man

K and S met by chance on the subway. Later, S found out that they were neighbors in the same residential community, and K has had an eye on her in a social networking website for a long time. It was then that their relationship started to change. K had a strange disease, which lost him the ability to smile and made him the subject of ridicule. He desperately tries to recover his ability to smile and plans to meet someone who might be able to help him. Can he recover his smile? What will happen between him and S? A confusing and intriguing situation follows. Shang LeiAs a screenwriter and director, Shang Lei graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Peking University in 2007. His drama works include What was Make-believe has Become Reality, The Birthday Party, Ulysses in Mental Hospital, Loves Conditional Expression, Expressionless Person, Hamlet Sonata and many others. In July 2012, he was among in the final 6 of the Tian Qinxin New Writing Planand went to the National Theater of Scotland in Britain. Hamlet Sonata was presented in the Beijing Fringe Festival, and publicly shown in No.9 Theater in Beijing in December that same year.

Drama 2014

Multimedia Theatre - The M Feast

The play takes Mr. Ms feast as the cue, the invited guests (the audiences) are asked to join the Wechat group through two-dimensional code scanning. The mysterious Mr. M uses voice commands and randomly selects seven people from the Wechat group. The selected audiences are guests of the feast from different social classes. They attend the feast with different purposes. They conduct hypocritical social performances ofthe upper class at first, but then fight crazily for the so-called mysterious gift. Sartre once said: others are the hell. The law of the jungle among animals and human beings greed and desire we reflected vividly in the play, and the even peoples hypocrisy is gradually faded with Mr. Ms game instructions. Crime and punishment the third eye, them mysterious Mr.M, the strange diners, how could everything develop? Tong TongTong Tong (Bella) is a scriptwriter, director, and actress graduated from New York University, majored in Media, Culture and Communication. She is named as Youth Ambassador to fight against AlDS by UN, and worked as an NBA reporter for the SOHU sports channel. She starred in many TV dramassuch as I Want A Home, The Little Imperial Envoy and Smiling Crabs. She is the script writer and director of the documentary films Chinese University Alliance in Greater New York area, Drop Mark, and the First Great Wall Modern Art Biennale. Her work directing The Little Master was awarded Best Film in the Sino-American University Student Micro-Film Competition, organized by the Miami International Festival and Shanghai International Festival.

Drama 2014

Chamber Music - Dolphin Song

Dolphin Song is a lamentation on the recent extinction of Yangtze River "baiji" White Dolphins. One of the rivers greatest losses, the dolphins extinction is considered the first time human activity directly caused an entire species to disappear. In four movements, this piece of music tells the tragedy of the dolphins. The first movement is a depiction of Mother Nature at work, where the dolphins live, breed, feed, and die according to natural cycles of life. The second movement tells the legend of the Yangtze princess; the creation myth of the dolphins told by generations of Yangtze River fishermen. This story is central to the concept of respecting Mother Nature, and as folklore, is an intangible cultural heritage that holds sway in teaching us how to live as a small piece of the puzzle that includes all of Mother Natures creations. The third movement depicts our materialistic desires and the resultant conflict between the dolphins and us, while the finale is a spiritual farewell from all the dolphins when their spirits evaporate with the river water on a warm sunny day. The work is a prayer for action; a call for us to protect what little of the wildlife is left in our time. Sam WuSam Wus music deals with the beauty in blurred boundaries. Many of his works center around extra-musical themes: architecture and urban planning, climate science and the search for exoplanets that host life.Selected for the American Composers Orchestras EarShot readings, winner of an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Sam was also awarded First Prize at the Washington International Competition. Sams collaborations span five continents, most notably with the Philadelphia, Minnesota, and Sarasota Orchestras, the Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphonies, New York City Ballet, Sydney International Piano Competition, the Lontano, Parker, Argus, ETHEL and icarus Quartets, conductors Osmo Vänskä, Case Scaglione, and Benjamin Northey, and sheng virtuoso Wu Wei.After growing up in Shanghai, Sam (b. 1995) received degrees from Harvard University and The Juilliard School, and is a DMA candidate in Composition at Rice Universitys Shepherd School of Music. His teachers include Tan Dun, Anthony Brandt, Pierre Jalbert, and Chaya Czernowin.Zeyu Victor LiZeyu Victor Li is honored as a musical prodigy. Entering Curtis Institute of Music when he was 14 years old (2010), he was the youngest violin student there from Asia. Aaron Rosand, the world renowned violinist and educator speaks highly of his youngest student. Early in China, Victor excelled with his consummate violin skills and innate musical talent. He won the Gold Award of Junior Division, and the only award for Chinese work performance in the Ninth National Youth Violin Competition in Qingdao, 2009; he won the New Creations Performance Award (Composer Prize) in the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition in 2012; and he was awarded First Place of Senior Division in the concerto competition in Summit Music Festival in New York, 2012. In 2009, Victor was invited to participate in the 5th anniversary of the restoration of Weekly Radio Concert held at Shanghai Concert Hall, as well as the 50th anniversary of the naming of the hall. In 2010, he was invited to perform solo the Sibelius D minor Violin Concerto in Shanghai Spring International Music Festival. In April 2009, while communicating with internationally eminent violin virtuoso Pinchas Zukerman in Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Victor Li was praised as "a genius with a bright future". Since Victor entered Curtis, he has performed in Carnegie Hall in New York, and several times in Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. He participated in the American Summer Music Festival at MANN CENTER on May 11th, 2012.

Music 2013

Multimedia Music Theatre - And the Future Echoes

This is the dialogue between times, between style and idea. By the virtue of digital effects as well as performance and extension of projection, musicians and dancers live performance brings Guqin ancient song, Shanghai old song, modern city and industrial sound together to form the multi music space. As time goes by, it witnessed countless touches, collisions, fractions, and integrations. Since dialogue continues, voice form the bottom of heart becomes clearer. Jeff TseJeff Tse, graduated from Shanghai Conserotory of Music in the year 2012, major in Music Design and Composing, and now a student with masters degree of Department of Music Engineering and Designing, mentored by Professor Chen Qiangbin, electronic music production and composing.

Music 2013

Peking Opera and Street Dance Theatre - Rong

As the descendant of Peking Opera family, QIO shoulders the inborn great trust of inheriting the quintessence of China. Faced with the ever changing world, what feelings does he have and how does he respond to it? Rong is trying to find the expression of time spirit and the consistent lineage of opera charm in the symbolic life. This work develops from the exquisite and vivid facial painting of Peking Opera and follows the painting brush to reflect the rise and fall of the inner emotion. It infuses the Chinese traditional opera (Peking Opera) culture, kung fu (Chen-style Taijiquan) culture, Dunhuang culture as well as "Egyptian Hand" hand culture inspired by the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and thus contributes to the "integration" of cultural and spiritual heritage in the new time and space. QIOAn actor of comic role of Peking Opera and a practitioner of crossover art. He graduated from Academy of Traditional Chinese Opera with a bachelors degree. He is now working at Beijing Peking Opera Theatre. As the 4th generation official heir of Qiu-style Peking Opera, he developed the Qiu-style and integrated Chinese and western music theory, dance elements and martial arts and Tai Chi in to Peking opera, and is committed to the exploration of the new expression of the integration of modern art state and traditional classics. Born and raised in the operatic circle, he inherited the good voice of his grandfather Mr. Qiu Shengrong, master of Peking Opera and the founder "Qiu-style" and his father, Qiu Mr. Qiu Shaorong, a famous artist of Peking Opera from childhood. He is very talented and cut a figure as a teenager and won gold medal for Plum Blossom Prize for the Young". Under the guidance of many famous masters and his own diligence along his art journey, he not only carried forward the "Qiu family" performing and artistic style but also won him many awards. He is the silver medal winner of the 2008 National Youth Peking Opera TV Competition and gold medal of the 2012 National Youth Peking Opera TV Competition. PAN QINPAN QIN, the founder of Kung Fu Street brand, a senior tutor of artists and singers, choreographer, the in house disciple of the 19th generation successor of Chen-style Taijiquan, vice president of World Nunchaku Association. He has been practicing Shaolin, nunchakus, long sticks since childhood and later went to South Korea to learn street dance culture. After his return to China, he engaged in stage directing, choreography and teaching work and has 12 years of back stage experience to date. By virtue of his unique experience and international vision, Pan Qin integrated Chinese martial arts, Tai Chi, folk dances and other traditional culture and modern dance elements in his works in a creative way. He focused on Chinese classical music and modern pop beats, and thus established Kung Fu Street with the pursuit of the unmatched new school art-dance color in the philosophy.

Dance 2013

Theatre and Shadow Animation - Wowo

In the play, Wowo and Wowow woke up on the first day and found themselves in a very high place. Not only did them confused that why they were on the despair high attitude, but also found themselves unable to speak. The only yelling they could make and connect themselves was the sound Wo~Wo~ from far away. Wowo only had a rope and tied a knot every day, while Wowow only had a cage that could grow a paper plane every day and he threw the plane out of the platform again and again. After 651 days, would they get out of the despair? The platform on the despair high attitude remains people of the skyscrapers in the city or cliffs in the nature, and symbolizes the unconquerable despair in humans subconscious, which means that even though it is not as difficult as in imagination, the majority choose to escape it. The play explores the connections among people in modern society through urban allegorical grotesque forms of expression and contradictory stage space. In the play, Shadow Puppet, the traditional element, is presented by high technology and fully engages in the play, which has added the grotesque and fairy tale feeling to the performance. The real-time interaction between the theater actors and Shadow Puppet operators results in many effects including environment romance, the reflection of inner heart of characters as well as the dialogue of virtual characters. It even makes breakthrough in presenting the exquisite beauty of simplicity and stunning visual effects. Dai WeiDai Wei, graduated from Shanghai Theatre Academy, was CG designer of Visual Effects Arts Studio of 2008 BEIJING Olympic Games and BEIJING Paralympic Games, directly involved in fireworks and visual effects design for four opening and closing ceremonies. From 2009 to 2011, he participated in CG works for fireworks and visual effects in lots of major events including the Ceremony of the National Day in BEIJING and the Opening Ceremony of Taipei Intl Flora Expo. After that, he engaged in theatre, visual communication and cross-boundaries design. He has been a creative designer in Virtual Simulation Laboratory for Multimedia Performance since July 2010, involving in stage and visual art design in lots of theaters and performances, at the same time, he conducts disciplinary research related to new media and visual art design. In 2012, due to the achievements and cross-boundaries art exploration in new media, he was the only one who awarded Cai Guo-qiang Fellowship by Asian Cultural Council in this field and went to New York for investigation in contemporary crossover arts and new media theatre from October 2010 to April 2013.

Drama 2013

Kunqu Opera and Physical Theatre - Spinning Top

The work starts with short plays, Nv Diao and Nan Diao, presenting that in the opening of a social drama, people express thanks to the god and expel evil spirit; and takes the performance of social drama depicted in Lu Xuns essay Wuchang Nvdiao as a cut-in point. The work combines opera, acrobat, modern dance and percussion together as the basic performance means, expresses the feeling of helpless, confusion of identity, depression of trapping in and psychological confrontation in allegorical way. Audience will expose to the dream of author directly and experience a grotesque story that sometimes seems true and sometimes illusion. Ding YiDing Yi, graduated from Shanghai Traditional Opera School, studied Chinese traditional Performing arts - Beijing Opera, Kunqu Opera at young age (almost 20 years now), including Sheng( main male role), Dan(young and beautiful female role). She obtained Master Degree of Arts from Shanghai Theatre Academy in 2010. She was invited to compose theater new opera and perform modern dance: in 2009, she was the director of Du Liliang in The Pavilion Of Peony performed in the ancient stage of Three Mountains Assembly Hall; in 2010, she was invited to be technical director of new historical play, The Purple Hairpin, of Guangdong Foshan Cantanese Opera Theatre; in 2011, she was invited to be the movement coach of Landscape Huang Gongwang, the Shaoxing Opera play. In 2012, She was invited by Shanghai Jinxing Dance Theatre to perform modern dance Shanghai Tango in America and signed with the Dance Theatre to become a modern dancer at the same year. Her modern dance works are Mystery and Charming Shanghai, China Project, Sudoku and etc. Lu Ge Lu Ge studied gymnastics in his 5 years old, and turn to study acrobatics in 11 years old, when he was 17, he doubted the changeless drills and performance. At the same time, he was inspired by a modern dance teacher, completely changed the view of actor as a profession, and became an actor and artist in real sense. He believed that comparing with skills that could use body freely, more important is ones own ideas and creation. Half year later, he wrapped up in acrobatic troupe and went to Shanghai Jinxing Dance Theatre to learn modern dance. During the 9 years of modern dance training and international tour, he was exposed to and learned different kinds of art expressions. He furthered his study of theatre performance in Shanghai Theatre Academy and learned new circus in Royal Academy of Dance in Stockholm early or later. Currently, he works with others to open a physical theatre studio, focusing on new theatre combining acrobat, opera, dance and theatre.

Drama 2013

Experimental Dance Theatre - Roots

We are going to face the conflict of modern culture and traditional culture. When traditional culture rotted by modern culture, where should the traditional culture go? It does not mean that traditional culture and modern culture cannot coexist. They need to merge each other and address the contradictories continuously, which may be the best explanation. As the younger generation, we have the obligation and responsibility to reignite the brightness of traditional culture. We will find that traditional culture and modern culture could balance themselves in certain areas, and Roots will have it all explained.Root, the cradle of primary, breeding, feeding, educating;Root, the home of spirituality, peace, pure, true;Root, the fetter of tenderness, care, bloodline, origin;Root, the boundless support, free, inclusive, purifying… Baima CirenBorn in Xigaze, Tibet, he has loved dance since a very young age, has won awards from National Dance Competition, Lotus. Dance Competition, Tao Li Cup and other competitions held by CCTV for many times and received the praises from professionals.2002 - 2008 Shenyang Institute of Musical Dance2008 - 2010 Tibet Autonomous Region Song and Dance TroupeEnd of 2010 - present Tangka Dance Studio in Beijing

Drama 2013

Chamber Music - Death and the Maiden

Loosely based on Nobel Prize Winner Elfriede Jelineks play, Zolans composition discards the profound philosophical and even obscure metaphorical elements in the original work, and interprets the lifetime paradoxical development of women from the unique musical perspective. In contrast to the playwrights parallel exploration to the six female characters from fairy tales or real life, Zolan takes an arresting music expedition into an individual woman, who, like everyone, is born with the Six Desires - a Buddhism concept, i.e. six sensory pleasures derived from the eyes, ears, nose, body and mind - vastly enriching the experience and understanding of life. The work consists of three movements: Respiration, Throbbing, and Rebirth. ZolanBorn in Inner Mongolia, Zolan studied music composition in Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. After graduation, she went to France to pursue her degree in Senior Composer at Ecole Normale de la Musique de Paris, learning from Yoshihisa Taira and Edith Lejet. Zolan has held a number of solo concerts in Robert-Schumann Hochschule Duesseldorf in Germany, Beijing National Library Concert Hall, Beijing 798 Space and many other places in China. She has produced 3 personal albums of contemporary Chamber Music since 2004. She also composes for films and plays. As an improvising musician, she has worked with Chinese and international musicians in experimental live performances.

Music 2012

New Music-Media Theatre - Mirror Mind

A cross-over experiment combining dramatic performance, live percussion, interactive multi-channel electronic music and new-media visual arts, Minds Mirror expects to explore the multi-layered nature of human being by rendering the reciprocal reflection of ones inside and outside world with a "pan-acoustic" narrative approach. The Kunqu performer tries to talk with the digital illumination and his reflection in mirror initiating a dialogue between sound and image, and then break up with them, which causes a series of wobble, distortion, metamorphosis and sublimation… The production and rehearsal process of the work is inside the Shanghai Key Laboratory for Art of Musical Acoustics and supported by Construction Program for In-novative Research Team, Shanghai Institutions of Higher Education (2ndPhase). (Co-commissioned by CSIAF & Shanghai Conservatory of Music)Lyrics (partly from Chuang-tzu)Youre not a fish how do you know what fish enjoy?Youre not me, so how do you know I dont know what fish enjoy?A little while ago you were still and now youre walking;A little while ago you were walking and now youre still,You are not me, either not him; perhaps me, perhaps him; to be or not to be… Qin YiComposer Qin Yi is a lecturer in the Music Engineering Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. As a member of Touch Sound - New Music-Media Group, she has been awarded the First Prize in 2006 Tsang-Houei Hsu International Music Composition Competition, the Second and Third Prize of the 4th and 8th "Chinese Music Jin Zhong Award" Awards respectively, and the Honorary Mentions in 2008 Prix Ars Electronica Digital Music Category. Her works have been featured in numerous international arts festivals in USA, Germany, France, Holland, Austria, Luxembourg, Australia, Singapore and China, etc. Her music, Shadow of Sound, was described as "hard not to be entranced" by the New York Times. Mirror Mind is created by "Touch Sound" - an open team of originality and production in new music-media consisted of composers, engineers, new-media artists, and performing artists. The group devotes itself to the technological exploration and research in electronic music, new-media arts, visualized music, contemporary sonic arts and installation, as well as experimental music composition and staging practice. It promotes the cross-media field cooperation concerning art and technology which based on innovative ideals from Chinese traditional culture. Touch Sound - New Music-Media Group, established by Professor Chen Qiangbin of Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2006, has the professor himself as its Art Director, and several composers and electronic artists of the new generation like Qin Yi, Xu Zhibo, Fang Dalei as its core members. For recent years, the team members have not only won plentiful awards home and abroad, but also created more than ten concerts and sound installation exhibitions with brand new concepts. With those events, it has accumulated abundant works of electronic music, new music-media and sound installation. The Group represents the pioneer of Chinese contemporary electronic music and new music-media. Mirror Mind manages to invite Da Yan, the creative director in Novatrio new media emsemble, as the Visual Interactive Art Designer and Director, Wu Shuang, national first-level actor in Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe, winner of the 12th Wenhua Performance Award, as its main performer, and Zhang Zujing as the percussion performer.

Music 2012

Mini Violin Concerto - Three and a Half Phrases

San Ju Ban (Three and a Half Phrases) is a kind of Chinese traditional folk operatic performing form, which consists of three long phrases and a half length phrase. The composer integrates the folk-song-styled melody of "San Ju Ban" with the contemporary composition technique in a natural and ravishing way. It not only well communicates the wits of the Chinese traditional drama, but also grants the musician with the freedom to highlight the keen emotion and consummate skills. The eponymous solo piece was ever selected the mandatory repertoire of the Menuhin Competition Beijing 2012, and now developed to the concerto starring Li Zeyu, the extraordinarily gifted violinist, with the accompaniment of Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra. Tian JinglunBorn in Qingdao, Shandong province, Tian Jinglun began her studies in the Middle School of the Chinese Conservatory of Music with Li Lifu at the age of 16, and has continued her studies at the Central Conservatory of Music with Liu Yuan since 2008. Given the title ‘Excellent Student, she also received the China National Scholarship and the Excellent Student Scholarship. Tian has won prizes in many composition competitions. Her work Three and a Half Phrases have been selected for the Menuhin Competition Beijing 2012, and this work was performed by every entry of the Senior Semi-finals of the competition; her major compositions cover different styles and orchestrations of chamber music. Zeyu Victor Li Zeyu Victor Li is honored as a musical prodigy. Entering Curtis Institute of Music when he was 14 years old (2010), he was the youngest violin student there from Asia. Aaron Rosand, the world renowned violinist and educator speaks highly of his youngest student. Early in China, Victor excelled with his consummate violin skills and innate musical talent. He won the Gold Award of Junior Division, and the only award for Chinese work performance in the Ninth National Youth Violin Competition in Qingdao, 2009; he won the New Creations Performance Award (Composer Prize) in the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition in 2012; and he was awarded First Place of Senior Division in the concerto competition in Summit Music Festival in New York, 2012. In 2009, Victor was invited to participate in the 5th anniversary of the restoration of Weekly Radio Concert held at Shanghai Concert Hall, as well as the 50th anniversary of the naming of the hall. In 2010, he was invited to perform solo the Sibelius D minor Violin Concerto in Shanghai Spring International Music Festival. In April 2009, while communicating with internationally eminent violin virtuoso Pinchas Zukerman in Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Victor Li was praised as "a genius with a bright future". Since Victor entered Curtis, he has performed in Carnegie Hall in New York, and several times in Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. He participated in the American Summer Music Festival at MANN CENTER on May 11th, 2012.

Music 2012

Contemporary Dance - Sprawling Darkness

The choreography took inspiration from the novel The Everlasting Regret by the prominent Shanghai female writer Wang Anyi, the most prestigious female writer known for vivid and insightful description of Shanghai. It focuses not on the glorious skylines of the metropolis, but on the sheets of shadow sprawling under the skyscrapers, where all kinds of people can be found, struggling or being lost in life. It is the darkness that visualizes the images of Shanghai on the negative film in ones mind. The stage starts from a whole sheet of white paper with the rising of arches and doors shaping the typical lanes and dwellings of Shanghai. Performers dancing through the lanes and darkness give an insightful portrait of real life. Yin FangBorn in 1986, Yin Fang was originally a ballet dancer. He joined Beijing Dance Theater in 2008 and worked with Chinas leading modern dance choreographer Wang Yuanyuan. He also worked as a choreographer in productions like Martlet, Start off on the Road, Movement Copy and Puppet, and has toured in the UK, the USA, Iceland, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Holland and Belgium. In 2012, Yin Fang became an independent dancer and choreographer and has been engaging himself in more contemporary or inter-disciplinary works. He co-choreographed and starred in the dance drama Haizi, which premiered at China National Center for the Performing Arts.

Dance 2012

Erhu Physical Theatre - Cooing and Wooing

Inspired by the household poem in The Classic of Poetry, the best known verse collections in Chinese literary canon, Dong Jie joins forces with Zhao Lei to create Cooing and Wooing, a visceral expression of a young man to the fair maiden he loves via the interaction of live performance of Chinese traditional music and contemporary dance. The virtuosic Erhu player Zhao Lei, taking the role of the youth, with the accompaniment of three other ancient Chinese instruments (Xiao, Guzheng and Zhonghu) and the cross-over dialogue with the dancers, indulges himself in the longing for the maiden recurrent in his dreams; after his wooing is frustrated, the musician cannot fall asleep but tosses all night long, with only the sorrowful music lingering on to comfort his lonely heart. Dong JieAward-winning choreographer Dong Jie graduated from Beijing Dance Academy majoring in Contemporary Dance Choreography. Many of his works have received both national and international recognition and awards in various competitions, including the Helsinki International Ballet Competition, the Ludwigshafen dance competition and Lotus Cup, the most important dance competition in China. His choreography features the elements of Chinese traditional folk dance and the powerful expression of contemporary dance. Dong Jie was commissioned by Oper Graz in 2012 to co-create modern dance I Can Think and Dream about It as part of the theatres international collaboration program. Zhao LeiAs the new icon of Erhu player, Zhao garners the reputation not only for his quintessential techniques but also for his soul-stirring story-telling skills. While mastering the traditional Erhu repertories, he innovatively plays jazz, tango and other Western genres with this two-stringed bow instrument. He learned to play Erhu from a number of mostly respected masters and graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Since 2007, he has held many recitals at key venues like Shanghai Oriental Arts Center and appeared in a number of music festivals in Asia. He has also been actively collaborating with musicians all over the world, such as Bobby McFerrin, electronic organ player Yuki Kanda and British band "Temple".

Dance 2012

Physical Theatre - Somnolencia

Somnolencia (somnolence in Spanish) is about two attitudes towards changes, especially amongst urban residents. It develops along three dialogues between a well and a river, which are boldly vitalized as a woman in pregnancy and the other delivering. The focus is put on the different "water" they have: different source, quality, motion and shape; reacting differently to temperature, time, surroundings and landscapes. In a loose "dialogue form", the well and the river encounters jumping topics in unconstrained set-ups of scenes. The audience could associate various metaphors of "the water" to their own observation or experience of life. Luo YuebingLuo Yuebing is an independent performing artist in Guangzhou. She utilizes dance, video, installation and physical theatre to investigate issues of identity, gender relations, cross-influence between individual & community, and humanity embodiment in architecture. Her major theatre works are best known for the sharp focus of woman. From 2008, Luo extended her interest to choreography in public space. As one of the pioneering choreographers, she has completed 6 full-length theatre works, many short pieces and 4 site-specific projects. Luo has been invited to various festivals, residency programs in South Korea, France, Spain, Germany and Italy.

Dance 2012

Multimedia Theatre - The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai 2.0

The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bangqing is without question the founding masterpiece of Shanghainese literature, while the eponymous theatrical work graded as the 2.0 version is an experimental multimedia performance aiming to reconstruct the masterpiece with a completely new approach. The actors and staff, with four cameras and a big silver screen, shoot a womens cinema on the stage and present the final version on the screen at the same time. Through a real-time editing system, the audience sees not only the cinema, but also the process of making everything in front of their eyes. The experience is neither theatre nor movie but somewhere in-between. With the nosy lens and the seamless transition of the scenes, the woman in todays Shanghai establishes soul link with the one in Qing Dynasty in similar situation, implying the theme of self-inquiry among women in different times. Wang ChongWang Chong is an avant-garde theatre director and the founder of Beijing-based performance group Théatre du Rêve Expérimental. He holds two Bachelors Degrees in Law and Economics of Peking University, and a Masters Degree in Drama of the University of Hawaii. His works, including the China mainland premieres of Hamletmachine and Crave, have toured in China, U.S., Canada, U.K., France and Japan. His e-Station is nominated for the best production at Mont-Laurier International Theatre Festival. He and his team are dedicated to theatrical expression of both classical and modern texts through experimental ways, such as physical theatre, multimedia and image theatre.

Drama 2012

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