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    TAO Dance Theatre 8

    8⑴．SynopsisTAO Dance Theatres latest creation in 2015, 8, manifests choreographer/artistic director Tao Yes study of corporeal arts in his project numeral series, exploring the limits and extremes of the body. While the voice element bulks in the former work 7, the rhythms generated as different body parts or bodies in contact take the major role in this episode. In order to achieve the best effect, Tao Ye cooperates with a composer, a sound technician and sound designer to amplify the sound of touching, brushing and beating as the dancers move, seeking to visualize the rhythms. ⑵．Artist Profile Tao YeTao Ye, graduated from ChongQing Dance study, and then joined in the cultural troupe of Shanghai Armed Police Force. He went to Jin Xing dance theater in 2003. In 2005, he started his own creation, having a band with five other contemporary artists, named Niao. With his work 《Single》，he participated in our 2005 Shanghai International Arts Festival. There were many Taos performances both from home and abroad from 2006 to 2008, including Yao(means change), and imagination. The March of 2008, the Tao Dance Theater was established. In 2011, invited by the producer Du KeFeng and the rock legend Cui Jian, he performed in the film 《Blue Bone》. He was honored as the top 10 Asian male in the 《Mans Uno》magazine one year later. Tao was also listed one of the six choreographers of 2014 New Wave Associates by Sadlers Wells. Produced by: Tao Dance TheaterSince its foundation, the theater has won world-wide attention, including: Beijing CaoChangDi Arts Festial, ZhongMei Arts Festival, week of modern dance in Beijing and Guangzhou, and Shanghai Power Station of Art. In all, their performance reached 40 well-known events such as Amsterdam Arts Festival and Sadlers Wells. Tao Dance Theater was publicized in New York Times for four times, and the first modern dance regiment to be invited to give performance in Lincoln Center Festival and Sydney Opera House. And it is the first time for a modern regiment to have a six-week culture visit in American dance festival.

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    Beckoning

    Cloud Gate(1) Synopsis Blue HourThe inspiration came to Zheng ZongLong when he saw the magical blue before dawn. The performance intended to describe our inner world with body movements. Six female dancers with black elegant dresses, acted separately and discontinuously, just like confession alone. Those movesmay seem to be neither beautiful nor natural, but you will feel a sense of hesitation and grief through the pace and costumes.② LaiThe latest work Lai, sourced from the folk belief and cultural background, is commented as a mixture of traditions between East and West, a fresh and novel expression, and an explicit explanation of concept of arts. Mr. Zheng intended to explore all the possibilities in Lai. He oncesaid: "in my childhood, I was a fanatic of folk beliefs, such as the gesture and position of the statue, the old tradition and rite passed down and the expression of them. What I am trying to do in this dance is not only about acting out those characters, but also about using physical movements to evokethe culture in our memory.③ LightInspired by Tango, pure and intense, even people surrounded can feel the delightandwant to participate in it. When the performance began, the dancer seem to move in the light, the only light came out from the dark sky. ⑵ Artist ProfileLin HuaiMinLin, was a novelist once, andhe began to learn dancing when he was studyingin the United States of America. He established the Cloud Gate Celebrates in 1973, and the Cloud GateⅡ in 1999. He also invited Luo ManFei to work as the art director. After Luo passed away, Mr. Lin took over the position himself, and in 2014, Zheng ZhongLong was assigned by the board directors to be the CAO. The two dancing troupes go on a lot of tours each year and enjoy a world-wide reputation. Mr. Lin gets inspiration from the traditional Asian culture and aesthetics. Lin enjoys the position as the emeritus doctor in six universities including Taiwan and HongKong, and many other prizes such as Life Achievement Award, Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia heroic figure listed in Time. In 2012, invited by Rolex Foundation, Lin served as a mentor of dance in the sixth Rolex Mentor and Protégé.Chief Arts Director: Zheng ZongLongGraduated from Taipei University of Arts, he was a dancer in the troupe as well. His production began in 2002, and won his lots of prizes. He first came to be the assistant CAO, and became the chief Art Director two years later. He was the executive director of Taiwan countdown ceremony in 2010. He was listed as the person of 2011 by Performing Arts Review Magazine. During the same year, the world famous film director invited Mr. Zheng to do the choreography for his mono-drama Only You. He was sponsored by Asia Culture Council to further his study in New York in December.Choreographer: Huang YiGraduated from Graduate Institute of Choreography and Performance, Taipei University of Art. Mr. Lin once commented him as incredibly gifted child. Huang is especially good at mixing complex images with simple body movements. He also has corporation with many famous musicians. Whats more, he is well recognized all over the world. In 2005, his Messed won the best piece in the American Dance Festival. In 2011, his Murmuring won the second prize in Denmark Cross Connection Competition. He himself was once listed as the top 25 terpsichorean by the Dance Magazine. Besides Light, his works also included Ta-ta for now, Special order and so on.Produced by Cloud Gate ⅡAlthough sounds like an affiliation to the Cloud Gate Celebrates, it does not train any staff for the brother troupe. Nor is it restricted by Mr. Lins choreography. Actually, many well-known choreographers are invited to do the work, such as Hai Ning, Gu MingShen, Wu GuoZhu, Bulareyaung, Zheng ZhongLong and Huang Yi, resulting in the varied styles. Each year, its periodical release Spring Riot, has been an unique scenery drawing the audiences attention.

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    Spring in a small town

    ⒎ Springtime in a Small TownSynopsisThe story takes place in a small, run-down town in the post-war era during a chilly early spring. A young woman, Zhou Yuwen, shares a quiet,insipid life with her invalid husband, Dai Liyan. Also living with them are Liyans teenage sister, Dai Xiu, and an old servant, Lao Huang. One day, Zhang Zhichen, Liyans childhood friend and former lover of Yuwen, comes to see Liyan. This unannounced visit is like a stone thrown into a stagnant pond, causing ripples in the hearts of everybody. The reunion stirs up once again the feelings of Yuwen and Zhichen, while the young and innocent Xiu is having a crush on the gentlemanly Zhichen. The four fall into an entangled web of relationship-the dilemma of sense and sensibility, the choice of to stay or to go. Which way should the intellectuals go in this time of turmoil? . Artist Profile Li Liuyi Theatre StudioFounded in 2003, Li Liuyi Theatre Studio is a professional institute dedicated to the actualization of the genre of new drama. Its aims are to extol the legend of the free, unbounded spirit found in classical aesthetics, to decipher the vital signs of a beating heart in the world of contemporary living, to uphold the autonomy of pure drama underpinned by poetics, and enjoy the simple, everyday things that turn the ordinary extraordinary. Barbara Fei (Artistic Adviser)Barbara Fei has given many performances and recitals in Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Europe and United States since 1951.She is active promoting choral music and advocate for music and arts in Hong Kong, mainland China and overseas.Fei is at present the Chairman of the music committee and Conductor of the Allegro Singers；Chairman of the Hong Kong Chinese Association of Choral Societies; Honorary Research Fellow of the Center of Asian Studies ,University of Hong Kong；Chairman of Hong Kong Ethnomusicology Society; Board Member, Music Director and Conductor of the Hong Kong Chinese Oratorio Society ;Senior Adviser of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, etc. In 2008,2010 and 2013,she received an Honorary Fellowship from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Hong Kong Institute of Education and Hong Kong Baptist University respectively. She received the Bronze Bauhinia Star in 2001 and Sliver Bauhinia Star in 2012 from the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. In 2011,she was appointed Honorary Menber of the National Committee of the Cina Federation of Literary Member of the National Committee of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Artistic Adviser to the Vienna World Peace Choral Festival 2011.In 2013 she was awarded "Hong Kong Women of Excellence in the Six Arts" by the Hong Kong Federation of Women. Li Liuyi (Adaptor/Director/Stage Designer)Li Liuyi is a stage director with an international presence on the drama scene of China today. He is director and playwright with the Beijing Peoples Art Theatre, and has been commissioned by many international arts festivals as dramaturge. He has over fifty productions to his credit, ranging from stage productions, Chinese traditional theatre, opera and full-length ballet. His highly original theory of "pure drama" and his application in practice have been dubbed the "Li Liuyi Methodology", which is widely studied and acclaimed. Several of his works have been staged in Hong Kong, such as the plays Peking Man and Not the Ordinary Mahjong Game, the ballet production of The Peony Pavilion, and the Peking Opera series, The Heroine Trilogy .Li is an active dramatist with a steady output over the years, many of which have been published as literary works. His plays and his theories on "pure drama "have been complied into a collection published by Peoples Literature Publishing House, and has been translated into many languages for worldwide distribution. Gong Xun (Stage Designer)Gong Xun trained in the Department of Scenic Art of the Central Academy of Drama, and he is currently the scenographer in the National Ballet of China. He won an Outstanding scenography Award at the Wenhua Awards. His design for the National Ballet of Chinas The Nutcracker was acclaimed as"a refreshing, resplendently dreamy realm with Chinese touch." He is one of the most active young scenographers in China in recent years. Many of his designs have been taken to top international scenic art festivals such as the Edinburgh International Festival. Chen Xiaji (Lighting Designer)Chen Xiaji is the Lighting Designer and Technical Director of DAMU ARTS and Accsdo Performance&Visual Arts Design Group in Beijing Resident Lighting Designer of Beijing Dance Theater. He has been an active member of the creative teams of the top drama companies in China for years. Known for his delicately insightful scenographic concepts, his designs were seen in Li Liuyis drama in verse, Confessions，the drama products Peking Man, Antigone and Oedipus the King, the Peking Operas The Golden Cangue, Mei Lanfang Classics, Huan-Hua-Yin,a nd the contemporary opera, The Savage Land. Men Xiaoguang (Costume Designer)Men Xiaoguang trained at the Central Academy of Art and Design in Beijing, and later the University of New South Wales in Australia. He designed the costumes for several on-site spectaculars in scenic areas, such as The Precious Son of Heaven-Genghis Khan and The Sacrificial Ritual to Heaven and Earth on Mount Tai. He designed the costumes for the modern Peking Opera productions, The Golden Cangue and Huan-hua-Yin, and the drama products The Family and Death of a salesman for the Beijing Peoples Art Theatre. He was the art adviser or stylist in the television dramas Lifes True Colors, Daddy Wants a Wife and The Guard of Love.CastLu Fang as Zhou YuwenLu Fang is a National Class One Performer currently on the cast of the Beijing Peoples Art Theatre. Lu graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, where she studies Acting. She is always acclaimed by professionals and general public alike for her exemplary delivery of lines on stage. Her solid yet charismatic performance in Antigone in 2012 has won her the accolade as the ‘ingrid Bergman of China.Han Qing as Dai LiyanHan Qing is a National Class One Performer currently on the cast of the National Theatre of China. Han graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, where he studied Acting. He appeared in such stage productions as 18 Springs,Not the Ordinary Mahjong Game, Lost Village, etc. Han is a much-sought-after actor Known for his solid acting skills and charisma on stage. Lei Jia as Zhang ZhichenLei Jia is a performer currently on the cast of the Beijing Peoples Art Theare. Lei graduated from the Beijing Broadcasting Institute, where he trained at the school of Performing Arts. He appeared in such stage productions as White Deer Plain, Wotou Compound, The Rickshaw Boy, Hamlet etc.

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    Dirty Electronics

    Dirty Electronics – Bed of Nails x Hard DrivesWORKSHOP with John RichardsTake part in building Dirty Electronics Bed of Nails x Hard Drives. The instrument exploits traditional breadboard techniques, wire-wrapping and nails banged into a board, and a single supply op-amp to provide the basis for a noise generating feedback circuit. The instrument is played by touching different combinations of nails to create a range of sounds. A low sine tone, produced by a brushless motor of a computer hard drive, is used as a low frequency oscillator and modulator for the Bed of Nails feedback circuit. The open circuitry, nails, and wire of the instrument present sculptural possibilities, as well as providing a pedagogical model for building circuits from schematics; whilst the ‘spinning hard drive highlights gesture, and affordance in the playing the instrument.In Dirty Electronics process and performance are inseparably bound. The performance begins on the workbench devising instruments and is extended onto the stage through playing and exploring these instruments. Light & Feathers IIFor vibrating objects and feathers, and automated incandescent light bulbsA sequence of light events control sound objects with large feathers that rattle, shake and move. The space is demarcated by sound and light and shadows cast by the vibrating feathers. The ‘audience is also asked to be part of the work by walking freely amongst the objects.Previous version of piece:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SViftGYwwiIHidden SineJohn Richards discusses his recent work as Dirty Electronics and new piece Hidden Sine that explores self-made instruments and large group performance, and ‘sound curious that are concerned with the way of the hand, touch and affordance (action possibilities). Hidden Sine draws loosely on object orientated philosophy and theory of affordances. The premise is that an object may have artistic/sound potential, often hidden, that can be revealed through investigation and praxis. This investigation operates on a number of levels covering sound, plastic arts and actions/theatre. The building of circuits and sound devices is also seen as a method for creating a tabula rasa, and how the idea of delegated performance, where instruments are played by ‘non-experts, serves to establish a naive approach and authenticity in performance.Fish Face (2010) John RichardsInspired by Christian Morgenstern and Byunjun KwonFish Face is a hands-off face and mouth expression only controlled instrument/composition. A small loudspeaker is placed in the mouth. By opening and closing and shaping the mouth, both pitch and the timbre of the instrument can be changed.The composition consists of a number of cues and material types. The mouth shape U is ‘sung in unison (see Morgensterns Fisches Nachtgesang). Other directions included vowel shapes/sounds, as well as directions for ‘scary face and ‘funny face, the musical sound being a result of the facial expression. The performers also make vocal sounds, which, when combined with the electronic sounds, produce multiphonics. Mouthing, but not sounded, words are also included.

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    Do You Speak Chinese

    Do You Speak Chinese? Choreographer and dancer Victoria Chiu is an Australian artist based in Melbourne. Her father was a Chinese immigrant to Australia. He migrated in the year 1965. She is proud of her Chinese heritage. Strangely though she doesnt speak a Chinese language and the closest thing she has to a Chinese cultural ritual is the odd Chinese dinner in Melbournes China Town. Nonetheless, people often see her as Chinese. Growing up in Australia with Chinese ancestry she has felt the challenge of not being able to adequately articulate the complexities of her heritage. The historical disconnections to her cultural identity has led her on a creative, artistic journey to discover her Chinese roots, a journey through contemporary dance that has and will continue to uncover a wealth of knowledge for the rest of her life. Artfully exploring the connection between physicality, language and race, Chiu boldly recreates identity through language and exquisitely through contemporary movement. This beautifully choreographed performance plays with the many ways our bodies speak for us and combines the bodys translation of foreign semiotics, sights and sounds to create a poetic, moving, dreamscape of what its like for the body and mind to be on a journey and discovery of dual identities.

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    Dance And Music Salon

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    Philippe Bizot Lecture

    Philippe Bizot is widely acknowledged as the first class mime artist in the world. Encouraged by Jean-Louis Barrault, a master at mime directing and acting, he self-taught and practiced his mime art in intimate theatres in Paris and Bordeaux. He won the gold award of international mime at the age of 20, and has been traveling around the world to teach acting the art of mime to adults, children, disabled people, and people with autism. He also has founded academies of mime in Bordeaux, Marseille, America, Lebanon, Bolivia and Pakistan.

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    Coquitos Lecture

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    Ruth Kanner Lecture

    Ruth Kanner has been the creator of experimental theatre productions since the early 80s. Currently she is an Associate Professor at the Department of Theater Arts of Tel Aviv University, Israel, and leads Ruth Kanner Theatre Group, associated with the Bat Sheva Dance Company, Tel Aviv. Ruth Kanner Theatre group is an experimental and unique theater team, specializing in adapting literary and documentary texts to the stage, using a variety of innovative story-telling theater and movement techniques. Along the productions created by kanner with her group, kanner is a guest director of Theater X-Cai, Tokyo, Japan. Kanner also presents lectures and workshops in Israel and Worldwide.

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    Drama Miss Julie Lecture

    Anna Pettersson, is an actress, director and drama teacher. She has played the title role in Hedda Gabler, the angel in Angels In America at the Stockholm City Theatre, Boston Marriage at the Royal Dramatic Theatre and has been working with Sweden leading dramatists Lars Norén and Kristina Lugn. She has been writing plays for herself and others, performed in about 20 TV- and movie productions and has also been directing several plays (The Seagull by Tjechov and The Misanthrope by Moliére, amongst others.) In 1999 she received the very prestigious Thaila Award and she has also received two scholarships from The Swedish Academy.

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    Reading: Letters In War Times

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    Reading: Learn How to Draw With Language And Sound

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    《TO BE OR NOT TO BE》, Meets By Chance

    As a psychological stage play played in the Little Theater, <<To be or Not to be>> abandons every turgid decoration but pure contents, to attract all the attention of each audiences. Within half an hour, people will see and experience hesitation of characters, evil of the reality, as well as sweetness of Shakespeare. Thanks to these outstanding characters, audiences have the chance to hover in the three doors. And taste the initial taste of psychological stage play. In the end, they even ask themselves: Do I really love the one whos thought to be fallen in love with me? This play awardsBest Director, First Prize of Play and Third Prize of Script inPsychological Play Competition in Shanghai Theater Academy, 2015.Magic puppet mime: puppet meets by chanceThis work got rid of traditional performance firm of puppet acts. this performance is operate by person，let the puppet finish a series of exaggeration body performance(puppet mime)by operating puppet. And then blend in some latest popular magic performance, increasing the delight of the work. Imagine that theres a puppet performing on the stage, not only perfume human motions and also blend some magic show on the platform of puppet performance. The interesting performance will definitely clench your sights. As I have investigated, the usual performance form of Chinese puppet art are Thread puppet, Rod puppet, Hand puppet and etc. The iron bars puppet designed by us is the only performance style in China. On the basis of the experience performing skills that teacher taught us. We are full of confidence that well present a relatively complete performance of magical puppet mime

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    Physical theatre: Zhuang-ji

    A torturous night.The brow covered in sweat, the body contorted by spasms. Her dear boy, born amid chaos, becomes the orphan of Zhao. She is Zhuangji. A princess, a wife, a lover, a mother. She is beautiful and smart. She is mad and debauched. Th&eacute;&acirc;tre de la Feuille tackles The Orphan of Zhao for the third time after touring Europe and Asia. Combining physical techniques from Jacques Lecoq and traditional arts from the East, Zhuang-ji features an aesthetic beyond the norm － minimalist, poetic, wild － where the male body tells the story of a legendary Chinese woman.

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    Transmedia Art Exhibition

    Trans media is realised when a medium breaks out of old boundaries to become a new form of media. The 2012 Trans Media Fashion and Art Show is a transposition of art and fashion, which turns the desire for the new and creative into consumption, and cutting-edge artistic experiments into market demand.

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    Shadow play - "7 Exquisite Heart"

    "7 Exquisite Heart" is the classic fairy tale "Feng shen yan yi ," Zhouwang and Daji design destroyed loyal minister Bigan, 7 its exquisite heart dug from the plot of story, in the shadow puppet theater, we try to use some of modern language creation and performance.

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    The Maids

    The maids，is one of representative works of Jean Genet. Solange and Claire are two maids working in a furniture store all day. They receive guests in the day，while in the evening they serve for their mistress. They are weary of this life，and jealous about all the thing mistress owns including beauty money status and lover, so that Solange and Claire would play a game that one of them acts as mistress and another pretends to kill her if the madame is not at home. They practice murder game thousands of times but finally their conspiracy is exposed&hellip;&hellip;

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    New Yorker

    Photographer Ren Haihua Stage design department lighting design Light provides me with the shape and script of creativity and idea, then l create it again.Personal photographing display: the Next Artists New YorkerLighting design :《1971》《The Midsummer Nights Dream》《Blind》《Desk》etc.copy planning He Yuting theory of screenwriter MAPhotographing provides us with a chance to catch the beauty so as to preserve it forever and share them with others. Someday, when opening the album, the vivid photos seem to tell that the passing time in memory is just here, close at hand. Personal work: 《where the hearts lie》《grandma in pavilion》《before college entrance examination》《《11.11.11.》etc.Exhibition planning Wang Shiyi Stage design department Stage manager With a camera and a pen, thats the journey of memory.Using photos and articles to present my feelings and share my thoughts are what l desire for. Time passes by, but the pretty photos and sincere words will last forever. Seeing them will not only give you a visual impact but also a warm current flowing through your heart------l think that is move . Personal wechat platform: 忆绽逸站News release in school:《the beauty of ballet 》《flowers blossom, songs fly》《the miss and salute under the maple leaves》《the story of 735000 pounds》etc.

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    Drama: A Conversation Between Li Hongzhang And Hirobumi Ito

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    Where are we

    The story happens in a fictitious world which featuring a high centralized society. People call it Times.One day, a sudden collapsing accident occurred in the Times Centre Mine. Four people, an old retiring model miner(Tom), a middle-aged boozy miner(Ben), a young highly educated technician(Danny) and a special reporter for Federal Times(Carry) are trapped in the mine waiting for rescue at the same time. As time goes by, all they have is just a miners lamp. Its a story about disaster. Characters in it will lose themselves during the continued trail of humanity. We also hope that audience can be a little bit self-missing too because that means self-examination and personal judgement on living space for some degree.

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