Indoor Activities 2014

SHEN WEI ARTWORKS INSTALLATION EXHIBITION

Shen Wei, was burn at the summer of 1968, Xiangyin County of Hunan province in Yueyang city. Father Shen Qingtong is a movie director. when he was 9 year old he went to Hunan province art school training, learning, niche. The 16 year old was assigned to Hunan Province, Hunantheatre. The same year to learn painting, and passed the Central Academy of Fine Arts in printmaking department at the age of 19 times, to obtain professional course of national second, but because of the liberal arts andEnglish achievement has not been accepted. The 20 year old won first prizein Hunan a dance competition, the same year to Guangzhou warriorensembles, 3 months after the transfer to the Guangdong dance school the first experimental modern dance class. The 26 year old Chinese capsule wasthe first modern dance competition "performance award" and "Creative Award" gold award. At the age of 27 and "Nichols / Lewis dance lab"scholarship to study in the United states. The 32 year old "sound", hope to"ladder" two works in Europe and the United States to cut a striking figureafter the dance community, "the rite of spring", "connection", "back"conversion works, become one of the most important global dancechoreographer. At the age of 36 to obtain the dance "Oscar" said the Nijinskyaward "". At the age of 39, won the American "Macarthur Genius Award",without any additional conditions to obtain a $500000 bonus. At the age of 40were invited to the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics as a creative planning and "picture" piece of choreography. Shen Wei enjoys high reputation in the international art world, he created the dance technicalsystem with "development" under the pretext of natural body movement, alsoa lot of integration of a variety of media elements. In recent years, Shen Wei will be the art form to expand to the multimedia device, image and animation,special field real creation, "Washington Post" referred to him as "one of the greatest artists of our time".

Indoor Activities 2014
Indoor Activities 2014

Franco Dragone (CIRQUE DU SOLEIL) Lecture

The Artist Introduction:Dragone was born in Cairano, Italy, and moved to La Louvière, Belgium at age seven. In the 1970s, he studied theatre at the Belgian Royal Conservatory of Mons. His earliest theatrical work was explicitly political, working as a director of theatre and film in the mode of the commedia dellarte dramatist Dario Fo. The theatre works he helped create expressed social situations, interpreting true stories of the homeless, drug addicts and prison inmates, and casting the non-actors that shared their stories to perform in the shows. In the 1980s Dragone came to Montreal, Canada, where Guy Caron, director of the National Circus School, invited him to conduct workshops with the students and teachers at his school. Later, Dragone created, directed and produced a show for the end of the school year. Guy Laliberté saw one of these performances in 1984, the same year he formed Cirque du Soleil. In 1985, Laliberté sought out Guy Caron to join Cirque du Soleil. Caron, in turn, asked Dragone to join as a creator. In 1999, Dragone directed the music video for Lara Fabians song "Adagio". In 2005, Dragone debuted his fourth production on the Las Vegas Strip with the opening of Le Rêve at the Wynn Las Vegas. Dragone most recently directed a Macau-based show entitled The House of Dancing Water, which bills itself as the worlds largest permanent water-based show. On March 29, 2012 he was awarded the doctor honoris causa degree for general merits by the University of Antwerp, in recognition of his innovative and cosmopolitan approach of theatre. Between January and March 2013, Dragone created and directed The Story of a Fort, Legacy of a Nation Show

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Lin Huaimin《Coffee and Salt》 LECTURE (CN))

The Artist IntroductionLin Huaimin, a renowned international choreographers in Taiwan. Born in 1947 Yu Jiayi, 14 years old start novels, 22 year old publishing "cicada", issix or seven O in Taipei literary world the great writer. In 1972, graduated from Department of University of Iowa English American novel writing class,awarded the degree of master of arts. In 1973, Lin Huaimin founded the firstmodern dance "Chinese world the Cloud Gate Dance", led to thedevelopment of Taiwan modern performing art. In 1999 May the creation of "Cloud Gate 2", to train young choreographer, deep rural and campus for students and the general audience, the show, and often go abroad forprofessional performance, obtain good review numerous.This year, Lin Huaimin is "to support young artists program" Art Committee members attended the creators Week activities, he will also work with "loose"staged in the sixteenth China Shanghai International Arts festival. Andchecks and some in the late Fu Qing Fang work plan for this year finalistsfour dance commissioned works, hit the main way of expression have provided various, and different improvement direction. Close to the groundand cast the exchange, and encourage the cast was also slightly sentimental young works, to those with artistic enthusiasm of youth are full of faith and confidence.Works: dance has "without you", "water stains", "listen to the river", "flower","wind" shadow "," cursive Trilogy "," water "," song of a wanderer "," Nine Songs "," legacy 80 out etc.. Published writing include: "cicada", "dance","pass", "with the cloud gate to stray", "high bright eyes", and translated as"Mahabharata" script.

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Peking Opera “I AM a Nandan”

Throughout the legendary story presented by the play, the audience will have the opportunity to appreciate the fascinating and profound cultural quintessence of the Chinese opera.Excerpts from widely-known plays like The Favorite Concubine Becomes Intoxicated (Guifei zuijiu), The Peony Pavilion (Mudan tin) and Goddess Scatters Flowers (Tiann sanhua) make the opera so vivid and expressively powerful that it grips the audience like a fantasia.The Chinese word, nan, means male, while dan is the generic term for female roles in jingju (Beijing/Peking opera). When used together, the term nandan refers to the male actors who perform female roles in jingju. The nandan are undoubtedly the most mysterious of jingju actors. Many people have great interest in, and are eager to know more about this kind of cross-gender performance. Mou Yuandi, the only young nandan in Shanghai, will lift the veil of mystery surrounding nandan by providing a live introduction to the art, presenting nandan in terms of its historical development and the whole process of training, performance, and makeup. Program:A dance of dan roles featuring long water-sleeves An excerpt from the jingju play, The Favorite Concubine Becomes Intoxicated (Guifei zuijiu)An excerpt from the jingju play, Battle of Wan City (Zhan Wancheng) featuring the skills of wearing qiao (stilt-like wooden footwear used to mimic the bound feet of women in ancient China)An excerpt from the scene, A Walk in the Garden (Youyuan) in the kunqu play, The Peony Pavilion (Mudan ting)An excerpt from the jingju play, Goddess Scatters Flowers (Tiann sanhua)Length:90 minutes Presented by the School of Traditional Chinese Theatre at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Producer: Guo Yu Artistic Director: Bi Guyun Leading Actor: Mou Yuandi

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