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    • Immersive Mixed Electronic Concert: Auditory Awakening

    The immersive mixed electronic concert Auditory Awakening is not only a challenge to auditory perception and a profound emotional experience but also a reinterpretation and exploration of the essence of sound. The creators, standing at the intersection of art and technology, deconstruct and reconstruct sound. From the subtle sounds of nature to the echoes of vast galaxies, from traditional instruments to electronic music, sound becomes a medium that connects time and space, serving as a bridge for emotions to reach the audience.

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    Music & New Media: Hugo’s Musical Journey with Les Djinns

    The work is inspired by Victor Hugos Les Djinns and the fusion of Eastern and Western musical languages within the context of the "Silk Road" cultural background. Three percussionists play instruments combined with dynamic multimedia effects generated by motion capture sensors, along with pre-recorded audio-visual art, to create an experience where the audience can engage in a deep cultural dialogue through the interplay of sound and light.

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    Dance Theatre: On the Island of Memories

    Each persons hometown is like a solitary island both impossible to sever from and often entangling the heart. The work presents the individual stories and reflections of seven young people from a contemporary perspective, exploring their personal relationships with their hometowns and their quests for identity in different eras. Despite the constant changes of the times, there is always a small island of the soul that stands eternala spiritual homeland in peoples hearts that never sinks.

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    Street Dance Theatre: Inspired by the Eastern Wind

    Inspired by the Eastern Wind is an exploration of the fusion between street dance and Chinese culture. Rather than retelling the original story of Jie Dongfeng, the work is rooted in the energy and rhythm of street dance to depict the concept of "freedom" found in classical Chinese aesthetics. It delves into the traditional Chinese cultural aspiration of "harmony between heaven and humanity, and forgetting oneself in nature." On this journey with the wind, the audience is invited to seek their own "east wind" within the confines of their limited lives.

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    Immersive Physical Theatre: PERSONALLERY 3.0

    The work features ballroom dance and integrates artificial intelligence technology to reimagine The Peony Pavilion: The Interrupted Dream from a modern perspective. Using the psychoanalytic theories of Freud and Jung as a theoretical framework, it guides the audience to explore independently within a historic building that evokes a strong sense of time and space. This immersive journey offers multiple perspectives, allowing participants to engage in a self-reflective and reconciling exploration of their inner selves.

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    Modern Ballet: The Jade Hairpin

    Modern ballet The Jade Hairpin is based on the Kunqu opera of the same name and tells the story of CHEN Miaochang, a noble lady, and PAN Bizheng, a scholar, who are fated to endure loves trials during the Northern Song Dynastys southward relocation. Despite being toyed with by destiny, they fulfill their vow of love with their lives. The performance skillfully combines the delicacy of Kunqu with the elegance of ballet, blending elements of music, chess, calligraphy, painting, and opera. This fusion of Kunqus subtle grace and ballets pointe technique creates a journey that transcends time and space.

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    Drama: The Last Shotgun

    On the night before the gun ban officially takes effect, the herder SU Ludu disappeared with his lifelong beloved hunting rifle. In the vast grasslands, he encountered an old wolf with whom he had a lifelong confrontation. Now, the wolf is also old and frail. Their standoff unfolds into a story about humanity and wolves, revenge and balance, gradually revealing itself across the expansive prairie.

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    Drama: A Man Asleep 2.0

    This drama tells the story of a doctor, a scholar, and a three-person family in a small, ordinary Southern town, intertwining memories, delusions, and dreams. Amidst the changes and upheavals of the times, the characters inner worlds traverse between life and death, reality and illusion. The work pays homage to LU Xuns collection of short stories, A Call to Arms, by revisiting the classic from a unique perspective. Through multi-layered narrative and immersive performance, it allows the audience to experience the profound power of theatrical art in the echoes of history.

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    Original Drama: Awakening

    The original play Awakening tells the story of ZHANG Wentian between the ages of 17 and 25. With poetic language, it recreates the journey of young people a century ago, who, during the "Awakening Era," were filled with ideals of saving the nation and great ambitions. They persistently sought truth and pursued faith, searching for a path to light for China amidst the fog. This journey ultimately led to their growth into resolute communist fighters. The play highlights the noble character of revolutionary pioneers and reflects the "red" revolutionary spirit deeply rooted in the city of Shanghai.

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    Group Exhibition: Fictitious Trade:Duplicating Stories without Bartering

    Curated jointly by Dongkun Lyu and Lingli Chen, the exhibition focuses on how to regenerate the cultural story of the Silk Road in contemporary times. Displaying the works of six artists, encompassing Lihong Bai, Xinhao Cheng, Yixin Tong, Chenyu Mao, Yuling Qin, and Yuhang Wu to tell the story of "materials" in the New Silk Road trade, this exhibition will be presented in three chapters: ‘Old crops and New Piastre, Regression and Approaching learns from the The beginning of the trade route, delving into the flow of meaning embeded in the transisions of materials; ‘Union of Botanists shows multi-sensory communication beyond the Anthropocene; ‘Ethnography of Materials, Minstrels of spirits selects multi-media art works to try to rewrite new ethnography and encyclopedia.

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    Solo Exhibition: Unbounded Skin Delight

    It is the first solo exhibition of the emerging artist Zhang Chaoran, presenting his creation and research in the past two years. The artist took the "skin" as carrier, which people cannot ignore in daily life, the works expand to express different spatial dimensions and materials. Skin is the most external part of the body, as well as the inner barrier, more importantly the external representation of the spirit. Zhang Chaorans work contains poetic metaphors and constructs content that points to deep "healing".The exhibition combines different spaces in the form of installation, painting and mixed media, extending the perspective of time and space to micro amplification, trying to rid the perspective of traditional and delicate viewing, and instead use multi-dimensional and dramatic scenes, so that the viewer can feel the uniqueness of Zhangs detachment in the interaction.

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