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Escaping from the Temple

Escaping from the Templeis adapted from a classic play in Chinese opera, which is famous for its intricate singing technique and delicate emotion. Legend says that only a true star can master the role. Adapted into dance theatre for the first time, the work is a combination of ritualistic ambience, various musical elements and body movements. The story shows a young monk and a young nun meet coincidentally when they are escaping from their temple. Breaking all the rules and taboos of their religion, they keep their practice in secular blissfulness.

Dance 2015

The Moon Opera

This performance is an adaptation of the most famous novel from the Asian Book Award winner Bi Feiyu. It takes a piercing look into the world of Chinese opera and its female stars. In a fit of diva jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, star of The Moon Opera, disfigures her understudy with boiling water. Spurned by the troupe, she turns to teaching. Twenty years later, a rich cigarette-factory boss offers to underwrite a restaging of the cursed opera, but only on the condition that Xiao Yanqiu returns to the role of Change. So she does, this time believing she has fully become the immortal moon goddess. Set against the drama, intrigue, jealousy, retribution, and redemption of backstage Peking opera, The Moon Opera is a stunning portrait of women in a world that simultaneously reveres and restricts them.

Dance 2015

Painted Skin

Painted Skinis one of the best stories from Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio. It satirizes the way in which people are adept at painting skins for themselves, dressing themselves up with an appealing exterior while hiding a debased soul within. This performance seeks a less-travelled path at the same time while taking the story back to its essence. The wife is cast as the main character as well as the malicious ghost, both played by the same male actor. The malicious ghost is borne out of the turns of the wifes mind: her lack of faith gives rise to the ghost that torments her husband, and her repentance is also capable of bringing her husband back from the dead. This symbolic deconstruction of the story makes the performance a novel visual experience and creates endless possibilities for imagination. Is the good wife a malicious ghost, or vice versa? This structure, akin to an optical illusion that switches back and forth, conveys the essence of the work and the Eastern concept of beauty.

Dance 2015

Hope is the Thing with Feather

Body, image, soundSeem scattered materials, invisibly emerged and dislocated, mutually Reflected and Filled up Men, Women,In different relationshipsI love you, longing to engrave you into my bonesleaving you, where will I head forDo water and oil separate at the end? If the world is so hopeless,Living, for what?

Dance 2015

Between N39° and N40°

Between 39 and 40 Degrees North Latitude is a work discussing "distance". Over the years, the choreographer travels back and forth between New York and Beijing, which are located between 39 and 40 degrees north latitude, but across the Pacific Ocean with thousands of miles apart. The physical distance is unchangeable. People come and go, meet and part. The distance of time cannot be changed either. Night and day, darkness and dawn.The river of memory is mixed with the aroma of coffee and sunshine on the streets. Illusions rise from the harshest reality: between 39 and 40 degrees north latitude, what could never be changed is the distance between souls.

Dance 2015

Farewell, my Concubine

The King Disarmed is a classic solo piece played by Chinese traditional instrument Pipa. Based on the historical story of Chu-Han combat in ancient China, this music piece tells of the tragic suicide of King Xiang at the back of the Wu River as he was struck by the eventual defeat at the Battle of Gaixia. The solo piece is narrated from the perspective of King Xiang, a ruthlessly gallant general with unparalleled physical strength. He expresses his depression and grief for the loss of his kingdom and his lover Yu Ji through this tragic and soul-stirring piece of music.Fareweill, my Concubineis a dance theatre adapted from the King Disarmed. The theatre unfolds an unlinear historical narrative as Yu Jis phantom is accidently awakened by Pipa performer Tang Xiaofengspipa music. The theatre presents a dialogue between the ancient and the contemporary, man and female, the identity and the ego, time and space.

Dance 2015

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