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    Melody

    Melody concerns on a marginalized group of autistic children.Zhang Tianyue is autistic people from Taiwan.Melody adapt from his life.And it is using dramatic presentation to explore autistic childrens emotional world and talking about their living environment,relationships with family and society.HOU Zhuyuan(Director)He graduated from the Directing Department of the Shanghai Theater Academy. His main director works are: "Absolute Signal" "Lethal Gun" "Bible men and women", "You are my father," "swan Dan" "made in china,Micro-film "Woo | Seoul." He starred in the drama are： Jiao Huang version of "Antony and Cleopatra," "submissive whore," "A Dolls House," "A group of monkeys," "Wilderness" "La Traviata," "Twelfth Night," "Television program" "" fiddle destiny "" hero debut, "" Victors, "" Rashomon, "" purgatory, "" Golden Lock "" poor Peony "" geologist. "He starred in the micro-film "Suifenhe Love" won the Macau International Film Festival "Spark Film Award.HU Xiao(Scenarist)She studied at the Shanghai Theater Academy of Art Education 2012, she was a drama explorer application. Has been involved in productions: "Hello robbery" "Shanghai South Railway Station," "Looking for the sound of the ear", "colosseum" "Reality" 1027.

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    Cross Talk: Music In Spring

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    ANDERSEN

    ANDERSEN is a dance performance based on some of the fairy tales written by the famous danish writer Hans Christian Andersen.You will be invited to an adventurous journey with The Steadfast Tin Soldier in his hunt for love. You will see The Little Mermaid and many other mermaids sitting in the water edge trying to swap their voices for legs to dance with. You will feel the cold from The Snow Queen who freezes everything to ice, leaving The Little Match Girl dreaming back. You wil take a swim with The Ugly Duckling who does not yet know that she will develope to be the most beautiful swan.The fairy tales get a new life and will be interpreted through the movements of the dancers, their passion and their engaging energy.

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    Children Play: Valley of the Lost Ants

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    Komuro Tetsuya Music Life Piano Solo Concert

    October 25, 2015, the Japanese Pop Music Godfather Komuro Tetsuya Music Life Piano Solo Concert in China Shanghaiwill be held at the Shanghai Theater Academy academy theater for the first time!Different from what we know about the past of the godfather Komuro Tetsuya on his pop music, this time we will show you a piano solo concert of Komuro Tetsuya to express his music life in this China tour. You can not only enjoy the former golden piano songs and wonderful piano performance, but also can listen to the music Godfather Komuro Tetsuya telling his the music course.Lets meet at the 17th China Shanghai International Art Festival Rising ArtistsWorks!Komuro Tetsuya, born on November 27,1958 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese musician, music producer, lyricist, composer, arranger, keyboard virtuoso, synthesizer programmer, remixer and DJ.In 1983 he composed the band NETWORK TM (TMN) with Utsunomiya Takashi, Kine Naoto.In 1984，he made a successful debut with the song《Friday Lion》.In 1993，he made a great fame through producing the group TRF, after that he also created and produced Ryoko Shinohara, Namie Amuro, Tomomi Kahara, H jungle with T, Globe and other famous artists. These artists have won millions of sales. The sales of their albums and single were once seld more than 170000000 dishes.Then he made the activities with the identity of the composer, and started to provide songs for AAA, supernova, SMAP, KIE Kitano, Ayumi Hamasaki, Miu Sakamoto, SUPER☆GiRLS, Diva, Alisa Mizuki and so on.In April 24, 2012, 25, TM NETWORK once again carried out activities and held a solo performance in the long-awaited at the Nippon Budokan. They also publicly released the first new single " I am " from the past five years. April 2014, they ushered in the 30 anniversary of the NETWORK TM, and launched a concert tour. In 2015 they ushered in the 20 anniversary of the Globe

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    Musical: Four People In The Afternoon Museum

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    Night of The Soul

    A middle age guy who was struggling the balance between career and family is passing his meaningless life like a robot and nothing seems to be able to stop him until the death of his father.A young girl with cold heart wondering in the desert of men. No one feels like to chat with her because her odd personality and finally meets a random guy who changes her life entirely from the bar of the hotel that she staying.One simply night becomes a long and dark one which lasts for 400 years.In this period of time, they finally found the keys to each others heart and showing in the bless of God, at least it was what they thought it was.They opened a door hoping to see the future of their relationship eventually encountered the demons within.Fiction and Reality, love or karma, giving and receiving. This is what you will see in this show, in a special way of telling.

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    Drama: North Shanghai

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    black letters on white paper

    Chinese characters are full of spirituality. Among them, 人contains most nimbus. It is a forms of expressing our souls. This play will show the charm of Chinese characters by 人. In this play, we will show features of papers and characters, whats more, we will give them new characteristic and humanistic significance of this new epoch.This is a play describes the process of how paper and character meet, get to know and fall in love with each other, but lose each other eventually. We want to show our cognitive and emotional exploration of traditional Chinese culture by this play. To make this play more interesting, we use an anthropomorphic metaphor to give paper and character humanity.This play, is a bridge of culture between China and foreign countries, and let Chinese audiences see how profound Chinese culture is.

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    Aupa Quartet

    Aupa Quartet⑴ SynopsisAupa Quartet, a string Quartet group, is very popular in Spain in the recent years. Four young musicians, educated in classical music, produced a style mixed with Jazz, Funk, Flamenco with traditional instruments. All the pieces are original. The pleasant tune with free style, gives more varieties to their works. ⑵ Artist ProfileAupa QuartetAupa Quartet is the winner of the first Made in Shasta music competition in 2014. They have performed on the occasion of an essential festival in Barcelona,and Italy and France as well. They have corporatedwith some renowned musicians: such as Antonio Rey (a Spanish Flamenco guitar pro), Cece Giannotti (a Canadian guitar pro and singer), and Raynald Colom(a French trumpeter and composer).

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    A Historic Concert

    A Historic Concert⑴．SynopsisHarmonizing European music and Chinese opera, this joint concert will be a testimony to the stage where two remarkable cultures communicate through music as a borderless language.Different historical backgrounds form the diversity of music. In Europe, classical music and philosophy developed along parallel lines, both striving for intellectual innovation and metaphysical depths. In China, traditional opera evolves congruous with dynasties in pursuit of quintessential exquisiteness and eternal gracefulness. This concert presents you the magical chemicals when Western and Eastern classical music converge on the same stage. ⑵．Artist ProfileSHEN Yili (Kunqu Opera Actress)Shen Yili graduated from the Shanghai Theatre Academy as a drama performance major and has played leading roles in a great number of famous Kunqu operas including Peony Pavilion, Palace of Eternal Youth and so on. Shen also actively participated in performances and lectures in Britain, France, America, Taiwan and Hong Kong to promote the development of Kunqu Opera.QIAN Yin (Flute)Qian Yin graduated from Shanghai Theatre Academy specializing in Kunqu Opera. Qian is National First Grade Instrumentalist, council member in Shanghai Dramatists Association, member in Shanghai Musicians Association and chief flute in Shanghai Kunqu Opera Group.NING Feng (Violinist)Prize-winning violinist Ning Feng is one of the most exciting of the younger generation of top-level players. Ning was born in China and studied playing the violin at the age of four. He then learned from violin masters Hu Weimin and later, Antje Weithaas. He was the winner of Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2001 and Paganini International Violin Competition in 2006. He now lives in Berlin, a base for his career performing concertos and recitals all around the world (Such as the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra).CHANG Yu-Fen (Composer)CHANG Yu-Fen studied and obtained her diplôme supérieur from Brussels Royal Conservatory. She performs all over Europe, Russia included. In Belgium, her country of residence, she has performed in all the major concert-halls and festivals: Klara Festival, Midis-Minimes, Ars Musica, BOZAR (recitals and with NOB-ONB), Flagey, Handelsbeurs, Brussels Royal Conservatory and so on. She combined Ustvolskaya with Mozart for a concert with The Ural Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dmitri Liss. From 2011, she was invited to perform in Brazil and Mexico. Patrick DE CLERCK (Curator)Patrick de Clerck directed the biggest music festivals and concert series in Belgium (Klara Festival, European Gala Concerts, Ars Musica). He was also director of Worldwide Music Festival in Europe and Escapades, a government-funded music program in Belgium. De Clerck also did classical music and was creative director of Flanders Festival Brussels and general director of Ars Musica. He moved to MariinskyTheatrefor the New Horizons Festival, and founded Music Projects For Brussels.

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    Across the Silk Road

    Across the Silk Road(1)SynopsisBased on stories of the Silk Road and the paintings of the MoGau caves, Rituals is a performance that explores the connections between traditions: the traditions of contemporary music and electronics with traditional classical Chinese and classical western music. The mixing of modern technology and Taoist and Buddhist rituals and explores improvisation and carefully composed works of musical skill and musical storytelling. The effect is a layering of different styles which trade ideas and musical energy across a Silk Road that is both modern and ancient. East and West and creates a performance like a soundtrack without a film. (2)Artist ProfileDavid Shea (Composer)New York and now Melbourne based composer David Shea is closely associated with the New York Downtown experimental music scene. Shea is apt to move from probing electro-acoustics to Chinese traditional music, American pop, Latin jazz, and exotica in the space of a single piece. A practicing Buddhist, Sheas odd fusion of East and West (particularly on albums such as Hsi-Yu Chi and Tower of Mirrors) is partly a function of the expressive role in Eastern cultures. Sheas facility for fusing not only the spiritual but also the pop cultural elements of Eastern cultures (Hong Kong cinema, allegorical Chinese theater, etc.) is accomplished and critically renowned.Shea has also found a growing audience in the more experimental strains of the post-industrial/post-rave ambient and electronic music set. Shea also continues to bridge gaps separating his various audiences by performing at events and contributing to projects which to engage both in equal measure. Wang MengWang Meng is a versatile musician, teacher and composer. She graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne with a BA (Hons) in Music (2006). In 2008, she was awarded the Hull Sinfoniettas Young International artist of the year. Meng performed widely around the world. In 2008 and 2009 she toured Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and France. She also performed in many significant festivals, shows and venues in London, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Bristol, Manchester and many other cities in the UK. Meng had been very active in Australia since 2011, She collaborated with Multicultural Arts Victoria on Various Projects including performing at: The Melbourne Town Hall and etc. She is now collaborating with an established American composer/musician David Shea on a commissioned piece by Adelaide Festival 2016. And she is also working on the recording with accomplished Melbourne based musician Cy Gorman and pianist Brenna Wee on various projects.

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    Multimedia video musical 《Code:Cytus》

    Multi-media Musical: Code: Cytus⑴．SynopsisCode: Cytusis a brilliant multi-media crossover produced by experts from different fields. Casting musicians, dancers and DJs as protagonists of the story, this unprecedentedly large production integrates multi-media technology, music, dance and drama. Multiple game tasks, interactions with audience, dazzling stage effects and avant-garde costume design as highlights, Code: Cytus creates a virtual-actual theatre space that leads audience into the science-dominated future world. ⑵ Artist ProfileMultimedia Line Producer: Zhan JiaHuaAs a new generation of digital-artist and the chief creative officer of Lehuhu Workshop, Zhan focuses on the creation of digital media. He graduated from the Multimedia Animation Art Department of Taipei University of Arts. Zhan won the first prize in the French Digital-Art Festival. He can lead the spectators to help the creation directly and become part of it, where a discussion between the show and the spectators begins. Produced by: Lehuhu workshopEstablished by Zhan JiaHua and Qiu YiTing, the workshops first work is called--Code: Cytus, aiming to upend the former concept of theater space.

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    Miss Julie

    Miss Julie⑴ SynopsisThe play is form an Artistic Development Project at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts.It is amazing and Anna Pettersson tried to find out this question: How to interpolate the moving image with the actors physical expression in a scenic presentation.Anna Pettersson makes a self-willed interpretation of ‘Miss Julie, directing and playing all the parts herself. Also on stage there is a cameraman filming the actress, projecting imagery onto the backdrop which is the only scenography. ⑵ Artist ProfileAnna Pettersson (Adaptor/ Director/ Performer)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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    Story-telling Theatre: SnowyNight

    Story-telling Theatre: SnowyNight ⑴SynopsisA dying man and a donkey give their last show on the stage of this desolate world… On a snowy New Year eve, Li, a housekeeperofa landlord, goes to collect rent from a village but fails to receive anything from tenants. He refuses to stay with Bao, one of tenants, instead choosing to return with his donkey, braving a snowstorm. On his way home, he falls into deep thought and ultimately despair. He finally dies of cold at the door of an abandoned house. Snowy Night, created in 1931, is one of Duanmu Hongliangs best short novels. This story of amazing language and imagination will be staged by Ruth Kanner, the Israeli stage director specializing in adapting literary and documentary texts to the stage, using a variety of innovative story-telling theatre and movement techniques. ⑵Artist ProfileRuth Kanner (Director)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.Ren Ming Young (Playwright)Ren Ming Young (born 1982) is a Chinese writer, theatre director, filmmaker and singer-songwriter. His highly stylized theatre productions like Your Accent, The Tempest in the East China Sea, The Story of Ni Huanzhi, At This Time Next Year, Le You Yuan and Last Night in Shuangyong Road, made him a distinctive avant-garde theatre artist in China.

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    The Nightingale and the Rose

    The Nightingale and the Rose(1) SynopsisBased on British writer Oscar Wildes short story The Nightingale and the Rose, this dance theatre seeks to deliver the essence of Wildes imagination. In the story, a young man vocalizes his despair for there are no roses in his garden for the girl he loves, which is overheard by a nightingale, a creation associated with love, innocence and romance. The nightingale, so much touched by the beauty and soul of the student, decides to relieve his pain by finding him the red rose. The nightingale sings all night under the moon and pierces its own heart with the roses thorn, a sacrifice that makes the red rose grow and bloom. Unfortunately, the rose fails to win the heart of the materialistic girl who chooses jewel over flower.By integrating classical elements and modern values, Wang Yuanyuan interprets the story in her beautiful modern ballet, infusing this Western classical narrative with Eastern aesthetics. (2)Artist ProfileWANG Yuanyuan (Choreographer)Wang YuanYuan, a chinese choreographer of ballet and modern dance, enjoys a world-wide reputation. Graduated from Beijing Dance school, and later California College of Arts. Wang has done the choreography for the corps de ballet of China, Denmark, New York. And she has won prizes in the United States, France, Russia, etc. She, together with the leading team, established the Beijing Dance Theater, releasing the 《The Banquet》，《The pulm in a golden vase》HAN Jiang (Stage Designer)Graduated from the central academy of drama, Han Jiang has worked as a stage designer of national ballet since 2002. He began to design the light and space since graduation. His works include: 《Swan Lake》，《Pirates》，《Giselle》, 《Peony Pavilion》.LIN Huiyin (Script Translator)

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    Mime 《40 Years of Silence》

    40 Years of Silence⑴．SynopsisThe renewed version of 40 Years of Silence consists of 13 short stories of sorrow, tenderness and delight. It is a brilliant work that leads you through Mime Bizots 40 years of silence with tear and laughter. My art comes from my audience, therefore I would reward them ten times with my art. I can be a man, women, a bird, a dog …after dressing up, I would be a mirror for people to reflect their own feelings. No matter in Africa or France, dressing up as a Chinese farmer or Bolivian worker, sorrow and joy are universal for everyone.Claims the multi-faced artist, Mime is my life, to which my love surpasses everything. ⑵. Artist ProfilePhilippe Bizot (Director/Mime Actor)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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    The villa

    SynopsisWhat is the genre of The Villa?Thriller.... Or romance. Or comedy. Or none. Or all.What do you need to bring to see the play?A ticket, and your brain (preferably with some exercises in detective stories).How to see the play?Stare. (Even if you blink just once, the truth will slip away under your eyes.)What is the link that binds the two stories?Just stare, then youll know...Or are there two stories?Why are there two performances?Just so that you can watch the show again in the evening, if you miss things at the matinee (which you will). ⑵ Artist ProfileZHUANG Yi (Director)Playwright, songwriter, actor, and poet working in both Chinese and English. Artistic Director of Hit Please Theatre Company. After graduating from National University of Singapore with an honors degree in English Literature, he was trained to be a musical actor at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK, following which he finished a Masterdegree in Modern European History at University of Cambridge. His main works include Deng Shichang (Shanghainese Opera), The Legend of Zhenhuan (play), The Villa (play), The Moon Opera (Dance Theatre), One Thousand Springs (Musical), Xidis Tooth Adventures (Musical), and Lin Whei-Yin (Opera).Hit PleaseInternational theatre group, Hit Please, consists of group members from prestigious theatre academy in UK, presenting quality bilingual theatres (Chinese and English) in the Great China Region, Europe and America. The artistic director of Hit Please Theatre Group, Zhuang Yi, has brought new light to the theatre group by infusing Western theatres with unique Eastern aesthetics.

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    Physical Theatre 《Hymn to disappearance》

    Hymn to Disappearance⑴. SynopsisIn the form of the pass the parcelgame rendered by body gesture, dance and traditional masks, Zhao Miao recounts tales about revolution, lies, confession, fratricide, generation gap, solitude, parting, life and romance. By integrating traditional Eastern culture with modern values, these nine stories, with a touch of surrealism, humor and banter, unfold silently and penetrate an intimate world that even words cannot describe. ⑵. Artist ProfileZhao MiaoMr.Zhao is the drama producer and chief inspector of SanTuoQi company. Graduated from the directing department of the Central Academy Of Drama, he learned method acting from Professor Jiang RuoYu during the process to a master of directing. The sad humor and great imagination constitute his unique style. His intention is to explore the poem hidden in our body. His creation is deeply influenced by the French method and style.SanTuoQi CompanyFounded in 1996, Theatre SanTuoQi is an independent physical theatre company dedicated to innovative, poetic and imaginative works.With the production of Aquatic (Premiere at Festival dAvignon 2012, invited to Theatre des Bouffes du Nord, Theatre Chinois, Shanghai International Arts Festival 2013, and National Performing Arts Centre China), the company became the first theatre company that explores dance with Chinese Noah, one of the most ancient forms of folk opera from South West China.

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    Peking Opera 《Rashomon》

    Rashamon⑴ SynopsisIn honor of the 50th anniversary of our troupe, and great efforts of renowned artists in Taiwan at that time, we decided to bring Rashamon back to life.The male character is played by the famous acrobatic-fighting actor Dai -LiWu; the female, our rising star Lin TingYu, and the robber is performed by Yang YuJing, the first prize winner of the painted-face role competition in our troupe.From different backgrounds and position, the fact can be explained and illustrated in different ways. The point is not what is true, but the existence of difference. From words of the separate parts, you can feel that they are different from each other, and their mindsets change according to the environment. ⑵ Artist ProfileThe troupe of National Taiwan College of Performing ArtsThe troupe of National Taiwan College of Performing Arts, founded in 1963, is the first troupe subordinated to the traditional drama studies, and also the troupe of the longest history in Taiwan up to now. The troupe is mainly consisted of excellent graduates and all fields of talents. For years, we have put on many widely-loved dramas, which indicates our great advantage in this field. Tradition and innovation do not contradict. We advance with the times, and we will continue to build up our strength in the future, in endeavor to inherit and promote our traditional arts. We hope that Peking opera can be heard everywhere and maintain its vitality for good. The writer: Ryūnosuke AkutagawaRyunosuke Akutagawa was a Japanese writer active in the Taisho period in Japan. He was especially good at writing short stories. In his short career, he wrote more than 150 short stories. Despite of the short para, his works are famous for novel idea and plots. He dedicated to uncover the society defect, however, he make descriptions instead of comments. The readers can feel the ugliness behind the text. His magnum opuses are Aphorisms by a pygmy, Kappa, and Rashamon. Art director: Tsai Hsin-HsinTsai served as executive secretary of the GuoGuang Opera Company, Board Director of Taipei Modern Opera and TheaterAssociation, National Chengchi University. Tsai has focused on academic researches of traditional operas and observing the modern operas. She has been traveling between China and Taiwan for academic exchange and collecting elements from folk music, and she has hosted many traditional opera folk music research plans recently and directed arts and culture communication among China, Taiwan, and other countries. She has combined academic theory with experience on the stage and devoted in recording, saving, and promoting traditional theatre and folk arts. Producer: Zhang XuNan, Lecturer of Taipei College of Performing Arts. Graduated from Chinese Culture University, Zhang got his MA from Oklahoma City University. Her works include:《Lanling Wang》，《The butterfly lovers》. Modeling: Ye JinTian Ye is a famous artist who is good at costume, visual arts, cinema, contemporary arts creation. Ye first publicized his neo-orientalism getting the world familiar with the eastern cultural and artistic beauty. He held a costume show called 《The face of time》in Palace Museum in Taipei. Also, he express his attitude towards eastern aesthetics in France and Spain. He is in charge of the costume design during the flag delivery ceremony between Athens and China. Invited by the Kennedy Center in 2005, a show called "Chinese red" was held. In his sample reels are many famous works, such as 《uncertain time》，《ROUGEL′ART DE TIM YIP》. In the meantime, he has worked as an art director or costume designer in 《The banquet》，《Crouching tiger, hidden dragon》，《Red cliff》，《Spring in a small town》.

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