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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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    drama “Oedipus Rex;”

    The creative team:We come from all corners of the country.We gathered in Shanghai in September 2014.The students in 2014 Senior Director Seminar are from 19 provinces and citiesof all over the cuntry,which include Sichuan Opera, Shanxi opera, Huangmei Opera, Wuxi opera, L Opera, Wuju opera, Henan Opera,Zhejing Opera, Flower Drum Opera, Guiju, Qiyang opera and drama, childrens plays, film and television production etcExperimental drama Oedipus Rex;is a graduation work of this class, from Sichuan, Shanxi opera, Huangmei fusion show.Synopsis: The original is about a little boy cursed by God who was decreed by fate to kill his father and marry his mother. So he was sent to the city of the state to wait for death shortly after birth. But fate has let another countrys shepherd find the child and he gave it to the king of the country to be adopted. The little boy grew up. At a cocktail party, he knew his life experience from a drunk minister. Although the parents carefully explained ,he still took a question to run to ask the prophet. The prophet did not answer his question but he told him that he would kill his father and marry his mother. So he escaped from the coming bad luck to another country. But destiny played a joke with him here. He thought the escape was a step on the road to kill his father and marry his mother. On the way to the city, he killed his father mistakenly. When he arrived at the city ,he drove away the cursed witch city and became the new king and married his mother. Shortly afterwards Plague outbroke in this city. The people wouldnt ger rid of the plague until they could find the man who kills the old king. The story was a step by a step. At last Oedipus kept his words.and exiled himself. After the script was filmized, it was deleted the marrying mother clues, just from looking for the murderer who killed his father.

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    《…》

    Shuai Xia （Scriptwriter and Director）Shuai Xia ,young dramaguide performing artists.Graduated from the Department of director of Shanghai Theater Academy,Bachelor of Arts,master of arts.Current director of the Department of performing arts,Zhejiang Vocational Academy of Art.ChaoYang Huang（Starring）The comedy,he is serious.《&hellip;》, it is only one actors comedy. Its a comedy about comedy. And, its more than an actor，more than a comedy

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    Realms: Lost and Found x N

    Our conversations may be someone elses dream, and you only thought you were awake&hellip; Realms: Lost and Found x N fuses dance, video, installation, and interaction to generate experimental realms of live, sensual, and intellectual provocations. Realms relates to the concrete, physical space, but also to the movement between states of consciousness, performance quality, mimesis, and agency/subjection; the performers and the audience are like traveling through layers of dreamscapes, in which one recalls the other, as resemblance with a slippage; it may be realitys morphology, or a morphology that never had a reality to begin with&hellip; In this dazzling world of tricks and wonders&hellip;Chiayi Seetoo (Jess) is dedicated to performing arts research and practice. Her interests include contemporary dance, dance theater, physical theater, intermedial theater, and dance film, etc.. Professional dance experience includes: Legend Lin Dance Theatre (Taiwan), Cie Felix Ruckert (Germany), Stephan Koplowitz project (USA), among others. Jess earned a graduate degree in Performance Studies from UC Berkeley in 2013, and she has collaborated with theater and video artists to present cross-disciplinary works at Berkeley, Stanford, and UC Riverside. She is currently a research fellow at Shanghai Theatre Academy. She also writes, gives lectures and presentations, and provides translation services for performing arts related matters. Faye Wu is a graduate student in Dance Studies at Shanghai Theatre Academy (STA). She also works in dance education and creation, and has performed for charity events. She graduated from Guangdong Dance School with a major in Chinese Dance Performance in 2008. In 2012, she graduated from STA with a BA in Choreography. Upon graduation, she danced with Jin Xing Dance Theatre. During her school years, she has taken many workshops taught by artists of various disciplines. Her experience of creating and performing with other up-and-coming artists has been a great source of inspiration for her teaching and her own creative work. Faye is also interested in dance-related cross-disciplinary collaborations, such as dance film, dance theater, and physical theater, among others.

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