Realms: Lost and Found x NOct.21,22 13:30,15:30 HongLou106
Our conversations may be someone else’s dream, and you only thought you were awake…
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 reality’s morphology, or a morphology that never had a reality to begin with…
In this dazzling world of tricks and wonders…
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.
