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Lovely Ghost

A woman often quarrels with her boyfriend over trivial matters. One day, after a heated argument, she dies suddenly and is brought to heaven by an angel. However, as she is not convinced of her death, the angel brings her back to earth to prove it and for her to see her boyfriend for the last time. Meanwhile, her boyfriend is devastated over her death and misses her greatly. She hangs around him and communicates with him via a harmonica. Finally, she parts with him, regretting that she has not treasured their time together while alive.

Theratrical Events 2017

New media theater

As for the overall structure, the theater consists of five works, each is an independent miniature with different forms, ultimately aimed to explore how new media concepts and technical characteristics promote the development or reform of traditional plays, dnace-drama and musical operas in terms of artistic concepts and languages, thus creatng a new theater of media that reforms, in a sense, the traditional dramatic forms. As for the performance content, the works of the theater lay stress on re-interpreting traditional Chinese culture and creation myths with the modern writing ideas and techniques used in music, media and drama, looking forward to unearthing the connotations and spirit of the traditional Chinese culture and creation myths in the contemporary context by way of a new theater of media. The theater is a creative and synergic effort of numerous artists from various well-reputed universities, including the School of Digital Media of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, School of Digital Media and the School of Digital Media of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Shanghai Institute of Design of Chinese Academy of Arts, the Department of Digital Media of XiAn Conservatory of Music, and the Department of Digital Media of Sichuan Conservatory of Music. Resorting to new concepts and techniques of media, Duanjun Stage was creatively modified and in combination with unique music structure and languages, five independent miniature works, including new indoor operas of media like KuaFu Chases after the Sun and the Bird Jingwei Trying to Fill the Sea, and new media opera of Qiang Nationality like You Are My Mountain.

Theratrical Events 2017

Shanghai Theatre Academy Original Musical Drama《My Name is Lu Xiaochuan》

The original modern musical "I Am Lu Xiaochuan" resorted to the dramatic stage, on the one hand, and on the other, it integrated many comedy elements of the northern and southern disciplines and, contrary to traditional musical styles, bravely used the jukebox music so that a feeling of nostalgia, empathy and familiarity ran through the entire musical story line and tunes. The uniquely representative old-time music went in harmony with the dance steps, reminiscent of past loving memories. Moreover, the audience could experience love, find love and whats more, want to love after reading through LU Xiaochuans wisecracking and dramatic stories about love and struggle for survival…. "I am Lu Xiaochuan" tells the story of Lu Xiaochuan who experienced a failed love. After that, he believed in no love, but money. He chose to give up even when he met with a girl with true love and he even tried to mislead the girl in his wrong ideas. Later he woke up, only finding that everything seemed too late…. The completely unconventional modern story will entreat you with a familiar musical experience. Dozens of soul-shocking classic songs about life and love will arouse your affection to interact. Meticulously compiled dances combined with brilliant interpretation of actors will entertain you with a lingering audio and visual feast.

Theratrical Events 2017

Drama

Maiden Lindi grew up in a single parent family, Wan Bai was her never-met half-brother, and to see Wan Bai became her dream. But her mother forbade her to contact her schizophrenic father. So, she had to ask her schoolmate Pengcheng to collect her fathers letters on her behalf, hence bringing the two closer and closer to each other. The remarriage decision of Lindis mother broke their original life and her stepfather brought his son Yuan Jie to live with them. Life changed and the contradiction between the two children heated up. By chance, Yuan Jie found Lindis secret of letters and Lindi yielded to Yan Jies threat and lost her first kiss. Pengcheng was planning to bare his heart to his childhood sweetheart. But Yuan Jie distorted the facts in front of Pengcheng, defaming Lindi as an indecent girl. Pengcheng, now bereft of reason, raped Lindi after a fierce quarrel with Lindi. In despair, Lindi opened his fathers last letter, only finding that Wan Bai didnt even know the existence of her sister….

Theratrical Events 2017

Dance

Body swings like a narrow stream and rushes like a broad river. Between them, dancers are nearly drowned in their sweat, as the longest day of body is reflected in the simmering waters of the meandering rivers. Long River, WCdances production in 2014, marks the transformation of the dance company, as explained by Wenchung Lin that I want to return to bigger venues, although thats where I came from – after spending some time doing works for smaller venues, how to pack it up and bring it back is what I have been thinking about.

Theratrical Events 2017

Vertebra Theatre works

Vertebra Theatre works with director Fu Hong-Zheng to produce physical theatre Fight Me Now in mainland China. It is based on 1:0 , one of his masterpieces in physical aesthetics and part of M.O.V.E. Theatres Sport Series. Fight Me Now is like a sports show combining ping pong, basketball, baseball, football. Such a mixture creates a refreshing sense of humor. Pure physical movements creates a unique sense tension on the stage. Actors are not just throwing balls to each other on the stage, but ‘throwing their language as well. The show is sometimes relaxing, sometimes violent and dark, sometimes peaceful yet sometimes hysteric. Weakening the role of story and language, physical theatre Fight Me Now puts an emphasis on the creation of situation and physical expression. Sports is used to explore career, family and love - the essential things in life. It also reexamines the dominant male image of being strong and powerful in the Chinese society. People nowadays do not understand the power of softness and the perseverance of humanity. In the face of conflicts they tend to control others, which generates some twisted power. We should all think of more ways to treat our lives.

Theratrical Events 2017

Drama Mo Fei

The play is an adaptation of Tiesheng Shis About a Play Which Uses a Film as Its Backdrop. The setting is a movie screen, and the main character is a daydreaming alcoholic. The story is narrated by this drunkard who, as intoxicated as he may be, is able to discern society more clearly than the rest of us. And hidden deep in monologues of the drunkard are illusions, dreams, and the provocative truth. With the aid of alcohol, he is able to return to the past: to witness the hollow marriage of his parents which gave birth to him, to speak with his innocent former self and warn that boy about the dangers of desire, to touch once again the hand of his ex-wife… With the aid of alcohol, he is also able to travel into the future: to observe desolate cities and the last remnant of humanity, to visit his estranged family, and to learn of his own fate – that he will only be found seven days after his death.

Theratrical Events 2017

Don't Take Interllectual Property As The Cure For Drama

Indoor Activities 2017

Photo Exhibition NEW SEAL ART

Have we ever reflected on the necessity to inherit or continue our traditional culture under the current technology-laden society? Can those exquisite crafts be replaced with new technologies? Behind each piece of time-honored craftwork are numerous dedicated craftsmen together with their perseverance and pursuit. With four scenario settings: ancient, today, virtual, real, the show combines new media technology with traditional seal patterns, achieving diversified superposition and extension of artistic information.

Indoor Activities 2017

Impromptu performance NON-EXISTENT

Artists from different cities, using their own skills, without too much rehearse makes the work breathtaking and unstable. Every show was a little bit different from the former one. We need audience with power inside and come into our work and share our feelings, keep the energy circle rolling so that the dancer under a pair of VR glasses with no pictures inside, could find her own way by the guidance of energy.Voice Player / Li KunCeremony Performer/ Ye RuijunAction Art Performer/ Huang Zi (Dancer)Artist / Hu Yanzi

Indoor Activities 2017

ROBERT WILSON WORKSHOP

Robert Wilson,who was born in Waco,Texas,is one of the most important theatre and isual artists.His stage design compromises a wide range of art mediums out of usual,including dance,movement,lighting,sculpture,music and text.His picture is aesthetic and full of emotion and his work has won a lot of praise from audiences and critics around the world.

Indoor Activities 2017

Long River Workshop

Wenchung Lin finds traces of the subtle movements stimulated by the experimental thinking in Small End (2013), while the well-tuned body which shows its highly existence in its breath is integrated into the pure dance what Wenchung Lin has been famous for. Long River carries the expectations of an artist to embrace the artistic vision targeting medium/large-sized theatre, to digest what he has experienced while working in a smaller venue, to polish the artistic pursuit of the dance company, and to move forward to a bigger production. Wenchung Lin dance troupeWenchung Lin served Bill T. Jones Dance Company as the professional dancer for 7 years while his journey in USA. After his return,Wenchung Lin set up the dance troupe which he named after himselfe.“No body, no company,” and vice versaThe water images in his works represent how Wenchung Lin explores the mother culture and the “pan-Asian body,” which can be further traced back to his folk dance training. The Western experience in Bill T. Jones when he stayed in the USA forced him to question his own identity between tradition and modernity, resulting in the series works where the artist searched for his true self in the mother culture through water reflection. “The first question is how to differentiate my works from Cloud Gate and Taipei，China Folk Dance Theatre when we are all trying to bring the Western and the Eastern together,” says Lin, who confesses that there is no shortcut to find an answer. However, as long as something interesting comes up for him to dig into once in a while, he can continue the journey.

Indoor Activities 2017

Voices of Hong Kong: Concert by Windpipe Chinese Music Ensemble

The Windpipe Chinese Music Ensemble endeavors to preserve, inherit and develop Chinese music culture in Hong Kong. The concert Voices of Hong Kong will show the audience the succession and development of traditional and modern Chinese chamber music in Hong Kong.The programme includes works of Cantonese Music virtuosi, they are Thunder in the Droughtby Yan Laolie, In Celebration of Good Times by Yau Hok-chau, Autumn Moon over a Placid Lakeby Lui Man-shing, Rain Lashing on the Plantain by Ho Lau-tong, an ancient tune Meditations in the Boudoir, and other works of Hong Kong famous composers, they are Koel on Mount Parker by Clarence Mak, Lotus Pond Balladeby Sierra Tse, By The Nan Lian Garden by Chan Wing-wah, and The Joy of Tea-pickingby Lo Leung-fai.The concert is an epitome resembling the evolution of Hong Kong from a small fishing village to one of the worlds best known metropolitan cities nowadays and it also demonstrates Hong Kong-specific cultural characteristic combined with tradition and modernity.Acknowledgement: Supported by Leisure and Cultural Services Department of Hong Kong Special Administrative RegionDirector/ Speaker: Pak Tak-wan ChristopherDirector: Chan Chiu-yinCoordinator: Shek Yuk WuStage Manager: Lee Yau Chung JonesAdministrator & Stage Assistant: Leung Chung YanPerformers：Chan Kai-him(Erhu/ Gaohu)Tse Kim-fei(Zhonghu/ Yehu/ Percussion)Kwok Ka-ying(Yangqin)Wong Ling-yan*(Pipa/ Qinqin)Chan Sze-tung(Zhongruan/ Daruan)Chow Lai-kuen(Zheng)Ho Siu-cheong(Dizi/ Xiao)Kwok Shing-cho(Sheng)Co-concertmaster

Outdoor Activities 2017

《views passing by our hearts》

We are break the boundaries and combine the form of dance theatre to walk out of the classroom and leave the stage. We show our persistence and thinking of environmental protection with the most original artistic intention in the outdoors. Use your body to feel the flow of air, and use your soul to speak of our desire for mother earth. We call on everyone to attach importance to the environment and protect the environment. with him, With me，and with you…Dance Institute, Xinghai Conservatory of MusicTan Hongtao, associate professor, Dance Institute / Head of Director DepartmentYu Wandong, associate professor, Dance Institute / Deputy Director of Dance Institute

Outdoor Activities 2017

The experimental theater "yongshun"

"Yongshun, 37, a poor, no only no skill, childless, old age in the home, but his wife America laguna, and injustice. No thought report, decided to accept their bags, besides prostitution, as a eunuch. But this creature, the destruction, the eunuch, became emperor, that day to wash the body, in addition to hair, shave beard, repaired. Dragon robe to add body, alone. But this palace deep courtyard, alone a person, a bird in the cage, is at the mercy, not taste. One day, giving instruction, save one, named Dan baby, different people, Dan baby true words like straws, yearning. Can this feral yongshun, always in the dark, eyes clean ear, rare humble coward. He killed Dan baby, also killed Dan baby."Drama styleDirector : Sun HaochengPlaywright：Hong Qianyun

Outdoor Activities 2017

《Song Bird》

Story outline: On Christmas Eve, a poor brother and his sister leaned on the window, envious of the life of the rich people living opposite. Of a sudden, an ugly old woman calling herself as “fairy” broke in, conjuring light, bread, cat and souls of other things. The old woman asked them to go together to find the song bird to cure the girl’s disease longing for “happiness”. After travelling through time and space, they found that the song bird was just at home.Original Script by Maeterlinck'sProducer：Han Yongsheng, Song Lei, Liu AixiangPublish: Han Tingting, Hu GenfuOverall Arrangement：Cheng HaidongMarketing: He QiongniContact :Lu NaArt Director：　Ｍｉ　ＺｅｎＤｉｒｅｃｔｏｒ：　Ｍｅｎｇ　Ｚｈｅｎｙｕ

Outdoor Activities 2017

Chorus Divertimento - The Drowning Sunset

Smelling, merging unobtrusively in the warm whisper of an idle breeze, twinkling around the fresh ornament of the sparkling cherry, and lingering on the orbicular rest of the day lily, serves as a memory of this world in our daily life. The Drowning Sunset tells a story of nostalgia and remembrance. Moreover, this is just as what ZeYa is featured of; different chapters are sequenced by elements in the 24 solar terms, forming a subtle, poetic redolence. The Drowning Sunset is composed of four chapters, and each chapter consists of two pieces: The Sail; The Garlanded Coast; Flying Whales in the Clouds; The Rain at Night. The suite tells a utopian fantasy in the first-person narrative, which is com-posed of four chapters, corresponding to four different emotions and tastes. It begins when our leading character is in his childhood, taken by his parents to an uninhabited island with their puppy, and then starts a new life there. (Chapter 1) With the surrounds of natural landscapes and wildlife on the island, he grows up, full of curiosity and confusion about the outside world. (Chapter 2) As time goes by, his family are all dead, leaving him alone, looking forward to the second coming of the good old days. "When there should emerge the sunset from all sides on the island, all of us would be back." Said his parents. (Chapter 3) And then there comes to the end, the lonely aged man lies in the twilight light, simple and unaffected. Where did he go? Where should the sunset glow? In every drip of rain and breeze of wind, from all sides we know. (Chapter 4) Jin ChengzhiBorn in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, 1987, the young composer and conductor. Chengzhi Jin, is currently working as the Rainbow Chamber Singers.

Music 2016

Chamber Concerto - Spacetime continuum Pro et Contra

Spacetime continuum Pro et Contra is a chamber work written for an ensemble of 13 musicians. The instrumentation of the work is similar to that of a chamber symphony in the 20th century (each section of the orchestra is represented by one instrument); the relationship between the instruments is similar to that of a Baroque concerto (harpsichord, Violin I & II and oboe as solo instruments and the other nine as accompaniment). The harpsichord functions as an important solo instrument, but is also part of the accompaniment. The super traditional style of the work aims for an aesthetic that is the specialization of time. The structure of the work is like that of a traditional concerto (three movements in fast: slow-fast relationship). The thematic material of the first movement embodies exoticism and Baroque style. Contrasting the dramatic recitative first movement, the second movement is an elegy. The third movements tempo is similar to that of a Toccata, while the texture is somehow incidental. The complex rhythm and irregular phrasing give an impression of a constantly pausing and skipping grammophon. This is a work that shakes the balance between space and time. It is inspired by the conversation between the European musical language and Oriental musical traditions. The Baroque concerto style merges with the 20th century chamber symphony structure. Dai BoHe is a doctoral candidate in composition at the China Central Conservatory of Music. Dai Bo was born in 1988 in China. At the age of five, he turned blind due to an illness. Currently, he is a doctoral candidate in composition of Prof. Xiaogang Ye at the China Central Conservatory of Music.His works Charm of Beijing Opera for accordion solo was selected as an obligatory piece for the 2010 Harbin International Accordion Competition, and was greatly acclaimed in Lithuania the following year.In 2012, Dai Bo was invited to participate in the Warsaw Autumn Festival in Poland, where his Illusion Butterfly was performed for the first time by the ONM Orchestra, conducted by Szymon Bywalec. In the same year, he won a significant prize at the Singapore International Composition Competition.In 2013, he became a fellow composer of The Intimacy of Creativity 2013 Composers Meet Performers in Hong Kong. On April 28th, the violinist Cho-Liang Lin and Dai Bo performed his work Kong Gu You Lan (for violin and piano) at the Hong Kong City Hall Theatre.His orchestra piece Invisible Mountain won second prize in the national competition held by Ludwig van Beethoven Association in November 2014. In January 2015, he visited Poland and Norway to join the first round of performance of Orkiestry Akademii Beethovenowskiej and Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk.The original mini dance drama Reflection was performed in China National Centre for the Performing Arts in May 2015.In December 2015, his Wojskis Hom Concerto commissioned by ICM, premiered in Warsaw by Sinfonia Varsovia. Krzysztof Penderecki gave high evaluation, he considered Dai Bo is the one of the most talent Chinese young composers.On March 2016 his piano recital performance The art of Fugue and his own pieces Disappeared Landscapes in Forbidden City Concert Hall. Other works: Book of Sand for violin and piano, Before the Rain for accordion, violin, clarinet and Vibraphone, etc.The new album GU JIA YE, that of the music of north Chinas nomads played on cello, published on July 2016.

Music 2016

Music·Theatre - Folding City

Folding City was a Sci-fi musical-theatrical work adapted from Ma Haipings electronic music album in 2016. Fast mechanical pulses and sparkling composite sounds construct the grandeur of a future metropolitan: floating, evolving, complicated, infinite, hopeful and dynamic. The magnificent atmosphere is a combination of sci-fi and reality, which makes the audience think of Manifesto of Futurism written by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti a hundred years ago. The expectations and anxieties of people in todays society about the future, together with the various details and texture of future cities, are all presented in this work that discusses post-modern social issues. Folding City features both realism and a sense of nativeness. Ma HaipingMa Haiping(MHP), is awarded the 4th and 5th Abilu Music Awards, The best electronic artist. During the past 14 years, his music covers the avant-garde music, experimental,　electronic dance music, soundtrack for visual arts and contemporary dance, etc. No matter from the music genre or the production technic, he is a epitome of the development of Chinese electronic music scene. MHP is called "The son of Shanghai techno" for his music revealed a unique sense of screen and science fiction imagery. In recent years, he actively promoting the avant-garde music culture of China, organizing international exchange performances and academic lectures. The vinyl record <The Chiniese Connection > released by Cratesavers International in 2012 and <Crepuscular Rays> released by Night Vision Records in 2013 make him the first Chinese electronic musician who releases his own records in the cradle of Techno, Album <Folding Traces> is released by D Force Records in 2016 April.

Music 2016

Music Theatre - "I" Fantasie - Rencontre between Debussy and Du Li Niang

In the dream alike story of "Rencontre between Debussy and Du Liniang", Debussy sees the ancient Chinese legendary figure Du Liniang, whom seeks the freedom to love. She gives up her life for the loved-one she missed, yet resurrected for the loved-one she found. Along with Du Liniangs journey, two masterful artforms rencontre, one of the most rewarding and ancient Chinese music drama KUNQU opera and Claude Debussys piano music. This communication graefully depicts that Love, is a shared desire cross culture and the power of love resonates within everyone. This site-specific music theatre aims to recontextualised the connection between performance and expression of eastern and western culture through-out time, genre and gender. lt celebrates a transcultural influence that we all share in the current era. Gu JietingGu Jieting is a classical pianist. She graduated from Conservatoire National Superieur de la Music de Paris with a master s degree in Piano and a DFS (Diplome de Formation Suprieure) in Piano and Chamber Music Praised as "the envoy of the Silk Road on the black and white keys Gu has been invited internationally to perform at major music festivals. In2014, Gu is awarded as an "Outstanding Talent of Shanghai" by the Municipal Council. Rencontre between Debussy and Du Liniang is the founding piece of Gu Jietings music theatre series1"FANTASIE. lts premier release is scheduled in fall 2016, following with international tours. Gu depicts the classic and the contemporary from an innovative perspective; breaking the boundary between the Oriental and the Western cultures, "I" FANTAISE encounters two distinguish form of performances.

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