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Drama - On the Road

In ancient China, "Mingtu Lu Yin", a small piece of paper, a.k.a "the special night boat to the afterlife", is the pass to the road of the underworld. During Ming and Qing Dynasty, people believed that the dead had to get the Mingtu Lu Yin and went to the other world, or his soul would linger forever in this world without transmigration and rebirth. The official Lu Yin was only issued by "Chenghuang Miao", the local Temple of the Town Deity where the dead one was born, otherwise, the pass was invalid. In the regnal era of Yongle Emperor, Ming Dynasty, the Peking pickle workshop owner Lao Cheng was dying, but the poor man fought hard to hold his last breath to wait his delayed Lu Yin. Due to the flood, the road between the north and south was blocked. Before getting his valid Lu Yin from his hometown, he could not close his eyes and pass away peacefully. After seeing Lao Chengs determination and suffering, his son decided to drag his fathers coffin with Lao Cheng lying in it, alive, from Peking to Nanjing, travelled by the land route and then by boat, to attain the Lu Yin. Yang YikunYang Yikun, has BA and Master in Dramatic Literature, the Central Academy of Drama, instructed by the play writer Huang Weiruo. Since 2009, Yang participates in many drama festivals as the Beijing International Youth Theatre Festival, Nanluoguxiang Drama Festival and Wuzhen Theatre Festival. In 2011, Yangs work "The Peacock Flies to Southeast, the wife of Jiao Zhongqings" was performed on the stage by Jiang Ruoyu, the professor of the Central Academy of Drama. As a successful experiment on the dramatic language system, this show gained many attentions and applauses and was regarded as "the Kun opera with the drama appearance". Since then, Yang has tried many different genres of drama. The drama, "The Autumn Sound of Bianshui River" won the 25th Tian Han Drama Award. The music drama "Blossom" won the Campus Award of China Drama and the Outstanding Repertoire and Excellent Screenplay in the Beijing Student Drama Festival. In the year of 2014, the drama "If Leave," was nominated for "Youth competition play" session, and won the "Town Award ", the highest award of the Best Drama Awards in the 2nd Wuzhen Theatre Festival. In 2015, Yang attended the Theater Festival in Avignon, France, and won the first-class reward of 30th Tian Han drama Award in 2016.

Drama 2016

Experiment Kinqu Opera - Inscription

Inscription is adapted from the traditional Kunqu opera Soup For Treat-ment of Jealousy. lt tells the story of woman in civilian clothes, QiaoXiao-qing, who has both talent and beauty, but was sold to a man as his concubine and later to suffer the wrath of his wifes jealousy. This work concentrates on the role transformation in Inscription. The performer plays different roles, transforming from QiaoXiaoging, to DuLinaingand others, and then back to Xiaoging. In the 20 minutes performance, a folded drama form appears with transformation and crossing among soundless performance, sounded performance and tune names. Shen YiliShe is graduated from drama performance major in Shanghai Theatre Acade-my (STA) and had ever acted a leading role in Peony Pavillion, Palace of Eternal Youth, The Jade Hairpin, The Story of Sima Sheug-yu, Pei Shaojun and Li Qian-jun, and also participated in performance of some opera highlights such as Dream in the Deserted Garden, Pursuit of a Dream, The Drunk Beauty, and she has ever participated in performance and lectures in Britain, France, Spanish America, and Taiwan and Hong Kong in China, to promote the development of Kunqu Opera art actively. With strong and solid basic skills, elegant costume and makeup, rich classic appeal, she acted vividly and voiced mellowly, show-ing a dignified and elegant stage appeal and exquisite performance.

Drama 2014

Theatre - An Expressionless Man

K and S met by chance on the subway. Later, S found out that they were neighbors in the same residential community, and K has had an eye on her in a social networking website for a long time. It was then that their relationship started to change. K had a strange disease, which lost him the ability to smile and made him the subject of ridicule. He desperately tries to recover his ability to smile and plans to meet someone who might be able to help him. Can he recover his smile? What will happen between him and S? A confusing and intriguing situation follows. Shang LeiAs a screenwriter and director, Shang Lei graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Peking University in 2007. His drama works include What was Make-believe has Become Reality, The Birthday Party, Ulysses in Mental Hospital, Loves Conditional Expression, Expressionless Person, Hamlet Sonata and many others. In July 2012, he was among in the final 6 of the Tian Qinxin New Writing Planand went to the National Theater of Scotland in Britain. Hamlet Sonata was presented in the Beijing Fringe Festival, and publicly shown in No.9 Theater in Beijing in December that same year.

Drama 2014

Multimedia Theatre - The M Feast

The play takes Mr. Ms feast as the cue, the invited guests (the audiences) are asked to join the Wechat group through two-dimensional code scanning. The mysterious Mr. M uses voice commands and randomly selects seven people from the Wechat group. The selected audiences are guests of the feast from different social classes. They attend the feast with different purposes. They conduct hypocritical social performances ofthe upper class at first, but then fight crazily for the so-called mysterious gift. Sartre once said: others are the hell. The law of the jungle among animals and human beings greed and desire we reflected vividly in the play, and the even peoples hypocrisy is gradually faded with Mr. Ms game instructions. Crime and punishment the third eye, them mysterious Mr.M, the strange diners, how could everything develop? Tong TongTong Tong (Bella) is a scriptwriter, director, and actress graduated from New York University, majored in Media, Culture and Communication. She is named as Youth Ambassador to fight against AlDS by UN, and worked as an NBA reporter for the SOHU sports channel. She starred in many TV dramassuch as I Want A Home, The Little Imperial Envoy and Smiling Crabs. She is the script writer and director of the documentary films Chinese University Alliance in Greater New York area, Drop Mark, and the First Great Wall Modern Art Biennale. Her work directing The Little Master was awarded Best Film in the Sino-American University Student Micro-Film Competition, organized by the Miami International Festival and Shanghai International Festival.

Drama 2014

Theatre and Shadow Animation - Wowo

In the play, Wowo and Wowow woke up on the first day and found themselves in a very high place. Not only did them confused that why they were on the despair high attitude, but also found themselves unable to speak. The only yelling they could make and connect themselves was the sound Wo~Wo~ from far away. Wowo only had a rope and tied a knot every day, while Wowow only had a cage that could grow a paper plane every day and he threw the plane out of the platform again and again. After 651 days, would they get out of the despair? The platform on the despair high attitude remains people of the skyscrapers in the city or cliffs in the nature, and symbolizes the unconquerable despair in humans subconscious, which means that even though it is not as difficult as in imagination, the majority choose to escape it. The play explores the connections among people in modern society through urban allegorical grotesque forms of expression and contradictory stage space. In the play, Shadow Puppet, the traditional element, is presented by high technology and fully engages in the play, which has added the grotesque and fairy tale feeling to the performance. The real-time interaction between the theater actors and Shadow Puppet operators results in many effects including environment romance, the reflection of inner heart of characters as well as the dialogue of virtual characters. It even makes breakthrough in presenting the exquisite beauty of simplicity and stunning visual effects. Dai WeiDai Wei, graduated from Shanghai Theatre Academy, was CG designer of Visual Effects Arts Studio of 2008 BEIJING Olympic Games and BEIJING Paralympic Games, directly involved in fireworks and visual effects design for four opening and closing ceremonies. From 2009 to 2011, he participated in CG works for fireworks and visual effects in lots of major events including the Ceremony of the National Day in BEIJING and the Opening Ceremony of Taipei Intl Flora Expo. After that, he engaged in theatre, visual communication and cross-boundaries design. He has been a creative designer in Virtual Simulation Laboratory for Multimedia Performance since July 2010, involving in stage and visual art design in lots of theaters and performances, at the same time, he conducts disciplinary research related to new media and visual art design. In 2012, due to the achievements and cross-boundaries art exploration in new media, he was the only one who awarded Cai Guo-qiang Fellowship by Asian Cultural Council in this field and went to New York for investigation in contemporary crossover arts and new media theatre from October 2010 to April 2013.

Drama 2013

Kunqu Opera and Physical Theatre - Spinning Top

The work starts with short plays, Nv Diao and Nan Diao, presenting that in the opening of a social drama, people express thanks to the god and expel evil spirit; and takes the performance of social drama depicted in Lu Xuns essay Wuchang Nvdiao as a cut-in point. The work combines opera, acrobat, modern dance and percussion together as the basic performance means, expresses the feeling of helpless, confusion of identity, depression of trapping in and psychological confrontation in allegorical way. Audience will expose to the dream of author directly and experience a grotesque story that sometimes seems true and sometimes illusion. Ding YiDing Yi, graduated from Shanghai Traditional Opera School, studied Chinese traditional Performing arts - Beijing Opera, Kunqu Opera at young age (almost 20 years now), including Sheng( main male role), Dan(young and beautiful female role). She obtained Master Degree of Arts from Shanghai Theatre Academy in 2010. She was invited to compose theater new opera and perform modern dance: in 2009, she was the director of Du Liliang in The Pavilion Of Peony performed in the ancient stage of Three Mountains Assembly Hall; in 2010, she was invited to be technical director of new historical play, The Purple Hairpin, of Guangdong Foshan Cantanese Opera Theatre; in 2011, she was invited to be the movement coach of Landscape Huang Gongwang, the Shaoxing Opera play. In 2012, She was invited by Shanghai Jinxing Dance Theatre to perform modern dance Shanghai Tango in America and signed with the Dance Theatre to become a modern dancer at the same year. Her modern dance works are Mystery and Charming Shanghai, China Project, Sudoku and etc. Lu Ge Lu Ge studied gymnastics in his 5 years old, and turn to study acrobatics in 11 years old, when he was 17, he doubted the changeless drills and performance. At the same time, he was inspired by a modern dance teacher, completely changed the view of actor as a profession, and became an actor and artist in real sense. He believed that comparing with skills that could use body freely, more important is ones own ideas and creation. Half year later, he wrapped up in acrobatic troupe and went to Shanghai Jinxing Dance Theatre to learn modern dance. During the 9 years of modern dance training and international tour, he was exposed to and learned different kinds of art expressions. He furthered his study of theatre performance in Shanghai Theatre Academy and learned new circus in Royal Academy of Dance in Stockholm early or later. Currently, he works with others to open a physical theatre studio, focusing on new theatre combining acrobat, opera, dance and theatre.

Drama 2013

Experimental Dance Theatre - Roots

We are going to face the conflict of modern culture and traditional culture. When traditional culture rotted by modern culture, where should the traditional culture go? It does not mean that traditional culture and modern culture cannot coexist. They need to merge each other and address the contradictories continuously, which may be the best explanation. As the younger generation, we have the obligation and responsibility to reignite the brightness of traditional culture. We will find that traditional culture and modern culture could balance themselves in certain areas, and Roots will have it all explained.Root, the cradle of primary, breeding, feeding, educating;Root, the home of spirituality, peace, pure, true;Root, the fetter of tenderness, care, bloodline, origin;Root, the boundless support, free, inclusive, purifying… Baima CirenBorn in Xigaze, Tibet, he has loved dance since a very young age, has won awards from National Dance Competition, Lotus. Dance Competition, Tao Li Cup and other competitions held by CCTV for many times and received the praises from professionals.2002 - 2008 Shenyang Institute of Musical Dance2008 - 2010 Tibet Autonomous Region Song and Dance TroupeEnd of 2010 - present Tangka Dance Studio in Beijing

Drama 2013

Multimedia Theatre - The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai 2.0

The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bangqing is without question the founding masterpiece of Shanghainese literature, while the eponymous theatrical work graded as the 2.0 version is an experimental multimedia performance aiming to reconstruct the masterpiece with a completely new approach. The actors and staff, with four cameras and a big silver screen, shoot a womens cinema on the stage and present the final version on the screen at the same time. Through a real-time editing system, the audience sees not only the cinema, but also the process of making everything in front of their eyes. The experience is neither theatre nor movie but somewhere in-between. With the nosy lens and the seamless transition of the scenes, the woman in todays Shanghai establishes soul link with the one in Qing Dynasty in similar situation, implying the theme of self-inquiry among women in different times. Wang ChongWang Chong is an avant-garde theatre director and the founder of Beijing-based performance group Théatre du Rêve Expérimental. He holds two Bachelors Degrees in Law and Economics of Peking University, and a Masters Degree in Drama of the University of Hawaii. His works, including the China mainland premieres of Hamletmachine and Crave, have toured in China, U.S., Canada, U.K., France and Japan. His e-Station is nominated for the best production at Mont-Laurier International Theatre Festival. He and his team are dedicated to theatrical expression of both classical and modern texts through experimental ways, such as physical theatre, multimedia and image theatre.

Drama 2012

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