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    Dance：The Journey

    The journey is like a journey of life. We climb a mountain but we see another mountain in the distance. We go on and repeat infinitely. We looked forward and saw an endless distance.

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    Musical Performances of Shanghai Theater Academy

    Shanghai Theater Academy Musical Center was founded in 2012 by Prof. Wang Luoyong, a famous Chinese performing artist, reputed as First Chinese Personality in Broadway, an expert of One Thousand Talent Program in China, Shanghai "Oriental Scholar" and professor of drama teaching at the University of Wisconsin-milwaukee, the USA.The major of(Musical)Musical Center Performances(Musical)follows the teaching concept of "promoting skills by famous dramas " and "Learning from doing, uses classic Broadway musicals and famous Chinese and foreign dramas as the main teaching materials, and integrates research, teaching and production with an aim to cultivate people to be both morally and technically sound modern musical talents.Currently, there are totally 114 undergraduates, including graduated students enrolled in 2012, and the at-school students enrolled in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. In addition,there are two graduated MFA students and two graduating MFA students. The classic Broadway dramas used currently for teaching and performance include Miss Saigon, Rent, Chicago, Guys and Dolls, Sweeney Todd, Modern Millie, Spring Awakening, Touch, Picture Day, Grand Hotel, I Do, I Do, West Side Story, 42nd Street, and Hair.

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    Environment Drama： Lost Time Turning Around

    Everyone is separated from each other by barriers. Indifference and loneliness slowly become our cells. They reproduce in our bodies.In modern society, people are buried with instability, closed despair, isolated communication barriers, people and caged animals. Therefore, time is just a symbol, a symbol that is fading away. In the noisy, complicated and crazy modern cities, people squirm like a colony of worker ants every hour of the day.The pursuit of material is also eroded by material and eventually alienated by matter.《Lost Time Turning Around》This is the story of a park bench, a ridiculous bloody struggle to monopolize the bench.A person who wants to use suicide to save others, and another person who kills himself because he hates himself.The monologue monologue, the loneliness of existence, the morbid absurdity, and the ridiculous weep... On the grassland, fencing off spectators and actors in the zoo is a better way to convey the sharp drama of "survival pain".《Lost Time Turning Around》This is an absurd drama, the story contains a lot of metaphors, it can let us look directly at the pain, worthy of careful taste. It is hoped that the audience can think through it of the precious lost in the survival of modern people, not afraid of the truth of life, let time turn.

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    Experimental Dance Drama: Qi

    "Qi", as an experimental dance drama, is made up of artists from the Act and Dance majors, presenting the external of "Qi" and the spirit of "Qi"; and using the core technology of the BODY ARCHITECT training method: the micro body 25 moving points to develop the body, form body language cipher, body building space, and Space forms dialogue and interaction.What is the body? What is the essence of dance? What is the language of the future? This has always been the source of my creative enthusiasm and the chance of every step. As a dancer, an artist, the relationship between the body and the spirit, I have been concerned and actively practice the theme in recent years. What is the meaning of our choice to be "human"? What is the composition and possibility of "man"? And so on, these thoughts inspire me to start the imagination, conception and creation of this work, try to find a spontaneous internal structure of the interaction between the body and the space, and we will start from the unknown improvisation, establish or find order from it.

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    Contemporary Dance DANCERS

    Theatre is a magic place, also a place where dreams happen. A red curtain on the stage divides the world into two parts. One is ocean. The other is fire. One is the reality, and the other is the dream. The busy people behind or in front of the red curtain are named dancers, who are also divided into two parts, the stage and the life, the Ideal and themselves. Artistic Supervisor Chen FeihuaPlanner/Scenarist Liang GeluoDirector/Main Performer Zhu jiejingDance Director Lou Menghan (Netherlands)Visual Director Han JiangMusic Composer Gong TianpengLighting Designer Yaron Abulafia (Netherlands)Costume Stylist Zhu JiejingPhotographer Bao YanzhouGraphic Designer Li Decong

    Theratrical Events 2017

    Physical Theatre《La Famille Frapelini》

    One table, four stools, a bit of snow, three characters with plenty of imagination and you enter the extraordinary world of the Frapelinis ! And if you see ‘Popa, tell him that the whole world is looking for him! Terrifying at first, the world will come to amaze Bo and Bidou, and Ma keeps smiling as if everything is fine. On their journey, they will discover that the ‘Other is not dangerous, and that on a detour down an unknown road, there always remains a bit of ones self. The Frapelinis therefore take to the road – the audience with them - tracking a vanished father, leaving behind the tree of dreams, rationing a few morsels of food and discovering unknown lands.

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    French One Act Play 《Two little boxes》

    Men! What are they like?! A and J are two brand new male humans, growing up side by side. With no real identity, there is everything to play for. Their new heads and empty bodies are ready to be filled with experiences and worldly knowledge, and if we look closely, we will see two new men being formed. Two Little Boxes is a highly physical, and often interactive piece of physical theatre, which knits together mime, dance, theatre, music and film. In a world where the only thing that speaks is the body, audiences may recognise the journey of A and J as a reflection of their own lives. It is a story of human social development, the insecurity of youth, the desire to fit in, the crisis of identity, the frustrations of relationships, and with all this: the construction of gender identity.

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    An Amazing Spring Dream

    Lan Tianyu the renowned geisha married Qian Pengzhi the widower and lived a rich and glorious life when Qian was impressed by Lan Tianyu for her playing An Amazing Spring Dream, a dramatic scene in the famous Kun opera entitled the Peony Pavilion. Although General Qian at the age of her grandfather gave all the favors to her, how could her emotional emptiness be filled up? Finally it went just like the predication that she got a wrong bone. Mercifully, she was widowed at a very young age, and her love and youth became just the grave objects of Qian Pengzhi. Nothing lasts forever and life is just like a dream. When Mrs. Qian was awakened from a dream, she found she was penniless, and could not even keep pace with the times. And her past glories and wealth were just past memories that could never return. Looking back upon the past, everything was like a dream, seemingly having no trace, but haunting everywhere. The dream ended, everything woke up….

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    Drama

    In 1890, the Belgian playwright Maeterlinck created <the blind> , depicting a group of blind people waiting for salvation on a desert island, in themidst of a wild and primitive forest. The priest who had led them was dead, but they were still in the infatuation waiting for him to rescue them.As a classic of symbolism drama, this play desalt drama conflicts, focusing on the creation of a thriller atmosphere and mysterious situation, metaphorical and revealing the spiritual reality of the western world at that time. Although more than a hundred years apart, we have revisited todays world, and can also be inspired by this play. This time were going to reinterpret the original work by creating an interactive and immersive experience. We have no intention to copy the form of traditional stage presentation, but leave the audience and actors in an equality drama environment - a real desert island. In the resetting of the media and the senses, explore the new dramatic effect and restart the thought of the present reality.In this play, the audience will feel an unprecedented sense of hearing.

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    Shanghai-Hong Kong-Macao Magic Workshop

    The year 2017 is the 20th anniversary of the return of Hong Kong to motherland, and Shanghai and Hong Kong and Macao are also inextricably linked. Magicians from Shanghai, Hong Kong and Macao will bring a fantastic magic experience to audience!

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    Dream

    This is a story about mother and son. Eighteen years ago, the mother died in the sea while saving her drowning son. The son grew up lonely, depressed, always indulging himself in sorrows. He barricaded himself at his home all the year round, gradually developing hallucination and finally deciding to die. Drifting in the sea, his mothers soul never got buried and rested in peace. Seeing her sons sorrow, the mother decided to rush out of the sea and guided her son back to normal life. So, the son and the mother wandered between life and death&hellip;. Finally, could the mothers soul be really buried &hellip;?

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    Czech physical theatre

    Internationally acclaimed performance influenced by the works of V&aacute;clav Havel, especially his play Audience and its legendary film adaptation. What happens when a brewer and a persecuted politician, alter ego of V&aacute;clav Havel himself, meet on stage? Two actresses, a crate of genuine Czech beer, huge original masks and absurd humour. A hit in Berlin, Prague, Milan, Florence,Krakow, Washington, New York, London, Beijing, Oslo, Seoul, Bordeaux,Edinburgh&hellip;

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    Contemporary Ballet

    The production takes GROWING as the theme demonstrating the complicated and delicate feelings of the main character who would love to say goodbye to the past through the contemporary vocabulary. A lot of inspiration and details in the production are from the real life of the choreographer. He tries to mix his understanding of life into the melody of classical music. When the evening turns dark, when the light fades away, when the time goes by, a lonely man drowns in his own memories. A lonely light gently stands by the dock of the unknown world. If he turns off the light, he will be lost in the dark. But if he doesnt, he will be trapped here forever. What to do? He doesnt know.We all need to let go the past we created in order to move on. We all need to face the mistakes we made in order to grow up.

    Theratrical Events 2017

    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.

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    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.

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    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&hellip;. "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&hellip;. 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.

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    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&hellip;.

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    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 &ndash; 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.

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    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 &lsquo;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.

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    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&hellip; 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 &ndash; that he will only be found seven days after his death.

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