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    • Music and New-Media Vibration of the Heavens

    Vibration of the Heavens focuses on all kinds of "Extensive-organism" in the dimension of urban space-time: air, water, light, radio, dust, buildings, crowd, traffic, social media... From the perspective of people living in metropolis, the piece pays attention to the living conditions of themselves and all things around them, explores the relationship between people and their living environment. Using piano and interactive electronic music to form narrative clues of sound, and extend to different new media artistic elements. The pianist is the initiator of audio/visual perception, the whole theatre space acts as the projection medium. Three sections named light, shadow and image are played continuously, which are shown as follows: the ever-changing of a single thing; the pluralistic relationship between things and the reflection of human beings; the shape of human beings is derived from the shape of everything. Grateful for this present media age to achieving the extension of music and the transcendence of sound over hearing. Applying the artistic language belonging to this age to arouse peoples confused feelings and establish a keen connection between the past and the future. Looking downward, we are small in the modern metropolis, shining all things with the light of sound.

    Music

    Contemporary Dance Clouded

    The work Clouded by D.LAB DANCE is to explore a sense of alienation in peoples subconscious when they are overwhelmed by the unprecedented technology development in this era. When we upload all traces of our life to the cloud , is there no need to hold onto our memories of happiness and sorrow? In the age of digital clouds, arent we all clouded?This work is to bring out the characteristics of a particular group of people through the concept of Clouded. Largely affected by the development of digital technology, this group of people become attached to illusions, and immersed in the safe house created by sensory pleasure. They are always searching for things that dont exist in reality. The only outlet of their emotions is psychedelic music at night clubs, where they would find temporary relief. In the work Clouded, we tend to explore their true emotions lying behind the facade they put up.

    Dance

    Dance Theatre Yi

    YICHING is a time-honored classic in the history of Chinese civilization with a profound connotation. It is not only called as the "top of all classics", but also the source of Chinese philosophy. YICHING integrates the heaven, the earth and the mans world, and elucidates the life philosophy of self-cultivation and family management. The production extracts the name of YI in order to express the choreographers understanding of "YI", in addition, it also draws on the basis of creativity on the hexagrams, which gives birth to specific movements and images. Taiji elements are also adopted to develop movements, expressing the dynamic balance of "YI" through formal YIN and YANG transformation simultaneously fusing the rigidity and softness, and also try to express the thought of Unity of Heaven and Man, and the artistic conception that the greatest truth is the simplest.

    Dance

    New Media Performance Avatar·Mythology

    Drawing on the worldview of Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas), a Chinese classic text of mythic geography and beasts, we instill contemporary, philosophical contemplations into a newly conceived story. Against the mythical backdrop is the idea of avatar, or modes of alter-being, through which we elaborate the inner journey of human beings coming to terms with the unknown: the birthing of life, the struggle for survival, the revelation via love, hate, and fear, and the ultimate transcendence and release with inner peace. If the mythical world filled with Eastern totemic symbols represent the birthing of the unknown, the beasts that are the alter-beings of humans render visually our inner complexes. This piece combines semi-immersive video space and media art to let the audience inhabit the unknown and experience their alter-beings with the dancers, as we journey into the mysteries of life. In correspondence, the digital media design features technological avatars by way of motion capture, interactive animation, and remote control, linking backstage manipulation with frontstage performance. With these all-permeating technological avatars as metaphorical alter-beings, the performance also embodies the merge between modern technology and traditional arts.

    Drama

    Allegorical Drama Catch Shadows

    This is a story within a story within another story. There was an island called Shadow Kingdom which located in Southeast Asia in ancient times. The islanders caught shadows for their King. Only in this way they could stand for their lives. A shadow puppetry artist came to this island by chance. During days performing for the King, he found the secret of the Shadows and the King. At the same time, the artist developed some romantic connection with the Blind Queen……After all, the artist became a New King, but he had no chance to enter the world of Shadow Puppetry.The work combines Chinese traditional puppetry and other contemporary theater elements. In this play, I want to explore themes like the battle between Small Character and Mr. Big, individual living and the trend of times. What you really desire may become a heavy crown as well as a chain that imprisons you. In the end, the crown becomes your shadow and it will never leave you.

    Drama

    Drama A Game of Two Cities

    A Moscows surgeon Lukashin gets drunk with his old friends and incidently gets on plane to Leningrad by mistake. There is a place in Leningrad which has the same address as Lukashins home address in Moscow so Lukashin mistakes it as his own home, which causes some misunderstandings between he and the hostess of the room Nadya. Each of them breaks up with their mates because of this accident. Under the new circumstance, fire of love begins to burn between these two lonely people.The play takes the story from the work of the Former Soviet director, Ironiya sudby, ili S legkim parom! and is inspired by the Dutch historian Hejzinhas discussion that art originated from "games. If we admit that art originated from games, then in the same way, the love in this play is like the dice in a board game. Whether you dare to reroll the dice before reaching the end of the game is the question that the two protagonists must consider.

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