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Indoor Activities 2019

The Butoh Performance Image

The butoh performance Image, was taken from the Chinese idiom " various phenomena appear to ones eye". It is a work constructed by the subconscious mind buried deep beneath the surface of the body. Everything that is expressed is based on a more intuitive sensibility and instinct than rational philosophical thinking. Compared with the body-based morphological construction and the transformation of force, is more like the process of rebuilding the external world by the empty body of the dancer, as the gate of the image in the subconscious. The work consists of three unrelated images.1. A kind of myth about birth2. Water, and, lost with life3. Sandman

Indoor Activities 2019

Drama The Dagger

Yu Drama StudioYu Drama Studio established in 2016 spring, set up by a group of young people who have a dream and enchanted by theatre to declare a formal war to life and chase the good future of the art world of theater. It was composed of all departments students of Shanghai Theatre Academy and theater lovers in society aiming to analysis classical from a modern perspective and give a new life to play by using diverse methods. In the meantime, they are also keeping questing and studying the creation of theater arts and the training of performance art. We will try our best to build the steps to theater art palace and move forward step by step. [Everyone has a dagger given by the lord in his hand. However, does protection mean to hurt someone else by using our dagger?]This is a story which time and space are highly abstracted. The story is about a mother who lost her daughter in the war and a young handsome war criminal. They are standing from different points of view to face the cruel justice and the hatred of kindred, which caused them to fight each other with dagger……This is the allegory about humanity and truth. Also, this adaption pays more attention to another different perspective which enforces the main thought of the dagger, an invisible weapon that everyone owns. It also focuses on the story of salvation between the mother who would die to protect her child and the soldier who kills for survival.We may hurt people around us unconsciously by releasing our weapon in order to defend our faith and protect our love that is deep inside of hearts. After that, yet we still try to justify this guilt by getting it a reasonable ground……Is humanity been used by this dagger or, on the contrary, it uses dagger? How can we define right or wrong?

Indoor Activities 2019

Experimental Drama Ghaffar’s Chinese Dream

Using multimedia (music, image and video) Ghaffar Pourazar tells his story and demonstrates how watching Beijing Opera one night in London in 1993, completely changed his life. How he chased the troupe to Beijing and started living and training with children at the Beijing Opera school and through sickness and pain reconditioned his 32 year old body fit for football and hockey into a singing dancing acrobatic Beijing Opera Warrior and Monkey King. Throughout the story telling Ghaffar puts on costumes, paints his face and demonstrates parts of his early plays: SAN Cha Kou, Tiao Hua Che, Wusong plays and Shi Xiu Tan Zhuang and Monkey King plays. This is about amazing costumes from the Ming Dynasty and colors, designs, forms and movements on the stage which were passed down from ancient times, then refined and passed down again. Ghaffar uses audience participation throughout the evening, inviting the audience to learn Beijing Opera movements and sounds and use of props.In between the live performances and multimedia demonstrations we hear about the tragedies of loneliness, sickness and physical pain next to the joy and excitement of learning a beautiful art form with energetic young people, making friends and learning a new culture. Hearing immense group shouts of joy at the site of dumplings in the Beijing Opera school canteen, and becoming the kids football Trainer at lunch time. IT IS ABOUT THE EXTRA RESPECT AND KINDNESS THAT MOST CHINESE SHOWED TO A FOREIGNER. It is about a kind of humanity that survives in China. It is also about traveling the YI Dai YI LU countries with Beijing Opera, some for the first time in history and performing his role as the monkey King in Persian, Turkish, Spanish and English, in addition to the original Chinese. Finally it is about winning recognition and awards and performing for Dukes and Duchesses, ministers, ambassadors, Mayors, Secretaries of State, pop stars and VIP guests of the Chinese government. It is about touring China and the world with the Beijing Opera companies and some of the most beautiful, skillful and lively actors, actresses and masters of the art and sharing their lives, joys and tragedies. He completes his monkey face and costume and performs an excerpt from Havoc in Heaven. Finally Ghaffar performs excerpts from his latest program combining Beijing opera with Broadway musicals.

Indoor Activities 2019

A black beam of light

This is an original youth drama, which is one of the few original youth dramas in Shanghai. It originated from the Youth Drama project funded by Shanghai Charity Foundation in 2017. Actors were recruited through drama workshops in Shanghais middle school campus. After ten months of professional training, they came to the stage. The script is adapted to the stage style according to the classic western childrens picture books. The play is a satirical comedy, which is divided into three stories, including If Life Fails You, Who Moved My MeatBones and the Magic Corridor of Disgust and Praise.

Indoor Activities 2019

Drama Atypical Belly Laugh Love

Indoor Activities 2019

Drama: What Are You Running For

Indoor Activities 2019

Immersive Bus Theatre: The Longst Bus Route: No.71

Outdoor Activities 2019

Puppet show Come Across In Childhood

Shanghai Happy Horse Puppet Theater Activity Center Shanghai Happy Horse Puppet Theater Activity Center is associated by Professional Puppet Acting Team; Professional Children Theater Team; Children Educational Team; is one of the best puppet theater group in Shanghai. Hobby Horse Puppet Theater is dedicated into inheriting and developing Chinese traditional puppetry culture; as well as running a program called "Youth Puppetry Training Organization " which is going to develop more of the Youths members to understand and develop the puppetry art. In recent years, Happy Horse produced over one hundred public performances in Shanghai and performed in over fifty schools. Happy Horse has also been showed up in some local TV Channel such as Shang Hai Oriental Local TV Channel on the program called Xiao Ao Jiang Hu, Guang Dong Local TV Channel Puppet Movement and etc. Come Across In Childhood is a story about love and growth. In the story, there are two papermen fall in love with each other. From the first encounter and acquaintance then being brave for pursuing love and end up as a sweet love, just like everyone else having their first love. It presents the pure love belong to everyone. Come across in Childhood is not as same as the traditional puppet show, it is a new element puppet show by creativities, using the abandon paper to create paperman to present the shyness, movement and love emotions and so on. Even though this is a dumb show without dialogue in the story with, it is full of romantic love.

Outdoor Activities 2019

Contemporary Dance - Whip

Whip takes its inspiration from a folk dance of the Bai called The Whip Dance. It is the most popular one of Bais seventy four folk dance genres. The Whip Dance is saturated with Bais history and customs. It represents their humor, primitive simplicity, elegance and energy. This is Jilans first international collaboration, working with the talented London based Hong Kong composer Joanne Clara and Marie Cantenys, a famous cloth designer from France. The lighting design is by Fabiana Piccioli who is based in Rome and has long cooperation with Akram Khan. Farooq Chaudhry, the co-founder of Akram Khan Dance Company, is the producer of Whip. Maya DongDong Jilan is a Bai and the Bai are ethnic minority living in the Yunnan Province in China. Raised in a rural village she grew up with nature-earth, trees, water, fire, heaven, people and animals. In 2004, when Jilan was twelve, Chinas iconic choreographer Yang Liping recognised her talents and invited Jilan to join Yunnan Yang Liping Arts & Culture Co., Ltd. Jilan has danced in Yangs most important works such as Dynamic Yunnan, Peacock, Under Siege, and Winter Peacock, etc. She is one of the companys longest serving members.

Dance 2018

Contemporary Dance - The Cube

Through the unique medium of body, the lens is focused at the individuals, who are hustling in the diverse metropolis - Shanghai, and tries to explore the relationship between these individuals and the space. Living in such a city, everyone is subject to tangible or intangible constraints. In this work, the real society is scaled down to a miniature. The model and device constructed on the stage represent and symbolize the relationship between the individual and the society as well as between the body and the space. The work intends to discovery the alien aesthetics hidden in the human body, the tenacious vitality of the human beings in a limited space, and the inner momentum generated through resistance against the space. Du YanhaoDu Yanhao, who lives in Shanghai now, youth director and performance artist. Co opera troupes include: Shiki Theatre Company, New Zealand Black Grace Dance Company, New Zealand Footnote Dance Company, Scotland Janis Claxton Dance Company, Beijing LDTX Dance Company, Shanghai Xie Xin Dance Theatre, Punchdrunk International, SMG Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group, D.Lab Dance, Ear Childrens Theatre. He has cooperated with the top artists of the world include: Asari Keita, Kato Keiji, Sang Jijia, Ma Bo, Li Hanzhong, Liu Bin, Zi Wei, Wang Jianjun, Hu Songwei, Wang Jianhui, Jiri Kylian, Paul Taylor, Malia Johnston, Janis Claxton, Neil leremia, Sarah Foster, Eyal Dadon, Taane Mate, Tairoa Royal, Raewyr Hill and so on. He has visited more than 20 countries for the exchange of art festivals. Performances are involved in dance theatres, musicals, dramas, dance videos, cross boundary cooperation and other fields. Musical and drama experience: the British Punchdrunk made the invading drama "Sleep No More" presented by SMG LIVE of Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group. Andrew Lloyd Webber composes the Japanese and Chinese versions of the musical CATS Japanese dramatist Asari Keita wrote and directed the musical Ri Koran. Main works: Newtons Cradle Of Flesh And Bone, Doll, Two Person Structure and so on.

Dance 2018

The Experiencing in the Bai Great Volume Songs Opera : The Mandarin Duck

Bai Dabenqu is a kind of folk rap art in Dali Bai area of Yunnan Province. It matured in Ming Dynasty and gradually lost its original stage because of a single artistic style. "Yuanyang Lu" combines the non-mate-rial cultural heritage of the Bai nationality Dabenqu with modern drama, body drama and modern puppet drama, and carries out experimental innovations in the text and performance style of the original repertoire. The Bai Dabenqu has been changed from "telling stories by rap" to "performing stories by singing and dancing" without stages. lt is expected that the Bai Dabenqu will cross the language gap by artistic means so as to realize the cultural transformation that adapts to history and retains its own characteristics in the new era. Yang YunyiYang Yunyi, the producer, director, scriptwriter and the protagonist of the drama "The Mandarin Ducks". Graduated from the Performance Department of Shanghai Theatre Academy as a full-time Master of Arts. Member of the Shanghai Recitation Association. During the studying in the Shanghai Theatre Academy, she won the "First-Class Scholarship" for many times and was awarded the "Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai Theatre Academy". In 2012, she won the national scholarship. In 2017, she won the "Gold Award" in the dubbing group of the Nanjing Xiaqing region "Xiaqing Cup" Recitation Competition. She always adheres to the combination of theory and practice, and has ever taught performances and lines in many universities in Shanghai with good literary accomplishment and professionalism. She participated in many stage plays in Shanghai, and the representing works are as follows: The Flower is Scheduled, Old-fashioned Comedy, The Memories of the Bats, The Wild Swan, The Phantom of the Castle, Youth Inn, The Last Moment, The Comedy of the Mouse, A Streetcar Named Desire and The Court Truth and so on. The works of poetry recitation are as follows: The Dream of Emigrants The Chinese Dream in the large-scale literary evening 2017 the Night of the Emigrants, and My Song in the large-scale recital concert YouthChina.

Drama 2018

Monodrama - The Old Man and the Sea

The work is based on The Old Man and the Sea, one of the most famous novel of E. M. Hemingway. The suppositive way and the realistic style used by it shapes the collision and fusion between Chinese culture and the Western. Its stylization, virtuality, minimalism and form sense are the basic principles that have formed the work. What performs in the stage is a recreation of the work with the elements of traditional Chinese theatrical art. The combination of traditional impressionism and modern realism in the field of drama shortens the mental distance between stage and audience and also creates a special experience in both real life and art performance for the audience. Ma XiaoAt the age of 9, MA Xiao started practicing Peking Opera and specialized in male martial arts roles. He has performed kabuki drama New Three Kingdom in Japan for 300 performances over the span of three years. At 19, he attended the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts majoring in Drama. After graduation, he became an instructor at the academy and directed an experimental Peking Opera version of "Romeo and Juliet" and devised performance of Russian poet Konstantin Simonovs "Wait For Me". In the past 10 years, Ma has developed his own artistic style through acting, directing, script-writing, and continuously researching new ways to fuse traditional Chinese Opera with drama. At the same time, under the mentorship of Zhang Jiasheng, Ma studied audio language. He published several articles from his research and brought Chinese opera, drama and speech programs to local primary and secondary schools.

Drama 2018

Experimental Opera - Skin

The libretto of this work has been adapted from The Painted Skin, a short story by the Qing Dynasty writer Pu Songling. Its strange plot and strong moral message have made it a classic. Our version seeks to interpret Pus story from a modern perspective, adding new layers by fleshing out the characters inner worlds and exploring the moral message of the story, which raises eternal themes of desire, temptation, sacrifice, and free choice. Both the music and libretto embody Chinese elements, and the stage action integrates physical movement with singing in a profound way. On these two foundations we hope to bring about an innovation in the form of classical Western opera and give this classic tale a new life on stage. Wang ShiruOur main area of research is the integration of elements from physical theatre into opera, providing an impetus for vocal expression and challenging the limitations of rigid singing. The aim is to achieve a more engaging and deep expression on stage through the amalgamation of the body and the voice. Additionally, we seek to introduce elements from Chinese art forms such as traditional Kun opera, striving to help international audiences understand Chinese culture and developing a particularly Chinese style of operatic performance.

Drama 2018

Drama: Jar Players

All of us might open a "jar" in our life.A desolate wilderness, there are three human called Large, Medium and Small playing with a jar and each had his own metaphor for it.Then, a scholar began to join the team, followed Large, Medium and Small together to play, explore and study... What is it in this jar? Is it a treasure? A steamed bun? Or...?It might be difficult for audiences to understand this play because there will be a series of absurd lines from time to time. For instance, like the character who will open the jar in the play, what seems to be doing is quite reasonable, but in fact it is meaningless and a bit ridiculous action. It used prophecies to awaken what people might have been through. In addition, the style of the play will be the same as zhangs interpretation of the script, with a "most rustic, clumsy, and silly" attitude to show the script that a hint of the expression.

Theratrical Events 2018

RADU STANCA NATIONAL THEATRE OIDIP

This production of the National Theatre in Sibiu is an abridgement after Oedipus in Colonos and Oedipus King by Sophocles and surprises by the force of its almost cinematographic vision which of the directors montage which combines the real with the imaginary, developing a poetry of heartbreaking details. „Oedipus is one of the most beautiful texts of dramatic literature. As noted before, I returned to the Greek tragedy after many years, which was an occasion to practice again my appetite to create the same images with which I had not worked for a long time, the director declared, during the rehearsals in Sibiu.

Theratrical Events 2018

Magic Show Shanghai-Hong Kong-Macao Magic Workshop

Original programs will be performed by outstanding young magicians from Shanghai,Hong Kong,and Macao respectively,which are exciting and full of adventure.Moreover,magic of hand-colors,spiritual magic,interactive magic,magic on a large scale are also included in the programs,presenting illusion and reality,and bringing visual feast to the audience in Shanghai. Mysterious and unknown shows are coming soon.

Theratrical Events 2018

Drama The Pony

The play is inspired by a true story that took place in North Carolina in 2014. This drama is for Michael Morones, Grayson Burce and all the boys and girls who, like them, have been abused and bullied without anyone around them doing anything to avoid the tragedies. ‘The Pony is one of those plays one would never miss. It reveals the agony thousands of young victims in the world have suffered, provoking peoples thought on freedom, fear and protection. It reflects how adults turn a blind eye to bullying among minors in our society. In ‘the Pony, the author and the director help the audience remove the bandage on their eyes to face the reality.

Theratrical Events 2018

Drama Struggle

The play Struggle tells a story about three generations looking for, waiting and watching. The performance takes one and a half hours. Wang Wan shan and gai hua was the sweethearts lover, but they were separated from the change because of the relocation. They met each other and missed because of coincidence. Finally，gai hua married other man .Many years later, Wang Wan shan meet gai huas daughter. The fate revolved around him. He was involved in emotional conflicts with Liu Bao er. Their is a question here, is there have true love between each other or only because her mother. They waiting for love or for exile? Many years later, Liu Baoers son, Wang Si hui, felt the imprints and shackles of his fathers ancestors when they encountered love choices again in their adulthood. The blood of the family continues through the transmission of genes, and each generation has a faint interest in the choice of truth love. In order to break through the emotions passed on by the previous generation, everyone has made a self-denying effort to earn a reincarnation.

Theratrical Events 2018

Drama the Seed in Paradise

Zhong Yang was the professor of School of Life Sciences in Fudan University, tutor of Ph.D. and cadre sent to support Tibet. He was unfortunately passed away by car accident in September, 2017. During his lifetime, he collected more than 40 million seeds of thousands of kinds of plants, establishing botanical gene base in China. As an educator, he has trained several Doctors of Botany in Tibet. The Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPC posthumously honored him as Model of the Times in March 2018. CPC posthumously memorized Zhong Yang as Nationwide Outstanding member of CPC in June 2018.

Theratrical Events 2018
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