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Music Tales of the Beginning of Time

Tales of the Beginning of Time is a multidisciplinary, international project that narrates the story of how the world was created. It describes the intricate transitions from a pre-existential chaos towards a world with order and meaning. The performance materialises a short episode in the history of the universe. Through instruments and visual effects, and electronics, Tales of the Beginning of Time explores the geometry of space in order to rediscover the structure of time both on a microscopic and a macroscopic level. We comprehend the world by telling stories to ourselves. Every cultural context has its own narratives and mythology, but there are areas and concepts where different mythogeographies overlap significantly. The creation of time and the construction of order is a tale that transcends borders and multiplies itself in every location. The Pangósmos Collective has oriented its dramaturgical research towards recognising patterns that emerge in different contexts. Instead of falling into the trap of over-generalising some common patterns, we prioritised the creation of a new mythology. This stems from our understanding of tradition and unites the past with the contemporary and future worries. In the technologically reproducible era of climate destruction and the chthulucene, the emergence of new sense-making narratives is - for us - an absolute necessity. Even though the members of Pangósmos come from different backgrounds, disciplines and continents, the imminent threats we all face provided us with enough space to dig into our own influences and practices, and bring into the group tools and elements that were very close and personal. The juxtaposition of each individuals inputs and the gradual interweaving of our ideas into one palimpsest has created a piece of music that is both surprising, but also traditional; personal, as well as universal; cosmic, but also very thoroughly detailed. Tales of the Beginning of Time explores the temporality of the self as much as it explores the temporality of the universe. Pangósmos Collective The Pangosmós Collective is an established multi-disciplinary artistic group composed of contemporary artists, producers, and musicians associated with University of the Arts Helsinki. We focus on multicultural art processes that enriches from the diversity of its members while engaging and researching from multiple communities and cultures. Specialising in contemporary music, improvisation, live electronics, and visual works, the group operates by creating multidimensional works that will engage the past with todays reality; raising awareness on current global issues. We believe that the diversity of perspectives and experiences of our members create a strong, profound output of our productions. We are committed to being relevant to society and using our collective knowledge and expertise to create meaningful works of art. We recognize the power of art in todays technologically advanced world and see it as our responsibility as the new generation to continue its development and availability for positive purposes.

Music 2023

For Chamber Orchestra of Western and Eastern Instrument and Electronic Music - Lingering Charm of Silk Road

The work takes you on a magic and romantic musical ride back to the magnificent Tang Dynasty. The show starts with the uplifting sound of drums, followed by the grandeur when all instruments start to play. You will be taken back to the thriving and infatuating Tang Dynasty, dazzled by the Gods and Goddesses in Chinese mythology flying to the heavenly palace, all thrilled up by the wuthering pasture and wilderness, fascinated by the breath-takingly and mysteriously beautiful scenery of the West Regions, and infilled with the great dreams and aspirations on the Silk Road. Lingering Charm of the Silk Road uses traditional Chinese folk music as its structural core, through the adoption of Guzheng, Chinese Flute, Pipa, Chinese Big Drum and other traditional instruments. But the work also blends in electronic music, creating a free and vigorous music space through the unique sounds of electronics. The traditional sounds vibe with modern electronic beats, tranquility fuse with movements and reality merge with virtuality. Through all this, the work aims to create a dialogue between the conventional and modern, and to deliver a concept of musical art divided by no boundaries. "The end of all our explorations is to go back to the beginning and really to start to understand." The creator will present to you the Lingering Charm of the Silk Road, a vibrant and thrilling journey of fusion. Chen YaoxianYoung composer, music producer, sound artist. Shanghai Computer Music Association member, National Art Fund 2023 Young Creative talent, Shanghai Music Institute of electronic music composition doctoral candidate.As a composer, he works in a wide range of genres, including chamber music, orchestral music, and electronic music. His works have won many awards in various competitions, including IEMC International Electronic Music Competition and Huichuang Youth Competition.As a member of Shanghai Conservatory of Music New Media Alliance, he participated in the 43rd ICMC International Computer Music Conference, EMW New Music Alliance special concert, Shanghai/FA-IRCAM International Forum, Future Traditional-New Media Music Forum and delivered his works for public performance. Collaborating orchestras include: Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai City Symphony Orchestra, Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Jade Zheng TroupeAs a music producer, he has designed and produced music for Oriental Pearl Art Museum, Hangzhou Asian Games, and created diversified music for music projects of Tencent, NetEase, Giant, Huawei and other companies.

Music 2023

BI-AN 5.0 Hypermedia Recital

Bi-AN 5.0represents the culmination and further advancement of the Bi-AN Piano Hypermedia series of artistic forms. It continues to expand the boundaries of piano literature, exploring the possibilities of collaborative innovation through means such as live piano performance, automatic piano, contemporary dance, interactive visuals and lighting, interactive sound, AI media generation, creating a hypermedia, sensory interconnected audio-visual space. Anchored by classical and original piano works, it connects the sounds of the past and present from around the world, converging into a borderless historical narrative poem.Live piano music performance remains the creative starting point for all concepts, media, and technologies, with piano as the source in dimensions of sight/sound and time/space. While breaking through traditional artistic mediums, it upholds the intrinsic value of music and the integrity of sensory experiences.The selection of the program in this event continues the pattern of dialogue between Chinese and western music compositions, as seen in the Bi-AN series. Among them, young composers Qin Yi and Xu Zhibo, who were previously nominated for the Rising Artists Works at the China Shanghai International Arts Festival, bring their new compositions. The highly acclaimed media-upgraded version of Stravinskys The Rite of Spring, previously performed in version 3.0, will also be presented. Additionally, the concert will feature works by both Chinese and composers outside China, including Arvo Pärt, György Kurtág and Shao Qing, connecting those enduring sonic memories with new creative concepts and interpretative forms within the river of time. Bi-AN Hypermedia StudioBi-AN Hypermedia Studio is an open-ended creative and production team composed of new media artists, performing artists, composers and engineers. They are dedicated to innovative music composition and performance; collaborative design of traditional and contemporary music with new media technology from both Eastern and Western traditions, as well as practical research and development in electronic music, sound installations, and performance technology. They advocate for interdisciplinary artistic fusion, promotion, and dissemination that transcends cultural, geographical, media, and technological barriers.

Music 2023

Contemporary Dance - Hello, World

If we stop our thoughts on the world, what would happen to us? From a first-person perspective, the work raises questions on our familiar world. From the creators view, the answer is not to pursue the ultimate goal, but instead, the act of raising questions itself is already courageous enough. Zhang Xuefeng Independent artist, founder of Crazy Play Body Theater, co-artist with Beijing Dance LDTX. Graduating from Beijing Dance Academy majoring in modern dance choreography, Zhang Xuefeng has worked as a choreographer and dancer in Dance Ensemble Singapore (DES), Guangdong Modern Dance Company and Beijing Dance LDTX. During his ten years in the industry, Zhang Xuefeng has created three modern dance dramas, such as The Day of Heaven, The Traveler and the Dream Monopoly Bureau, as well as more than 20 small and medium-sized dance works, such as Eyes, Bolero, One Person One Lamp and A Place. Zhang Xuefeng has both profound college training and international experience. His creation is not just fluent in skills, but full of stunningly innovative ideas and humor.

Dance 2023

Mask & Physical Theatre Face3.0

This is an original theatre production focusing on "the spiritual world of the elderly". The mask and body are the core artistic expression of the work, which is a performing art genre rarely seen on the domestic stage. Through the mask and body expression, the realistic topic of the elderly in contemporary society is interpreted, and how to release the power of body expression through the integration of multi-form art is the core exploration of Face3.0. Face3.0 attempts to interpret the story closely related to everyone in an innovative art form, reflecting this corner that has been neglected by The Times, based on the current background of an increasingly aging population. Combining various art forms and creative techniques such as drama, modern dance, butoh, etc., such as become, transformation, image memory and other creative thinking in butoh art, and re-deconstructing life topics such as "aging" and "death" in a humorous way. Xiao ZhirenModern dancer, choreographer, dancing healer, artistic director of Zen Experimental Theater, guest tutor of Natalia Medina Dance Company of Spain, guest dancer with Eysenputh Dance Company of Australia, guest dancer with Hong Kong Multi-Space Dance Company. Xiao Zhiren was awarded International Choreographer of the Year 2011 by the American Dance Festival.Honors: Bronze Award in the 15th Copenhagen International Choreography Competition (2022), Best Choreographer and Most Popular Award in the 23rd MASDANZA International Choreography Competition in Spain/Jury Special Choreography Cooperation Award (2019), 6th Body Radical Most Popular Audience Award of Budapest National Dance Theatre in Hungary and the Highest Award of Touchpoint Arts Fund (2019), Silver Award of the 32nd International Choreography Competition in Hannover, Germany (2018).Personal works: No Body, which was selected into Young Artist Display Unit of Young Dancer Nurturing Plan in 2020; Relationship, which was toured in multiple art festivals of Europe and Macao in 2019; Paper Man, which was invited to be performed by the 2018 Hong Kong Dance Company Platform Art Festival; and Human, which was invited to be performed by the 2019 Hong Kong I-Dance Dance Festival; CHAOS (Na Han), which has been invited to attend Spain Art Festival in October; Eternal MusicWild Bodies(MiyinYe Zhiti), which will be performed at Half Mountain Dancing Human Art Festival.

Dance 2023

Visual Yue Opera - Vision

The play is based on Lao Shes one and only romance novel Vision, which is based on the authors first love story, and can be considered as an autobiographical work. The figure of Lao Shes first love has also appeared many times in his other masterpieces. The play retains the narrative of the original work, through stream of consciousness. In the play, there is a leading role - I. Following the leading role through the multilayered space built up by reality, dream, memory, and fantasy, the audience will pursue the truth of this seemingly beautiful love tragedy. The memoir is a mixture of truth and falsehood, which is like a maze of consciousness. The haziness of first love encounter, the huge difference in identity, the missing out on their love, the wane of the family, the mans runaway and return, the womans falling into a prostitute and her death. In form, the play gives full play to the lyricism and performance characteristics of Yue opera combining virtuality and reality, blends images and videos into live stage performance, and fuses Yue opera music with electronic music. The stage designed as a "Memory Garden", the play features a new theatrical performance mode through use of various elements, exploring the interpretation of literature onto theatrical scenes and the conversion from literary rhetoric to theatrical rhetoric, bringing audience an immersive experience into the world of consciousness. Wang WannaWang Wanna is currently a young actress with Shanghai Yue Opera Troupe, and a representative of a new generation of disciples in "Xu (Yulan) Artistic Style". She graduated from Shanghai Theatre Academy, majoring in Xiao Sheng (Young Male Character), and studied under the guidance of Wang Xiuyue, a famous actress, and Qian Huili, a contemporary Yue Opera artist. Previous Works: Dream of the Red Chamber (Hong Lou Meng), Prince Liu Chen (Bei Di Wang), Chasing Fish (Zhui Yu), The Romance of West Bower (Xi Xiang Ji), Jade Hairpin (Yu Zan Ji), The Legend of Chunxiang (Chunxiang Zhuan), A Midsummer Nights Dream (Zhong Xia Ye Zhi Meng), Twelve Characters (Shi Er Jiao Se), Red Chamber: The Music Theatre of Yue Opera, and many others.Previous Awards: In 2013, Wang Wanna was selected as one of the top ten contestants in the student category at CCTV Yue Opera Competition, and won the runner-up prize. In 2017, she received the "Newcomer Award" (Large-scale Works) in Shanghai Stage Art Works Selection Exhibition. In 2018, she received the "Newcomer Leading Character Award" at the 28th Shanghai Magnolia Drama Performance Awards. In 2019, she was selected for the 7th Shanghai Literature and Art Award "Young Artists Development Program", and won the "Golden Art Award" in the "Yuemei Zhonghua" National Yue Opera Youth Actors/Actresses Grand Performance. In 2021, she received the "Silver Award" at the "Leixiang Zhonghua" National Youth Opera Invitational Tournament. In 2022, she received the Shanghai Youth May Fourth Medal (for Individual). Zhu Yanming Zhu Yanming received her Bachelors degree in Industrial Design from Tongji University and her Master degree of Fine Arts (MFA) in Stage Art Design from Shanghai Theatre Academy. In recent years, Zhu Yanming has been involved in the following productions as a scenic designer: Yue Opera The Dreamers Reverie (Yi Meng Ren) and Kun Opera Lady Yuefei (Yuefei Furen). She was the overall planner for the small theater production of Yue Opera Testing the Wife (Shi Qi) and the director and multimedia designer for the contemporary light and shadow show Poets Dreams of Flowers (Zuihuaing). She was the multimedia designer for the Yue Opera concert Boudoir (Gui) Show and the little theater Kun Opera production Peach Blossom and Beauty (Taohua Renmian). She was the director and the film art designer for Yue Opera microfilms Her (Ta)! and Song of The Fishermen (Yuguang Qu). Zhu Yanming has also published papers such as The Coexistence of Reality and Illusion - A Perspective on the Development of Stage Art in Yue Opera Reforms and The Breakthrough and Establishment of Traditional Opera Broadcasting in the Era of All-Media.

Drama 2023

Drama - Barren Land

Welcome to the future after tens of thousands of years. The earth is overexploited and the land, all barren. Most human beings have migrated to the outer planet while the last group of them are waiting to be picked up. Unable to grow crops, the last of human beings left on earth survive on airdropped nutrition packs, which are scientifically formulated by chemical nutritional reagents. Nutrition packs are decreasing, but the number of people, keeps growing. Everyone scrambles for the nutrition packs, except for one person, because every day when he wakes up, his locker is already filled with delicious food. Day in day out, he doesn`t know where all this food comes from and he carefully hides this secret until he discovers that he can use the food to control all peoples fate. Gradually, he becomes greedy and mad. His discontented desire is like a black hole, devouring others, like it is devouring himself. Falling, falling, completely falling into the unfathomable darkness and, suddenly the point of light shedding life in the very beginning, flashes across his mind... But this time, will hope fall from the above, again? Ivy ShaoLevel III scriptwriter, member of Shanghai Theatre Association. Ivy graduated from Film and Television Arts Department of Shang Film Academy, Shanghai University, and further pursued advanced study in Drama Literature Department of Shanghai Theatre Academy. She was supported by National Art Fund for young artistic talents and Shanghai Culture Development Foundation for young scriptwriters. She has also won Lao She Youth Theatre and Drama Literature Award, China Outstanding Original Script Award with Political and Legal Theme, Finalist Award of Theatre and Drama China, and Golden Thrushcross Excellent Childrens Script Award, etc. Ivy Shaos major scriptwriter works: Play Echo of the Niyang River, Musical Ancient God of Drought, Play Qingpu Police Story, Childrens Play Fantastic Garden, Musical Tale of Wuxia, Play Walking alone at Midnight, Childrens Play Amazing Friends, etc. Li HaiyuanMaster candidate of Directing Department of Shanghai Theatre Academy, young director, and choreographer. Li Haiyuans works include: Play Gone with the River, Play Death of the Law Officer, Dance Theatre White and Black Fish, Literary Drama Homecoming, etc. She has won the Best Director Award of Dream Chasing Drama Festival, Think Youth Drama and Dance Award, and has joined the First-class Graduate Education Leading Program of STA and made it into the final selection of the Beijing Nanluogu Lane Theatre Festival for two consecutive years. Meanwhile, Li Haiyuans works have been successively performed in the 11th Shanghai International Little-theatre Festival and Asia-Pacific Bond of Theatre Schools Conference Festival.

Drama 2023

Drama - The Fade, The Blue

Winter it is. A desolate and barren community stands amongst the wuthering wind, like the end of the world. A man returns to his empty house, searching for a secret hidden within the two-bedroom house. He is about to tell a memory that is kept here, a love story that takes place during the time of quarantine. A man, and a woman. An upstair room and a downstair one. Everything unfolds at twelve oclock midnight in the first room, and everything ends at six oclock morning in the second room. Progress is constantly stagnated, communication blocked by languages, and bodies separated by the ceiling. The illusionist downstairs curls up in his room, measuring the distance between himself and life. The new tenant upstairs reverses day and night, weaving an ensemble of noises and whispers. The man, and the woman, conflicted by time and connected through sound, gradually walk into each others heart after fourteen sleep-aiding ASMR nights. The indistinct sound from upstairs still lingers around the mans ears. Love of young birds, intertwining with the history of the community, gives the faded buildings a new coat of color. He wanders through the gray courtyard like a ghost, trapped in the cycle of repetitive memories. How can he turn the fleeting love into eternity? Ma Xuan Ma Xuan graduated from the Dramatic Literature Department of the Central Academy of Drama. She directed the online theater production White Night and participated in the 15th Beijing Fringe Festival. Her original script "This Morning and Last Nights Dream" was selected for the Shanghai YOUNG Theater GOAT Special Youth Theater Exhibition Drama Reading Unit. As a playwright, she collaborated with the New Youth Group on three adaptation works: Metamorphosis, World on a Wire and The Master and Margarita. These works have been invited to participate in prestigious art festivals such as Wuzhen Theater Festival and Aranya Theater Festival for multiple times.

Drama 2023

Physical Theatre - Right but left

Its a drama of "relationships". The creation comes from the lonely sentiment and confusion the creator still catches walking among the crowd. Such unspeakable feelings, go beyond words for expression and the stories are created more through the catch of intuition. To the left of the right, and to the right of the left. Endless stories weave into the distance of romantically bitter connotations and beautiful but cruel poems between people and people, and between human and the world. Zhao MiaoTheatre director. In 1996, he founded Theatre SanTuoQi in Beijing and has been its director ever since. He is also the Teacher of Directing Department of the Central Academy of Drama. "Sad Humor" and "Magnificent Imagination" are the unique features of Zhao Miaos plays, while manifesting a "physical poetry" is his pursuit and relentless exploration. Till 2023 he has created more than 40 stage works. Zhao Miao is a significant trailblazer in the field of physical drama creation, research and education in China.

Drama 2023

Group Exhibition Project - Untitled

Rising Artists Works (R.A.W.!) commissioned curator Wang Yiquans group exhibition Untitled departs from a sustainable perspective and echoes his recent research in the creative practices of his peer artist community in China. The curatorial concept of Untitled pursues from Wangs exhibition project Fellows(2022), held at the SNAP, the School of Visual Arts Art Platform in Shanghai, and it continues exploring the diverse visual lexicon and generational phenomena of Chinas Post - 80s artists.*Participating Artists (in alphabetical order by surname): 33EMYBW, Geng Yini, Fang Di, He Qiwo, Huang Cheng, Li Tingwei, Yan Yibo, Zou Chen Wang YiquanWang Yiquan is a curator and artist active in the field of contemporary art in China. His creative practice and research interests are focused on image production, film, performance, the cultural identity of the post-80s generation, and urbanism. For more than a decade, Wang Yiquan has been dedicated to addressing a variety of interrelated complex issues, and his artistic approach and practice are diverse yet highly integrated. He has curated thematic exhibitions at several art institutions, including the Rencontres dArle (Arles, France, 2023), Shanghai International Film Festival (Shanghai, 2023), Jimei×Arles International Photo Festival (Xiamen, 2022), Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai, 2021), Contemporary Theatre Biennale/ ShenzhenFutian (Shenzhen, 2018), Shanghai Urban Space Art Season (Shanghai, 2017), and Beijing Design Week (Beijing, 2016), among others.Wang Yiquan, born in 1987 in Beijing, China, currently works and lives in Shanghai and Beijing. He studied at Beijing International Studies University, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and Central Saint Martins College of Art. He is also a founding partner of Active Space Design Studio.

Visual Arts 2023

Solo Exhibition Project - Unnamed Road

This exhibition is ZHOU Songkais personal project, curated by GUO Yujia and LYU Yinuo as executive curator. The visual-audio assemblage of artists painting and moving image summon the site as a road of walking.When the road stretches itself to its end,it is the moment that the road begins-----reciprocates as such. Such reciprocation means lingering in this alienated but acquainted field, as if a vagrancy in homeland. Viewers wander here, and the works here reveal and open themselves in their regarding on this walking road, hence the very time the name of this unnamed road is summoned. Zhou SongkaiZhou Songkai was born in Henan, China in 1992. He studied filmmaking, literature and aesthetics at the China Academy of Art and the Royal College of Art. His works focus on the dialogue between the individual existential condition and the collective memory of public life. He continuously explores and inquires about the kinship between natural elements and human beings, as well as the historical traces of landscapes and objects in the living space of the current technological era. The road serves as a metaphorical imagery in his works, weaving the individuals personal experience of fate and freedom, existence and emptiness. His works span a diverse range of forms such as poetry, painting, film, photography and other artistic media. In his film works, he utilises non-logical implicit narrative to explore the visual poetics of cinematography in the flow of time.

Visual Arts 2023

Immersive Percussion Theater - Moon Side

Thoughts flash in an instant, day turns to night. All things reincarnate as the seasons take turns. From the perspective of "the life experience of a seed", A Day engages the audience in a philosophical conversation about the unity of opposites to express "a moment and eternity" and pursue the days twelve flowing segments of time - in order to penetrate the mysterious, liminal nature of things: between daybreak and twilight, wilting and growth, joy and sorrow. In terms of composition, Moon Side combines traditional elements of Chinese music and the creative approach of French spectral music to create a unique dialogue that breaks the boundaries of space and time, in which percussive beats speak to the friction of strings. Simultaneously, digital media merges the unreal into reality, harmonizing movement and stillness, synchronizing lights and shadow, immersing the audience between "moment" and "eternity".Conceptual Photography Shanghai Lixia Culture and Art Development Co., Ltd. Wang MengComposer Wang Meng is an alumni of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing for her Bachelors Degree, mentored by professor Wenchen Qin, the Vice President of CCOM. She earned her Masters Degree at Manhattan School of Music, studied with Dr. Reiko Fting. Wang is currently pursuing her Doctoral Degree in composition at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) under the guidance of Dr. Douglas Knehans. She has also received instructions from composer Derek Bermel, Andreia Pinto Correia, Pierre Jalbert, and Kaija Saariaho. Wang is described as "methodically expanding the initial texture to create a kaleidoscopic range of orchestral colors," and "shaping amorphous cosmic rhythms...in a grippingly harmoniously manner" (Schmopera). Her music has been performed by many notable orchestras and ensembles, including Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Columbus Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra; Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Thin Edge New Music Collective, Long Leash Trio, F- Plus Ensemble, among many others. Wangs music was programmed at the Aspen Music Festival, Cabrillo Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, ACO EarShot readings, and Beijing Modern Music Festival. She was also invited to Grafenegg Festival (Austria) Ink Still Wet Composer Conductor Workshop and [tactus] International Young Composers Forum in Belgium. In 2019, she started the chamber project dominated with percussions named Moon-Faced Buddha, which had its premiere on Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in-Chamber concert series.

Music 2021

Contemporary Dance - Touch

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence... and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content." Hellen Keller"Touch" is a physical caress, as well as a work of empathy. It represents the proactive behavior and responsive emotions of a person. It consists of weight, temperature, perception - an act of liveliness. "Shadow" is the other side of Light, the line drawn between the bright and dark, the defects and the regrettable. It is the hidden corner within a human heart - private and without temperature, silent and dappled - yet buried deep down is its own beauty and sensitivity. Under the dusk sky and oblique rays of sunset, the citys shadows layer upon one another. A beam of light escapes into darkness, bringing to sight selves hidden under obscurity and crowds darting between lights. A life overshadowed by the significant event and this exact moment, shrouded by an inexplicable burden, is perceived. This performance employs real-time non-standard fixed-point motion capture technology developed by ShanghaiTech University, enabling virtual images and dancers to illuminate and perform alongside each other. Virtual images are metaphorical of self-projection and visual memories of individuals, which in turn serves to present the interwoven yet confrontational relationship between physical bodies and a virtual reality. The performance will break free of time and space, challenge boundaries of illusion versus reality, and explore the new form of artistic performance as well as its relationship with viewers. MiaGraduated with degree in Dance Choreography from Shanghai Theatre Academy,the member of Shanghai Dancers Association, Level 2 Teacher; Principal of Slipper Project. 2019 Guest Performer at If There were Only Chinese Songs in the World; Contestant by invitation in "Dance Smash" season one on Hunan TV and "Dancer" on Dragon TV Main creative staff of large-scale dance-poetry Red. Production Red Light Lantern, So be it entered Germany-hosted international choreography competition "No Ballet"; Mortise-Tenon entered Laiwu International Drama Festival and won most popularity Production Swim Out Till the Sea Turns Blue entered 2021 "Youth Incubation Platform" of Shanghai International Dance Theatre. Individual representative works: About Dreams, I would say…, Life, Life, Sear, etc. HenryPrincipal of Slipper Project. 2014-2019 employed by Caster Shanghai, 2017 ALL ASIA WAACKING FESTIVAL Champion of China division, represented China to compete at Asia Finals, 2018 awarded Sino-Dutch International Dance Festival Scholarship to studied abroad at Amsterdam, 2017 and 2019 Guest Performer at If There were Only Chinese Songs in the World. Led team to participate in television shows Dance Smash on Hunan TV, Dancer on Dragon TV, Dance in Step on Shenzhen TV, Mentor of Youku-made television program Street Dance of China contestant training camp. Creative Entertainment Lab (CEL) by School of Creativity and Art, ShanghaiTech UniversityCEL is committed to deep learning, virtual digital human, new media interaction, VR/AR/MR/XR and other technologies, and the exploration of new forms of creative entertainment (variety show, film and television, animation, games, live entertainment, online video, etc.) and immersive experience. Multi-disciplinary Artificial Reality Studio (MARS) by School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech UniversityWe target top-tier research of artificial intelligence, light field stage, motion capture, intelligent relighting, VR/AR. We constantly devote ourselves to upgrade the application of technologies in various fields. At present, we are focusing on exploring the application of cutting-edge computer vision technology in film and television production and mass entertainment market.

Dance 2021

Contemporary Dance - What Can I Hold You With

In the year 1934, the Spanish-speaking writer Jorges Luis Borges penned two untitled English poems. He perhaps never had imagined that one poem would one day turn out to be one of his most widely-read pieces. The poem was later titled What can I hold you with? by readers. The namesake modern dance choreography is an homage to the Borges poem. Choreography, like poem, opens up room for interpretation by leaving certain things unsaid. Obsessed with the unconventional words used by Borges, the choreographer made textual, contextual and intertextual explorations between the lines and created this performance, which is a collage of five standalone sections, each exists in its own imaginative world: a world of memories, a world about the winding of time, or a world based on a ridiculous illusion. Using the language of dance to interpret the poetic words, What can I hold you with is conceived as a collection of short stories told in the form of contemporary dance. What can I hold you with? Like Borges answered in his poem, "I offer you that kernel of myself that I have saved somehow - the central heart that deals not in words, traffics not with dreams and is untouched by time, by joy, by adversities." Cui JianPostgraduate student of Shanghai Theatre Academy. Choreographer, musical choreographer and theater body design and direction. Participation in dance works: Salome, Between, Dream of Zen, The Name of the Rose, etc. Invited to participate in various art festivals which include the Algerian International Contemporary Dance Art Festival, Twelve Days of Chinese Dance at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing New Dance International Art Festival, Beijing Youth Drama Festival, Beijing International Design Week. Mandarin version of musical The Lion King as dance captain and Swing. Participation in musical Beauty and the Beast, A Gentlemans Guide of Love and Murder. Art West Bunds The Sound of Musical as dance director. Immersive theater The Message, Dance poems The Soul of Water as choreographer. Major works: Hide and Seek, Celebrating the Meaninglessness, The Fifth Day. Tang YupeiChoreographer and Dancer, Executive Art Director of the Beijing 9 Contemporary Dance Theater. As a choreographer, Tang had the privilege to cooperate with many talented artists both at home and abroad, including Jorge Crecie, Risima Risimkin, Eyal Dadon, Milan Kozáne, Zhang Yimou and Chao Ke, etc. Also, Tang was invited to participate in various art festivals around the world, which include the Dutch International Dance Art Festival, 7th Algerian International Contemporary Dance Art Festival, 16th Skopje Dance Art Festival, EXODOS Art Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Goyang Karawang Art Festival, Tel Aviv Dance Festival in Israel, Twelve Days of Chinese Dance at the National Centre for the Performing Arts; Beijing New Dance International Art Festival. The work of Inception won the official selection award of 92Y Mobile Dance Film Festival in 2021, R.E.M. won the grand prize of EXODOS Art Festival in Ljubljana. Major works: Freezed Frame, Fleet of Time, Insider, The Fifth Day.

Dance 2021

Original Crossover Stageworks - Idyllic Lives

A subversive work that defies all logic and upends your cognition where stage performers use their body languages to the full to construct the absurd theme of ldyllic Lives. By playing contemporary art crossovers, where spatial installations dance to live improvisational music performances, and through stage performers full-on exploration of improvisational body languages and body vibes, the work takes a brand new approach and interprets the "ldyllic Lives" in the eyes of contemporary folks, and re-deconstructs the "Poetic Philosophy" as in Jiangnan Culture, manifesting different concepts of different people and social struc-tures, and bringing the audience a mind-blowingly magnificent body show unveiling relationships between different characters. Cheng LongChoreographer / Teacher / Dance Improviser, Lecturer in Dance Institute of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music. Bachelor and Master Degree both of Choreography from Beijing Dance Academy: Master of improvisational Dance Stud-ies, Temple University, USA, Winner of "National Special Art Talent Training Program" sponsored by China Scholarship Council; Bronze Prize Winner of Choreography in the 13th Inter-national Ballet Competition and Contest of Choreographers(2017). In 2018, Cheng Long was commissioned by the 7th Hangzhou International Contemporary Drama Festival to create the work Physical Emotions of Madmen. Cheng Long s work Go Ashore was nominated for the 11th China Dance Lotus Award for Modern Dance and was selected into the 1st China Dance Outstanding Works Collection in 2019. Cheng long has long been deeply engaged in dance improvisation, environmental dance and crossover works. She has been commissioned to create works for many international and domestic art festivals and drama festivals. Her creativity is multi-faceted, with an amazing sense of contemporaneity. Major works: Commissioned work(Feature-length) Physical Emotions of Madmen; Crossover work of Joint Cooperation(Medium-length) Live Together ; Spring , River , Flower, Moon, Night ; The Twist of Time ; Joint Dance Video Chaos Theory 3.0.

Dance 2021

Drama - What a Night

A troupe of fairies from the Cupid family come to a moonlit forest to help a pair of young lovers start courting, yet they make series of mistakes. Misfits fall in love because of the fairies. Now the Cupids are trying to make amends, and its a night of chaos and lamentable comedies. The play, which is adapted from Shakespeares classic comedy, A Midsummer Nights Dream, explores the mystery of love - why do you avoid saying "I love you" when you meet someone you really love? Why are you a daredevil and have no scruples when you know it is unreal? Who controls emotions inside us? Does "I love you" come from your conscious mind or subconscious mind? Wang JueBachelor in History at Fudan University; Art Director of Fudan Drama Troupe; Director and Screenwriter of variety shows such as Chinas Got Talent, The Voice of China, So You Think You Can Dance, Great challenge, etc.; Vice-General Director of the anniversary virtual concert for LifeAfter, a NetEase game; Director of the launch event for NetEase 520 Game Loving Day; Director of 2019, 2021 and 2021 bilibili Macro Link offline concerts. He has been working as a director who devotes himself to drama education for students for years, and has served as dramaturgy, director and protagonist in many plays. Zhou TaoAssociate Professor at Fudan University Art Education Center; Master in the Directing at Shanghai Theatre Academy; Director of Shanghai Student Drama Experiment Center; Winner of Chinese Theatre Award - Campus Drama Screenplay; Selected into the "Rising Artists Training Program" of the 7th Shanghai Literature and Art Award; Member of the Expert Committee of Leading Group of Shanghai Major Literary and Artistic Creations; Member of China Theatre Association; Director of Shanghai Theatre Association; Former host of the Five-star Sports Channel in Shanghai Satellite TV. The dramas he wrote and directed have won the Outstanding Drama Award of Chinese Theatre Award - Campus Drama, for five consecutive years, and he has won the first prize of the Chinese College Students Art Exhibition in drama category, for four consecutive sessions. His creations, Richard II, Cross, A Game of Two Cities, etc., were selected for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Australian Fringe Festival.

Drama 2021

An Oral History Theatrical Work - A Brief Herstory of Beauty

"All history is the history of individuals." A Brief History of Beauty is an oral history theatrical production combining elements of stage performance, live music, videography, and other theatrical tricks and techniques to portray an ordinary womans memory of youth and her compelling life story. In the year of 1952, protagonist in the story, Huang Yueping, was born at No. 50 Changle Road, Luwan District, Shanghai. She was admitted to the Dance Department of Peoples Liberation Army Art Academy at a young age of 13, and shortly after, she was assigned to the famous North Sea Fleet Art Troupe during the Cultural Revolution. Huang Yueping did not return to Shanghai until the early 1980s. After being transferred to civilianwork, she helped create the fashion modeling team of Shanghai Garment Company, which was Chinas first fashion modeling team. Huang Yueping pursues beauty and has been seeking something different and unique all her life. The play follows her from the 1950s to the Reform and the Opening up and with each step she takes, she was at the forefront of Chinas beauty scene. This cutting age woman walks calmly, composedly, sincerely and bravely. It is her courage that has awakened a new sense of beauty in contemporary China. And the awakening of beauty, in essence, means the revival of the "truth" in China. The play is centered around restoring a venue that has disappeared from the physical world on the theatrical stage, and recovering a real but delicate piece of memory, demonstrating the defiance to oblivion. After all, memory is the most precious treasure individuals have. As time goes by, memory deposits into history and extends into culture. Urban and technological progresses, in each and every second, seem to force us to forget about the past and forge ahead, and the mission of theatres, is to tell us that we shall never forget. Bao HanTheater curator, freelance writer, member of Shanghai Youth Literature and Art Federation, program director of Shanghai Young Theatre. Bao Han was the creative consultant of the play Blossoms, screenwriter of the film The Operation at Dawn which won the 11th the Best Works Award, producer of Tennessee Williamss play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton which was specially commissioned by the Asian Directors Theatre Festival, producer of Jean-Genets work The Ba/cony which was presented at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, curator of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Theatre Exchange Project under the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, cura-tor-in-chief of the "Drama Theory" lecture series of the Shanghai Mass Art Institute, producer of V+ Theatre. Bao Han won the title of Best author of Xinmin Evening News in 2003. She has published more than 100 articles in periodicals and magazines such as Book Town, Fiction World, Shanghai Theatre, Xinmin Evening News, The Opera, Dance Gazette etc.

Drama 2021

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. Xu ZhiboXu Zhibo, composer, PHD, associate professor of Shanghai Normal University Music College, director of Shanghai Computer Music Association, outstanding young scholar of SNU. Graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music, he studied successively with Professor Zhou Xianglin, Chen Qiangbin and Yang Liqing. His works involves various types and genres, some of them won a lot of awards for music creation at home and abroad. He is currently engaged in the teaching of composing and music theory courses, and devotes himself to theoretical research in contemporary music, sonic art, new-media art and other fields. He has presided over the theoretical research projects of the NSSFC (Art), the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of Ministry of Education of China, the Shanghai Art-Science Planning, the Shanghai School Art Research and the Research Institute of SHCM. His academic achievements mainly focus on the core issues of contemporary music and media art, confronting the development track and trend of sound theory, technology and mix-media. As an author, more than 20 papers have been published in journals and conferences around the world. As a speaker, he was invited to attend international academic conferences held in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and Taiwan, China. He has formed an research mechanism supported by cooperation between theory and practice.

Music 2019

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 adapted to develop movements, expressing the dynamic balance of "YI" through formal YIN and YANG transformation simultaneously fusing the rigidity and softness, and trying to express the thought of Unity of Heaven and Man, and the artistic conception that the greatest truth is the simplest. Li YuanMFA, Lecturer of Dance School of Shanghai Theatre Academy. For many years, Li has been engaged in the curriculum (Deconstruction and Reconstruction on Physical Actions) research on the Chinese classical dance, exerting to solve the derailment between the physical and rhyme training on the Chinese classical dance and contemporary classical dance. In addition, Li has explored and created a number of excellent contemporary classical dancing works. The creative work High Mountains and Flowing Water has won the first prize in the dance competition of Six Provinces and One City in the East of China. Flying Dragon and Dancing Phoenix has won the second prize of group dance in "Peach and Plum Cup" dance competition and the gold award in "Lotus Cup" dance competition. Long Sword and Ectopia have won the Award for Competition of small program competition in Shanghai. Tian Heng 500 Scholars has won the "Collectively Creative Youth" award in Shanghai. Heart without Dust has participated in the national dance competition exhibition.

Dance 2019

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 "cloud", arent we all "cloud"ed? 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. Qian TingtingQian Tingting graduated from Beijing Normal university before moving to join TAO DANCE THEATER and performed in 6 and 7, during which time she received strict training and explored infinite potential of the body. She joined D.LAB DANCE as full-time dancer and choreographer in 2016. Her choreographic works: Parabola(2014), Dance!Dance! Dance!(2017) , Invisible(2018), and The Blue Notebooks(2019). Qians inspiration comes not only from years of immersion in different dance styles, but also from her close observation of little things in life. Dance itself is not the only focus of her work. She tends to merge into her creation the perception of all the changes and different events happening in real life. Apart from theater performance, she also works with musicians, installation artists and fashion brands. Duan JingtingDuan Jingting is a multi-award winning ballerina, an elite contemporary dancer, and a producer of theatre performance. She was awarded the Judges Special Prize in Shanghai International Ballet Competition (2001), the Best New Artist of the 20th Varna International Ballet Competition (2002), and the Bronze Medal in the 7th "Taoli Cup" National Dance Competition (2003). After graduating from Shanghai Dance Academy as valedictorian, she began her career as a dancer in Shanghai Ballet and later joined Hong Kong Ballet and performed many leading roles. DUAN founded D.LAB DANCE in 2014. From 2011, Duan premiered a series of theatrical productions that have been highly recognized by the industry and audience, including Shanghai Jungle(2011), LOVE(2014), Invisible Cities(2014), Fragile(2015), The Letter of Love(2016) and Mirage(2017). In 2016, her works Boundary and Icosahedron were both ranked within the TOP5 Box Office in Chinas Small Theatre Dance Performances.

Dance 2019

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