“DUET”

Program of 2013 Shanghai Spring International Music Festival

Choreography by SHI JING XIN

 

Shanghai

Stay Alive

 

 

Beijing

Yuan Ming Yuan

(Yuan Ming Yuan, the Destroyed Royal Garden in Beijing)

 

 

Everybody owns a kingdom deep inside, their own king. The king rules sometimes;the king sleeps other times.The king is capricious.

 

To grow up and grown,every trace of memory are breathing

 

  

Organizer: Shanghai Spring International Music Festival

Performed By: XIN-ART-LAB

Supporters: Dancers Association in Shanghai, China Welfare Institute Children's Palace

 

Performance Time: April 2013 29, 30 at 19:15

Venue: China Welfare Institute Children's Palace Little Friends Theatre (Shanghai Yan'an West Road, No. 64)

Ticket Price：60、120、180、200(120*2)、280、300(180*2)、500 (280*2)

Box-office： 400 610 3721

Ticket Agent:  http://www.damai.cn/ticket_48502.html

 

XIN-GROUP:

Art adviser: Chen Baihua

The prison system: Meng Zhiheng

Director - choreography: SHI JING XIN

The music director: Li Tieqiao

Actor team: Li Tieqiao, Xiang Yujie, Wang Jiaxin, Su Hailu, Qiao Jingyu

The choreography: xu Yin

Lighting design: Li Hongye

Clothing design: Wang Chen

Costume design: Xie Yunqi

Graphic design: Han Xian, Wang Zibao

Image design: Yan Fei, Zhu Fucong

performance as a whole: Dong Fangnuan, Sun Xiaomu

Stage manager: zhang Shuo

Together: Yu Xiuxiu

 

 

About “DUET”

In May 2012, a contemporary dance Awakening created by youth choreographer SHI JING XIN who is a teacher from Beijing Dance Academy, was performed on the 29th - Shanghai Spring International Music Festival- Dance Unit, and obtained high praise and recognition; this time, she and her XIN-ART-LAB will bring us her dance representative work “Duet”, telling and recalling the changes of Shanghai and Beijing with the body language. And this work is also about the introspection of historic mark which can’t be copied behind those two cities. The Special performance will put Chinese and Western culture and the pondering of the art into together, sharing the exploration and charm of Chinese contemporary dance with more people. As usual, the performance will present you XIN-ART-LAB’s mature and critically acclaimed works in recent years. It will show you two works of different style respectively through the form of contemporary dance and dance drama. The first one is Being alive is good which is commissioned by Singapore Fringe Festival and it was also performed during Beijing international Fringe festival and Beijing dance Fortnight .It tells a story about love and hope in Shanghai via the form of dance drama; the other one is YuanMingYuan which was performed during Beijing Modern Dance Festival and Guangdong Modern Dance Festival.  At the intersection of contemporary dance and experimental music, it will lead us into Summer Palace‘s past, telling, reconsidering and feeling that history which can’t be replicated. In the Two Cities, let us fly from Beijing to Shanghai, from the ancient capital of civilization into fashionable magic city, from myself to my grandma, from the little myself to the big life, from contemporary dance Yuan Ming Yuan to dance drama Being alive is good. The whole performance takes the dance as the main elements at the same time blended in experimental music, environmental space, drama, sound and text, video, stage devices and so on. XIN-ART-LAB will continue exploring the diversity of performing art. As self appealing about body culture is infinitely expanded under the background of city and history, we will precede our body introspection without any hesitation.

 

 

Work Comments

1, Using the terse body language, SHI JING XIN interprets her grandmother's life experience through her grandmother's life action such as dressing, eating, repairing lamp, sweeping the floor, and washing feet.——Singapore – Confederacy News Report.

 

2, Using different perspectives, SHI JING XIN eradicates the dull feeling which is usually in the other versions of Being alive is good, shows us about Shanghai's historical changes and common life and interprets us the life process from growth to aging. The author uses the means of after modern dance drama, combined with actual situation to convey the delicate emotional entanglements between grandparents and grandchildren. The ineffable kinship relations may only dance can express. It is still "alive", and is still the philosophical questioning of the meaning of life, but shows the unique aesthetic experience. —— "Chinese art - Chinese dance magazine"

 

3, A young dancer is deserved praise for the reflecting who we are from the grandmother's generation.  She has contacted the core of the Chinese modern dance already. —— Liu Jian (Professor of Beijing Dance Academy)

 

4, Being alive is good has a very distinctive experimental attribute, and has revealed a real life of awareness and contemplation in solemn form. The warmth in the cold brings unique artistic experience and feelings. ——Jiang Dong (XIN-ART-LAB consultant, the Chinese Academy of Arts Dance Institute deputy director)

 

5, Because of strong passion and obsession to the dance, SHI JING XIN becomes very outstanding; the content of her works becomes increasingly deep with the expansion of her experience and she made the exploration to the form of the dance! —— Ou Jianping (XIN-ART-LAB consultant, outstanding experts in the Ministry of Culture, China Art Research Institute, director of the Dance Institute)

 

Performance Troupe

XIN-ART-LAB was founded in early 2009 to establish and reflect upon notions of performance, proposing the creation of body language as the main element. It was also established to integrate different modes of expression, voice, video, theatrical performances, environmental space and other elements to explore contemporary performing arts. Strive in the context of traditional and contemporary to the past, present, future drawn to explore the physical culture of modernity, to construct a body-based performance in the form of pluralism. XIN-ART-LAB as a domestic maverick art organizations active there, creator of SHI JING XIN, born in Lanzhou, grew up in Shanghai, studied in Beijing, and graduated from the Beijing Dance Academy - choreography, founder and served as team artistic Director; members from young creators and independent artists graduated from various art institutions common with persistent pursuit of contemporary art, and uphold the true expression of the values she insisted on creating mining individual life, time and time again the expression of self-experience and reality Reflection of the world.

 

Artistic Director - Choreographer

SHI JING XIN, was born in Lanzhou and grew up in Shanghai. She was educated in Beijing, drifting after Paris, Berlin, Belgium, Nepal, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, London, New York, Cambodia, Denmark, and Netherland. She graduated from Shanghai Dance School, and subsequently was admitted to the Beijing Dance Academy choreography completing undergraduate and graduate study, and then stayed on to teach today. In 2008, She became the youngest director of the 29th Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony director group; XIN-ART-LAB was created in 2009, opened a prelude to contemporary dance and multi-media convergence try to start her creation and exchange between the countries in the world; their successively under the tutelage of choreographer Chen Weiya, Deng Yijiang, and France choreographer Susan - Bo ranks; As the China Scholarship Council "Art class talent, especially training project," the first artist to receive funding, got the invitation of New York University TISCH academy to the New York exchange and creation, under the tutelage of the masters of American Pioneer Drama, New York University-tenured professor Richard - Schechner.2011 invited to participate in the creation and exchange of the American Dance Festival - International Choreography project funded Beijing Dance Academy. The creative work has won the New York dance video art festival the best dance video award, national independence, double, three dance competitions, "Lotus Cup" Dance competitions in various competitions were awarded the creative one, two, third prize. Co-published art prose "Good Notes", were published in the special issue of the Chinese art - dance special column "New York visit Learning, said Guangdong Dancers Association" dance "cooperation the column "XIN-ART-LAB - For dance words. "Creation "NOTHING IS REAL" BOW "," Museum of the body human zoo "," live like "," Xia Xie Bo Wa: Awakening, white, Vatican Trilogy”, "Mask of the World", "YuanMingYuan" "Empty City", "memory - time - debris", "Nightwish", "Day", "Ink Tour" series of pioneering work.

 

             Work Introduce：

 

1.     Beijing

Yuan Ming Yuan （2009）

(Yuan Ming Yuan, the Destroyed Royal Garden in Beijing)

Beijing Modern Dance Festival, Guangdong Modern Dance Festival invited performances works

 

 

2.     Shanghai

Stay Alive（2011-2012）

Singapore Fringe Festival Commissioned Work

 

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