“DUET”
Choreography by SHI JING XIN
Program of 2013 China National Theatre International Dance Festival
Program of 2013 Shanghai Spring International Music Festival
Program of 2013 National Ministry of Culture Invitation Exhibition excellent small theater productions
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: China National Theatre
Manufacturer: XIN-ART-LAB
Performance Time: August 2013 16,17 at 19:30
Venue: China National Theatre
Ticket Price:120、180、240
Box-office: 13261240991
Ticket Agent:
NCPA official website:http://www.chncpa.org/cns/ycgp/jmxx/2013-06-14/511653.shtml
Damai: http://www.damai.cn/ticket_51772.html
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XIN-GROUP:
Director - choreography: SHI JING XIN
Music director: Li Tieqiao
Actor team: Li Tieqiao, Xiang Yujie, Wang Jiaxin, Yuan Wenbin, Qiao Jingyu
Stage/Lighting design: Xu Yin
Costume design: Wang Chen
Makeup design: Lin Ying
Graphic design: Han Xian, Wang Zibao
Video design: Yan Fei
Video Edit:Zhu Fucong
Executive producer: Dong Fangnuan
Stage manager: Zhang Shuo
Technical team: Zhou Ce
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
Choreographer,Director,Contemporary Artist,Founder of XIN-ART-LAB
She was graduated from Shanghai Dance School,later she studies at Beijing Dance Academy, then she has been teaching in it till now. She was born in Lanzhou ,growing up in Shanghai, studying in Beijing,driftingthroughParis,Berlin,Belgium,Nepal,Japan,Tailand,Singapore,Indonesia,Malaysia,London,NewYork,Cambodia,Danmark,Netherlands.Learning from Choreographer Chen Weiya and Deng Yijiang ,Contemporary Dance Masters Sunsan Buirge in France, Pioneer drama master Richard Schechner in America. She was the Youngest Choreographer in the 29th BeiJing Olympic Games’ Opening Ceremony , a visiting scholar in New York University,a Special Invited Artist in America Dance Festival. She found XIN-ART-LAB in 2009,combing Chinese Contemporary Dance with multi-medium,starting her creating and communicating with other countries.
Her work was shown in NCPA"Chinese Dance twelve days," the Ministry of Culture National Theatre excellent repertory theater performances, Shanghai Spring International Music Festival, Singapore Fringe Festival, Beijing Dance Festival, Beijing Fringe Festival, South Luoguxiang Theatre Festival and other festivals at China and abroad.
Master work:《Stay Alive》,《A dance for God》,《Yuan Ming Yuan》,《Nothing Is Real》,《O’s Family》,《Masks of World》,《Bow》,《Day》,《Shui Mo You》ect.
She got the “Best Dance Film”prize in New York Dance Film festival,first,second,third prize in“Nation single-double-three dance contest,” “Lotus Cupdance contest”, “CCTV dance contest”. She published art essay 《Note Of Body》,special column 《New York Study Note》,《XIN-ART-LAB to speak dance language》
Work Introduce:
1. Beijing
Yuan Ming Yuan (2009-2013)
(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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