Crossing Festival 2009

Date: 30 September to 10 October, 2009
Venue: CCD Workstation

Organizer: Caochangdi Workstation/ Living Dance Studio
Co-organizers: Beijing Storm, BORNEOCO/ CultureXpress, The Netherlands

Cooperation：China Independent Documentary Archive Website
www.bubukan.com、Arts World Magazine

Support：
DOEN FOUNDATION, The Netherlands/SWISS FILMS/PRO HELVETIA, Swiss Arts Council, Swiss Cultural Programme in China 2008-2010/Frank－Wu Frank-Wu Brothers Grant for Young Chinese Documentary Filmmakers/the Public DV Magazine/the Contemporary Art & Investment Magazine /Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands to China /Netherlands China Arts Foundation/Netherlands Fund for Performing Arts/Iberia Center for Contemporary Art/Independent Film Archive of  ICCA

Curators: Wu Wenguang, Wen Hui/Project manager: Mao Ran/Co-Programmers: Constance Vos, Dineke Koerts (The Netherlands)/Stage Manager: Zheng Fuming/Technical Director: Su Ming/
Coordinator: Zou Xueping/Graphic designer: Xie Lina/Publicity: Zhang Xiaoyan, Yan Lifang
/Translation: Marilyn Mai, Leslie Tai, Song Tian, Odette Scott /Interperters: Leslie Tai, Song Tian, Dong Haiying, Wawa/English proofing: Odette Scott/Program assistants: Li Xianmin, Tang Zhi, Odette Scott /Sound/Video: Wang Wenli /Light: Zhang Long/Technician assistant: Jia Xiaonan/Volunteers: Pei Yanfeng, Pei Huifeng, Li Yongjie, Song Tian, Xu Pingxiu, Wang Ge, Chen Yi, Ling Xun、Aurelia Dubouloz

Crossing Festival 2009

This is the 5th year that the Crossing Festival will be taking place at the Caochangdi Workstation. Five years is about the time it takes for an infant to develop into a child: to learn to speak and walk on its own. The problem is, are we able to speak our own words yet? Can we really walk on our own? And in the future, will we be able to continue speaking, and walking? There are? no one can guarantees here, for the reality that surrounds us is just too brutal. This is not the same brutality that we faced several years ago, when we had no freedom to express anything. But now that we’re more open, we turn around to find ourselves surrounded by the realities of entertainment, pragmatism, and material benefit. Freedom of expression, once a society-wide issue, became an individual’s struggle.

This year, the “Performance Space” aspect of our Crossing 2009 Festival presents a joint production between our Beijing Living Dance Studio and the Swiss group CapriConnection. Both groups are dealing with the topic of Mystery, using “medicine” as a starting point for inspiration. Before starting to work on the pieces, the two groups sat down together and dialogued about the topic, discussing and investigating...

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