Performance Space

Organizer: Caochangdi Workstation

Dashanzi International Arts Festival

Beijing Storm

798 Space

Words from the Curator
By Wu Wenguang

Coordinating the local programs for this year’s Dashanzi International Arts Festival was exhausting work, because at this time we still lack experience doing this kind of project in this kind of environment. Trying our best nevertheless, no matter how difficult or cumbersome, we feel we must start from somewhere to present independent theater performances that swim against the current and the marketplace. So I’m not so much of the “curator,” as I am someone who merely contacted a few individuals and companies whom I know or those who others introduced to me, and from these performers I put together this program.

We are lucky to have the confidence of the Dashanzi International Arts Festival, as well as the support of Storm Exhibition and Advertisement Company and 798 Space, to make this program possible. Planning the schedule of performances required the trust and cooperation of numerous independent performing companies and individuals, among them Stichting DOEN, Dineke Koerts and Constance Vos from Borono of the Netherlands, and the efforts of all of our colleagues. Thanks to everyone’s work, those who over the years have been hidden from public view can at long last emerge on center stage.

For the second annual Dashanzi International Arts Festival coordinated 40 different dance, theater, music performers from Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Jinan and other areas to perform/exhibit their newest works in various spaces in and around Dashanzi.


Indoor Performances

>>Report on 37.8°C
Performance:Living Dance Studio

>>Time/Space 2
Creators and Performers: Victor Ma and Mandy Yan (Y-Space); Xiao Ke & nunu, Wang Yanan, Zhao Liang, Jiang Jun and Guo Shan

>>Tongue’s Memory of Home
Perfromance:Zuheniao (Shanghai)

>>LeSe 2: Concerning the Love and Pain of Nowhere
Perfromance: LeSe Dance Studio

>>Quilt: 7 Day Talk Attack
Performance:Lingyunyan Performance/Film Sudio


Outdoor Performances

>>Performance 1: Body , I.D. , Space－Ⅱ
Creators and performers: Victor Ma，Mandy Yan（Y-Space, Hong Kong）

>>Performance 2
Creators and performers: Nunu and Xiao Ke (Shanghai)


>>Performance 3
Lingyunyan Performance/Film Sudio (Jinan)


Workshops

>>Contemporary Dance – Mandy Yan (Choreographer, Hong Kong)

>>Improvisation and Control－Victor Ma (Dance and theater director, Hong Kong)


Lectures

>> Internationale tanzmesse:Kajo Nelles(Germany)


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