One Table N Chairs
choreographed by Willy Tsao, Li Hanzhong and Ma Bo
performed by BeijingDance / LDTX
Sep. 25, 2009 19:30
Beijing Haidian Theater
Choreographed by Chinese Modern Dance pioneer, Willy Tsao and BeijingDance / LDTX most charismatic duo, Li Honzhong and Ma Bo, One Table N Chairs embodies the spirit of traditional Chinese opera and at the same time subverts its conventional form and content.
After three hundred years of refinement, traditional Chinese opera has developed an extremely precise and yet abstract artistic language. Despite dramatic facial makeup and elaborate costumes, the set of traditional Chinese opera consists only of “one table and two chairs”. The combination of complex content and a simple form has a parallel in modern dance, which seeks to express complex ideas through simple physical forms.
In nine excerpts from operas of different regions of China, including the famous Seeing Off for Eighteen Miles (from The Butterfly Lovers), Princess Changping, and The Seventh Fairy Maiden, the Chinese modern dance pioneers blasphemously transpose traditional Chinese opera to modern dance, through the stylised gestures of the hands, the eyes, the body, the hair, and the feet (also known as the five senses of Chinese opera).
After three hundred years of refinement, traditional Chinese opera has developed an extremely precise and yet abstract artistic language. Despite dramatic facial makeup and elaborate costumes, the set of traditional Chinese opera consists only of “one table and two chairs”. The combination of complex content and a simple form has a parallel in modern dance, which seeks to express complex ideas through simple physical forms.
In nine excerpts from operas of different regions of China, including the famous Seeing Off for Eighteen Miles (from The Butterfly Lovers), Princess Changping, and The Seventh Fairy Maiden, the Chinese modern dance pioneers blasphemously transpose traditional Chinese opera to modern dance, through the stylised gestures of the hands, the eyes, the body, the hair, and the feet (also known as the five senses of Chinese opera).
It will change your way of seeing Chinese opera forever!
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