Information
Christopher Salter >
»Made In China«, 2007 - 2008
Co-Workers & Funding:
Concept/Choreography: Jin XingDancers: Jin Xing Dance Company
Music: Lutz Glandien
Media Design and Programming: Chris Salter, Brett Bergmann
http://www.chrissalter.com/projects.php#MadeInChina
http://www.jinxing-dance-theatre.com/?
Technology
Material
Computers, 3, 6000 ANSI Lumen DLP projectors, Matrox Triple Head splitter
Descriptions & Essays
Made in China: Return of the Soul is a 90 minute dance-theater adaptation and revisioning of Tang Xianzu's Peony Pavilion, one of the most famous plays in all of classical Chinese literature and drama. The story of Du Liniang, the 16 year old daughter of a prominent official, who falls in love in a dream with a young scholar named Liu Mengmai, the play is famous
Jin Xing's production of the play re-imagines it between the ancient Ming Dynasty era of 16th Century China and the modern chaos of contemporary 21st Century China. The media design comprises large scale projection that amplifies the different historical and contemporary sites in the play: the dreamworld of the garden
Literature
Salter, Chris. »Timbral Architecture | Aurality´s Force: Music and Sound in the Choreographies
of William Forsythe.« In William Forsythe and the Practice of Choreography, edited by Steven Spier. London, UK: Routledge Press, 2010.
Xiangzu, Tang. The Peony Pavillon. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2001.
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