The Tea Spell
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The Tea Spell

Venue:
Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Centre Lyric Theatre
Building 9, Tianqiao Nan Dajie Xicheng Beijing
Date:
4/11/2018 - 4/12/2018
This ticket is only available as a paper ticket
The Tea Spell
Closed

The Tea Spell

4/11/2018 - 4/12/2018
Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Centre Lyric Theatre
Building 9, Tianqiao Nan Dajie Xicheng Beijing
99 - 608
Paper ticket

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"Bravo! It is so creepy, sexy, fascinating with some pent-up resentments that one feels like losing in a half-awakened dream and so drunk by its unconsciousness."
-Meng Jinghui, well-known Drama Director
 
 
Following his last work of Dreams of Zen, The Tea Spell is another starling dance play of choreographer-Zhao Liang. It's also the second work of his oriental trilogy of body and soul.
 
This work premiered at Beilin, Germany in 2012. As a dance theatre work, it broke the box office records in succession and arouse people's attention. In 2015, The Tea Spell visited Korea on behalf of China and received widespread admiration from the local audience.
 
 
The work is inspired by the exquisite tea set relic, which was unearthed from Famen Temple and used for the emperor in Tang Dynasty. It follows the clue of "Tea", blurs the boundary between time and space and returns human nature. In the play, the three characters of a woodman, hermit and monk represent different types of people. They encounter a fair lady, constantly change and get lost in the endless loop, presenting a spiritual vastness of human beings through a fresh and elegant visual tableau. The Tea Spell is created by an international creative team with world-class dance, plot, music and lighting. It integrates bold and exquisite artistic elements, rarely seen in China.
 
 
The plot of The Tea Spell originates from a group of antiques unearthed at FamenTemple: exquisite tea sets used by Emperor Xizong of Tang Dynasty. The show uses tea as a vehicle and illustrates the encounters of a stunningly beautiful woman (played by a male dancer) with a farmer, an officer and a monk respectively.
 
 
The three male characters imply people with three different kinds of psychological orientations. After meeting with the stunning beauty, they are either being allured, or pretending nothing has happened, or struggling, or getting carried away. The storyline is vivid and manifests profound human nature. Through multi-sensory experience, the audiences glimpse into the subtle wisdom of the universe in a detached way. In terms of visual effect, the performance presents its cutting-edge aesthetics in terms of costumes, props, choreography and artistic makeup.

Notice

Date: 11th Apr (Wed) - 12th Apr (Thurs) @ 19:30
 
Duration: 70 mins, no intermission
 
Children under 1.2m are not allowed to enter inside.
 

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The Tea Spell

Venue:
Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Centre Lyric Theatre
Building 9, Tianqiao Nan Dajie Xicheng Beijing
Date:
4/11/2018 - 4/12/2018
This ticket is only available as a paper ticket
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