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Dance Theatre  Fly To Your Mountain

SIDCT Youth Incubation Platform

A self-narrative piece about an artist sojourning in Beijing

Building a double space with suitcases

New media and installation of art delivers my voices from memory

Wandering in the city to explore an unknown journey

【Introduction】

This is a self-narrative modern dance. Tibetan choreographer Zhaxi Wangjia builds a stage from his own experience- Tibetan starry sky, commonly-seen rocks and a suitcase symbolic of reality and dream. He uses new media art to express the voice from memory, showcasing the homesickness spanning over thousand miles, telling the story about homesickness and the confusion of people living in city using modern dance language and etherealizing music.

Since we vacillate between reality and dream, constantly walking and seeking along the way with our suitcases, this piece constantly reminds us that we shouldn’t forget looking back when we are on the road as the warm memories will help us find the significance of life.

【Highlights】

A self-narrative piece of an artist sojourning in Beijing, building a double space with suitcases

Zhaxi Wangjia is choreographer, dancer, stage designer and music editor. He creates this piece in search of continuous self-seeking. You shall be like a bird flying to your mountain is more like an autobiography; there is no romantic dialogues, nor exciting events but just the undercurrent and memories in life, which is light enough to bring with a suitcase but too heavy to lift.

The most frequently used prop is a small suitcase. Perhaps there is no other item more proper to be the symbol of melancholy, confusion and hesitation of people nowadays than this suitcase.

The dancer is pulled by the suitcase onto the stage though he’s not ready; he don’t know the direction to follow neither his destination. Zhaxi Wangjia finds such a stage symbol from his own experience, which suffices to recall the memories on and off the stage. Vacillating between reality and dream, the people who have to move on with the suitcase and seek are indeed us.

Bizarre and motley, a duo-dance of the monster of memory and life

He tries to find the answer in this dance, as well as the drive to move on, resembling the meaning of life learned along the road.

There are not many characters in this piece: except the ones with suitcase, there is another one representing life and the inner faith. She presents “another me on the world” by her character, body and attitude, to find the answer in tangle, contrast and duo-dance.

In the stage area of You shall be like a bird flying to your mountain, all the elements are as a whole: the rock hanging in the air over dark blue stage, the unknown monster, the red reflection and black tree branches on the screen. When the music starts, the dancers begin to dance and the language on the stage recombines in a fantastic and unique way in mind, teeming with understandings.

Multi-culture, the voice from Tibetan mountains passed by new media art

As an art creator, Zhaxi Wangjia never rejects other elements. “The stage is actually a space for infinite imagination, but not only the movie. Movie, installation, sound, music, body, these all complete my work, making it more powerful and filled.

BI Zhenyu, visual artist, always commit to the seeking and creation of digital image interacting. BI uses the technology as a material and expanding of sensory, creating via real-time image generation, algorithmic vision, programmed sensors, and artificial intelligence, focusing on the instantiation of information in the post-human context. Independent musician PEI Yingyan makes the music of You shall be like a bird flying to your mountain, including multi - voice tunes melody with male and lively children's voices, which are full of spiritual vitality.

【Creative team】

Choreographer/dancer/stage designer: Zhaxi Wangjia

Guest artist: HU Haiqing

Director assistant: Sonam Zhuoma

Lighting designer: CHEN Shiyue

Visual art: BI Zhenyu

Music: PEI Yingyan

Technique: SONG Shixiong, WANG Shijie

【Introduction of the creative team】

Choreographer: Tashi Wangjia

Tibetan, individual dancer and choreographer, the founder of Beijing Fanyi Dance Centre, the artistic Director of Snowman Dance Theatre, the joint artist of Beijing Dance LDTX, supported by Training Youth Program of Chinese Dancers Association and the ACC member.

Former dancer and current teacher of Beijing LDTX Modern Dance Company, he founded Boyi Dance Centre in 2010 and was selected in Training Youth Program of Chinese Dancers Association in 2018.

Choreographer of Silent Area (2012) in the special performance Grain Rain of Beijing Dance LDTX, Timeline (2013) in special performance Autumn Equinox, Seeking (2014) of ADF, creator of One (2014), choreographer and creator of Wastelands (2017) at Judson Church--the original place of post-modern dance, spontaneous cooperation with American musician in Here, Now and this person (2017) at Rockefeller Center in New York. His work From 3200 to 0 (2019) was invited to the first Chinese Contemporary Dance Biennale and Training Youth Program of Chinese Dancers Association individual works (2020). The piece You shall be like a bird flying to your mountain was invited to the 2^nd Chinese Contemporary Dance Biennale and Beijing Youth Drama Festival in 2021.

YOUTH INCUBATION PLATFORM

Shanghai International Dance Center Theater Youth Incubation Platform (hereinafter referred to as "youth incubation platform") is platform for young dance artists in China who have room for growth and development to communicate and display, sponsored and established by the Shanghai International Dance Center Theater. It provides creative resources, funding, publicity and exchange and learning opportunities for outstanding young dancers, promoting development and catalyzing innovation. It provides a new window for Chinese original dance works to go out of the country and into the world.