This is a work about memory. The reason why Choreographer choose this subject is that he feel uneasy about the past existence and the unknown future. Sometimes he fall into a state of self-talk and self-separation. Am I the real me in the last second? People always wanted to escape from one memory, but fell into another. We all have new memories all the time, and new memories become memories of the past.

 

Our life is always forward, but the memory has been backwards. Memory is very strange, maybe we can see our past self through memory and inspire our future self, because only with memory can we be complete.

 

All memory retrieval requires an opportunity, and this opportunity is the key to opening the door to memory. In this work, the opportunity choreographer choose is the various specific Spaces formed by six miter ladders. In this work, the ladder represents the communication between memory and the present.

 

He imagined the ladder as a special space belonging to memory, just like putting dancers into the past, forming a variety of structures with different properties, so that people could continuously dig out their memories in the past and release their emotions suppressed for a long time.

 

 

Through this sense of abstract space, He formed the tone of the work. Time is deconstructed by repetition and memory is extracted by fragments. This unconscious overlapping repetition is interwoven with a stack of invalid sense of time to form a silent memory "soliloquy". But because of this soliloquy, we fall into new memories. It was as if it had never begun, or had never ended, and continued to exist in the endless memory of rebirth.

 

 

 

 

Choreographer/Stage Designer: Zhang Xi
Rehearsal Director: Lin Jiaxi
Visual director: Zhang Boyu
Lighting Designer: Zhang Xi
Dancers: Lin Jiaxi, Peng Mi, Li Shixiong, Yang Shangbing, Yan Ruiying, Cao aodiwen