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Dance, drama, sci-fi and…online games?

When technology becomes so advanced that “she” can travel through time and space via the Internet, and when all the kisses and hugs can be replaced by click and double clicks, will real body and live experience still be necessary?

JIANG Fan, youth dancer and joint artist of SIDCT, is thinking over the question from a brand new aspect in the post-pandemic time and asking the world this question in the language of dance.

About Will The Snake Eat Up The Motherboard?

In a world where the epidemic is forcing human beings to spend most of their time living behind their front doors, the virtual cloud becomes their new playground. A girl named "天佑吾鸟" is a member of this virtual community. Compared with her weak body in the real world, she finds confidence in the virtual world and enjoys various role-playing and her perfect image as an assassin.

Through games, 天佑吾鸟 feels her consciousness is no longer constrained to her body. She found a place for her in the virtual world. She was lonely and insecure, but she has found her inner refuge in the cloud. Yet, when天佑吾鸟returns to the real world, the contradiction and discrepancy between her real body and her consciousness begin to torture her so badly that she is about to make an unprecedented choice. The windows in the room and the purring of her cat constantly remind her of the difference between her real identity and her virtual character. The dark side of天佑吾鸟 is persistently magnified by the virtual world. She throws herself into the world of games and keeps fighting with the NPC because she doesn’t know how to save herself from being dragged down by these dark feelings.

In a future dominated by the cloud, what will happen to our real body and life?

A few words from the choreographer:

If we think of games not just as recreation but as the extension of consciousness, will we see this world differently? With the support of technology and Internet, the virtual world in the games is filled with imagination. Meanwhile, it alludes to the human nature found in various people. In this virtual land, our inner selves are actors and actress in plays that are presented in the form of games. We operate games. At the same time, we are changed by games. I don't want to define game in a narrow sense but take it as an example to re-explore the questions of whether people's consciousness can transcend worlds, how deep fear and physical weakness are embodied through our bodies, and how to change the world.

Highlights:

Dance is her language for a good story.

The imaginative and inspiring choreographies of Refracted Shadow, Dining Table and Web Traffic have proven JIANG Fan to be a competent youth choreographer and dancer. In her works, you can find both dance and drama just as you can find both dance lovers as well as audience of drama come to her show. This time, in Will The Snake Eat Up The Motherboard?, she is going to become天佑吾鸟, a virtual character, and invite the audience to travel through the virtual world along with her. Known as the little elf among the joint artists of SIDCT, JIANG Fan is ready to surprise you with her story.

Game played on stage? It is possible if you have the best team.

Screenwriter: ZHAO Yu’an, an independent screenwriter, director and mentor of drama, is a graduate of the Central Academy of Drama, majoring in directing.

Dramaturgy: ZHUANG Jiayun is the winner of Andrew W. Mellon Fund. She majored in screenwriting at the Central Academy of Drama and obtained doctoral degree in the field of theater and performance studies at UCLA.

Stage design: SHEN Li is a lecturer of stage art at Shanghai Drama Institute and the director of stage art at China Grand Theater during the drama season.

Lighting design: TAN Hua obtained her first master degree from the Central Academy of Drama, majoring in stage lighting design and then received her second master degree of stage art from Royal Central

School of Speech & Drama in the UK.

Music composer: MING is an independent musician.

Multimedia Design: Atomic Visual Studio is a professional studio for multimedia design of live shows.

This team is going to take you into the world of game on the stage!

About the creative team:

Choreographer and dancer: JIANG Fan

JIANG Fan, independent artist in Shanghai and founder of The Three Bowls Co-op, is the joint artist of SIDCT. She graduated from Shanghai Drama Institute, majoring in choreography. In 2014, she founded Qiankongfan Theater. Her drama theater Refracted Shadow won the Best Drama of the Year granted by One Drama Awards in 2015. In May 2017, she founded The Three Bowl Co-op with ZHUANG Jiayun and her work Web Traffic was the first work choreographed by youth artist commissioned by SIDCT. She has cooperated with various art groups and institutions such as Living Dance Studio Beijing, the Niao Collective, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, Archa Theater, Zagreb Dance Center and Eurokaz Zagreb, introducing to the public a number of plays and musicals. Her recent works include Along at War (一个人的战争) (2008、2010), Rhapsody of Doomsday (末日狂想曲) (2012), Refracted Shadow 1.0/2.0/3.0 (折影 1.0/2.0/3.0) (2014-2016) and Dining with Me (与我吃饭) (2016).

Choreographer: ZHAO Yu'an

ZHAO Yu’an, an independent screenwriter, director and mentor of drama, was a student of ZHOU Xiaoqian, a national first-class director, and graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, majoring in directing.
She took part in works such as "House Guest", "Stranger", "Sound of the Sea", "Truth", "Lies", "You Are My Loneliness", "Song of Everlasting Regret", "White Paper of Ai Qing", "The Twilight of Spring Time", and Shanghai opera "Because of Love".
Her major works include Shanghai opera “Chunhuaqiushi” (The Progression of Seasons) which was granted the Shanghai Cultural Development Fund in 2019, dance drama “Will The Snake Eat Up The Motherboard?” and textbook drama “The String of Life.”

Dramaturgy: ZHUANG Jiayun

ZHUANG Jiayun is the winner of Andrew W. Mellon Fund. She majored in screenwriting at the Central Academy of Drama and obtained doctoral degree in the field of theater and performance studies at UCLA.
She has carried out experiments on theatre in Europe, America and China, exploring the narrative mode and technical possibilities of contemporary theater. She worked as a Dramaturge for Playmakers Repertory Company, an American professional theater company, and as a planner and screenwriter at Harvard FAS CAMLab. She and Shanghai choreographer JIANG Fan set up "three kinds of bowl cooperatives" to test the possibility of cross-border dance and drama.

Stage Design: SHEN Li

SHEN Li has been a lecturer of stage art at Shanghai Theater Academy after graduation in 2000. In 2008, he received a master's degree in theatre design at Shanghai Theater Academy. Over the years, he has been dedicated to the stage design of drama, and has completed more than 60 plays of various types. At the same time, he has worked as a stage design director in the teaching of stage design major at Shanghai Theater Academy and completed more than 20 works. Since 2018, he has been invited to serve as the director of stage design for China Grand Theater drama season (from June to October each year) until now.
His personal stage design works include dramas such as “Open Couple”, “Pillow Man”, “Red Rose and White Rose”, “Bird man”, “Oriana”, “The Last War Elephant, “One Sentence Worth Ten Thousand”, “Flood”, “Scenes From A Marriage”, “Turmoil”, “Anna in the Tropics”, “Poison”, “The Play That Goes Wrong”, “ Night, Mother”, “Everlasting Regret”, “The Censor”, “The Ferry Man”, and “Hummingbirds Fly Backwards”; modern dance pieces such as "Web Traffic", "The Neighbor", "Fractured Shadow"; Kunqu opera such as "A Dream of Red Mansions", "Bolong Night"; Beijing opera such as “Ripples in the Stagnant Water.”

Lighting design: TAN Hua

TAN Hua obtained her first master degree from the Central Academy of Drama, majoring in stage lighting design and then received her second master degree of stage art from Royal Central School of Speech & Drama in the UK.

Her works include “Red Rose and White Rose”, “Hurricane”, “Breath”, “Silence”,

Music Composer: Ming

MING is an experimental musician, music producer, dramatist, video maker and guitarist of the band Mirrors. He has been engaged in video drama music for many years. The style of his works is sometimes violent and sometimes quiet, taking the listener through different dimensions of energy and power. In his work, fantasy alternates with dream, and reality disintegrates.

Multimedia Design: Atomic Visual Studio

Atomic Visual Studio is a creative visual agency based in Shanghai. Our artworks and service cover multimedia stage design, video art installation, motion visual design and creative films. With cutting-edge art style and profound comprehension of music and space, Atomic Visual Studio has designed and produced stage multimedia for hundreds of live events since 2013. These include theatre performances, art exhibitions, live-house shows, electronic parties, concerts, stadium concerts, music festivals, etc.

Atomic Visual Studio delivers brand identity with high standard art insight and aesthetic sense. Over the years and through our experienced team, we have built up long-term relationships within China and internationally-acclaimed brands across fashion, creative and tech industries. In 2018, we founded our own brand of multimedia performance.

Profound artistic aesthetics, naive and witty ideas, harmonious coexistence of numbers and life, abstract or concrete realization of every expression. Atomic Visual Studio captures cultural symbols of the latest current and manifest them through a variety of forms.

Creative Team

Directed and performed by JIANG Fan
Presented by The Three Bowls Co-op
Play writer: ZHAO Yu’an
Dramaturgy: ZHUANG Jiayun
Stage Design: SHEN Li
Lighting design: TAN Hua
Music Composer: Ming
Multimedia Design: Atomic Visual Studio
Produced by Shanghai International Dance Center Theater

About "Youth Incubator Platform"

Shanghai International Dance Center Theater Youth Incubator Platform (hereinafter referred to as "youth incubator platform") is a 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.