“Embodying the Dynamism of Contemporary Dance, The Moon Opera Transforms the Body into a Language of the Soul”
The Moon Opera, of the Yabin and Her Friends series created by dancer Wang Yabin together with local and foreign artists, will be staged at the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in early October.
(August 19, 2015, Beijing) Announced today by the creative team of Yabin and Her Friends’ seventh season, theatrical dance The Moon Opera-created by Chinese dancer and choreographer Wang Yabin-will have its world premiere at the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) October 4-6, 2015, and is also to be staged at the Shanghai International Arts Festival October 19-20.
As the outcome of Yabin and Her Friends’s seventh season, a project funded by the China National Arts Fund for 2014 and commissioned by the 2015 Shanghai International Arts Festival as part of the Young Artists Initiative, The Moon Opera was created and produced by Yabin Dance Studio and co-produced by Jiangsu Province Performing Arts Group Co., Ltd. Adapted from a novel of the same title by celebrated Chinese contemporary author Bi Feiyu, the project is directed, choreographed and starred by Wang Yabin. In adherence to the mission established in 2009 of “uniting local and foreign talents to create and perform,” Yabin Studio has invited experts and talents from around the world to contribute: well-known Chinese virtuoso opera singer and artist Pei Yanling as Peking Opera advisor; Chinese composer Guo Sida and Polish composer Olga Wojciechowska, the latter of whom has previously worked with Yabin Studios in composing the score for Genesis 生长produced by Yabin Studio in 2013; Kimie Nakano from the world-famous Akram Khan Dance Troupe as costume-designer; Matt Deely as set designer; and lighting designer Wiley Cessa. Wang Yabin herself is main choreographer, but worked in collaboration with fellow choreographers Fan Lei and Zhang Zhi, and top Chinese dancers Li Xing, Shan Sihan, Bi Ran, Qian Kun and Wang Mingchao.
“As contemporary dance evolves, the challenge facing both myself and contemporary Chinese choreographers is to maintain an international outlook-creating art that is both in-step with and communicable to dance communities worldwide-while striving to encapsulate dance as the corporeal language of the soul,” says Wang Yabin, producer of The Moon Opera, in a press conference. “It is such insights that allow Yabin Studio as an independent private dance studio to unite the best resources at home and abroad to produce three dance dramas Genesis 生长, Dream in Three Episodes and The Moon Opera over the past seven years. In addition to the rights of these three dance dramas, Yabin Studio also owns those of other dances created by top-class Chinese and foreign choreographers over the past seven years; these include Seeking, Vanished Body, Overnight Drizzle, and A World Apart. With over a hundred dancers and artists participating in Yabin and Her Friends, such works not only enrich Chinese dance creatively but also places it on the world stage, promoting its inclusion to the international art scene.”
Adapting The Moon Opera to dance has been Wang Yabin’s dream for many years, not only due to the engrossing nature of Bi Feiyu’s novel but also because in it, she discovered the central theme of “where to pin one’s life”-a question on which everyone, Wang believes, should ponder. Xiao Yanqiu pinned hers on Qing Yi (a traditional Chinese theatrical figure usually clothed in black), but Wang herself pins her life on the art of dance. In dance she sees the “pain of life”, which, she says, teaches one endurance and how to face those we love.
This piece is the first directed by Wang Yabin, and despite the large amount of effort put into its preparations, the dance is a work of minimalism. Offering a more pronounced flexibility and depth than the novel, The Moon Opera presents a panoramic experience by means of a new, audio-visual language.
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