Type of Event: Performance

Time: 19:00-20:10

Location: UCCA Pavilion

Collaborator:
ZhaoLiang ART

Event Introduction:
Meridian: UCCA Spring Festival at UCCA will kick off with the Beijing premiere of Zhao Liang’s “Martial Art in Dance: WUshu.” “WUShu,” choreographed and produced by independent dance studio ZhaoLiang ART, is Director Zhao Liang’s latest production since his “Soul & Desire Trilogy,” and was the only dance piece commissioned by 19th China Shanghai International Arts Festival. By exploring the relationship between Tai Chi and Cha Quan with weapons like broadswords, spears, rods, and swords, the physical contact leads to their fusion, creating a balance between martial arts and dance, rigidity and placidity, separation and reunion, creation and destruction.

The words for martial art and dance are phonetically analogous in Chinese, having distinct manifestations, but growing from a common root. Martial artists know when to attack and when to defend, and to emphasize the connection between the self and the external world. Dancers are versed in the relationship between motion and stillness, placing themselves in the space separating human confusion and spiritual inquiries to the universe. “Martial Art in Dance: WUShu” seeks to combine martial arts and dance, dissolving the boundary between them by returning to the core of physical movement.

“Martial Art in Dance: WUShu” both honors and reinterprets traditional Chinese culture, endeavoring “change its form but keep its essence.” The movement from chaos to order, the flights and falls of the mind, and the intake and outtake of breath, are all reflected in this performance.

Creative Team:
Zhao Liang (Choreographer), thruoutin (Composer) , Liu Hengzhi (Lighting Designer), Wudi (Scenic Designer), Wang Jia (Stylist)

Performers:
Li Yu (Performer: Cudgel), Gong Xingxing (Performer: Sword), Zhang Kun (Performer: Broadsword), Zhang Zhenguo (Performer: Spear), Liao Yuanwu (Performer: Sword), Li Nan (Performer: Broadsword), Cao Peizhong (Performer: Tai Chi), Aiys Song (Special Guest Cellist)

Ticketing：
120 RMB/Adult
100 RMB/UCCA Member

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Type of Event: Performances

Location: UCCA Nave

Times: 14:00-15:00, 17:00-18:00

Event Introduction:
UCCA presents two free public performances featuring Japanese calligrapher Mami, Japanese Shamisen musician Sakata Atsushi aka Tokyo Ghetto Shamisen, and the Far Wind Chamber Music Ensemble. Brush and Strings, the title of the performance, refers to the East Asian stringed instruments and calligraphy featured therein, hinting at the new possibilities emerging from the collaboration of these traditional art and musical forms and allowing audience members to discover both how they have evolved both in and beyond East Asia.

Language: n/a

Ticketing: Free

*Seating is limited; ticket-holders for Sky Ladder and the current exhibition enjoy priority seating;
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