I am having a new journey base on an old one.
Understaning understanding understanding.
A brand new 'Understanding Drama'
So let's begin the journey, shall we?
The journey of understanding ME!
Saturday, July 25, 2009
2009 A New Start。
I am having a new journey base on an old one.
Understaning understanding understanding.
A brand new 'Understanding Drama'
So let's begin the journey, shall we?
The journey of understanding ME!
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Before-2。
Patient 39
Waiting outside.
The chair-white
The door-white
The floor-kinda white
The window frames-pale cool grey
The gown-white
The wall-white
Patient 39
His face has a touch of rosey colour on the cheek bone, red lips which looks like it has just been put on some lip balm, dark brown eyes, brown eyebrows, black hair. He is wearing everthing against white and any cool, cold colour tones. That makes him ridiculous.
Patient 39 doesn't care, really. Because the doctors are going to be white and this is the only way to let himself different to those monsters.
The machine outside the white door is now showing '39' with a mechanical voice spoken.
Patient 39 is thinking... truth or lie for this meaningless session.
Mmmm....
Waiting outside.
The chair-white
The door-white
The floor-kinda white
The window frames-pale cool grey
The gown-white
The wall-white
Patient 39
His face has a touch of rosey colour on the cheek bone, red lips which looks like it has just been put on some lip balm, dark brown eyes, brown eyebrows, black hair. He is wearing everthing against white and any cool, cold colour tones. That makes him ridiculous.
Patient 39 doesn't care, really. Because the doctors are going to be white and this is the only way to let himself different to those monsters.
The machine outside the white door is now showing '39' with a mechanical voice spoken.
Patient 39 is thinking... truth or lie for this meaningless session.
Mmmm....
I Do
Igor Stravinsky。
Les Noces。
Michael Clark。
Merce Cunningham。
Yves Saint Laurent。
This time, I saw some really amazing movements, phrases from the Cunningham technique, and started to appreciate the beauty of it.
Thank you, Mr. Clark.
And to the hero,
Igor Stravinsky.
Les Noces。
Michael Clark。
Merce Cunningham。
Yves Saint Laurent。
This time, I saw some really amazing movements, phrases from the Cunningham technique, and started to appreciate the beauty of it.
Thank you, Mr. Clark.
And to the hero,
Igor Stravinsky.
I don't feel like dancing.
Victoria and Albert Museum-
1. The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957.
2. The Art of Lee Miller.
3. Collaborators: UK Design For Performance 2003-2007.
Tate Modern-
1. The World as a Stage.
2. The Unilever Series: Doris Salcedo.
Barbican Centre-
1. Michael Clark Company: Stravinksy Project Part 3. (DONE)
2. Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now.
Southbank Centre- Queen Elizabeth's Hall
Rational Rec Goes Southbank! (Sat 10-Nov-2007)
Future Events:
Sadler's Wells-
Rambert Dance Company: 17-Nov-2007, 24-May-2008
La La La Human Steps: 2-Feb-2008
Pina Bausch: 17-Feb-2008
Netherlands Dans Theatre 1: 02-Apr-2008
Random Dance: 12-Apr-2008
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
Phoenix Dance Theatre: 29-Apr-2008
The Ballet Boyz: 10-May-2008
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui-17-May-2008
Dance Now Exchange:China/UK: 13-June-2008
Akram Khan Company: 14-June-2008
Southbank Centre- Queen Elizabeth's Hall-
Henry Oguike Dance Company: 12,13-Mar-2008
(WeiChun Luo is one of the dancers in this company, and she is my good friend, Hooray!)
National Theatre-
Much Ado About Nothing
1. The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957.
2. The Art of Lee Miller.
3. Collaborators: UK Design For Performance 2003-2007.
Tate Modern-
1. The World as a Stage.
2. The Unilever Series: Doris Salcedo.
Barbican Centre-
1. Michael Clark Company: Stravinksy Project Part 3. (DONE)
2. Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now.
Southbank Centre- Queen Elizabeth's Hall
Rational Rec Goes Southbank! (Sat 10-Nov-2007)
Future Events:
Sadler's Wells-
Rambert Dance Company: 17-Nov-2007, 24-May-2008
La La La Human Steps: 2-Feb-2008
Pina Bausch: 17-Feb-2008
Netherlands Dans Theatre 1: 02-Apr-2008
Random Dance: 12-Apr-2008
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
Phoenix Dance Theatre: 29-Apr-2008
The Ballet Boyz: 10-May-2008
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui-17-May-2008
Dance Now Exchange:China/UK: 13-June-2008
Akram Khan Company: 14-June-2008
Southbank Centre- Queen Elizabeth's Hall-
Henry Oguike Dance Company: 12,13-Mar-2008
(WeiChun Luo is one of the dancers in this company, and she is my good friend, Hooray!)
National Theatre-
Much Ado About Nothing
No, not today.
Someone comes and goes,
as everyone has the same chance to pass me by,
or step into my life.
The sun was shining that day,
But it seemed not to pay any attention today,
even it was just right up there.
Not today,
the sun would not shine here.
He doesn't and nor do you.
And I?
The tears could not shed for any of you today.
No,
not today.
as everyone has the same chance to pass me by,
or step into my life.
The sun was shining that day,
But it seemed not to pay any attention today,
even it was just right up there.
Not today,
the sun would not shine here.
He doesn't and nor do you.
And I?
The tears could not shed for any of you today.
No,
not today.
1。
-How do you feel right now?
-Very good.
-How do you feel when you lie to me that you feel very good?
-Even better!
-You need help.
-Yes, Can you please tell me how to feel bad?
-You are feeling bad.
-Err, I don't think so. I am feeling good as I told you.
-You are feeling good just because you are telling a lie.
-So?
-So, just be honest, and you will start to feel bad.
-......
-How are you feeling right now?
-......
-Feeling bad?
-......
-Ok, I will see you next week at the same time. Try to be honest, and tell me how that feels next time I see you.
-......
-Very good.
-How do you feel when you lie to me that you feel very good?
-Even better!
-You need help.
-Yes, Can you please tell me how to feel bad?
-You are feeling bad.
-Err, I don't think so. I am feeling good as I told you.
-You are feeling good just because you are telling a lie.
-So?
-So, just be honest, and you will start to feel bad.
-......
-How are you feeling right now?
-......
-Feeling bad?
-......
-Ok, I will see you next week at the same time. Try to be honest, and tell me how that feels next time I see you.
-......
Friday, September 28, 2007
Getting to know myself-1
After leaving the busy MA course, I finally have some time to be with my own, doing nothing.
Thinking that how much I grow up since last time I really aware of that.
An incident just happened week ago, and affected me quite a lot.
I should be very emotional and upset, but I didn't.
The calm makes me feel creepy, because I can still feel that I want to be like that instead of being so calm.
Therefore, I decided to go on a diet. Try to do something not very good but won't do any serious harm.
Then , I wonder, I am doing this.
If I need to cry or complain, and why shouldn't I?
Is it just because I should be like a grown-up, but not like a child who's moaning about life?
The fact may be as simple as that I could not face the truth and wouldn't want it to bring up the self that I have been hidden for years.
How sad...
Still trying to figure it out.
But for now, I would say that I am still very much like a child, especially dealing with love and relationships. That makes me feel ridiculous. Will get on with the madness and keep my bloody miserable life going on and on.
MingX
Thinking that how much I grow up since last time I really aware of that.
An incident just happened week ago, and affected me quite a lot.
I should be very emotional and upset, but I didn't.
The calm makes me feel creepy, because I can still feel that I want to be like that instead of being so calm.
Therefore, I decided to go on a diet. Try to do something not very good but won't do any serious harm.
Then , I wonder, I am doing this.
If I need to cry or complain, and why shouldn't I?
Is it just because I should be like a grown-up, but not like a child who's moaning about life?
The fact may be as simple as that I could not face the truth and wouldn't want it to bring up the self that I have been hidden for years.
How sad...
Still trying to figure it out.
But for now, I would say that I am still very much like a child, especially dealing with love and relationships. That makes me feel ridiculous. Will get on with the madness and keep my bloody miserable life going on and on.
MingX
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
UPDATE-Filming Dance
Have absolutly no idea how to use the internet album onto this blog, but it looks fun, in a way, click the cyberlinks if you are interested in something you cannot see at the moment, click on it, and you can see the actual pictures, MAGIC!!! We love internet, we love technology, aren't we!
Well, I am back!
Gosh, here looks crap!
Dun have internet at the moment, but will keep putting as much as I can.
Mingx
Dun have internet at the moment, but will keep putting as much as I can.
Mingx
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
The Seagull。
In Anton Chekcov's "The Seagull"
Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev says the following line.
"Yes, I'm more and more convinced it's not to do with old forms or new forms, it's what someone writes not even thinking about form, but writing what flows freely from his heart."
How moving that is.
It's totally not important it is conventional or pioneer, but to say what our desires are and those we really want to tell.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
DECONSTRUCT
The word presents a very strong idea of what I want to do within the final show. Using adapted texts from various plays, performing by actor and dancers, putting video and sound recording along with the relation to costume.
Looking at the nature of performance, we all try to use as much visual language as we could to approach our themes. But for the little backup and mostly work on our own, things could be too ambitious according to the situation we are. As Magda once said to me after my presentation: It’s gonna be a Hollywood production.
Got few question for myself as a push for me to get a little distance from where I am and cautions as well.
Texts: Adapt one novel and two plays to examine the theme of love and sex, especially the way, how people act from our own desire. Hide or show? How much? And how to? Can the conversations in the plays and the words in the novel give us any clue or even one solution or simple answer to it? But there is always something beyond the words and conversations: humanity, which is always the main subject that theatre worked before, is working at the moment and will still work on it in the future. Will deconstruct the texts helping to get us a little bit closer to our wanting?
Dance: A very poetic, abstract and organic form to show our feeling, which simply comes out from bodies. While I am thinking through this piece, dance became the element that seemed to be very beautiful and useful form. But at this stage, the ‘WHY’ of using dance does matter a lot, since I realised it won’t deconstruct anything from the subject conceptually and visually.
Video: An extremely trendy visual language in theatre. This area is the part that I have the most little confidence in the project for both filming and editing scene and skill. Although I do have something in mind that I want to use on stage. But it seems to be the weakest link since it has been considered less than other parts, so I am thinking of taking this off. Now, I will leave this to be subjective and try to work on it more and see where it goes.
Acting and recorded voices: These two parts have the strongest connection. By playing three characters through one performer on stage and interact with the voice’s own characters from whom I record. Bring the subject of gender by role playing and changing. Voice will deconstruct the characters, and performer will so the gender.
I want to use the deconstruction to find a way out and help me getting closer to the theme, and once the action started, it cannot be stopped by anyhow. And since I am de constructing it, I should be braver to do it more, more and more.
Looking at the nature of performance, we all try to use as much visual language as we could to approach our themes. But for the little backup and mostly work on our own, things could be too ambitious according to the situation we are. As Magda once said to me after my presentation: It’s gonna be a Hollywood production.
Got few question for myself as a push for me to get a little distance from where I am and cautions as well.
Texts: Adapt one novel and two plays to examine the theme of love and sex, especially the way, how people act from our own desire. Hide or show? How much? And how to? Can the conversations in the plays and the words in the novel give us any clue or even one solution or simple answer to it? But there is always something beyond the words and conversations: humanity, which is always the main subject that theatre worked before, is working at the moment and will still work on it in the future. Will deconstruct the texts helping to get us a little bit closer to our wanting?
Dance: A very poetic, abstract and organic form to show our feeling, which simply comes out from bodies. While I am thinking through this piece, dance became the element that seemed to be very beautiful and useful form. But at this stage, the ‘WHY’ of using dance does matter a lot, since I realised it won’t deconstruct anything from the subject conceptually and visually.
Video: An extremely trendy visual language in theatre. This area is the part that I have the most little confidence in the project for both filming and editing scene and skill. Although I do have something in mind that I want to use on stage. But it seems to be the weakest link since it has been considered less than other parts, so I am thinking of taking this off. Now, I will leave this to be subjective and try to work on it more and see where it goes.
Acting and recorded voices: These two parts have the strongest connection. By playing three characters through one performer on stage and interact with the voice’s own characters from whom I record. Bring the subject of gender by role playing and changing. Voice will deconstruct the characters, and performer will so the gender.
I want to use the deconstruction to find a way out and help me getting closer to the theme, and once the action started, it cannot be stopped by anyhow. And since I am de constructing it, I should be braver to do it more, more and more.
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