Life needs dream

This is where I spent my weekend last week. watching Life is a Dream at Donmar Warehouse. because of the poster printed that 'If I'm asleep, don't let me wake. If this is real, don't let me dream.' attract my attention. That stimulate my curiosity, the question is "when dreams are life and life's a dream. What does it mean? "
I really love the actor played a Polish prince Segismundo whose soul inside a savage monster. He brings feral and lonely to the role. Moreover, on the stage, there are a gold encrusted backwall and a metal prison door. and some old-fashioned bulbs as the stars around the planet above the stage. em... nothing more to say...


by Parc André-Citroën, Paris

Many times we get disappointed in life, or things just refuse to go the way we want it. but without dream of the furture, can you imagine that? maybe everything is meaningless.

keep on dreaming please ...

Climate Change

We all hear plenty of discussion about climate change on a daily basis. but we often forgot that relate to us. Our First collaborative project focuses on how climate change has affected the us on specific point. It looks at the issue from a perspective that anyone who has individual point can understand.

From my point of view, a strong impression about how climate change made our life different was my experience. The terrible sandstorm which I experienced in Beijing three years ago. I witnessed the sky of the city suddenly changed its color, and people must covered face in order to block off wind and sand when they walking on the street. therefore the visual image about climate change in my head is dirty air environment such as smoke. For this purpose, I choose symbolic image that clouds of smoke and steam filled the air. The smoke grew heavier and thicker, blurred the landscape.



The project process has been an important work experience for me to keep myself on track and constructed new research plan. Also I recognize that multimedia performance really push the performance to an entirely new level of energy and excitement for the audience.

What a giant impact of the nature.

stage or 'anti' stage?

I watched an independent movie "Clerks" which directed by Kevin Smith last week. it is a story about a clerk named Dante Hicksone deal with multiple problems on his particular Saturday. There are only two performing places for the whole film, one is a local convenience store and the other is DVD store. So there are no special-effect scenes and famous actors. But if you dig humor of life , then this film delivers the goods with the dialogue. I think the question for everyone before watch the movie is were you as happy in your 20s as you think you were? obviously the clerk wasn't, whatever career or girlfriend.

The film remind me think about Tim Crouch's play 'The Author'. it also have intelligent dialogue but no stage. It's an brilliant idea for the communication which explores the boundaries between actors and spectators. I found the dialogue is so powerful at that time.

However I also believe that visual impact is as the same standing as script. an two hours play cannot perform without lighting design and stage design, each part cannot attract the audience by itself till two hours.