Wen Hui
Memory
Memory
© Wen Hui _ I am 60 © Li Yinjun 的副本 ©
Memory
Choreography, Wen Hui
Music, Wen Bin
Light, Edwin Van Steenbergen
Animation Films, Hao Zhiqiang
Costumes, Shang Xiuzhen
Photographers, Ricky Wong, Odette Scott
Dramatic Art and video, Wu Wenguang
With Feng Dehua, Wen Hui, Wu Wenguang
Production Living Dance Studio
Coproduction Biennale de la Danse/Lyon, Centre national de la Danse
Corealisation Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of HenPhil Pillsbury Fund The Minneapolis Foundation & King’s Fountain and Borneoco/Pays Bas ; French Ambassy in China and Festival Croisements
Thanks to Estelle Zheng, Zheng Fuming, Tian Gebing, Berenice Reynaud, Cha Jianying, Zhong Su, Liu Heng
Tour:
Impact / Toronto, Septembre 24 and 25
Bozar Dance / Bruxelles, Novembre 14
Théâtre du Pavillon Noir / Aix-en-Provence, Decembre 3 and 4
Théâtre Garonne / Toulouse, January 2010, 24 to 30
Living Dance Studio was created in 1994 by choreographer Wen Hui and documentary filmmaker Wu Wenguang. Memory was inspired by one of Wen Hui’s children performances in front of her parents. Including songs, family photographs and film extracts, she creates a symphony of memory and an intimate testimony of China in the 1960s.
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