liquid loft & jin xing dance theatre
liquid loft creates room. a liquid loft. persons are moved. inside. sensitively. they talk about encoding, outfit, transgression, sound bytes, settings… they walk gently, almost levitating. no one steps in. no one stops the process. china is vast and this too is a good thing. the socialite, or shall we call her a lounge lizard, tells of winters in the private room. in the back, wan tao is grinning. strangers are posing, divas are whispering secretly. a lot happens simoultanously, the performances escalates. one feels at ease.
the china project
the china project is the central performance of the lounge set and has been developed by Liquid Loft and the Jin Xing dance theatre, at the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center. the performance reconstructs sets of various zones of transgression, crossing frontiers of communication, conflicts and their encodings. gender roles, societal rules, the design of life and its surfaces become evident on the body. a very personal story, the design of being of Jin Xing: former colonel in the chinese military, decorated as best dancer in china, successfull choreographer, film actress and singer… her transition from man to woman has brought forth the underlying, essential image of beatuy, permeating societys surface.
a copy/paste procedure presents dancers in an incessantly novel context and various constellations. it exhibit roles we take on and modify daily, as well as the design of life we continously create ourselves. and it challenges codes in design, art, fashion and lifestyle in a very personal way.
meeting jin xing
meeting Jin Xing happens in the intimate setting of a place that – for now – does not admit the public. a private dialogue with changing conversationalists. the body as visible expression of an inner state. this private shell as the surface of public discourse serves as the basis for talking about societal de/constructions.
ah. poetry
he wanted to convey deep sorrow and heartache through very simple means, but was unfortunately a very bad poet. transformation comes through simple verse and the border between tragedy and comedy, as the jester shows, is very thin. as are the borders between monstrosity and beauty, virtuality and nature, playing and simply being. the transforming body with all its possibilities, in the end becomes a poem itself. one chapter of orlandos life was framed by poetry. following the famous literally work of Virginia Woolf, Stephanie Cummings performance refers to the social construct of gender roles, the arbitrariness of our sense of time and the “involuntariness” of recollection.
mode francaise
Mode Francaise debates body standards in fashion designs, the mechanisms thereof and life in general. freely redesigning these norms the featured and features respectively, to participate in the spectacle, Jakob Lena Knebel scratches the surface, grazes the self, blinds and fascinates, is obscene yet moderate. the independet self questions the power of fashion, opposes social standards with pluarlity, intersex and the “queer idea”.
neufundland
the second skin is the interface between the individual and the outside world. despite all hopes and fears, projection and surpression of society inits most current shape, the individual remains the protagonist on the stage of daily life. skin is the combat zone. existence is characterized by a self chosen look and feel, the outfit and an artificially created self concept. Neufundland reminds of the setting of a fashion show as a contemporary “theatre of sale”.
start: 25th of june 2009. 7:00 pm. sommerszene salzburg.
