Let's Have a Stroll on an Autumn's Day

Let's Have a Stroll on an Autumn's Day is an inter-disciplinary environmental theatre comprising of literature, performing arts, installation, sound, technology and etc. The project motivates participants to unveil the distant yet conflicting relationships of the past and the present, the reality and the imaginary, and the city and its dwellers. The story is about an old man, who realized his memory was failing, and how to resistant forgetting.

Listening Comprehension – Barbershop

We humans are social beings and there are often complicated social explanations behind all our behaviours, far beyond our perception. It all begins at a men’s barbershop at Nanhai E-COOL community. How would we get to know each other, respect each other and judge each other in such a space? And would we be capable of facing ourselves in the mirror and feel our unease when we get our haircut done? It is an audio-visual experiment involving all the participants on site, and also an environmental theatre which is deeply rooted in Shenzhen andintertwined with the community. In this project, you are not passively “told” or “led” but the “narrative”, you have to “listen” and “dig” actively from the context that the artists provided.

Lao Bon Academy

Aiming to pull the general public from the pool of falseness, Mr. Lao and Miss Bondy come up with a joint operation addressing social issues. By perceiving hardcore theories in a comprehensible way, restructuring every little piece of meaning of our daily lives, information is refreshed into a more understandable, truthful and reliable way. Mr. Lao and Miss Bondy are determined to diffuse the authenticity of knowledge and truthfulness of the information, purposefully educate each student from the academy to be more conscious of the meaning of knowledge so well as the connotation underneath knowledge. Exploring limitless possibilities in the ocean of knowledge without boundaries, the greatest seizure of humanity is from arrogance and overconfidence. When we consider we are literary enough to view the world with a well-educated lens, Lao Bon Academy , above all, is ready to bring students to a new level of seeing knowledge.

Big Joy Party – Shekou

We see a lot of emo, anxiety, stress, worry in busy work, social interactions and relationships of all kinds. Don’t we have a moment of joy in between? This joy doesn’t means necessarily to play around or be funny, but more to do with the humorous moments in serious work, social discussions and relationships. Actually, these shining moments are the strength to support us to live. In Big Joy Party - Shekou, we hope to present a grand and happy parade performance, so as to deliver the local happy energy to more people. To highlights Lingnan style and profession features, we capture some life fragments and load them with songs, dances, dramas, Chinese operas, martial arts and other art elements.

Dream House

It is said that there is a mysterious Dream Eager. He has never been able to sleep at night and dreamed anything, so he is more eager to dream than anyone else. There are dreams in the Dream House that Dream Eager collects, and they are all related to a “Don Quixote” type of complex that Dream Eager yearns for. One day, you are invited by Dream Eager to Dream House to discover the secrets of him and Dream House. － Who is the Dream Eager? Who made a deal with Dream Eager? Why do they sell their dreams and confine them in the Dream House? You will make your own choice － How would you like to leave the Dream House? Or would you rather live here forever?

Nezha: The Mad Qiankun Hoop

The Qiankun Hoop, an ancient treasure of Nezha, is the externalization of his bad temper. Only when he learns to control his “temper” can the hoop be a lifesaver, rather than a murder weapon. For children, learning how to cope with bad emotions is also a vital lesson in their lives.

Catfish Effect - Sea World

“The catfish effect” is a Chinese proverb that stemmed from the fishery practice in which people put a catfish in a sardine shipment to stir up the ecology and increase the survival rate of the sardines. The catfish effect is closely related to social issues such as ethnic divisions, competitive relationships, and identity belongings. Through the combination of dance theater and architectural space, the site-specific dance piece Catfish Effect - Sea World uses the way of identity experiment and practice as research in virtue of a seaside scene with immersive performance to explore the diverse facets of the common rule in modern society.

Picnic

It all begins on one blanket. Hilariousness, ridiculousness, pretending, and the truth...these are all reflected in the intertwining relations between people and people, people and the groups, and people and the world. The dancers tried to explore a state of daily life in this work, which has given birth to many interesting body languages and has led to the discovery of deeper meaning in dancers' body movements, as well as stressing the spatial awareness constructed by their body expressions. You can easily feel the vitality and exploring mentality in Picnic .

At Land At Sea

A mysterious woman is found washed up on the shores of Shekou. Who is she? Someone’s mother? A lost daughter? A migrant worker? A factory girl from the past? Or a robot from the future? She is all of them and more for she is Nvwa, Shekou’s patron goddess. What would happen if Nvwa visited our city of the 21st century? What if she walked among us? Inspired by the 1944 film At Land by avant garde film director Maya Deren and the role of women in Shekou’s past, present and future the Shenzhen Women’s Artist Collective invites you to pop-ups, screening, and an immersive performance installation entitled At Land At Sea.

Sea the Realm of the Infinite

Sea the Realm of the Infinite integrates digital images and augmented reality technology into the unique atmosphere of the Shekou Value Factory, creating an immersive drama that combines the fantasy of the Aeneid and Oriental Zen. From the submerged city in a bottle, the cave banquet to the transcendent water palace, between the industrial field and surreal illusion, a page of meditation will be gradually unfolded: perhaps everyone has an endless ocean in their heart.

Finding You, Meeting Me

In the Peony Pavilion, Du Liniang was unable to fulfill her dream, so she made her own portrait by the mirror before she committed he. Outside the Peony Pavilion, a Kunqu drama performer who plays the role of Du Liniang also starts seeking her dream. In and out of the drama, she strongly connected with the character and herself, so these two women from different eras have raised similar appealing during their struggle to take control of their own destiny. Whether it is a journey of search that nowhere to be found or is an echo that aroused by obsession? The answer seems so far away while so close at hand...