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Theater Identity  ZHANG Xian March 15, 2023, Wednesday, CET 13:00 PM, Beijing Time 20:00 PM Zoom: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/64857394408 Meeting ID: 648 5739 4408 Hosts: Prof. Dr. Ziwen Gao (Nanjing University), Dr. Yumin Ao (The University of Göttingen) Zhang Xian is a playwright, theater director, social choreographer, and arts activist. As one of the first independent and avant-garde dramatists in post-Mao China, he has …

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Topic: The Seeds of Drama—Taking The Clothes of Rongyi as an example 戏剧的种子——以《戎夷之衣》为例 Speaker: LI Jing, Playwright, Literary Critic  Time: Feb. 22nd, Beijing Time 8:00 PM, Central European Time 1:00 PM Zoom: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/64401512154 Meeting ID: 644 0151 2154 Language: Chinese 李静，剧作家，文学评论家。著有话剧《大先生》《秦国喜剧》《戎夷之衣》，出版有五卷本文集《我害怕生活》（包括《必须冒犯观众》《捕风记》《王小波的遗产》《致你》《戎夷之衣》)等。现居北京。《戎夷之衣》这部作品改编自《吕氏春秋·恃君览第八》中戎夷解衣的故事，一个人的棉衣和另一个人的余生，就这样被紧紧地焊接在一起。本次讲座作者将以此为例谈谈如何形成和确立一部戏的精神主题。这主题是一部戏的核心和种子。 Li Jing, playwright, and literary critic, is the author of Mr. Big, Comedy of the State of Qin, and the Clothes of Rongyi, …

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讲题：昆曲《牡丹亭》赏析  时间：3月23日周四，欧洲中部时间晚上8:00-9:30 Zoom: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/69098114580 Meeting ID: 690 9811 4580    扫描二微码参与 个人简介：肖向平，中国戏剧家协会会员，国家二级演员，上海戏剧学院戏曲表演系毕业，同年进入中国昆曲博物馆工作，后为北方昆曲剧院演员。京昆兼修，师从岳美缇、蔡正仁、石小梅和马玉森老师。第四届“江苏省戏剧奖·红梅奖”铜奖，第四届中国昆曲艺术节优秀青年演员表演奖（文化部）。 讲座提纲： 开场（昆曲介绍） 昆曲是中国戏曲百花园中最为历史悠久和腔韵独特的剧种之一，其表演艺术集中了中国戏曲的精髓，被誉为“百戏之祖”，并于2001年5月获联合国教科文组织授予世界首批“人类口头和非物质遗产代表作”称号。昆曲，起源于历史上元末明初江苏省昆山地区，是中国乃至世界现存最古老的，具有悠久传统艺术的剧种，流传至今已有600 余年的历史。昆剧唱腔清柔婉转、格律严谨、细腻精致。剧本来源几乎涵盖了中国整部戏曲史，有着深厚的中国传统文化积淀和很高的文学价值。 主题（行当和表演的介绍） 1. 曲牌赏析（遶地遊，皂羅袍，山桃紅） 【绕地游】(旦上)梦回莺莺，乱煞年光遍。人立小庭深院。(贴)炼尽沉烟，抛残绣线，惜今春关情似去年？（杜丽娘/春香） 【鲲罗袍】原来詹紫嫣红开遍，好像这一般都付与断井缨垣。良辰美景奈何天，赏心乐事谁家院！（杜丽娘/春香） 【山桃红】则为你如花美眸，似水流年，是答儿闲寻遍。在幽闺自怨自艾。小姐姐，和你那答儿讲话去。(旦作含笑不行)(生作牵)衣(旦低问)那里去？(生)转过这草药栏前，紧靠着湖山石边。(旦低问)秀才，去怎么的？(生低答)和你把领扣松，衣带宽，腰椎儿搐着牙儿苫也。则待你忍耐温存一醒。(旦作羞)(生前抱)(旦推介)(合)是那处曾相见，相看亦然，早难遇好处相逢无言？（柳梦梅/杜丽娘） 2. 行当（闺门旦，六旦，小生） 3. 表演（手，眼，身，法，步） 尾声（提问时间）

Topic: The Art of Audience Participation in Applied Theatre  Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Estella Wong, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Time: Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, 13: 00 PM -14: 30 PM CET, Hong Kong Time 20: 00-21: 30 PM Language: English Link:   https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/69482194990 Meeting ID: 694 8219 4990 Scan the QR code to join the …

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Xiao Jing works as a director and playwright in the theater. She majored in literature and education at Beijing Normal University. In 2017 she started to work independently as a director, devoting herself to exploring the combination of fiction and non-fiction, introducing real material, events, and history into the theater. She hopes to use theater …

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Yinfu Gao, born in China, Germany-based performer, director, dramaturgy, and dancer. M.A Applied Theater Studies in University Gießen. She works as a research-based solo performer, who likes to explore the poetic relation between self-written texts and her own body movement. Her recent solo performance “Mulans” is based on the research of feminism history in China …

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Born in Chengdu, grew up in England, and now based in Paris. Theatre composer, Kun opera actress, and afro-dancehall dancer. Composing with physical scores, pre-expression, and the theatrical montage. Composing where intimacy dances the tango with politics. Composing the theatre where no playhouse exists. Hoping to construct “theatre as tunnel” with homage to “art as …

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Flora Wang is a passionate drama director. Though she has no systematic drama education background, she has a unique taste and insight into “stage performance”. In March 2021, she initiated an NGO in Athens, consisting of a group of drama lovers——the “Sino-Hellenic Performing Arts Alliance”, and has presented two drama plays as the screenwriter and …

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Guccini is a scenographer, visual artist, art director, and performance maker from Shanghai and is currently based in London. She enjoys creating multi-sensory spaces or scenarios that invite people to gather and experience. She has worked design placement with Punchdrunk’s Burnt City and presented her group exhibition in The Crypt Gallery. Guccini is currently a …

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Yash(Yifei) Zhang(b. 1999) is an independent filmmaker, photographer, and theatre actor from Tengzhou, China. He is currently pursuing a Creative Documentary MFA at University College London(UCL). He graduated from Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, with a B.A. in self-designed interdisciplinary major between Theatre and Film&Media Studies. In 2019, he received a certificate for studying 6-week filmmaking …

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