2026
“Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Hamburg–Shanghai Partnership Documentary Theatre Performance: It’s Time to Get Old!“ Hamburg, Germany, September 24th-25th, 2026
Blending football, video games, and live performance, the production transforms the movements of older football players into virtual avatars. With humor and imagination, it explores aging, vitality, and intergenerational connections.
“Visit to MK&G’s East Asian Collection: Inspiration Japan exhibition,” Hamburg, Germany, October 1st, 2026
The visit to the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G) focuses on exploring its East Asian collection and Inspiration Japan, with particular attention to Japanese art, design, craftsmanship, and tea culture, as well as their connections to broader East Asian traditions.
“What will the future look like? Let’s act it out together!” Hamburg, Germany, September 26th, 2026
This workshop will continue the approach of The Second Half of Time! by bringing adults and children together to talk, play, and perform. The difference is that we will imagine the future together: What will the world of the future look like? And what would we like it to look like?
“Reimagining the Future Through Intergenerational Dialogue,” Hamburg, Germany, September 20th, 2026
Through a series of participatory games and performance exercises, participants imagine the future together through dialogue and negotiation, while reflecting on and redefining “us” and the world we share through their differences and common ground.
“A Journey to 2026 Theaternacht,” Hamburg, Germany, September 5th, 2026
A journey through Hamburg’s theaters, where 38 venues and more than 200 performances, workshops, and behind-the-scenes experiences transform the entire city into a vibrant, moving stage for one unforgettable night.
“A Fictional City, a Real Metaphor for the Human Condition,” Hamburg, Germany, September 5th, 2026
Inspired by Italo Calvino’s classic Invisible Cities, this workshop combines reading, discussion, and AI-generated image-making to explore how cities are continually shaped through memory, desire, language, and imagination, with AI serving as a medium for both reflection and artistic practice.
“Blossoms of Her Selves: the Bodies and Voices of Women,” Hamburg, Germany, August 22nd, 30th & September 17th, 2026
This workshop explores Blossoms of Her Selves, Dr. Yaxin Luo’s experimental adaptation of Dream of the Red Chamber. Through reading, embodied practice, voice and character work, improvisation, and group creation, participants examine female identity, desire, emotion, and power, with a focus on competition, complicity, harm, and mutual understanding among women.
“The Limitations of Self-consistency,” Hamburg, Germany, August 8th, 2026
Through theatre practice and embodied expression, participants explore the boundaries between the self, relationships, and self-awareness.
“Reading on Cherries Growing on a Pomegranate Tree: Language, Power, and the Logic of Action in Rural Society,” Hamburg, Germany, August 1st, 2026
Through a reading of Li Er’s Cherries Grow on Pomegranate Trees, participants explore the relationships between contemporary Chinese society, rural communities, and individual lives.
“Walk with me. Talk with me.” Museum Friedland, Lower Saxony, Germany, January 21st, 2026
In collaboration with Museum Friedland, the project uses participatory art and dialogue to invite refugees at the Friedland transit centre in Lower Saxony to share and shape the work through their own experiences of migration, memory, and identity. By bringing personal stories into the public space, the project connects diverse life experiences and collective memories.
“From Courtroom to Theatre: The Dramatic and Philosophical Dimensions of Law,” Hamburg, Germany, January 17th, 2026
We brought together young Chinese legal scholars in Germany to attend Arendt: Thinking in Dark Times, followed by a discussion exploring the intersections of law and theatre, with a focus on judgement, justice, power, narrative, and performance.
2025
“Walking Shadows: Leaving Everyday Identity and Entering the Theatrical Situation,” Hamburg, Germany, November 2025
“They Shoot Films on the Plateau,” Hamburg, Germany, October 2025
“One and Four,” “The Boy and the Donkey,” Hamburg, Germany, October 2025
“Chronopolitics: An Artistic Experiment Beyond Anthropocentrism,” Hamburg, Germany, October 2025
“The Journey of a Book,” Hamburg, Germany, September 2025
“Algorithmic Blank,” Frankfurt am Main, Germany, July 2025
“Artificial Intelligence, Memory, and Emotional Archives,” Hamburg, Germany, May 2025
2024
“Reimagining the Sonic World of the Guqin through Electronic Soundscapes,” Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, June 2024
“Contemporary Asian Performing Arts Season (CAPAS),” Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, May–June 2024
“Inter-Asia and Cross-continental Collaboration in Theater,” the University of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, May 2024
“Technology and Media in Contemporary Performance as a Reflection of Post-Truth Narratives,” Theater im OP, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, May 2024
“Choreographic Forms in Dance Theater,” Deutsches Theater Göttingen dt2, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, May 2024
“Space and Touch in Digital Presence,” the University of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, May 2024
“Mediating Corporeal Dialogue Across Time through Motion Capturing Technology,” the University of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, May 2024
“Curatorial Consciousness in Ergao Dance Production Group,” Online, January 2024
2023
“Creative Practice of Butterfly Island and the Use of Synthetic Scenes as a Methodology,” Online, December 2023
“The Force of Mortality and Urban Villages Futurism of Butterfly Island,” Online, November 2023
“Folding Cities,” Frankfurt am Main, Germany, July 2023
“The Transformation of Modern Shanghai Theatre from the Perspective of Cultural History,” Frankfurt am Main, Germany, July 2023
“Body and Space,” Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, June 2023
“Theatre as Wild Grass,” Online, May 2023
“Theater Identity,” Online, March 2023
“The Appreciation of Kunqu Opera: The Peony Pavilion,” Online, March 2023
“The Seeds of Drama—Taking The Clothes of Rongyi as an Example,” Online, February 2023
“The Art of Audience Participation in Applied Theatre,” Online, January 2023
2022
“International Symposium on Contemporary Asian Theatre,” the University of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, December 2022
“Draft Theater: Beyond the Assembly-Line Model of Theatre Production,” Online, November 2022
“Hello, Stranger!” Frankfurt am Main, Germany, July 2022
“Writing new plays in China and the US,” Online, April 2022
“Comedies in contemporary Chinese theatre – a sudden boom,” Online, March 2022
“Play and Performance of Hometown: A Talk on College Theater Production,” Online, January 2022
2021
“The Poetic Quest and Its Expression in Dramatic Writing,” Online, November 2021
“Cantonese Opera in a Shakespearean Garb: An East-West Adaptation Framework,” Online, October 2022
“Plärren,” Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, July 2021
“The Last Laugh,” Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, July 2021
“Writing a Play Script and Teaching How to Write One,” Online, May 2022
“Performing the Socialist State,” Online, May 2022
“Cross-arts Collaboration and Crossing Borders in Art,” Online, January 2021
2020
“Contemporary Chinese Theatre – Lecture Series,” the University of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, 2020–2024
“Juchang: Contemporary Theatre Performance in Germany and in China,” Online, December 2020
“Thunderstorm 2.0,” Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, September 2020
“The Sound Topography of Göttingen,” Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, September 2020
“South,” Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, May 2020
“The Train,” Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, January 2020
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