{"id":22413,"date":"2020-08-05T09:45:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T09:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabbricaeuropa.net\/?p=22413"},"modified":"2021-02-05T10:01:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T10:01:19","slug":"lian-guodong-and-lei-yana-poem-about-the-unkown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabbricaeuropa.net\/en\/lian-guodong-and-lei-yana-poem-about-the-unkown\/","title":{"rendered":"L-square Performance \/ Lian Guodong and Lei Yan
A poem about the unkown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the full-speed expansion of technology, enormous changes are affecting all aspects of life as well as contemporary art. So called \u201cArtificial Intelligence\u201d and genetic engineering are a prefiguration of the future that will affect our thinking and bring about an evolution of the human race.<\/p>\n

Following this hypothesis, the work by\u00a0Lian Guodong<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Lei Yan<\/strong>\u00a0(L-square Performance<\/strong>) investigates the changes the human body could undergo; the possible routes humanity could embark on; the new definitions or paradigms art might find.<\/p>\n

Three dancers will compose\u00a0A Poem about the Unknown<\/strong>\u00a0using their bodies. Engaging a wide time scale, looking at life\u2019s change, extinction, evolution. Casting a look full of imagination and curiosity, a gaze that will turn and look back at ourselves as humans. A poem written to, and about, the unknown. A message that will perhaps come back to us. An action happening in the present, in the past, and in the future.<\/p>\n

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L-square Performance<\/strong> is the new collective founded by choreographers-performers Lian Guodong<\/strong> and Lei Yan<\/strong>. Based in Beijing, their artistic research is centred on the body as a site of resistance, experimentation and reflection on societal issues.
\nLian Guodong graduated in Chinese literature from Peking University. After graduation, he started his professional training in dance. In 2002 he danced in Beijing Modern Dance Company; in 2004 joined Jin Xing Dance Company and then in 2005 joined LDTX company as a choreographer. In 2010 he was part of \u201cBeyond China\u201d in Amsterdam organized by Emio Greco\/PC and in 2012 received an American Dance Festival scholarship. He performed in Theater Kampnagel Hamburg, M\u00fcnchner Kammerspiele, Hamburger Theatertag and others.
\nLei Yan<\/strong> graduated from Beijing Dance Academy in 2006, where she later taught modern dance. In 2009-2011 she joined Beijing Modern Dance Company, performing across China and Israel. In 2011-2014 she joined TAO dance company performing at Sydney Opera House, Vienna Festival, Taiwan\u2019s New Wind Festival, Sadler\u2019s Wells in London and other \u00a0international venues.
\nBoth Guodong and Yan performed in several works by Paper Tiger company.<\/p>\n

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director: Lian Guodong
\nchoreographer: Lei Yan
\nperformers: Fan Lu, Qian Tingting, Xu Yiming
\nlight design: Wang Jingjing
\nsound design: Letizia Renzini
\nvisual design: Qiu Yu
\ncostumes: Zhang Sisi
\nvideo\/photos: Fan Cong
\ndramaturg: Kai Tuchmann Kai Tuchmann
\nproducer: Fabrizio Massini
\nassistant producer: Xu Li
\ncommissioned YAP \u2013 Young Artist Platform for Dance (China)
\nco-producers: Fabbrica Europa, Goethe-Institut China \/ International Coproduction Fund, Theater im Pumpenhaus M\u00fcnster (Germany), Shanghai International Dance Center (China)
\nsupported by Beijing 9 Contemporary Dance Theatre
\nspecial thanks: Fei Yu Dance Studio, Yabin Studio, Xuelian Fang Studio, Beijing Chiao Kon Kee Culture Communication<\/h6>\n

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