The 20th Artist-in-Residence｜The Flowing Body Landscape — Body as A Way to Listen, Communicate and Interact
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About the Artist
Liao Shuyi, "Contact Improvisation" Dancer, Theatre Director, Performer and "Beijing Contact Improvisation" (BJCI) / "Touch Contact Improvisation Art Festival" Co-founder. Over the past 10 years, her experience of Contact Improvisation has been applied in performances, performer training, theatre directing, and community communication. Since 2019, as the Co-founder and the Artistic Director of Urban Body Nomadic Project, she has been co-creating and performing with people from different communities.?
As a theatre director, her main works include "Still Here" (premiered at Beijing Fringe Festival 2017), "MissUnderstanding" (premiered at Beijing Fringe Festival 2018). As a theatre performer, her main works include Theatre de la Feuille "Orphan 2.0" (premiered at Beijing Fringe Festival 2014 and was later performed at Wuzhen Theatre Festival, San Francisco International Arts Festival, etc.).
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Ⅰ. Activity Schedule
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?1、Welcome Show: Contact Improvisation Performance:?The Flowing Body
(Photo source: touch contact impromptu Art Festival Shenzhen station / Qi Chuanxiang)
Time
2020.11.10 (Tue.) 19:30-20:30
Venue
Student Centre 301
Supporting Guest
Ni?Yunfeng?
Cast member of the immersion drama "stealing from Chengdu"
Songlei musical troupe, the leading actor of the musical drama "heavy"
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2、Lecture: Body Creation or Art Movement?
Time
2020.11.11 (Wed.) 19:30-21:00
Venue
TC101 Artist-in-Residence Studio
Content
1. Share personal experiences about creation?and teaching, as well as views on dance, drama and performing arts.
2. Appreciate works, documentaries and movie clips related to the art of body exploration, and talk about the characteristics and meaning of post-modern dance and theatre.
3. Share personal understanding on post-modern dance and theatre, and interpret its social function and the impact on individuals and the society during the outbreak of the coronavirus and in normal life.
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3、Body Workshop I: Everybody Can Dance
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(Photos from "touch touch touch Shenzhen station")
Time
2020. 11.12 (Thu.) 19:30-21:30
Venue
Student Centre 301
Content
“Contact Improvisation” is not only a kind of free dance, but also a flowing conversation through physical touch. It is advocated that everyone can dance without having dance foundation. Liao Shuyi will lead everyone to primarily feel the charm of “Contact Improvisation” and understand the practice of body improvisation.
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4、Body Workshop II: Explore the Body Landscape
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(Photos source: "the first time of the physical nomadic program")
Liao Shuyi will select some students in Body Workshop I & II to participate in the Rehearsal and the final Performance.?
Time
2020.11.13 (Fri.) 19:30-21:30
Venue
Student Centre 301
Content
The body in motion draws a flowing picture. Liao Shuyi will guide participants to feel their own bodies, understand personal physical features and learn to activate perception, to explore physical difference and variance from various aspects including skin, limbs and other parts of the body, and to communicate with each other.
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5、Body Workshop III: Body Art From Walking
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（Photos from: Su Wei）
Body Workshop III will serve as a warm-up for the Performance. Students who are able to sign up will be selected from those who have participated in Body Workshop I & II.?Therefore, students who want to sign up for Body Workshop III should reserve time to attend Body Workshop I & II in advance.
Time
2020.11.14 (Sat.) 16:30-18:30
Venue
Student Centre 301
Content
Liao Shuyi will lead participants to learn to use the body as a medium to establish personal, group and daily life communication through body and object contact and simple movements (such as walking, running), and learn to improvise body creation. She will also explore with participants of different physical backgrounds and experiences to develop unique individual and collective creations.
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Students who have successfully registered for Body Workshop III will receive an informing email. Please present the email as admission when you sign in.
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6、A Dialogue Between Artists: The Body Landscape
Time
2020.11.17 (Tue.) 19:30-21:00
Venue
Student Centre 301
Special Guest
Tie Yann
Born around snow-mountain area in Yunnan, the south of China, with Genghis Khan Temujin as family ancestor, Yann has been exploring nature and art for years with a nomadic?spirit. She dances Contact Improvisation, painting and making animations, photographing and?writing articles about ethnomusicology. As a composer, she scored for films, theater works,?animation films and her own albums. The animations she scored were selected into many?international film festivals like MONSTRA in Lisboa. Through exploring music and sound in?different landscapes and human group, she discovered a lot of marvelous interaction between?life and earth. Her mission of her life is spreading the faith that all lives on earth are connected?and resonated as a whole -- "No Separation, Union and being ONE".?
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7、Performance
Time
2020. 11.19 (Thu.) 12:00-12:40
Venue
To be confirmed?
Content
Based on the workshops, Liao Shuyi will co-create and interpret works of performing arts with students together. Setting daily life, body contact, dance, arts and individuals’ integration with groups as the starting point, she will sketch a body experimental theatre which combines art, life and space.
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8、Rehearsal for the Performance?
Time
(To be confirmed by the artist and students participating in the?Rehearsal and the Performance)
Venue
Student Centre 301/Student Centre Dancing Room
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9、Artist?Clinic
Liao Shuyi will provide face-to-face communication time for students, and the "patient" who has?made an appointment can have language communication or physical interaction with Liao Shuyi. According to students' ideas and needs, Liao Shuyi will have targeted exchanges and dialogues with students.
The Artist Clinic has only 10 time slots for everyone to choose from, each of which lasts 2 hours. The number of patients in the same time slot is limited?and please make appointments in advance.
Venue
TC101 Artist-in-Residence Studio
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Ⅱ.The Schedule of the 20th Artist-in-Residence?Programme
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Ⅲ. Other Follow-up Activities
In the 20th Artist-in-Residence programme, Liao Shuyi is to invite some of the students to participate in the "Contemporary Theatre Biennale" creation practice, to get involved in creation research which are directed by her and to be the figurants of other performances.
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Ⅳ. About Contact Improvisation
Contact Improvisation originated in the United States in the early 1970s. It is both a type of free dance and a flowing conversation through physical contact. Steve Paxton, the Founder of Contact Improvisation, got inspiration from Tai Chi and Aikido in the East, integrated modern dance, and then developed this endless transformation, circulation, and body practice that everyone can dance.
Contact Improvisation is?also?named "Sport Dance", emphasizing the use of movements in daily life and pure physical performance.?This kind of dialogue about body mechanics that occurs between movement and flow is the most vivid encounter between humans and each other. We are improvising -?not just physical interaction, but also co-creation. This form of practice spreads to the world in the way of body teaching, bringing beautiful value to different fields such as performing arts, community building, and physical/mental healing.
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Touch Art Festival Advertising Video?Director: Yang Rui
Review of 2018 Touch Art Festival?Director: Yang Rui
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Artist-in-Residence Programme
?In 2016, the University initiated the Artist-in-Residence Programme to create an artistic atmosphere on campus and to elevate student's aesthetic taste. We regularly invite top artists from various fields to reside on campus, create artworks and hold workshops with students. The programme may last 5-10 days or 1-2 months. Artists will work with or guide students to create or appreciate artworks through workshops or lectures. Artists will also take into account resources available off campus to contribute towards our development.
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University Arts Centre
To bring students closer to culture and art
To make the "DREAM" come true
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