Chinese modern dancer Jin Xing and British contemporary pianist Joanna MacGregor will give a joint performance, called Cross Border - An Alliance of Western Music and Eastern Dance, at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.
In contrast to Jin Xing's previous dance pieces, there is no central story-line in this performance."It should be a process, a group of scattered pictures, in which I express my feelings about various facets of human existences in dance form," said Jin Xing. "Joanna will explore her thoughts about life through her fingertips and musical notes."
As an innovative pianist, Joanna MacGregor has spent 20 years travelling and learning about different cultures. Her wide-ranging and cross-cultural musical interests include classical, jazz, and pop, especially Chinese percussion music. "It sounds like Western music and it's full of enthusiasm," said Joanna. "Both Jin Xing and I are quite similar in character, which helps in bringing about this collaboration. Our performance aims to push past cultural boundaries."
Besides dancing and music, multi-media techniques will be involved in this performance to create special visual effects, such as computer-generated sounds and multiple cameras feeding images onto a huge screen.
"I incorporate my ideas and my feelings into my dancing to evoke people's imaginations and thoughts about life,"Jin Xing said.
7:15pm, October 18-19
Dramatic Arts Centre
288 Anfu Lu
Tel: 6391-2626
100-200 yuan
(Shanghai Star October 22, 2002)
