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Available to Purchase｜Dance Theatre UPSIDE DOWN 崇真艺客

One performance, in seven short pieces, with seven styles

A collision of cultures, forms, languages and colors

A director and opera-lover, obsessed with dance and a bit nuts

An African choreographer, who stayed in France for ten years and found his way to China

A Chinese opera drummer and an African traditional Cajon drummer

A group of bodies with different backgrounds, attributes and shapes

A peculiar world reconstructed by a dance with the mixture of flavors from Kunqu Opera, poetry and drama

Date:

19:30, Sep 23, 2022

19:30, Sep 24, 2022

Venue: Grand Theatre, Shanghai International Dance Center

Choreographer/Director: CHEN Xindi

Guest Choreographer/Artist: Simon Abbe & Keyu Jiang (ABBE Dance Company)

Duration: Approximately 70 minutes

Ticket Price: 80/180/280/380 RMB

Hotline：021-52990372/52995821

TRAILER｜UPSIDE DOWN

About Upside Down

A collision of cultures, forms, languages and colors

When CHEN Xindi, a young director and opera-lover, who is obsessed with dance and a bit nuts, meets Simon Abbe, an African choreographer who lived in France for ten years and became bonded with China, as well as Simon’s wife JIANG Keyu who was majored in Modern Dance at Beijing Dance Academy, the collision of culture and passion takes place.

UPSIDE DOWN

Integrating Kunqu Opera, poetry and drama into the dance

The dance theater "Upside Down" aims to present a series of exaggerated and witty "unconventional rules" by breaking the stereotypes of the real world, shattering them down on the edge of inversion and reconstructing a "whole new world".

The audience may wonder if they are in Alice’s wonderland – all the classic dance dramas, Avant-garde dramas, foreign poetries and traditional Chinese operas known to you will be shattered into pieces through which a new system of vocabularies and a whole new world seem to have been built up.

Shattering the existing world, facing the various forms of life head-on

In an era that we couldn't define and resources in serious shortage, only anxiety seems to be of great variety, growing daily and innumerably. At last, we found out that it wasn’t anxiety that was holding us hostage, but ourselves. “Upside Down" is an opportunity to discuss and exchange thoughts on the topic of "identity and self", striding over all differences and similarities, hysterically venting and questioning about the chaotic life we are in.

Shattering the existing world, facing the various forms of life head-on

WORDS FROM

CHOREOGRAPHER

We believe speaking, breathing, watching…are all forms of dances. We believe even more in the inclusiveness of theatre, just as our lives are going through these occurrences that shall one day be condensed and put in the theater. The piece is a reflection upon where we are and how we came all the way here. Going through “broken pieces” and “pain” can be inspiring as well. The body is the direct means for you to see, to record, to feel, and to speak.

by Director/Choreographer｜CHEN Xindi

CHEN Xindi

Director

Choreographer

Graduated from Beijing Dance Academy with a master's degree in Modern Dance Choreography, she currently lives and works in Beijing as a choreographer, dancer, and teacher. She has collaborated with choreographers such as Michal Mualem and Giannalberto De Filippis (Sasha Waltz & Guest), and Elisa Paggani (DNA Dance Company) in Italy on works including “Wish”, “Arrivederci Amore, Ciao”. She participated in the exhibition of Inside Out Art Museum “Yvonne Rainer and Wen Hui: Dances, therefore exists”. She rehearsed and performed the works “Trio A” (1966) and “Chair/Pillow” by American dancer Yvonne Rainer. In the aspect of film, she has worked with French director Benjamin Nicholas, participating in the Je Te Pardonne (ICI) project in 2017, and recorded the dance part of the music video for the film “City Lights”. Her directing works include dance theatre “Between Parallel”, “Whale Fall”, “Victoria and the Whale”, and co-directed work “Long time no see” which was presented during the Cross-strait Children's Small Theatre Festival and Beijing International Youth Theatre Festival. She was awarded "Best New Artist of the Year" by 2020 Beijing Youth Theatre Festival, and her directing work “I Do” won “the Best Production Award” in the 48 Hours V Theatre Competition. In the same year, she choreographed for the musical “The Wave Beneath the Marsh”.

Simon Abbe

Guest Choreographer

Artist

As a choreographer, choreographer-director, art director, Cameroonian cabaret artist, musician, founder and art director of Abbe Dance Company (Cameroon & China), former performer of Cameroon National Dance Company, he studied modern dance, classical ballet, modern African dance, choreography, vocal music and toured many countries. He lived in France to write plays, created dance theatres, founded the band "AV", and participated in festivals (Asia, Europe, Australia, Africa). He was the choreographer of the Belt and Road Carnival at the 2020 Spring Festival Gala, the 2020 Chinese style robot musical “The Long Ballad of Ying Tian”, the African show at the opening ceremony of the 2019 Beijing International Horticultural Exhibition, the musical acrobatics "Shanghai Mimi" at the 2019 Sydney Festival, and the musical “Popeye” in 2019.

Creative team

Director/choreographer: CHEN Xindi

Guest choreographer/artist: Simon Abbe & JIANG Keyu (ABBE Dance Company)

Artistic Director: LI Minghua

Creators & Performers: WANG Jiarong, GAO Wei, WANG Yunke, CHEN Jun, YAO Hetong, CHEN Xindi, JING jing

Drummer: Sunzhe Tianxi, Simon Abbe

Costume/Stage/video Design: ZHONG Huizhen

Lighting Design: LI Xin

Music Design: WEN Liang

Text Support: Alexwood, ZHAO Si

Producer: Dodo

Stage Supervisor: YANG Jia

Rehearsal Director: Wang Yunke

Photographer: Dario Lee

Guest Supervisor: DENG Min

Co-creator: ABBE Dance Company

Producer: Dinosaur and Whale

Special thanks to XIONG Yaxin, CAI Yuyang, JIA Yajun, ZHAO Yichen, WANG Qiaoqiao, LIU Chang, LIAO Jinglin, HUANG Shirui, LI Xinzhi, XUE Ziyu, ZHANG Wenlong, Yi Wu Tian Zhen Studio, Yue Wu Ji Art Education Center

The piece has been performed at the 2021 Beijing Youth Theatre Festival, the 2021 Tech-Art Festival and was commissioned by 31 YOUNG CREATOR PROGRAM.

Available to Purchase

Date:

19:30, Sep 23, 2022

19:30, Sep 24, 2022

Venue: Grand Theatre, Shanghai International Dance Center

Choreographer/Director: CHEN Xindi

Guest Choreographer/Artist: Simon Abbe & Keyu Jiang (ABBE Dance Company)

Duration: Approximately 70 minutes

Ticket Price: 80/180/280/380 RMB

Hotline：021-52990372/52995821

The Dance Festival “Dance Out of The Box Festival” is hold by Shanghai International Dance Center Theater and specially supported by Shanghai International Dance Center Development Foundation.

The first festival will be held from September 2 to October 2, 2022. The theme of “Dance Out of The Box Festival” inspired from “think out of box” and aiming to break the frame with dancing and to provide a platform encouraging innovation and crossover combinations. It explores the various expression spaces of contemporary dance and helps the artists stepping further to innovation and practice.

Guided by Shanghai municipal instructions for art centers, following countermeasures are implemented by Shanghai International Dance Center Theatre to prevent COVID-19 virus:

1. Pre-sale: Only 50% of the tickets will be available for each performance during the first round of pre-sale period.

2. Tickets purchasing: Please select your seats online and both e-tickets and printed tickets by mail will be valid.

3. Ticket claim: Please get your tickets before the performance date or 90 minutes before the performance and follow our staff’s guidance to keep social distance.

4. Entering time: The audience can start to enter the auditorium 60 minutes before the performance starts.

5. Validation: Please show your TRAVEL CODE and SHANGHAI QR CODE at the main entrance, and walk past the Digital Sentinel in turn. Audiences are required to provide a negative PCR test result issued within 48 hours. Please wear a face mask to enter the theater.The proof of PCR test awaiting result will not be accepted.

*This notice will be adjusted according to the city’s further guidelines based on the pandemic’s situation.