2047 APOLOGUE - a concept performance by Zhang Yimou featuring KINETIC LIGHTS

2047 Apologue

a concept performance in 8 parts

by director Zhang Yimou

this video is the teaser for the last part of the show called "Weaving Machine"

Chinese director Zhang Yimou who is best known for his movies "Raise the Red Lantern", "Hero" and "The Great Wall" but also for directing the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics returns to the theater stage with his concept perfomance "2047 APOLOGUE".

Zhang Yimou has unveiled his latest work at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. Based on Peking Opera "Sanchakou," "2047 Apologue" is breaking the form of traditional stage plays, combining Chinese folk art with the latest technology. The show aims to mirror reality, commenting on how science and technology are a huge part of life in the 21st century. The show consists of 8 parts, each combining a traditional chinese craft, music or dance style with modern high tech such as lasers, robots, drones and kinetics.

WHITEvoid was commissioned to create, program and direct the kinetic display for the last part of the show called "Weaving Machine". The 9 minute performance features 640 motorized LED spheres, an anchient chinese weaving machine and a modern dancer. German motor winch producer KINETIC LIGHTS provided the vertical hoist systems for the LED spheres and control software. Russian RADUGADESIGN animated a complementing video backdrop and CPG Concepts from Hong Kong provided the dance choreography for british dancer Rose Alice.

The show will tour China throughout 2018.

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full credits:

director:

Zhang Yimou

production:

L!VE Kingway China

assistant director: Lulu He

production assistant: Jingsi Yan

kinetic show design and programming:

WHITEvoid

Christopher Bauder

Daniel Dalfovo

Manuel Bossard

kinetic lighting technology:

Kinetic Lights

background video and concept:

Radugadesign

Ivan Nefedkin

Maxim Deev

Safiullina Irina

dance chorography:

cpg-concept

Lisa Keegan, Emma Seward

dancer: Rose Alice

weaving performer:

Wu Shuxiang

Beijing National Centre for the Performing Arts

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video documentation:

Simon Krahl