WILD ZEBRA!!
YAY! I'm going to watch WILD ZEBRA tomorrow!! It's starts showing today. What is it?!?!? WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON"T KNOW!?!?
Wild Zebra, an original work of dance and music from Shanghai, is about the forbidden love between two zebras, set in an imaginary animal world.
Well, okay, here is an excerpt of an article on it on the newspaper...
"A rumbling tarin disrupted the countryside silence. It was one of the hottest days that summer in China. With the heat bearing down and the northward-bound train chugging languidly along, passengers were lulled into an easy slumber, each drifting into their own fantasy world.
For one the the travellers, his dream led him to a mythical forest where he envisioned two dancing spirits, which later turned out to be wild zebras.
Oblivious to the stranger in their midst, the courting zebras continued with their teasing nudges, playing out, as their ancestors had done before them, the ritual courtship dance.
Gently jostled out of his reverie, Zhang Jigang realised that he had found what he was looking for. The year was 1997."
"With his vision in place, the challenge for Zhang was in the execution. He had the support of Shanghai Oriental Television Station, that invested over three million yuan in the project, and a team of the best talents in the Chinese world of dance, music and theatre - music composer Zhang Qianyi, stage art designer Zhang Jiwen, lighting designer Sha Xiaolan, costume designer Song Li and dancers from the Shanghai Oriental City Dance Troupe.
For the next three years, close to 150 people (including dancers) worked on bringing Zhang's vision to life. There were hitches along the way but everyone persevered."
"Wild Zebra made its highly anticipated debut as the closing performance for the 2nd China Shanghai International Arts Festival on Dec 1, 2000. Three years of work came down to this defining moment. As the final curtain lowered, the audience's apploause was deafening."
Critics have called Wild Zebra one of China's most outstanding dance works in the recent years. It has also been hailed as China's answer to The Lion King (the broadway version) thanks to its fantastical stage design. Comparisons have even been made with Cirque du Soleil beacuse of its intricate costumes, incredible lighting and the merging of acrobatics, modern and classical ballet, and folk dance.
WOOHOO!! I can't wait! It's showing from today till August 3rd at Istana Budaya...
YAY!! I missed Swan Lake but I'm not going to miss this! YAY YAY! :)
Oh, guess what? I'm going for Sleeping Beauty on ice and STOMP too! YAY YAY! Now just to be hardworking to repay my supportive parents...
Drats... That's kinda hard... I'm SO lazy.
100 more days till SPM! (screams)
WILD ZEBRA!
Wild Zebra, an original work of dance and music from Shanghai, is about the forbidden love between two zebras, set in an imaginary animal world.
Well, okay, here is an excerpt of an article on it on the newspaper...
"A rumbling tarin disrupted the countryside silence. It was one of the hottest days that summer in China. With the heat bearing down and the northward-bound train chugging languidly along, passengers were lulled into an easy slumber, each drifting into their own fantasy world.
For one the the travellers, his dream led him to a mythical forest where he envisioned two dancing spirits, which later turned out to be wild zebras.
Oblivious to the stranger in their midst, the courting zebras continued with their teasing nudges, playing out, as their ancestors had done before them, the ritual courtship dance.
Gently jostled out of his reverie, Zhang Jigang realised that he had found what he was looking for. The year was 1997."
"With his vision in place, the challenge for Zhang was in the execution. He had the support of Shanghai Oriental Television Station, that invested over three million yuan in the project, and a team of the best talents in the Chinese world of dance, music and theatre - music composer Zhang Qianyi, stage art designer Zhang Jiwen, lighting designer Sha Xiaolan, costume designer Song Li and dancers from the Shanghai Oriental City Dance Troupe.
For the next three years, close to 150 people (including dancers) worked on bringing Zhang's vision to life. There were hitches along the way but everyone persevered."
"Wild Zebra made its highly anticipated debut as the closing performance for the 2nd China Shanghai International Arts Festival on Dec 1, 2000. Three years of work came down to this defining moment. As the final curtain lowered, the audience's apploause was deafening."
Critics have called Wild Zebra one of China's most outstanding dance works in the recent years. It has also been hailed as China's answer to The Lion King (the broadway version) thanks to its fantastical stage design. Comparisons have even been made with Cirque du Soleil beacuse of its intricate costumes, incredible lighting and the merging of acrobatics, modern and classical ballet, and folk dance.
"The story might seem fantastical but I have no worries that it will be accepted and enjoyed by the young and old everywhere. That's the beauty of dance where its movements and expressions are universal. And i believe that the message of love, peace and harmony extolled in Wild Zebra is the perfect theme for human society in the 21st century."
WOOHOO!! I can't wait! It's showing from today till August 3rd at Istana Budaya...
YAY!! I missed Swan Lake but I'm not going to miss this! YAY YAY! :)
Oh, guess what? I'm going for Sleeping Beauty on ice and STOMP too! YAY YAY! Now just to be hardworking to repay my supportive parents...
Drats... That's kinda hard... I'm SO lazy.
100 more days till SPM! (screams)
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