Tongue's Memory Of Home Tongue¡¯s Memory of Home was inspired by excerpts of works by Shanghai poets Wang Yin, Lu Yimin and Zhang Zhen, popular in the 1980s but now forgotten. The verses, projected onto a screen as part of the performance, have never been allowed to be published. In societies, where poetry is considered dangerous, each person¡¯s tongue becomes a tool for one collective voice, to make people bit by bit forget what gives them their own individuality. But a tongue, once stripped of language, has other ways of remembering ¨C tasting, touching, feeling. Stripped of language, it is no longer a mouthpiece for ideology and is in fact more free than human beings themselves. By drawing on other senses the tongue can inspire the body to dream of other worlds, between dream and reality, and give us another memory of home¡.
The winner of ZKB Award in Zurich Theater Spektakel in 2006
Directore: Zhangxian Choreographer & Dancers: XiaoKe NuNu NanNan LiZhen Performer: Liu BB Text: WangYin Lu YiMin NanNan XiaoKe Composer & Sound Design: YinYi Video Design: Zhang XueZhou Lighting Design: MaYue Stage Design: Wang JingGuo Costume Design: HeYan Photography: FangLei Coca
Performance: May 2005 Beijing DaShanZi International Art Festival Dec 2005 Shanghai Fringe Art Festival June 2006 Amsterdam JuliDans Dance Festival Aug 2006 Zurich Zurcher Theater Spektakel Oct 2006 Beijing Crossing Art Festival Oct 2006 Shanghai Fringe Festival
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