A Chinese scroll painting like a scene from an action movie: a horseman shoots a warrior galloping in front of him with a bow and arrow. The Chinese-German Paper Tiger Theater Studio was inspired by the scroll painting in the collection of the Museum of Asian Art and, in its dance video installation performance, spans an arc from the Chinese military campaigns and their celebration in the Imperial Palace to Beijing's colonial art theft in the so-called Boxer War of 1900-01 and today's China. Five dancers meet a contemporary witness of Honecker's trip to China, a skateboarder meets a drummer, video art meets masquerade.
Performance: Raul Aranha, Simon Chatelain, Oksana Chupryniuk, Hu Shengnan (percussion), N.N. / Gong Zhonghui / Lee Yi-Chi, Thomas Halle / Ariel Nil Levy, Hans-Jürgen Schreiber, N.N. / Mieko Suzuki (DJ), Wang Yanan
Direction Tian Gebing, choreography Wang Yanan, stage Eva Veronica Born, dramaturgy Christoph Lepschy, curator Chen Shuyu, music Mieko Suzuki, Hu Shengnan, costume concept Chen Shuyu, Tian Gebing, video design Andreas König, Julia Kuhnert, Daniela Prochaska, artistic collaboration Andreas Gedin
Assistant director Li Jingwen, stage design assistant Lioba Bangert, costume assistant Lam Ophelia, Aline Suter, Marina Yasinover, costume production assistance Noemie Cassagnau, Yan Thung Ho, Elena Popva, Edgar Schlüter, choreography assistance Xie Yuchen, translation Li Binyao, surtitles Nora Rose, Xie Yuchen, artistic coordination Liu Chao, video recordings Tong Xin, Jiang Dingding
Price: 20 EUR, reduced 10 EUR, 16 EUR for Tanzcard holders
Languages: English, German, with surtitles
Duration: 110 min
from 12 years
Venue: Hall 2, ground floor