Chinese Arts Space (CAS) presents Project New Earth as part of the commemorations for WW1, celebrating the CLC\u2019s memory within the context of British Chinese communities in the UK today.<\/p>\n
Commissioned artists create four short works: two evocative music-dance films, an exciting live contemporary dance and a moving music drama.<\/p>\n
Schedule:
\n7:30pm-8:30pm Performance
\n8:30pm-9:00pm Artist Q&A and Drinks Reception (pay bar)
\nProgramme:
\n1.\u00a0Heroes Within (Creative team: Julia Cheng, Andy Leung, Lavin Lee, Ricky Payne, Lula Mebrahtu)
\nA young Chinese woman discovers her ancestral contribution to Allied success in this music-dance-spoken word film. Animation peels back the layers of the painting, Panth\u00e9on de la Guerre, when the CLC were \u2018painted out\u2019 of history to make room for American soldiers.<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0Missing Parts (Creative team: Lucia Tong, Cheng Yu, Angelus Squid Marr)
\nContemporary dancers explore humanity and machinery in homage to the hard-working CLC, who became essential cogs in the war effort. Economic migration a century ago is still reflected in our global economy.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0Lunar Corps (Creative team: Ruth Chan, Quang Kien Van, Suki Mok)
\nFrom labyrinthine warrens of lost memory, the stories and bodies of the CLC are excavated and brought into blazing light. This vivid music-dance film resurrects the forgotten through fragmented historical text.<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0Song Unsung (Creative team: David K.S. Tse, Chris Chan, Beibei Wang, Kumiko Mendl)
\nSinger-actors weave together Chinese and English songs sung or inspired by the CLC, with a moving drama focused on two men separated from family, lovers and friends by the war.<\/p>\n
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