2015The Moon Opera青衣Yabin Studio Production

The Moon Opera 青衣

2015 Yabin Studio Production

Creation/Production Staff

Dance Work ”Then Moon Opera” Yabin & Her Friends 7th season

----Adapted from Mr. Bi Feiyu’s novel of the same name

Production: Yabin Studio
Choregraphy Yabin Wang
Production Yabin Studio

Author: Bi Feiyu

Artistic Director/Producer: Wang Yabin;

Choreographer/Director: Wang Yabin;

Peking Opera Consultant: Pei Yanling

Assistant Choreographers: Fan Lei

Adapter: Zhuang Yi ;

Composer: Olga Wojiechowska,Guo Sida;

Lighting design: Willy Cessa;

Set design: Matt Deely;

Costume design: Kimie Nakano;

Modeling design: Wang Jia;

Dramatic Consultant/ Imager: Helene Guetary

Video design/Production: Zhao Jianwei , Micheal Dralle (Opening), Matt Deely

Important Performances:

Pittsburgh International Arts Festival of Firsts (November 2018, US premiere, selected as Best of Touring Dance 2018 by Pittsburgh City Paper), CODA Oslo International Dance Festival (2017), The Israeli Opera 2016 - 2017 Season, Budapest Spring Festival, The Silk Road International Arts Festival, China Shanghai International Arts Festival, China National Centre for the Performing Arts 2015 - 2016 Season, etc.

Adapting “The Moon Opera” to dance has been Wang Yabin’s dream for many years, not only due to the engrossing nature of Bi Feiyu’s novel but also because in it, she discovered the central theme of “where to pin one’s life”—a question on which everyone, Wang believes, should ponder. Xiao Yanqiu pinned hers on Qing Yi (a theatrical female figure performed by male or female usually costumed in black), but Wang herself pins her life on the art of dance. In dance she sees constantly the “pain of life,” which, she says, something you learn about through dancing how to endure life when it’s painful such as at the time you have lost something or someone you love. The narrative structure of dialogue will challenge the audience imaginations, as will the co-relativity of worlds of reality and that of fantasy, and the subconscious with the surreal. Such mental processes—the constant cognitive attempts to rationalize and make sense— attributive to the determinants of the story’s development and the show’s dynamism. Most important of all, it’s the senses the work is to make, the values that audience can take while watching it from various contradictions, that one will keep pondering to constantly recognize, understand, explain, it’s all these what make this piece of art creation so breathtaking, attractive as well as fascinating.When The Moon Opera had been to American for the performance,She was commented as "the coolest Chinese choreographer" by Dance Magazine(US).