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Education

2021-2022  St John's College, University of Cambridge. MPhil ACE. DISTINCTION

2011-2012  Royal Central School Speech & Drama, University of London. MA Scenography.

1998-2002  Shanghai Theater Academy. BA Stage Design. FIRST CLASS

 

Honour & Awards

Nov 2022   Be named a Scholar of St John's College and the members of the 'Foundation' of the College, University of Cambridge. 

Sep 2022    Diffractive theatre Copenhagen was accepted by Prague Quadrennial 2023.

Apr  2018    Final List International Opera Awards in UK, ‘World Premiere’ Nominee, Opera 170 Days in Nanking.

Nov 2011    Be honored by scholarship Prof, Gavin Henderson (CBE) of Royal Central School Speech & Drama

Nov 2009    The Qingqiang Opera Suo Ling Purse won the First Prize in Stage Design for the newly produced local opera commemorating the 60th anniversary of China.

Jun  2006    Opera Mountain, River, and Cloud won the Golden Prize of the Third China’s Minorities Collected Performance Competition 

Nov 2006    Opera the Love for the Great River won the Stage Design Award of the first China’s Minorities Collected Performance Competition

Jun  2002    Outstanding graduate of Shanghai Theatre Academy

 

Career History

2022- Now  Founder and Artist Director of Diffraction Theatre

2013-2021  Artistic Director of Wang Jing Studio

2017-2019  Visiting Lecturer of Architecture Department of China Academy of Art

2002-2011  Stage Designer of Shanghai Opera House

Research Experience

 

2022 AI-Musement Park, an AI themed amusement park, designed for visitors to transparently experience machine learning algorithms and data processing mechanisms as embodied experiences.(Lead by Dr. Eleanor Dare)

2022 Diffractive Copenhagen, New Digital Formats of Theatrical Experience in Mixed Reality.

2021 Diffracting Brecht’s Life of Galileo, a virtual reality presentation confronting liminal pedagogy. It was part of a digital research project at Cambridge University. (Lead by Dr. Eleanor Dare).

2021 Ballad of the Pipa, an intra-active VR piece exploring the relationship between the human being and digital scenography.

2021 The End of Time, a VR music installation that aims to recreate and regenerate a historical chamber music work into a new form of VR theatre, displaying the musical works through digital visual spatialisation, sound digitisation and cybernetic space technologies. 

 

Theatre Arts practice as Scenographer

 

Feb 2023    Opera Turandot, Opera Southwest, USA.

Jun  2020    Musical Pi Pa Xing. Jiu jiang Centre for Performing Arts.

Nov 2019    Dance Dream Seekers. Shen Zhen Opera & Dance Theatre.

July 2019    Opera the Diaries of John Rabe. Berlin State Opera House.

July 2019    Opera the Diaries of John Rabe. Vienna Ronacher Theatre.

May 2019   Musical Poetic Age. Shanghai Hong Qiao Arts Centre.

Jan  2019    Physical Play Lao Can Impression. Southbank London.

Sep 2018    Musical Infinity Love. Hangzhou Dramatic Arts Centre.

Dec 2017    Opera 170 days in Nanking. Jiangsu Centre for Performing Arts.

Nov 2017    Drama Loves of Lotus. Jiu Jiang Performing Arts Centre.

May 2017   Musical Father. Hongkong Centre for Performing Arts.

Apr  2017   Immersive Play the Tenant. National Portrait Gallery. London.

Mar 2017    Drama Misery. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.

Dec 2016    Drama Hamlet. National Centre for Performing Arts. Beijing. 

Dec 2016    Drama A Person’s Warmth. National Centre for Performing Arts. Beijing.

Jun  2016    Drama Sylvia. Shanghai Majesty Theatre.

Mar 2016    Drama Fly into Sky. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.

Jul   2015    Drama A Simple Life. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.

Dec 2014    Drama Long Life. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.

Oct  2014    Drama Pillow Man. Shanghai Ground Theatre.

Oct  2014    Musical Lou Lan. Shanghai conservatory of Music.

Sep 2014    Drama 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. The 1st Toga Asian Theatre Director Festival. Japan.

July 2014    Physical play Normal Love. Sadler’s Wells Theatre. London.

Apr  2014   Drama Perfume. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.

Mar 2013   Physical Play Sophie’s Sophie. Central Saint Martins Theatre. London.

Nov 2013    Musical Nils in Wonderland. Wuhan Performing Arts Centre.

Sep 2010    Multimedia Performance City. Shanghai Cultural and Education Pavilion.

Jul   2010    Drama Doubt: A Parable. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.

Jan  2010    Dance Spring Festival Gala Performance organized by overseas Chinese, which toured in Toronto, Vancouver of Canada and in Chicago, State of Minnesota, Denver, Seattle of USA

Oct  2008    Puccini (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi). Beijing International Music Festival.                                                       

Nov 2007    Site-specific production A Dream of Red Mansions. Shanghai Hong Kou Stadium.

Sep 2007    Dance Made in China. Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre.

Jun  2007    Musical Hans Christian Andersen. Beijing National Theatre for Children.

Oct 2006     Shostakovich’s opera Nose. Beijing International Music Festival.

Dec 2005    Opera Mountain, River, and Cloud. Lanzhou Performing Arts Centre.

Sep 2004    The Love for the Great River. Lanzhou Performing Arts Centre.

May 2005    Peking Opera Yuan Chonghuan. Beijing National Peking Opera House.

 

Fringe Theatre

Nov 2018    Physical Opera Skin. Shanghai Theatre Academy.

Aug 2015    Drama Mr Zhang’s Philosophy. Beijing Performing Arts Centre.

Apr  2014    David Greig’s Midsummer. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.

Oct  2009    A.R.Gurney’s Love Letter. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre. 

Oct  2009    Harold Pinter’s Lover. Shanghai Ke Contemporary Arts Centre.

Nov 2008    Ernst Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage. Shanghai Ke Contemporary Arts Centre.

Apr  2006    The Tony-Award Winner play Four Dogs and a Bone. Shanghai Ke Contemporary Arts Centre.

Jun  2004     Agatha Christie’s Three Blind Mice. Shanghai Grand Theatre.

Mar 2003    Dario Fo ‘s About Face. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.

May 2002    Drama White Collar. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.

Aug 2002    Drama Hua Mulan. Tiny Theatre Festival in Japan, Korea International Festival.

 

Theatre Arts Practice as Assistant Director

Apr  2010    Opera Turandot. Guangzhou Grand Theatre.

Mar 2008    Opera Turandot. National Centre for the Performing Arts. Beijing.

Jun  2007     Musical Hans Christian Andersen. National Theatre for Children. Beijing.

Jan  2006     Peking Opera Zeng Houyi. Hubei Peking Opera House.

May 2004    Peking Opera Mei Lanfang. Beijing National Peking Opera House.

Aug 2004    Opera Wegger. Shanghai Opera House.

 

Theatre Arts Practice as Another Career

Jul   2008    Assistant director and stage manager of opera Wegger, Othello in Savonlinna Opera Festival and Dahalla Art Festival.  07/2008

Feb 2007    Stage manager of opera Turandot. Zurich Opera House.

Mar 2004    Stage manager of opera Othello. Shanghai Opera House.

Oct  2003    Stage technical manager of opera Romeo and Juliet. Beijing International Music Festival.

 

Academic Activities

June 2023  AI-Musement Park, an AI themed amusement park.(Lead by Dr. Eleanor Dare) Kaleidoscope 2023, University of Cambridge.

June 2022  Presenter of Diffracting Brecht’s Life of Galileo, a virtual reality presentation confronting liminal pedagogy (Lead by Dr. Eleanor           Dare). Kaleidoscope 2022, University of Cambridge.

Dec 2006    Invited by the Metropolitan Opera to research on Opera Emperor Qin.

Apr  2008    Invited by the president of the German Goeth Institute to attend the Berliner Festspiele.  Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin, Bavarian State             Theatre, Bavarian State Opera House, Hamburg State Opera House, Komische Opera Berlin.

 

Installation, Video & Exhibition

Jun 2023      Reimagine Copenhagen 1941. Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2023

Jul   2019     Memory. 2019 Beijing Stage Design Invitation Exhibition. 

Jun  2012     The Peony Pavilion. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. 

May 2012    Travelling to the Wonderland. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Dec 2011     Ill Seen Ill Said. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. 

Nov 2011     Pierrot Lunaire. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. 

 

Complete List of Arts Column’s Papers

2019            This Building Talks Truly. Drama magazine. 

2018            Review of Handan Dream. Guangdong Arts magazine.

2018            Since She. Southern People Weekly magazine.

2018            Julius Caesar. Southern People Weekly magazine.

2017            The True Nobility Lies in Being Superior to the Past Self. Opera magazine.

2016            Dialogue with Liu Xinglin by Joslin Mckinney. (Translation) Eyan magazine. 

2016            Father. NCPA magazine. 

2015            Waiting for Godot. NCPA magazine.

2015            Man, and Superman. NCPA magazine.

2015            Peeping Tom. NCPA magazine.

2015            Bull. NCPA magazine. 

2015            1984. NCPA magazine.

2014            When Midsummer meet Perfume. Drama magazine.

2014            Charles III. NCPA magazine.

2014            An Enemy of the People. NCPA magazine.

2014            Cotton in Toga Village. NCPA magazine. 

2014            Shakespeare Fall in Love. NCPA magazine. 

2014            Ubo Roi. NCPA magazine. 

2014            The Poetic Testament of Mary. NCPA magazine. 

2013            London Mime Festival. Eyan magazine.

2013            Shard. Picture magazine. 

2013            Tim Walker’s Wonderland. Mi Zhang magazine. 

2012            War Horse. Eyan magazine.

2012            Miss Julie. Mi Zhang magazine. 

2012            The Sun is not for Us. Mi Zhang magazine. 

2012            Dr Dee. Mi Zhang magazine. 

2012            Search the overside of the Ball. Mi Zhang magazine. 

2012            Rock in Roll- Interview with Mark Fisher. Art Zip magazine. 

2012            Childlike Innocence-Dialogue with Jiang Weiguo. Art Zip magazine. 

2011            When Chinese culture meets Mozart. Opera magazine. 

2011            Dialogue with Ming Cho Lee. Opera magazine. 

2011            Review of Opera Tosca. Opera magazine. 

2010            Guangzhou Ground Theatre Start from Architecture. Opera magazine. 

2010            Return to Greek Mythology. Opera magazine. 

2010            Infinity Stage. Opera magazine. 

2010            Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. Opera magazine. 

2010            Doubt. Mi Zhang magazine. 

2009            Liu Xinglin, the Interpreter of Neo-Classicism. Opera magazine.

2009            The Vintage is coming back—review on La Boheme. Opera magazine.

2008            Reviews of 2005 Salzburg festival’s Opera La Traviata. Opera magazine. 

2007            Do you want to build a great wall on stage? Too Simple. Opera magazine.

2006            Stage Designer- Gao Guangjian. Opera magazine. 

2004            The Fable in Image- the stage design of Opera Wager. Opera magazine. 

 

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