The Disadvantaged Girls Project is a collaborative programme between Jingying Entertainment Group (Elite Group) and Performance Infinity. The aim of the programme is to develop an ongoing initiative that will see British artists travel to a charity school in Shijiazhuang, China. Using theatrical education, a relatively new concept in Chinese teaching, the girls will create a piece of work that will allow them to share their own stories, and life experiences. Each of the girls at the school come from either a socially, economically or financially challenging background, and so the project aims to give these young girls a voice. This year Dave Carey of the renowned Chickenshed Theatre together with his colleague Michael Bossisse travelled to Shijiazhuang for a week-long workshop, which culminated in a production developed by the girls themselves. Next year, all the partners will look to expand this initiative further, potentially bringing the students to the UK for a standalone performance.

This year saw the unique Lebensraum from the legendary theatre artist Jakop Ahlbom and the rock music band Alamo Race perform in China for the first time. As the lead producer on this project Performance Infinity proceeded to promote this show to a suitable theatres in China, handling all international communications and scheduling the tour and technical requirements. On the back of the success of the collaboration between Lebensraum and Performance Infinity the show has been programmed into the Shanghai International Comedy Festival, 2017.

Lebensraum

Several years ago, there was a Spanish mask theatre company became very popular in China. To discover the mask theatre’s charm through different companies and their works, we invited Vamos Theatre to be the guest performing group to bring their unique and powerful performances to the Chinese audience. Worked together with the local professionals, drama students and ordinary audience, Vamos Theatre brought lots of inspiration to the Chinese theatre makers.

Using a live accordion accompaniment, this exquisite piece of mask and movement theatre was a multi-award winning, critically acclaimed sellout at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011. Theatre Ad Infinitum is an award-winning international ensemble based in London, developing new and original theatre for a multi-cultural audience.

Performance Infinity has developed a new touring destination for Theatre Ad Infinitum when they returned in China since their first tour in 2016, this performance has also been programmed in first China International Mime Festival in Guangzhou.

Developed a new touring destination for Theatre Ad Infinitum when they returned in China since their first tour in 2016.

Provided the suitable local support for delivering the performances smoothly and successfully in short switching time in different cities. This process involved organizing the tour schedule, helping to ensure clear communications between international partners and developing media interest in a company operating in multiple Chinese venues.

Featuring 6 distinct physical productions from theatre companies based all over the world, the inaugural China Mime Festival brought some of the world’s leading physical theatre companies to China between October to December, 2017. The festival is majorly hosted in Guangzhou Dramatic Arts Centre. Some productions are also toured in different cities before or after the festival. The festival offered something unique in terms of their narrative, origin and production development but each shared one key characteristic exceptional physical theatric creativity.

Overcame the challenge of presenting a cutting-edge production in China the first time; targeted the right audience to see the productions and achieved a good figure for the company’s merchandise sales.

Get Happy is a brilliant family production created by the critically acclaimed Told by an Idiot. Their performance at the Beijing International Comedy Festival represents the first time that a theatre company from Britain has performed at this festival. Entering a world of artfully controlled chaos, physical comedy, live music, acrobatics and silly dancing the audience is brought into a world of hilarious mayhem. Performance Infinity was proud to have brought this great family comedy to China and organized the two-day workshop with our Chinese partner – Elite Group.

There are many arts festivals all over the world and indeed throughout China, but few can match the picturesque beauty of the Wuzhen International Theatre Festival. With a particular focus on both international new works and emerging Chinese talents in the water-town of Wuzhen. One of the unique qualities of the Wuzhen International Theatre Festival is the charm and variety of the theatre spaces. Each venue is within walking distance of each other, and include outdoor performing spaces and indoor venues adapted from ancient Chinese buildings.