Midsummer Night’s Dream Theatre Summer Camp @Shanghai

Midsummer Night’s Dream Theatre Summer Camp @Shanghai

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  • Delivered in both Chinese and English this will also be an invaluable aid to learning English language skills.
  • Planned, designed and managed this summer camp with our partner organisations in UK and in China.
  • Ensured clear communication between artists in UK and the venue’s organisers.
  • Organised a reporting performance and staged the Midsummer Night’s Dream which performed by those youth.

During these 2 weeks summer/winter camp students will learn about the literature giant Shakespeare and get a taste of some of his most famous works. It is also a playful introduction in to the world of devising theatre and allows the students to free their imaginations and bodies. Exploring different method of theatre storytelling, the students will create one of Shakespeare most famous comedy Midsummer Nights Dream from scratch together.

Led by some of UK’s most renowned children’s theatre practitioners, the workshop is multidisciplinary – mixing literature appreciation and scrip adaptation, acting, soundscapes and audio, movement and dance.

Devising process is open for everyone, no matter of experience or background. We will find out how to capture ideas and stories, mis them together with movement, and learn how develop our own theatrical language, also the workshop will enable participants understand Shakespeare and his work. The workshop will enhance the participants imaginative, physical and emotional playfulness. Furthermore, the workshop will develop skills useful at all walks of life: advancing team-work abilities, communication, self-confidence, awareness of space, appreciation of literature — and most importantly everyone will experience the fun of creative collaboration!

FeastFest 2019 @ London & Edinburgh Festival Fringe

  • FeastFest is initiated and planned by the Performance Infinity
  • Curated the programme and developed the partnership with different venues both in London and Edinburgh
  • Worked closely with our sponsors in ensuring the best outcome for their brands’ exposures.
  • Overlooked and managed the entire festival in every aspects including marketing, administrative, and organised promotional and networking events for the FeastFest.
  • Assisted the participating theatre companies for delivering a smooth run in Edinburgh Fringe
  • Created a festival dedicated website and collaborated with most of the popular theatre industry media and social media to promote the festival

Performance Infinity has brought together the theatre companies all around the world and produced the FeastFest at London and Edinburgh in July and August 2019. FeastFest is a festival dedicated to those who love theatre, food and life, which included the shows ‘FEAST’, ‘Citizens of Nowhere?’, ‘Chocolate’, ‘The Only Thing a Great Actress Needs is a Great Play and the Desire to Succeed’, ‘Feast of Fools’ and ‘Hold on Let Go’, also collaborate with The Imagination Workshop to cross-promote five shows in specific dining rooms.

Eating represents our countries, religions and traditional values. By presenting works from different cultural backgrounds, the festival encourages people to respect not only the differences between each other but also celebrate the similarities we share. The shows use conventional tools and spaces to produce unconventional performances, will facilitate the conversation between the arts and common life, as well as address current issues facing our society.

Dead Centre – Lippy @ Wuzhen International Theatre Festival 2019

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  • Worked closely with the theatre in recommending the suitable productions for the festivals.
  • Ensured smooth communication between the company and our venue partners in every aspects of the tour from artists’ schedule, technical preparations, media campaigns, and various works related to the visit.
  • Assisted administrative tasks including performers’ visa applications, flights, local accommodations, and on-site management for delivering the performance successfully.

Lippy was widely regarded as one of the most extraordinary works to come out of Ireland in 2013 and was the winner of two OBIE Awards in New York, a Fringe First, and the Irish Times Award for Best Production. Lippy was staged at the Studio Theatre of the Grand Theatre from 29th to 31st October during Wuzhen International Theatre Festival 2019. Lippy is full of realism and absurd drama style. It used simple colours, repeated life details and fragmented narratives step by step, guiding the audience to explore the truth together.

BetweenTwoHands – Paperwork @ Wuzhen International Theatre Festival 2019

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  • Worked closely with the theatre in recommending the suitable productions for the festivals.
  • Ensured smooth communication between the company and our venue partners in every aspects of the tour from artists’ schedule, technical preparations, media campaigns, and various works related to the visit.
  • Assisted administrative tasks including performers’ visa applications, flights, local accommodations, and on-site management for delivering the performance successfully.

Paperwork was produced by BetweenTwoHands (Netherlands) and staged as part of the Wuzhen International Theatre Festival 2019 in Zhaoming Academy from 26th to 28th October. Paperwork is a theatrical installation inspired by the life and work of the Prague writer, Franz Kafka. The aim is for the viewer to be able to feel as alienated, out of place or astonished as the protagonist often feels in the stories of Kafka.

BetweenTwoHands decided to work with paper because paper refers to all the paperwork involved in bureaucracy. And it is a material that can transform from 2D to 3D also represents the vulnerability of the protagonist from Kafka’s stories. As the audience, you get not only a sense of the fragility of the paper objects, but also the vulnerable nature of the protagonists.

Dutch Preforming Arts – Dutch Focus Presentation @ ChinaSPAF 2019, Shanghai

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  • Worked closely with the Dutch Performing Arts in planning the promotion event of Dutch theatre companies.
  • Ensured smooth communication between our partners in Netherlands and in China.
  • Arranged the artists’ visiting schedules, meetings and all sorts of administrative affairs in China
  • Invited leading industry professionals and guests to participate the event and explored the mutual oppourtities of working together with Dutch theatre companies in China

China Shanghai International Arts Festival (ChinaSPAF) is a state-level annual international arts festival hosted by the Chinese government and organized by the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government. Which is the leading annual marketplace for new works from China to connect creators and arts professionals worldwide.

This October, Dutch Performing Arts Fund NL featured six exciting Dutch performance art companies to host a promotion presentation in ChinaSPAF 2019, an annual international art festival, aim to promote Dutch music, theatre and dance. This presentation is dedicated to strengthening the links between Dutch art workers with international art institutions. Seeking to stimulate international interest in Dutch art companies and artists with global potential. Performance Infinity proudly supported this event.

Told By An Idiot – Let Me Play the Lion Too @ Inside-Out Theatre, Beijing

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  • Ensured the smooth communication between the theatre company, artists and the local theatre in every aspects of preparation process, such as teaching topics, marketing, event arrangements etc
  • Assisted administrative tasks including performers’ visa applications, flights, local accommodations

In 2018, the theatre company Told By An Idiot and the Barbican Centre collaborated to organise an improvisational experiment performance workshop “Let Me Play The Lion Too”. In an intensive two weeks, a group of 12 performers six of whom have a disability, work together to devise new improvised evenings of anarchic spontaneity. the project aims to tackle the lack of diversity of the British theatre.

This year from 22nd to 26th October, the workshop “Let Me Play The Lion Too” was presented to the Beijing Inside-Out Theatre. Collaborated with local participants of 14 performers, seven of whom have a disability, work together to discover their unique artistic expressions. It is also a valuable opportunity to engage in barrier-free art for local performance theatres. – Planned, curated, coordinated and managed the workshop with our partner organisations and artists in UK and in China.

British Council China – Accessible Theatre Workshop @ Inside-Out Theatre, Beijing

  • Engaged with the UK’s accessible theatre artist and industry expert in sharing their thoughts, expertise, and experiencing in this field with the local Chinese audiences
  • Assisted in preparing the lecture materials, translations and PR and marketing tasks.

Worked alongside with the British Council China in organising this accessible theatre workshop with the Beijing Inside-Out Theatre. We engaged the British deaf artist Bea Webster and the founder of PANTHEA Carl de Poncins to share their idea of how to make theatre more accessible.

Bea Webster is a deaf Glasgow based actor & theatre-maker and is one of the few deaf actors who are active and have a place in the British theatre world. Carl de Poncins is the founder and CEO of the Panthea Company (France). Panthea Company developed the smart glasses for performance accessibility, to display the subtitles on the glasses simultaneously in a selectable language for audiences, this solution not only make theatre audiences can overcome the language barriers, but also open more possibilities for people with disability to enjoy the theatre experience.

This workshop aims to tackle the lack of diversity of the theatre and bring the theatre experience into the lives of people with disabilities. Also, it is a valuable opportunity to share achievements in this field to the Chinese theatres and audiences.

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