DELTA (2018)

Credits

Concept & Choreography : Yang Zhen.
Performers: Summer Wang, Fu Binjing, Simon Abbe, Lou Hio Mei, Wong In Fan, Albert Garcia, Ioku Ero Nikaido, Danny Lau Pui-Lung, Mui Cheuk-Yin, Djani Teta Katumbayi.
Music: DAK
Lighting design: Yang Zhen
Costume design: Yang Zhen
Set design and properties: Zhang Yongji
Production manager: Jing Xian Li
Photos: © Yang Zhen / Dieter Hartwig

About

A new creation by Yang Zhen, about “the Pearl River”.

Nine persons – from Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macau – are on the stage. Different generations, different identities, artists and non-artists.

Teamed together in a geographic and urban space, they have completely individual experiences and memories. While in China there was the "one child" policy, Macau was still a Portuguese colony and Hong Kong belonged to Great Britain. In Yang Zhen's semi-documentary theater piece, these nine persons come together and try out a common reason for living together.

Several metropolitan regions converge in the hot and humid Pearl River Delta. These rapidly growing, highly industrialized mega-cities with large populations of migrants are in the Chinese province of Guangdong and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau. They are very close together, but have very different political and economic histories. How do the people live there, what occupies them? Yang Zhen examines the social realities of the river region and discovers here for Delta very unique and powerful image aesthetics. This young Chinese choreographer worked in the respective cities with dancers and non-professional persons who live there. The research was documented and is part of this striking production about the hopes and desires, opportunities and crises, pressures and anxieties of the people in one of the most garish, intensive urban areas in the world.