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Special interview with Willy Tsao

CCTV.com

07-28-2016 00:56 BJT

1. What drew you to the story of the Red Army’s Long March and to adapt it into a dance?

2. The most poignant image from the dance for me is the use of those red strings tied to each dancer that symbolize how each and every one in the Long March was connected to one another. People always talk about the importance of telling personal stories, but here the director really strayed from telling a specific story and went for the abstraction. For a piece like this, what’s more effective, form or content?

3 This spectacle, if we can call it, is very different from the modern dances pieces we’re used to see, which don’t necessarily have a clear narrative, the fancy sets and high tech lighting. Are you a purist or someone who is for the latest technology?

Special interview with Willy Tsao

4. Choreographer Sang Jijia has been a resident dancer at both LDTX and CCDC. This is his latest choreography work since he returned to CCDC. How has he grown over the years as a choreographer?

5. Sang Jijia is now one of the key figures of the Second Generation of modern dancers in China. He’s contributed a lot to the Beijing Dance Festival which has grown tremendously since it was founded in 2008. You’ve said that modern dance is for a “ personal communication for a select audience.” Would you say now that this could change?

6. Dance education is a very important component of the Beijing Dance Festival. There is an entire week dedicated to education during the festival and there is also the Youth Camp. For China, which doesn’t have a tradition in modern dance, how is it catching up?

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