An exceptional solo performance by Chinese dancer, choreographer and documentary filmmaker Wen Hui, this year's J. W. Goethe winner. The breath-taking solo stage composition combines an original screening of archive films with a personal statement by Wen Hui. Her dance is the fabric of a multimedia production in which the visual recordings of female representatives of early Chinese cinema are connected with authentic texts and stories of the present.
The production discovers for European audiences the Chinese progressive women's cinematography of the 1930s and reflects the growing feminist movement in today's China.

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The latest work of the Chinese theatre maker Wen Hui I'm 60 is a crystallization of her personal reflections on her own life attitudes as a woman and an artist. Wen Hui was inspired by classic silent and early sound films produced by pioneering film studios in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s. In them, women uncovered their courageous attitudes, revealed social problems, and addressed the pressing issues of gender policy in the Chinese culture of their time. The films were strongly influenced by the ideas of Chinese "new women", who criticized the Confucian patriarchal system and the associated conservative values. They focused on the presentation of strong female personalities in order to build a modern and liberal Chinese society.

Credits

Choreography & dance: Wen Hui
Dramaturgy and consulting: Zhang Zhen
Music: Wen Luyuan
Video: Rémi Crépeau et Zhou Xueping
Lights and stage management: Romain de Lagarde
Stagehand: Francisco Linares
Administration and booking: Francisco Linares
Coordination: Louise Bailly
Production: Théâtre de la Ville, Living Dance Studio et Damien Valette Prod
Coproduction: Théâtre de la Ville/Festival d'automne à Paris

Wen Hui benefited from a residency at the Théâtre de la Ville - Les Abbesses and particularly thanks the technical team of the Théâtre des Abbesses
Laureate of the residency program from the French Institute at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris
With support from the Goethe-Institut in Beijing
With support from micadanses-Paris
Benefited from a dance studio at the CND Centre national de la danse, Paris