How can the body become a vehicle of ideology? Inspired from The Red Detachment of Women, the iconic ballet of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Wen Hui proposes a “documentary performance” that mixes personal and official history, dance and video, the heroic and the intimate.

Red, A Documentary Performance

Choreography Wen Hui
Text Zhuang Jiayun
Dramaturgy Kai Tuchmann
Music Wen Lvyuan

Scenography Zhou Jie
Lights Edwin van Steenbergen
Video Zou Xueping
Interviewers Wen Hui, Zhuang Jiayun, Zou Xueping
Traduction Guo Rui, Xu Qian

With
Jiang Fan
Li Xinmin
Liu Zhuying
Wen Hui