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Cloud States

Company:
Jian Yi

Cloud States is a new multi-disciplinary dance project / film screening / live art performance by Jian Yi. Cloud States is a tender, visually-rich meditation on loss / love and self-identity, inviting audiences to reflect, feel, and rediscover what connects us across borders and experience. Interwoven by choreography sculpted in immersive light atmospheres to create a sensory experience questioning the boundaries between dream / memory and reality – the work features a talented ensemble of trans-national performers in a powerful combination of video art, dance, autobiographical / personal storytelling and immersive lighting / FX. The work explores intersectional-migrant identities, the process of reconciling living in a new time and place with our ancestral connections and familial memories – and creates an awareness / new perception of personal-yearning for the fragile beauty and nostalgia of living in the present time. Set across neighbourhoods in Brooklyn, the work is a love letter to the city of immigrants and new beginnings. At its heart is a multi-channel video installation in the performance space – an epic-visual poem chronicling intimate portraits of personal / migrant storytelling, quiet moments of beauty and joy paired with live performers moving sensuously through shifting atmospheres of light / sound and psychic-emotional space. By merging poetic-filmic storytelling, immersive lighting design and dance, the piece creates a liminal space whereby memory, identity, and the present / past / future of all the experiential-moments of our lives as ‘lonely travellers’ through this world collide. CREDITS Choreographer / Writer / Director: Jian Yi Performers: Yuxi Ma, Jian Yi Cinematographer / Project Assistant: Yining Chi Production / Lighting Designer: Tuçe Yasak Producing Associate: Stephanie Acosta