Title of Project：Music & Dance Theatre THE TUNE OF WATER commissioned by CADILLAC· SHANGHAI CONCERT HALL

Genre(s): Contemporary Dance. Classical. Other. World Music. Ethnic. Traditional.

GROUP:Choreographer/Director/Folk singer, Jay PENG Zhang，Composer, LIU Wen etc.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF : Thinking about THE TUNE OF WATER: It's a ritual about river, let’s sing to the river. It’s not about religion or faith, it's about attitude, a ritual sense of focus and gaze that allows us to feel from the theater to our lives in the flashy city and the present. When we enter this sense of ritual, what are the different meanings that arise from the daily grind of our lives? Creative implementation process: 1. Complete the backtracking from abstract music to figurative theater form. (from music to text) A story grew out of “The Tune of Water": this story is about “Me". "Me" actually means everyone. My name "Zhang" comes from the river rises, and the river rises actually heralds a new era that cannot be avoided or stopped. Grandpa actually represents the source of the river which is our own source. Where does the river go? Where am I going? Hence the English name Jay, which flows downstream into the city. Jay represents the contemporary era, representing the loss and list confusion after the separation from "source". It represents urbanites torn apart from tradition and without rest. Hence, the identity transformation from "Zhang" to "Jay" has completed a transformation of time, space and moral. Finally, after the sharpening of body and mind and the argumentation of time, we go to find the source of this river again. 2. The melody of "The Tune of Water" is usually fixed, and the singing content and lyrics will be improvised according to the current situation and emotion of the Miao national folk singers. That makes me think about what we should be singing about? These lyrics and the text of "The Tune of Water" will jointly establish the theme and moral of music dance theater "The Tune of Water". So I created new lyrics in the six stages (preface, four chapters, and epilogue) .the preface is actually backwards narration, from now on. The four chapters reflect a return from birth to growth to leave to return. 3. From the perspective of the director, how to turn the water implication into a contemporary theater that can be appreciated and present a new contemporary implication. Called "The Tune of Water", it must be inseparable from the concrete "water", and the theme is "the story of me and a river, let us sing together about water", which leads me to define "The Tune of Water" as "water but higher than water". The character and philosophy of water in Chinese traditional culture have inspired me a lot. I chose to use the most common "white paper" to present the image of water. I conveyed the visual effect of the river formed by reading and arrangement of the papers. These papers were scrambled and rearranged to create the stream of consciousness in time and space and montage. So actors, lines and the relationship between the water and the river formed by these papers slowly present the unique life, emotion and spiritual implication of contemporary urbanites. 4.The dramatic part of the production What I focused on in the water chamber was the drama in the music dance theater. I joined the only person with a specific identity and role: Rae, the narrator, who tells the story in the first person. Rae's figurative role and textual narration have led to other forms of externalization on the stage: live singers, musicians (cello, violin, piano, Chinese drum), five dancers, ten performers and a number of devices. Rae's performances are all Brecht's "alienation". Composing methods： The composition adopts the heaven and earth branches of the folk singer to form a corresponding relationship with the twelve tones, thus obtaining a unique set of musical notes, thus forming the basic material of pitch in this creation. According to the rhythm characteristics of the western Hunan province dialect, the melody lines are organized. ? The work takes a process of time and space changing in a cycle of four seasons, just as water flows into the sea and evaporates into clouds, which then turns into raindrops to moisten the land. We combine, collide, deviate, defector, or reconcile the movements of the birthday notes in the four seasons of the year to symbolize the relentless pursuit of life by individuals in the course of time. The track Preface: the song of the present Chapter one1: the children's song Chapter two: the song of the wedding Chapter three: the song of missing Chapter four: the song of the dead Epilogue: The restless song

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