J-Town Physical Guerrillas
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Performer: J-Town Physical Guerrillas
Attention: Attendants 100 only, online reservation (one for one/two) required, ticket:50RMB/person to buy onsite.
Free to RAM Member
6:30pm Reception with drinks and snacks
7:00-9:00pm Performance+ After Talk
J-Town Physical Guerrillas was founded by artist Li Ning in 1997, whose works rooted in reality but beyond documenting only, and to surpass the Chinese realism theatra and the western dancing theatre ultimately, thus one "Physical Sketching Theatre" was born, to which only the J-Town and every participant belong.
J-Town established recognization towards their artistic achievement worldwide through their consistant explore and trans-disipline practices in the fields including theatre and cinema.
Introduction of works:
J-Town moved their studio into the mountain area in south Ji Nan province in 2012, they live and exercize there. With time pass by, one "drama" started to grow naturally, which explores the physicality and reflects the experiences of the earth, organism, circulation and conservation of energy, redifines the various sensations e.g. what one can see, hear and smell.
LI Ning
Theater director, film director, sculptor, physical performance artist.
As more and more of his works receive awards from and invitations to leading art and film festivals, 40-year-old Li Ning has already become one of the China’s leading figures in experimental film and physical theater. After entering the sculpture program at Shandong Art School in 1993, he began studying modern dance and performance with renowned choreographer Jin Xing. In 1997 he founded his own physical arts collective “J-town Physical Guerrillas ” which has performed throughout Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Macau among others, and for the past twelve years, Li’s “Made in J-town Film Lab” has lead the way in pushing China’s boundaries of exploration in film and performance.
Li’s creative works as well as his critical analysis about art have circulated widely among and made a significant impact on the younger generation of China’s creative community. As part of his long-term creative development, Li is developing ways to interweave three strands into an entirely new pedagogy and curriculum of physical training he calls “Drawing Life Theater”: researching new ways of training the body, creating work based on one’s personal background, and visual arts theories of observation. The goal is to create a training method that would allow non-professionals to quickly enter the realm of performing arts as performers while also being useful for professionally trained artists. Currently he is practicing this training method in various schools and community centers throughout China in order to build a bridge between average citizens and the contemporary arts.
The end of the year, He received the support of the International Foundation, to complete his work. Such as：
＂Doen Found". Netherlands，“Young Choreographers Project”
“Chin-A-Moves”, The European Union cultural project supports.
“Indie Cinema Fund”,Beijing,China
凌云焰肢体游击队
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表演：凌云焰肢体游击队
费用：50元/人（现场付款） 美术馆会员免费
注意：本活动仅限100人参与，需完成在线预约后（每人仅限预约2张票），方可进行现场购票，特告知！
6:30pm 备有饮料和小食的欢迎会
7:00-9:00pm 演出以及演后谈
凌云焰肢体游击队由艺术家李凝成立于1997年，作品牢牢根植于脚下的土壤，却不满足于写实和呈现现状，最终超越中国现实主义戏剧和西方舞蹈剧场，开辟出一条属于凌云焰，属于每个参与者自身的“肢体写生剧场”道路。
凌云焰在剧场和电影等领域不懈探索和跨界，取得了国际公认的艺术成就。
作品简介：
2012年剧团搬进济南南部山区，进行训练和生活，之后，一出“戏剧”开始自然地生发。
是对土地，生物，循环，能量守恒的体验性思考与身体性探索，视觉，听觉，嗅觉…各种感觉的重新定义。
相关评论：
偶才是树上的男爵:“蜕植”是今年青戏节乃至这一年里看到的最棒的戏！一出时时令人产生生理痛感，却不得不始终凝神观看的演出。导演李凝对待创作有使徒般的虔诚，在肢体训练方面亦有很成熟的想法。我个人以为是青年一代剧场工作者中最出色的一位。
高氏兄弟：在798梦游随处看见艺术、但那是招摇的。而观看李凝及其伙伴的残酷剧场，却使我们忘记艺术。而心被其燃烧感动时，艺术已深深地进入了我们的生命。
褪去了鲜明的城市狂躁性，也不再有宣泄式的呐喊、愤怒。这次，李凝看起来更为柔和更为内敛，实际是充满力量又纯净的作品。——肖竞 《北京青年周刊》
严老九ANARCHY：一把热情之火！想起这些年看过的一些作品都在文绉绉地招魂，完全不敌这部作品中的原始精魂。
导演简历：
李凝,生于1972年,剧场导演，电影导演，肢体艺术家.
随着越来越多的作品受邀于重要的艺术节（或电影节）上发表并频获奖项或引发争议，李凝已成为中国肢体剧场与实验电影领域的代表人物，毕业于美术学院雕塑专业，1997年成立自己的艺术团体“凌云焰肢体游击队”，巡回演出于北京、上海、香港、欧洲....再到他如今已经走向世界的“j城制造”(Made In J-town ）电影实验室，15年来始终进行着中国剧场和电影界最前沿的探索研究。
在长期的创造性工作中，他还注重总结身体的训练方法研究，从自身造型艺术的背景出发，结合美术的观察思维和概念，开创出一种崭新的身体训练课程“肢体写生剧场”，学员用自己的身体激发观察能力和呈现能力，这使得普通人无障碍地进入表演艺术的大门，对于专业表演者也大有裨益，目前他在各地高校以及社区积极推广，架设起普通人和当代艺术之间的桥梁。
因为凌云焰独特的艺术创造力，使他多次获得各国基金会的资助以完成其剧场或电影作品，比如荷兰的Done Foundation（曾于2006、2007、2008，3年连续给予李凝和凌云焰支持），欧盟文化项目Chin-A-Moves，以及中国独立电影基金Indie Cinema Fund等等.