Why put Kunqu performance in a contemporary art setting?

Jennifer Wen Ma’s “Hanging Gargen in Ink” relates the power of life under the tension of time– there is expectation, and also things that cannot be controlled. It tells of a a legend through ink.

The styling of the Kungu actors are designed by Jennifer Wen Ma herself, a variation on the traditional Kungu costume, Jennifer adds an air of simplicity. . Readers of traditional Chinese language, Ji Chao, will be there to guide us on how to digest and appreciate the traditional poems in Kunqu.

Putting on The Peony Pavilion in such a setting, we wish to present a dialogue between the past and the present.

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Kunqu is written in poem form, “every sound is a song, and every move is a dance”. It’s not simply dancing – every single movement is based on the movements of daily life, but they are definitely not movements you find in daily life.

The plot of Kunqu is very slow, with a notion that all things are the same big or small, a neglected narrative is the sophistication of Kungu. What Kungu emphasizes instead is emotion.Only emotions are worth pondering over, leaving the things that happen, purely as happenings, and that is the purity of Kungu.