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Crossing Mountains & Seas

Crossing Mountains & Seas fuses together contemporary and aerial dance, contemporary music with Chinese traditions and avant-garde improvisation, against dramatic media projection with the latest video technology, crossing over modern day Canada and a magical world of pre-historic Asia as described in the ancient book Shan Hai Jing or the Classic of Mountains & Seas.

Shan Hai Jing is an enormous collection of ancient Chinese writings and drawings about a magical world where countless mythical creatures or hybrids of human and animals have lived in over 100 kingdoms. How the creatures in these kingdoms have lived in harmony with each other is a metaphor of an ideal multi-cultural society that we are seeking for today. To bridge between the modern day and the mythical world, the story will unfold within an imaged role-playing video game based on Shan Hai Jing. The game acts as a portal for our characters to travel between the ancient and modern worlds, the east and the west, the sea and the sky, and the reality and our imagination.

for more info: https://www.orchidensemble.com/crossing-mountains-seas/

produced by Orchid Ensemble
co-created by Lan Tung , Julia Taffe, Sammy Chien , and Chengxin Wei

choreography: Julia Taffe & Chengxin Wei
dancers: Alex Tam , Thoenn Glover, & Cara Siu (members of Aeriosa Dance)
music compositions: Lan Tung
music performance: Orchid Ensemble ~ Lan Tung (erhu & vocal), Dailin Hsieh (zheng ) & Jonathan Bernard (percussion)
media arts & lights: Chimerik ~ Sammy Chien, Shang-Han Chien, Ivan So, Jonathan Kim (Jono), Andie Lloyd, Jake Geun Uoo Kim & Rashi Sethi
Safety Director: Colin Zacharias
Production Manager: Chengyan Boon
Set Design: Khan Lee
Costume Design: Chandra Krown
Shan Hai Jing characters illustration: Li Tung
Graphic Design: Shang-Han Chien
Publicity: Helen Yagi & Andrew Poon