Introspection: Who Are You

In this project, Wanjin Li would be the actress and performance maker whose recent research interests include actress training , body language feminism , memory , culture , and solo performance. Under the conditions of a civilized society , the relationship between people becomes very sensitive, and the pace of life is getting increasingly fast. The performance is a Practice as Research Project . This theatre project will be a solo performance with short presentation in James Arnott Theatre. The purpose of the final performance is to achieve 35 minutes ofsoloperformancein the theatre.

Performing is a self-reflection based on a long and boring training process. On the time line of life, the training process can achieve continuous self-orientation and self-reflection.The whole show shows the changes brought about by the details through concentration, restraint, courage and respect. Many momentary memories emerge in everyones mind like pictures and evoke personal memories. The nature of these memories is neutral, just like everyon has their own memories. These fragments also directly reflect everyone’s state of mind. Likewise, the performance is to help the reality through its own difficulties by looking back on the past, or to reflect on itself. Therefore, my spacial scheduling needs to reveal the space in the past and present.

The play itself is to forget its own experience and look forward to the present and future. For the audience, some of them may face various diffculties or troubles, or they may succeed. Therefore, the play wants to evoke the audience’s own memories and make some comparisons between the present life and the past. Audiences facing diffculties can gain strength. The self-lost audience can fnd their way through the memory of their own voice. Successful audience can learn to control their desires and always remember their original intentions. Audience plays an important role in the development of the damatic activities. But in fact, dramatic activities also have great signincance to the audience. Drama cannot be separated from the audience from the moment it was born. Drama performance is a kind of collective ceremony. The audio playing and music in my dramatic project have played a significant part in bridging the gap between the audience and me.

I chose two parts to show the daily life of Chinese women in feudal society. The first part is agriculture, feeding chickens and the second part is embroidery. This character is an unmarried girl. After washing her face in the morning and coming her hair, she began to worry about her future. However, when she opened the door, she found the weather to be good. Therefore, she planned to bring the chicken to the yard. Then she found a missing person and began to watch anxiously. Finally she found it in the corner of the house and was relieved. After that, she went to sew threads and handkerchiefs of different colours, andthen looked at the chicken and embroidered. The whole process is based on the embroidery process of ordinary family girls of that era, from choosing colours, making lines, to arrows, and then starting to embroider pictures.

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