La Naissance : souviens-toi et vas vers toi !
La Naissance : souviens-toi et vas vers toi !
A Franco-Taiwanese Show for young children (under 3 years old)
By The Company East and West and The Flying Group/Length: 1 h
Part one: The Birth….
Jung Shih Chou, married to a french art director, Franck Dimech, is known in Taiwan for her former collaboration with the Wild Shakespeare sisters’ group. She lives in Marseille, France, for more than four years and with her last show, well named the Birth, she tries to build links between France, her adopted country, and Taiwan, her birth country. Starting a series of fourth shows based on the theme of rest and awakening, the young Taiwanese actress is eager to share her Chinese culture with French audience and vice-versa.
As she is mother of a three years old daughter, her pregnancy leads her to focus on young audience theatre; it also makes her think about the four times that accompanies one’s life. Birth, growth, disease and separation are, in Chinese beliefs, the essential moments everyone faces in his life. Jung Shih imbued with her maternal culture – according to tradition, the birth is considered as a miracle and life does not stop at the Death – collaborates for the first time with the Theater Massalia in Marseille.
However, her creation is an international cooperation between a French artist, Ghislaine Herbera, a Taiwanese artist, Jade Shih and herself, a Taiwanese artist living in France, in order to confront the different looks worn by East and West on the same topic. What is birth? What are our origins, our cultures? ‘We don’t have to forget where we come from and go towards ourselves…’- she says.
‘I have been inspired by myths and legends about the Birth, from Asian and European traditions such as whaling, egg, cabbage, giant…In this project, I use shadow puppets’. Shadow puppet is a very old, and still alive, tradition in China and Taiwan. This beautiful small island, located near the South East of China, has an impressive number of puppet companies. In Taipei, the Capital, one can visit puppetry museums including the famous Lin Liu Hsin Puppet Theatre Museum, based in the heart of the city, near Dinhua St. Market, well-known for its Chinese new year’s goods…
This creation will be followed in 2012 by Growth and Disease then Separation in 2013. We advise you to come and discover this first opus of an original and surprising creation aimed to design a bridge between Two Main Cultures, in Taipei City (Taiwan) from the 18th to the 20th Feb 2011. DVDM
