Ms. Kuang-Yu Fong will share her story of why she chose to perform Chinese theater in the United States. The mission of her company, Chinese Theatre Works, is to “preserve and promote classic Chinese theater through performance, research and teaching; and to create new works that fuse Chinese theatrical aesthetics with contemporary western performance methods and social concerns.”
This statement indicates Ms. Fong’s two major artistic concerns, which are to hold onto and nurture tradition while allowing for its growth and evolution in the new social environment of the United States. Ms. Fong will illustrate this with examples from some of Chinese Theatre Works’ projects from the last decade, and will also talk some about the process and difficulties of creating this kind of theatre with a small, non-profit company.
URL: www.chinesetheatreworks.org
