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to disappoint a god.

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A Chinese dancer stands to the right of the frame, wearing traditional Han-style clothing. She is lit with warm side lighting that highlights her face and garments against a black background. Her expression is stern and composed. Her arms are held regally in front of her waist. Her makeup includes a traditional Chinese huadian - a decorative flower mark placed on her forehead.
Gregory Lorenzutti
A Chinese dancer wearing traditional Ancient Chinese Han-style clothing stands mid-movement, her mouth open in a powerful expression that may suggest rage. Her long-sleeved top, hair and flowing skirt move with her motion. She is lit by bright green stage lighting, which casts dramatic highlights on her face and fabric. The background is entirely black, making her figure sharply stand out.
Gregory Lorenzutti
A full-body image of a Chinese dancer captured in profile, mid-step. She wears traditional Han-style clothing, including a flowing skirt and a long-sleeved top with wide sleeves. Her body tilts slightly as she walks toward the edge of the frame, angled toward a soft blue spotlight at the centre. The light catches the edge of her garments, creating contrast against the dark background.
Gregory Lorenzutti
A Chinese dancer stands to the right of the frame, wearing traditional Han-style clothing. She is lit with warm side lighting that highlights her face and garments against a black background. Her expression is stern and composed. Her arms are held regally in front of her waist. Her makeup includes a traditional Chinese huadian - a decorative flower mark placed on her forehead.
Gregory Lorenzutti
A Chinese dancer wearing traditional Ancient Chinese Han-style clothing stands mid-movement, her mouth open in a powerful expression that may suggest rage. Her long-sleeved top, hair and flowing skirt move with her motion. She is lit by bright green stage lighting, which casts dramatic highlights on her face and fabric. The background is entirely black, making her figure sharply stand out.
Gregory Lorenzutti
A full-body image of a Chinese dancer captured in profile, mid-step. She wears traditional Han-style clothing, including a flowing skirt and a long-sleeved top with wide sleeves. Her body tilts slightly as she walks toward the edge of the frame, angled toward a soft blue spotlight at the centre. The light catches the edge of her garments, creating contrast against the dark background.
Gregory Lorenzutti
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A Chinese creation deity confronts a world in turmoil in this bold Asian-futurist dance-theatre.

A lone figure sits at the plinth, hands busily moulding and carving each curve, angle, limb of the human figure - their creation. Their hands soiled with layers of yellow clay, toiling above the pristine folds of their silk qīng Ruqun.

qīng - the blue-green of the mended heavens, celadon, deep as wet soil, blue as a clear sky.

In the dim blue light, their arms blur into tendrils, Mamianqun into layers of molting skin - for a brief moment they find your eyes. Enigmatic, poised, questioning.

You wonder if they are proud of you.

‘to disappoint a god.’ is a hybrid Asian-futurist dance-theatre work starring Nuwa (女媧) - a Chinese mythological creation deity. ‘to disappoint a god.’ uses Nuwa as a vessel to call for personal reflection and accountability amid the global breakdown of climate, culture and communication.

Nuwa embodies the dichotomy of our existence - our grief, agony, guilt and anger encased in the gentle, desperate fight to hold onto hope.

Drawing from a smorgasbord of training across Chinese folk dance, Contemporary dance-theatre, Krump, and Whacking, ‘to disappoint a god.’ physically and conceptually contorts the archetypal ‘asian diasporic femme body’, blending human and non-human, comfort and discomfort, strength and vulnerability.

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     Show will involve a low level of audience interaction.


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    Violence, Death

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