身体力行戏剧舞蹈工作室2014年作品 / Work of the Body Acts, 2014

《相遇‧下午茶》 / Encounter - Afternoon Tea

策 划 与 导 演 / Producer and Director: 王家明 / Jiaming Wang
特邀客席团体 / Special Guest: “相遇”肢体表演 / “Encounter” Body Performance
开  放  日  期  / Open Date: 2014.5.31/6.1/6.7/6.8（逢周六、日 / Saturday and Sunday） 
开  放  时  间  / Open Time: 14:00 - 18:00
地              点 /   Location: 均然艺术中心 / Balance Art Center
活  动  网  址  /   Website: http://www.douban.com/event/21441301/

作品简介：

这是一间餐厅，也是一座剧场。演员带着不同的角色参与在这个不定的环境中进行服务和表演。而决定环境属性的不会是台前幕后的格局，或是漂亮的装扮；也不是略显夸张的服务，或是精巧雅致的装潢。

这里有的，只是你未曾体验过的消费/表演现。

About the Work:

This is a restaurant, and a theatre. The performers will appear as different characters to both serve and perform in this dynamic environment, which will not be defined by the structure of the stage, or pretty costumes, or somewhat exaggerated service, or luxurious decoration.

All we have here is an unprecedented view of consumption/performance that you’ve never experienced.

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导演的话：

通常，我们会选择在一个平整、封闭的大空间内，使用灯光（灯架）、音乐（乐池）、舞台美术（幕布和装置）来构建一个剧场环境；编写剧本，安排导演和演员来构成一出表演；将完整的表演放置舞台表演区域，再将观众安排在指定的席位中入座，形成在剧场内观众与演员的观演关系；观演关系拉开了观众与表演的距离，同时也激发了更多表演创作的可能性。现在，对于观众和演员而言，剧场无非变成了一个好像被允许发生任何“意外“的安全场所了。

《相遇下午茶》在做的是，对已有的空间/环境进行重新布局与改造，产生对空间功能识别的不清晰判断，对“剧场”形成一个无法被具体识别但可被捕捉的抽象概念。目的在任意环境中都可以实现“剧场”环境的生成。

将“表演”符号化。放大“表演”行为的暗示，紊乱对“表演者”的身份识别，使现场观众产生“每个人都可能是表演者”的错误认识的同时产生对“剧场”环境的认同。其目的是破环/重构观演关系的界限与距离，将“表演”与“观看”、进场与出场的权利，发还给观众。

作品将在一个办公楼中实现餐厅的环境，并配有餐厅的服务。但身边的东西很可能随时会被掀翻，邻桌的客人会过来找你搭讪，服务员非常缓慢的向你走来。通过集体式的行为表演，“餐厅”是否可以变成游乐场？屠宰场？或是教堂。。。。。。

观众来到这个空间后，身份将慢慢被抽离，他将丢失在这里！

但这毕竟不是剧场，没有台前幕后，没有舞台坐席。想来就来，想走也可以随时走。参与与否的选择，全凭观众自己。

Director’s Note:

In a normal setting, our performance will happen in a large, regular and closed space, where we would build a stage with lights (light stands), music (orchestra) and other stage decorations (curtain and other devices). We would also write a script, and hire a director and some actors to complete the performance. The show would take place on the stage, with the audience sitting in a given spot, which is essential to build the relationship between the actors and audience in the theatre. This very relationship has added a distance between the audience and the performance, but it also allows more possibilities for performance and creation. However, our work will change the theatre in to a safe place where anything could happen for the audience and actors.

What we are trying to accomplish in Encounter – Afternoon Tea is to rearrange the given space/environment, confuse people’s sense of space and make the “Theatre” an unidentifiable but sensible abstract concept. Our purpose is to build a “theatre” experience in any environment.

We want to symbolize “performance”. By amplifying the behavior of performance and blurring the identification of a performer, we hope that every audience will feel that everyone is a performer, therefore accept the environment as a theatre. The goal is to reconstruct the boundary and distance of audience and performer, and return the rights of perform, watch, enter and exit to the audience.

The performance will take place in a restaurant in an office building with real restaurant service. Anything around you may be entirely changed in the next second. The guest sitting next to you might come and chat with you. The waiter might walk towards you in a slow-motion way. Will the restaurant become an amusement park, a slaughter house or even a church in this kind of group behavior performance?

When an audience enters this space, he will gradually lost his identity and become lost!

However, this isn’t a theatre after all. There is no backstage, no audience seats. You can come or leave as you wish. The choice is totally yours.

导演介绍：

王家明，1987年出生于上海，自幼习舞。17岁完成第一部舞剧《东邪西毒》的创作后，放弃芭蕾专业，奔赴法国钻研当代舞蹈编创，赴法期间，开始与建筑、音乐、图像等当代艺术领域展开了亲密的接触，最后离开于法国里昂国立高等音乐学院。2010-2012间，历经北京当代芭蕾舞团、身体力行戏剧舞蹈工作室后，与谢殊、盘炜信联合创建了“均然艺术中心/BALANCE ART”，旨在培养国际舞蹈人才，与剧场表演的创作研究。并启动了国内首个集综合密集式训练、引导式创作启发、国际一线舞团总监指导教学的艺术培训计划-《蜕变》。近年，他着重探究表演与跨媒介及跨领域间的交叉实验，与中国美术学院跨媒体艺术学院具体媒体工作室、UFO媒体实验室、肉媒体/MeatMedia研究机构开始了密切的合作。2010年至2013年间王家明最据代表性的空间实验作品有《无色无味II》、《尘》、《夜﹒奔party》、和《相遇下午茶》。与不同领域艺术家进行跨界创作实验的代表作品有《梦魇》、《椅子上的人》、《身体彰显》、《染色体》和《夜奔》。

About the Director:

Jiaming Wang was born in Shanghai in 1987. He has started studying dance when he was very young. At the age of 17, he completed his first dance drama, Ashes of Time, and gave up his courses in Ballet to study contemporary dance choreography in French. During his life in France, he started to research contemporary art fields including architecture, music and graphic arts, and finished his study in Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon. From 2010-2012, he worked in Beijing Dance Theatre and the Body Acts Dance Drama Studio. In 2012, he co-founded Balance Art with Shu Xie and Wayson Poon for international dance education, theatre performance creation and research. In the same year, he initiated Metamorphosis, the first art training program in China to combine comprehensive and intensive training, inspirational creative training and guided study under first-class international dance company director. During the recent years, his main focus is cross-boundary exploration between performance and cross-media. He has built close partnership with the Studio of Embodied Media in the Cross-Media Art Department of China Academy of Art, UFO Media Lab and the MeatMedia Studio. From 2010 to 2013, some of the most representative works of space exploration from Jiaming Wang include Colorless, Odorless, Dust, Fleeing by Night Party and Encounter – Afternoon Tea. He has also worked with artists from different fields for cross-boundary works including Nightmare, Man in Chair, Body Demonstration, Chromosome and Fleeing by Night.

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策划与导演：王家明
Producer and Director: Jiaming Wang
表演：尹昉、李阿平、郑智、陈梦曦、崔真、孙淼、牛怀豫、王家明
Performance: Fang Yin, Aping Li, Zhi Zheng, Yuexing Huang, Mengxi Chen, Zhen Cui, Miao Sun, Huaiyu Niu, Jiaming Wang
合作团体：“相遇”肢体表演、几点咖啡
Co-operatives: “Encounter” Body Performance, The Moment Cafe
支持艺术家：曹雨西
Supportive Artists: Yuxi Cao
制作助理：盘伟信
Assistant Producer: Wayson Poon
统筹：耿磊、韩颖
Planning: Lei Geng, Ying Han
摄影：李阿平、谢馨仪
Photography: Aping Li, Xinyi Xie
文字：王乃竹、刘艳
Script: Naizhu Wang, Yan Liu
地点：北京东城区东直门外大街46号天恒大厦A座26层均然艺术中心
Location: No. 46 Str. Dongzhimenwai Dajie, Tianheng Plaza Bldg. A, Floor 26, Balance Art Center,Dongcheng District, Beijing
谘询电话： 84608852（座机）、13522455533（中/CH）、15210963508（英/EG）
主办机构：均然艺术中心，身体力行戏剧舞蹈工作室
Sponsor: Balance Art Center, the Body Acts Dance Drama Studio