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Text: Hannes Jedeck Die Zusammenarbeit zwischen der in Deutschland lebenden Komponistin Dong Zhou und der Taiwanesen Tänzerin Jess Chiayi Seetoo entsprang dem Wunsch, die räumliche Distanz zwischen ihren beiden Lebensmittelpunkten – den Hafenstädten Hamburg und Shanghai – in einem gemeinsamen Projekt künstlerisch zu überbrücken. Zu zweit machten sie sich auf die Suche nach neuen Formen… Read more

There is one thing I truly miss from Shanghai It’s the endless corns in summer Every time my mother said “I bought corns” It means she bought a lot of kilos of that kind of corns from Jiangnan area which have a lighter color than those from north China or America almost white There were… Read more

Update on 25th April 2021: Thank you very much again for your interest! We contacted all composers personally so we did not post the result immediately after we knew it. But we are happy to prepare the pieces by Christine K. Brückner and Eden Lonsdale. We were overwhelmed by the huge amount of highly interesting… Read more

On the street Hebebrandstrassethere is a buildingI can only call it A Buildingbecause it had too many functionsIt is very fluidso fluid that I can’t give it a name It was the temporary campusfor many schoolsincluding my university during 2015-2017We were in this temporary campusliving an experimental life Experimentalthat means, it could failand nobody caresWe… Read more

When I was in kindergartenI was to be trained to do water balletWe were too young and short to either dive or use the ladderSo we sat at the edge of the pool firstthen hit the wall to make ourselves into the water It was a hard decisionto be into the waterEven we can swim… Read more

When I am writing this article, we are currently in the post-pandemic time in Germany. Like post-modernist does not mean modernist is already over, post-digital aesthetics does not mean digital productions disappeared; post-pandemic life doesn’t mean “life after the pandemic”. In the middle of March 2020, people were believing the pandemic would be an affair… Read more

There were some days I didn’t renew the blog, at first because of a deadline, then because I was tired, then I worked offline some days, now I’m again tired, but I will write this last note about my quarantine life. Actually the lockdown was loosen since May, it’s just I don’t have a reason… Read more

Online meeting at 12, 14 o’clock. Missed the time to cook something better. I was very frustrated because I couldn’t remember a German word. But after remembering it I feel like I can again do a lot of things. So practiced instruments, did some organization stuff for #pajamaopera. I should also do some reading and… Read more

I’m trying to eat better now because before I went to supermarket last time I almost felt sick because of the monotonous/bad-cooked food. And having this is the highlight of my everyday since I bought it. But today I had another highlight: watching “The Vaccum Cleaner”. As a theater I think it’s good but not… Read more