Salt Fish Girl 1: Hope and Forgetfulness

Salt Fish Girl 1: Hope and Forgetfulness

www.saltfishgirlshow.com

The first in a trilogy of integrated arts stage productions based on the novel Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai

Gein Wong: Playwright and Composer
Aries Cheung: Visual Artist
Emily Cheung: Choreographer
Brigitte Tsang: Dancer

Her body memories smell of durian, forgetfulness and all the events that connect trees to sorrow.

Salt Fish Girl 1 tells the story of Miranda, a young woman who is filled with the memories of people and events that occurred before she was born. Like small shards of glass from a broken statue, Miranda carefully begins putting these memories together in an attempt to understand why she is having them and how they are linked to her present day sorrow. Set simultaneously in 19th century China and a futuristic British Columbia, the past and future mingle together as if they had always existed at the same time.

Salt Fish Girl Part 1: Hope and Forgetfulness marks the first full-length contemporary integrated arts collaboration between Gein Wong, Aries Cheung and Emily Cheung. Bringing together artists with backgrounds in dance, music, theatre and the visual arts, each discipline is beautifully melded together to create a synergistic and wholistic work. The performance will incorporate elements of Chinese and western art forms, including cutting-edge motion sensing technology that enables a dancer to make music and a musician to create visual art, in order to create an invigorating stage adaptation of this prophetic science fiction novel.

October 24th 25th : 8pm
Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester Street, Toronto
$28 regular, $20 student/senior/group/CADA

www.saltfishgirlshow.com
www.geinwong.com
www.ariescheung.com
www.larissalai.com

Trailer Production Credits:
Maylynn Quan: Photographer
Kwoi: DP
Gein Wong: Music Composer, Writer, Video Editor
Jeffrey Chan: Production Aid
Aries Cheung: Set Design
Emily Cheung: Choreography
Jo Chim: Costume Design
Shirley To: Make-Up Artist

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Theatre
• Integrated
• Arts
• Multimedia
• Spoken
• Word
• Trailer
• Queer
• Asian
• Sci-fi
• Science
• Fiction
• Salt
• Fish
• Girl
• Gein
• Wong
• Aries
• Cheung
• Emily
• Brigitte
• Tsang
• Larissa
• Lai
• Music
• dance
• theatre
• visual
• arts
• Chinese
• erhu
• electronic
• film
• underwater
• swimming
• mermaid
• water
• memory
• poetry
• instrument
• myth
• mythology
• future
• vancouver
• british
• columbia
• toronto
• canada
• nuwa
• novel
• adaptation

[winijai]

Can't wait to see this show!

[anotherworkingtitle]

whoa.