Soul Leaves Her Body - Ritual Dance

HERE Arts Center's HARP Artists
Peter Flaherty & Jennie Marytai Liu

Soul Leaves Her Body is an integrated-media performance synthesizing theatre, dance, live video, music, and cinema. Inspired by a 13th century Chinese story about a young woman who rips her soul from her body in order to pursue her destiny in the city, this original, contemporary work explores the soul-body relationship in today's networked, electronic culture. A team of international artists creates a multi-channel film live onstage, mixing pre-recorded film with onstage cameras. Lush cinematic visuals appear on ghostly moving panels, reshaping and obscuring the glass stage, while outside the cameras' frame we are drawn into a highly integrated folk dance for modern life.

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