PART OF THE showcase in the inaugural Bangkok International Performing Arts Meeting (BIPAM), MOVE Theatre’s “Kuang Qi” will be at Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts from Wednesday to Friday. Presented by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand and Chulalongkorn University’s “World Performances @ Drama Chula” programme, “Kuang Qi” is “music theatre”, combining traditional opera, a traditional opera percussion ensemble, contemporary music, body movements and theatre. So we took the homonyms of ‘Kuang Qi’ as our title, which, in Mandarin, suggested other meanings and hopefully would create new images for the audience. The backgrounds of the artists are not rooted in traditional art forms but we’ve all collaborated with traditional artists in different ways. I appreciate traditional arts very much and I believe that if they are to have an ongoing influence and impact in modern culture, they must have a continuous conversation with it.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 12, 2017 18:00 UTC