日韩精品久久一区二区三区_亚洲色图p_亚洲综合在线最大成人_国产中出在线观看_日韩免费_亚洲综合在线一区

Global EditionASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Culture
Home / Culture / Music and Theater

A creative spirit that conquers challenges

By Cheng Yuezhu | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2023-12-26 08:16
Share
Share - WeChat

 

Art practitioners in a Q&A session during the Fifth UK-China Disability Arts Forum. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Artist in a wheelchair's one-woman show tells her story with passion and compassion.

Last year, video blogger and wheelchair user Zhao Hongcheng spoke at the UK-China Disability Arts Forum, sharing her everyday life experience and reviewing barrier-free facilities at public places, including the metro, sightseeing spots and theaters.

Just a year later, Zhao attended the fifth edition of the forum, but this time she has taken on the role of a theater performer, with her own one-woman show Be Seen, which won Best Innovative Play at the Seventh Chinese Theatre Awards.

Not only is the play a solo performance, it is also based on her true story. In the production, she talks of her experience of being "othered", her relationship with her mother, as well as the complexity of her personality, with both optimism and anger, tenacity and insecurity.

"For so many years, I think I'm ill. In a world where most people see me as an unwell person, it's really hard for me to believe that I am not," one of the monologues in the play goes.

"Now I understand, being disabled is not an illness. It's a fact that I can't change. But what I can change is to no longer see myself as an ill person. And even better, I can tell my story, so those who are similar to, or different from me, can hear my voice."

While Zhao has been reviewing accessibility in theater venues and going to performances, encouraged by her husband, before this play she never thought that she could become a performer on the stage.

In 2022, she attended the Shanghai edition of the inclusive theater production Gala by French choreographer Jerome Bel, and saw for the first time a wheelchair user dancing onstage alongside other performers without inhibition.

"It left a deep impression on me. I thought about how wonderful it would be, if a domestic production could feature a wheelchair user onstage," Zhao says.

Coincidentally, producer of Be Seen, Shen Lujun, came in contact with her shortly afterward. At the time, Shen was using a crutch due to an injury.

Zhao says this is one of the contributing factors of her accepting the role, because from her own experience, individuals temporarily using crutches or wheelchairs due to injuries often recognize the importance of barrier-free facilities.

Accepting to participate in the production marked the beginning of a journey with immense challenges, including the inadequacy of barrier-free facilities during rehearsals, Zhao's need to lie down every four to six hours because of her spinal surgery, the difficulties of acting, as well as her loneliness as a theater performer with reduced mobility.

The production crew helped her overcome these obstacles, by providing her with an environment of equality, mutual respect and support.

"Everyone needs to be seen, with or without disability. We need to be seen by strangers, and also by our own family," says Shen, who also attended the forum as a guest speaker.

She says that when first working on this production, she had a clear vision of aiming for a production that will be staged in mainstream theaters, with high artistic standards and long-term commercial sustainability.

The play premiered at the Shanghai Grand Theatre this May with eight performances, and then graced the Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center with three performances.

"To break down bias, we need to leverage the platforms of mainstream theaters so as to reach a broader audience, who will see these performances and learn more about people with disabilities," Shen adds.

1 2 Next   >>|
Most Popular
Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 色妇色综合久久夜夜 | 日韩av一二三区 | 国产福利在线观看精品 | 2021国产精品一区二区在线 | 亚洲一区二区视频 | 欧美极品在线观看 | 午夜99| 黄视频网站大全 | 国产成人亚洲综合a∨婷婷 91亚洲精品一区二区福利 | 国产精品五区 | 成人小视频在线观看 | 免费观看一区二区三区毛片 | 国产免费麻豆 | 黄毛片视频 | 精品一区视频 | 亚洲第1页| 精品久久久久久亚洲综合网 | 久久久精品 | 久久道| a视频在线播放 | 国产成人一区二区三区 | 国产一级毛片高清视频完整版 | 日韩久久一区二区三区 | 国产日韩精品视频 | 亚洲国产国产综合一区首页 | 国产性色视频在线高清 | 中文在线免费观看 | 日本黄色视 | 国产99精品 | 国产在线观看一区二区 | 亚洲国产精品日韩高清秒播 | 日韩欧美一区二区三区视频 | 黄在线观看+在线播放 | 亚洲国产成人久久综合碰 | 91高清视频在线免费观看 | 一级做a爰片性色毛片2021 | 精品久久久久久久久久久 | 国产剧情一区二区三区 | www久久av | 日本黄色大片免费观看 | 色婷婷综合久久久久中文 |