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Ms. Kuang-Yu Fong will
share her story
of why she chose
to perform
Chinese theater
in the United
States. The
mission of her
company,
Chinese Theatre
Works, is to
"preserve and
promote classic
Chinese theater
through
performance,
research and
teaching; and to
create new works
that fuse
Chinese
theatrical
aesthetics with
contemporary
western
performance
methods and
social
concerns."
This
statement
indicates Ms.
Fong’s two
major artistic
concerns, which
are to hold onto
and nurture
tradition while
allowing for its
growth and
evolution in the
new social
environment of
the United
States. Ms. Fong
will illustrate
this with
examples from
some of Chinese
Theatre Works'
projects from
the last decade,
and will also
talk some about
the process and
difficulties of
creating this
kind of theatre
with a small,
non-profit
company.
URL:
www.chinesetheatreworks.org
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