CONNECTION

by the "Healing Scene" team


Category: Healing Workshop/Site-specific Theater

Planning/Performers: "Healing Scene" Team - Qiu Zi, Zhang Busan, Tan Tan, Zhang Dazhao

Photography: Wang Yanlai

Videography: Wang Xiang

Editing: Tan Tan

Special Guest Musicians: Yang Dong, Wang Li, Xie Rong

Special guest performers: Guantou, Pi Yiran, Cheng Dan, Qingfeng, Li Yumin, Yumu Mu, A Zhen, Ding Shiyin, Donglin Wang

Execution: Yusi

Assistant: Bailin, Qianqian, Xiaorong

Special thanks: Liu Ying, Shen Zhou

*Performed at the "Happy&Watching" exhibition at the Donghu Shan Art Museum in Wuhan.

 

This is a yoga-integrated art performance.

Using yoga as a medium, guided by meditation and postures, with the transformation of space and light, and the harmony of sound and instruments, blockages are cleared, and people enter a state of joy.

Performance documentary highlights


01

Bodies stitched together into a whole

On the twilight grassy field, yoga practitioners are scattered around. With postures named after animals and the simulated sounds of nature by performers, people seem to enter the bodies of animals, awakening their own bodies in the jungle.

 

02

Sensing primal energy

In the dark exhibition hall, ancient chants and the sounds of a harp gradually rise and fall. People relax their bodies and minds in the candlelight, perceiving their breath. Through candlelight meditation and yoga vocal meditation, individuals delve into a deeper inner state, connecting with primal motives.

 

03

Dialogues with the Cedar Forest

Guarding the candlelight, re-entering the natural space, the world falls into complete silence, and the inner body and mind become clear and transparent. After layers of cleansing, the body and soul become pure and light. Facing the cedar forest by the lake, the clean and beautiful chanting flows between individuals and between humans and nature.

04

Meditative Dance

 

Returning to the grassy field where the ritual began, the ethereal tones of the handpan inspire fluid movements of the body. Then, spinning to the tunes of the violin, and finally, achieving complete unity of body and mind in the prayers of the shamanic drum. After the climax of the dance, lying on the grass in the evening breeze, feeling the convergence of "connection" in the final notes of the melody.