September 2020, National Ballet of China

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Director: Fei Bo, Zhang Zhenxin

Composer: Wang Danhong

Writer: Liu Jinni

Stage designer: Tan Zeen

Lighting designer: Liu Zhao

Costume designer: Yang Donglin

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Ballet Like Flowers is a light comedy, telling the experience of a young volunteer working in a village of the Miao ethnic minority group in Western China. The design inspiration comes from the unique embroidery style of Miao, it integrates Miao’s stitches technique, mountain-shaped structure in Miao architecture, hive-like hexagon pattern, Classical Chinese painting and other visual elements together, interpreting the idea of ‘home’ in Miao’s culture. It also tries to use a 2-dimensional style to create shapes in the correspondent relationship between the concept of ‘layer’ in digital drawing and the progressive layout in the theatrical rigging system.

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