TaiwanFest - Cinematic Taiwan presents Don't Cry Dancing Girls
Fortunately, Don't Cry, Dancing Girls made it in time to reach audiences before the pandemic outbreak. During the disciplined day-to-day life of the level 3 epidemic alert, the music video for Don't Cry, Dancing Girls' amassed 300,000 views within just 2 days, after which it continued to grow in popularity by way of the online news media and word of mouth.
Succeeding the major work Reed Unbroken, VMTheatre Company's Don't Cry, Dancing Girls again attempts to pit humans on stage with ghosts. The characters of Don't Cry, Dancing Girls, derived from Russian playwright Anton CHEKHOV's famous work Three Sisters, are reinfused with Taiwanese elements, which include Taoist priests, the spirit-escorting ceremony, professional mourners, and Si-So-Mi. The traditional Taiwanese funeral is thus transformed into a local carnival of life and death, reaching a fervor where ghosts are propelled to come out to cry and dance along with humans.
The three siblings will together present a dance of youth, dancing for all of life's regrets and commemorating the challenges, large and small, brought about by fate, as well as those perpetually absent parents, cha cha, cha cha cha! Don't Cry, Dancing Girls, created through the collaboration between veteran director TSENG Hui-Cheng, emerging composer Robert KANG, and Golden Bell Award-winning playwright ZHAN Jie, is a love letter written and dedicated to this land and the people living on it.
*This show contains mature language including profanity. Viewer discretion is advised.
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