\nI'm wearing white and smelling a sweet scent;
\nAncient tunes are carried by the wind,
\nand the flowers bloom as I tread on the clouds.
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Japanese contemporary artist Miwa YANAGI joins hands with three major Taiwanese opera troupes in south Taiwan—Shiu-Kim Taiwanese Opera Troupe, Chun-Mei Taiwanese Opera Troupe, and Ming Hua Yuan Tian Zi Art & Culture Group. Taiwanese opera librettist and screenwriter WANG You-hui, composer CHOU Yi-Chien, arranger CHU Yun-Song, costume designer CHIN Ping-ping, and choreographer Benson TSAI are invited to present a play based on Taiwan's unique moth orchid (Phalaenopsis aphrodite) as the overarching theme to fuse Taiwanese opera and the journey of Aphrodite Orchid.
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\nThe play tells the story about the orchid immortals who have lived in the "Orchid Realm" since ancient times. A chance encounter with humans makes them become the attention of the world. The orchid flowers once isolated from the world all of a sudden turn into the target of poachers from everywhere. The songs that were once sung on the island are gradually being lost as orchid genes are constantly being replicated. The human desire for pure white and beautiful flowers has led to the artificial reproduction of endless giant white orchids. The orchid immortals who have lost their voice can only look across the shore at their fate overturned by the changing times and the homeland to which they can never return.
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Like a butterfly fluttering away from home,
\nsorrows and joys are unforeseeable;
\nInto the world across the seas,
\nsongs of the orchids are passed for generations to come.
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Creative and Production Team
\n\nScript/Director/Stage Design | Miwa YANAGI
\nPerformers | Shiu-Kim Taiwanese Opera Troupe, Chun-Mei Taiwanese Opera Troupe, Ming Hua Yuan Tian Zi Art & Culture Group
\nLyrics and Script for Taiwanese Opera | You-Hui WANG
\nComposer | Yi-Qian ZHOU
\nMusic Design | Yun-Song ZHU
\nCostume Design Coordinator | Ping-Ping JIN
\nCostume Design | Zhao-Xiang WU, Yu-Yuan LIN
\nChoreography | Benson TSAI
\nProjection Design | Tadashi MITANI
\nLighting Design | Takayuki FUJIMOTO
\nProducer | Yukio NITTA
\nRobot Production | Keitaro MASAOKA, Masaki NAKANO
\nRobot Operator | Hideaki HASIBA
\nProduction Team | Kanako YAMASAKI, Tsubasa SIMIZU
\nProduction Stage Manager | Wei-Wei, WU
\nProgram Administrator | Joanne YANG, Yu-Pi CHEN
\nStage Manager | Ting-Ting CHANG Zheng-Hua CHEN
\nProduction Coordinator | We ART Together Foundation
\nProjection Coordinator | Ethan WANG
\nProjection Supervisor | Zhu and Yong Ltd.
\nSound Field Design & Audio Coordinator | To-Fu CHEN
\nAudio Equipment | Fly Sound Enterprise Co.
\nTechnical Coordinator | Chih-Wei CHOU
\nStage Making | Chengxu Space Industrial Co., Ltd.
\nStage Structurer | ET Stage Sound Engineering Co., Ltd.
\nAssociate Lighting Design | Yung-Hung SUNG
\nAssistant Lighting Design | Yi-Ju WU
\nLighting Equipment | WARSHIP Sound & Lighting Engineering
\nEnsemble Coaching | Bessy LAN
\nCooperative School | Shu-Te University Department of Performing Arts
\nSpecial Thanks | Kyoto University of the Arts ULTRA FACOTRY, Chishima Foundation for Creative Osaka, Kazushi OTA(Stage Manager,Tadonori KUROTOBI(Stage Manager Assistant)
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