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2 Jan, 2010

From Beijing to San Francisco Report

2010-01-02T13:28:40-08:00By Fei|Categories: Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Wang Fei|Tags: Wang Fei Guqin Chinese Music From Beijing to San Francisco|

http://www.chineseculture.net/guqin/newsletters/09nagaevents/bjtosfreportweb.htm The world premiere of “From Beijing to San Francisco” – a newly commissioned multi-disciplinary work for the guqin developed by Wang Fei, the Founder and Director of NAGA – was performed to great critical acclaim in the Performing Diaspora Festival at CounterPULSE in San Francisco on four consecutive nights from November 19 to 22, 2009. It was well received and played to a full house almost every day. Wang Fei combines her unique talents as a guqin player and

28 Oct, 2009

From Beijing to San Francisco: production process

2009-10-28T02:52:23-07:00By Fei|Categories: CounterPULSE, Events, Performing Diaspora, Video, Wang Fei|Tags: beijing, english, gugin, Performing Diaspora, poem, process, san francisco, Wang Fei|

Wang Fei is a Performing Diaspora Resident Artist at CountePULSE. See her at weekend 3 of Performing Diaspora, November 19-22. Buy tickets now! From Beijing to San Francisco: production process It has been four months since I got really into this new work at my residency. It is so cool, the more I work on this project, the more I like it. It has really made me push the envelope and brought my different interests and talents into a live

18 Aug, 2009

Introduction to My New Work”From Beijing to San Francisco”

2009-08-18T02:27:29-07:00By Fei|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Wang Fei|Tags: guqin chinese music beijing san francisco China|

My project “From Beijing to San Francisco” at CP is a newly commissioned musical piece, bringing the guqin, a Chinese scholarly art, into an innovative, multidisciplinary stage performance, and introducing the ancient, living tradition of the guqin into modern life. It uses a guqin player’s own story to illustrate the fate of the guqin, an ancient Chinese art form, reflect on what has happened in China during the last 30 years, and interpret the period of the Cultural Revolution (1960s to

30 May, 2009

Guqin and me

2009-05-30T03:44:28-07:00By Fei|Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Wang Fei|Tags: Performing Diaspora|

What is guqin? The guqin, a seven-stringed zither, is China’s oldest stringed instrument with a documented history of about 3,000 years. It became part of a tradition cultivated by Chinese scholars and literati and has been associated with philosophers, sages, and emperors since the time of Confucius. Perhaps because of this illustrious history, following the rise to power of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, the guqin came to be viewed as one of the “Four Evils” and was the

From Beijing to San Francisco Report

From Beijing to San Francisco: production process

Introduction to My New Work”From Beijing to San Francisco”

Guqin and me

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