Live absent of fear, lost without quandary, faded but not vanished.

Ashes as ashes, formless, fractal, ever smoldering.

Ashes as man, dust in a vast void.

Infinitesimal yet infinite.

Immortal Ashes, beget eternal flames.

Degraded then born, ceaseless combustion, enduring reconstruction, ever reborn.

Cough in vain published its very first concept show “Reborn” in XCOMMONS, Taikoo Hui Shanghai on March 31. We invited several artists to set up this stage show which involved various medium including dancing, 3D image, original music, and equipment.

Accessories’ inspiration was derived from different facial and make-up modeling in Peking opera. We used metal construction to present facial pattern as well as reformed opera character’s whiskers, temple hair and other head prop. Trying to extend the show by redesigning construction in contemporary language.

“Reborn”

Extracting meaning of “cocoon-break”, using 2000 gemstones and costing hundreds of hours to knit the net by handmade, cloaking the net as cocoon, ever reborn.

Stage/ Visual/ Equipment

Specially invited ICU studio to produce 3D image, presenting virtual character & scene by live LED screen.

“Constant dripping of water wears away the stone”

From “He Lin Yu Lu”, designer Kang Heng engraved special foam into a massive black rock placed on the right side of stage, dripping tool on top, operating through the entire show, expressing infinitesimal, eternal, and immortalization.

Special cooperation with costume designer Tan Fengyi with her TBL line, extracting meaning of mystery and restrain from orient to make all dancers’ costume.

Visual design：Di Liu&ICU

Music producer：Han han

Choreography：De Li/ Xilong Zhang

Dancer：De Li/ Xilong Zhang/ Xuchen Hou/ Xiaomeng Li/ Sylvie

ClothingDesign：The body lab by Fengyi Tan

Stone design：Heng Kang

VideoCoordinator：Xiaoyang Jin

Stage design：Xubi Ye

Stage manager：Gangting Qiu