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Women from Chinese history
Associate artists at LSO St Luke’s, Tangram’s latest work is a music and dance journey exploring the story of two important Chinese 19th century heroines, Afong Moy and Qiu Jin. SIMON DUFF reports
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Tangram Bound/Unbound
LSO, St Luke’s, London
TANGRAM is a London-based music collective, founded in 2019, designed to showcase cutting-edge contemporary composition in Chinese and Western culture. Bringing together music from across four continents, they are associate artists with the LSO.
Their previous work, Nature Echo, from January this year, was a deep multimedia reflection on global environmental issues. The latest work has been co-written by Xiaolo Guo, a Chinese-born British novelist, mesmerist and film-maker, with Tangram co-directors Alex Ho and Sun Keting. Ho and Keting co-composed the music and directed.
The story winds round a host of powerful themes and history set over four acts.
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