Fire Horse and Shadow- interactive web-performance

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Scarlet Chen, will lead a Q & A, followed by the ceremonial burning of the Giant Dumpling. The Giant Dumpling metaphorically represents and holds the connection to home, intergenerational sharing, dim sum food and stories. In the dance piece Fire & Horse and Shadow, the Giant Dumpling represents the “sealed and contained silence” that emanates through the matrilineal lines of story-gathering that took place in the process of creating movement, shadow and choreography for this project.
The Giant Dumpling is offered as a safe and sacred place to contain the stories and life experiences that have yet found a voice. They will be a place to make a wish or hold a private grief, sincere wish for future joyful and free expression. Your stories are anonymous. Nobody will open and read your paper. All secrets and the Giant Dumpling will be ceremonially burned outdoors at the end of the evening.

Fire Horse and Shadow is a feature length web performance experience created and produced in 2021. This work traces the bold and inspiring experiences lived and felt by four generations of Chinese Canadian women growing up in what is now known as Vancouver, British Columbia (MST Territory). Against a backdrop of cultural influences, gender inequality, and anti-Chinese racism, creators Andrea Nann and shadow painter and puppeteer Annie Katsura Rollins weave together passages of remembering and forgetting. This unique interactive web-performance was created during the depths of isolation in 2020 and originally released in 2021.