KEY CREDITS
Chief Choreographer/
Director
YANG LIPING
Visual Director/Costume
and Set Design
TIM YIP
The Mending Project Artist
and Creative Consultant
BEILI LIU
Lighting Design
(International)
FABIANA PICCIOLI
Lighting Design (Original)
XIAO LIHE
Music Excerpts
ZHAO JIPING
WU YONG
LAO LUO
ER DONG
WAN LI (COMPOSER)
Lead Singer
GONG LINNA
Executive Choreographers
QIU JIRONG (QIO)
CROW
Choreography
HE SHANG
GONG ZHONGHUI
HU SHENYUAN
PAN YU
GUO YI
Sound Design
SONG DUODUO
Video Design
XIAO LIHE
YAO YUNZHI
Dramaturg
KARTHIKA NAÏR
Producer
NATHAN WANG
International
Creative Producer
FAROOQ CHAUDHRY
Assistant Producers
LV XIA
JIAXUAN HON
Technical Director
CHAO-WEI FAN
Technical Producer
SANDER LOONEN
Sound Engineer
ZHU RUI
Lighting Engineer
DOUGLAS FINLAY
Stage
PAUL BEUMER
Video
GILLIAN TAN
Theatrical Consultant
TIAN QINXIN
Peking Opera Direction
QIU JIRONG (QIO)
GUO YI
Opera Consultant
ZHU FU
Visual Supervisor/
GRAPHIC DESIGN
WANG HAN (GWEN WANG)
Literary Coordinators
JIANG MINGCHU
LIANG GELUO
WANG HAN
Music Editing
CROW
A-PENG
Guest Choreographer
JAMES WILLIAM O’HARA
Text Editing
ZHU YUNKUAN
NATHAN WANG
Illustrations
XUE JIYE
PERFORMERS
GUO YI as Xiao He
HE SHANG as Xiang Yu
HU SHENYUAN as Yu Ji
GONG ZHONGHUI as Liu Bang
XIAO FUCHUN as Han Xin (White)
OUYANG TIAN as Han Xin (Black)
Produced by Yunnan Yang Liping Arts & Culture Co. Ltd (China).
Jointly produced by Kunming Municipal Ethnic Song and Dance
Theater Company and China Central Ethnic Song and Dance Ensemble.
Special thanks to Yunnan Provincial Party Council Communications
Department, Kunming Municipal Party Council Communications
Department, Yunnan Provincial Peking Opera Theater, China Shanghai
International Arts Festival, Alistair Spalding and Sadler’s Wells
Theatre, Reinhard Bichsel and Bobbi Chen.
Performers
DONG JILAN
NI JINGXIA
NI JUNSONG
QI JINLONG
SHA SHANDAN
WANG KUN XIAO HAN
XU BINGBING
YAN CAO
YANG BIXI
ZHANG NA
ZHONG QIUCHENG
Musicians
DU YICHEN
FENG XIAOFAN Papercutter
WANG YAN
Supported by China National Arts Fund’s Annual Project Grant 2015
World Premiere 10 September 2015, Kunming, China
European Premiere 2 November 2016, Sadler’s Wells London, UK