

The feverish nostalgia of the water children
YIRAN ZHAO and KAI CHUN CHUANG
Music theater | collaborational work from Yiran Zhao & Kai Chun Chuang
The composer Yiran Zhao and the choreographer and dancer Kai Chun Chuang are working as an artistic duo on their new production The feverish nostalgia of the water children.
In their work, the sound material and the composed body movements form the most important aspects, combined with costumes, scenography and light. Thus, the music theatre based on the libretto by Fiston Mwanza Mujila leads to an interdisciplinary piece that questions the conventional boundaries between performative categories such as “musician”, “actor” or “dancer”.
Duration: 60 minutes
The composition commission for “The feverish nostalgia of the water children” is funded by the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW.















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Yiran Zhao
composition and concept
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Kai Chun Chuang
choreography and concept
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Rose Breuss
choreographic consulting
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Julio Escudero
stage design and costume
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Meri Ekola
lighting design
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Oliver Frick
sound design
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Fiston Mwanza Mujila
libretto
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Roland Glasser
translation of the libretto
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Kai Chun Chuang
dance
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Daniel Gloger
countertenor
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Viktoriia Vitrenko
soprano
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Ensemble Musikfabrik
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Yiran Zhao
electronics