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Fashion Show Picture

Joy is  designing and producing the  opening performance for 三宅一生 Issey Miyake‘s fashion show on March 6 in Taiwan. The effort in Taiwan seeks to incorporate African Drumming into an well known Japanese clothing designer’s Fashion Show.

Joy was inspired to create the piece seeing it as a way to link “our way of living in the modern day to the indigenous culture and people…”

Joy adds: “We are making it a story about a seeker connecting to mother earth and nature and spirit to evolve… for truth and life.” Joy feels that in this way “the ‘stage’ is for awakening the minds of the people on a planetary level.

The performance will integrate West African drumming and Taiwanese tribal music. It is called Voice of the Wind and will feature several African Drums and also a choreographed dance routine with the drummers moving around throughout the performance.  This African element will be combined with a ‘nose flute’ – a Taiwan tribal music instrument and will also feature a Taiwanese tribal vocalist.

The voice represents the wind, while the flute player is a Kokopelli that interacts with the earth (African  Dunduns – mother drums’ voice) and the human beings (the djembe player as a seeker). The interwoven nature of the sounds represents the harmonious interaction among earth, spirit and human beings. The integration of the sounds are designed in the performance to bring out the best in us by encouraging us to pursue and seek out harmony in how we live and interact with the world.

演出主題

風之聲
Voice of the Wind
說不完的故事 永遠的想像空間

演出元素
Musical Presentations:

咚咚鼓　Dunduns
短笛 　 Nose Flute
人聲　　Vocal
金貝鼓 Djembe

舞台設計
Stage Arrangement

為 了加強和在場貴賓的交流和互動，讓所有貴賓不但能近距離欣賞我們的演出，還能夠融入我們的表演情境中，我們摒除了在主舞台演出的傳統方式，而把演出的藝術 家全部安排在秀台上，以低沉多變的咚咚鼓聲與如雲流水源源不斷的優美人聲在秀場兩端相互呼應，製造出堅實穩定卻又詭譎多變的美麗島嶼想像空間。

The stage is anchored with DUNDUNs (Mother’s Voice of the drum) on one end of the walkway and the sound of a woman on the other end. The Dunduns consist of 3 levels of sounds. This serves to enrich the foundation of the performance, while the vocalist evokes sounds that reflect the collective energy of the audience, performers, designer and the theme of the artist expression.

清晰響亮的金貝鼓聲和忽快忽慢的短笛聲則互相在秀台上舞動著，訴說海風所帶來的神祕愛情故事，將觀眾帶入一種原始和新潮交織的低調奢華情境之中。

The flutest and djembe player will be fluidly moving around on the stage playing dual roles as both musicians and dancers.

The mixture of the sounds and the dance movements during the performance welcomes the creation of the fashion design show and builds up audience excitement in anticipation of the main event.

服裝設計
Custume Arrangement

在服裝設計上，我們安排聲樂藝術家穿著柔軟棉質的白色的服裝，想像成是美麗島嶼的純淨沙灘，鼓手和短笛藝術家則都穿著非洲大自然繽紛色彩及傳統圖騰的服飾以呼應傳統與現代交替共存，產生永遠不退流行的感覺。

The vocalist will be dressing in white to represent purifying voice to hear the inner thought of artistic performance. Drummers / dancers and the flutest will be dressing in colorful outfit made by Africa motif and fabric.

我們還為所有的演出藝術家設計了特殊的面罩，讓觀賞的貴賓們毫無拘束的進入風之聲的情境中，也讓我們來自世界各地的藝術創作者，傳承了非洲多元文化中的一致性。

All performers will be wearing masks to disguise the identity of the players. It is to suggest that we all come from different places yet we meet in the unity of the music of different traditions. We represent unity in diversity and diversity in unity!