Ladybird

Gaps in the process
The Other in the constant return of the same thing
Stuttering in non-verbal texts
The black hole in eternity

--Heine Müller

LadyBird Theatre Group is an independent Performance Collective in Beijing. It was in the Beijing Heiqiao Arts Area. Its core members come from different artistic fields including theatre, literature, experimental music, modern dance, contemporary art, video and design. The practice of LadyBird intents to break different boundaries which are dominating in the mainstream theatres, for instance boundary between professional and nonprofessional, stage and audience, life and art. Since 2009, the group conducts different types of texts including play scripts, novels, contemporary poetry, interviews and news reports, combine each participant's body and personal experience for rehearsals. Integrating the contemporary art, the group explores the ways of expressing the body, text and space to create boundary-crossing works and to raise questions about our present realities. Our theatre could be a carpet, a platform, a courtyard, a chapel, a square, an empty space. If performers and audience are there, the theater is there! It is the moment of our encounter. It is our celebration! 

Members:

A Fan, Cao Kefei, Da Fu, Dong Jing, Duo Duo, Feng Hao, Li Xinmo, Li Zenghui, Shen Yuan, Shi Xiaojuan, Sun Qiang, Xu Weihua, Xuan Fu, Zhou Zan

Major Works:

June 2009, , inspired by contemporary British playwright, Caryl Churchill's play of the same name. The production was included in the Fei-Fei (Not-Not) All-Star Theater Gathering, where it was performed at Beijing's 9 Theater.

October 2009, , written by the contemporary German woman playwright, Dea Loher. It was performed as a scenario reading at the "China-Germany New Theater Arts" event held at the Beijing Come & Go Centre for Art.

July 2010, , the group's first poetry theater production, at Beijing's Penghao Theater

June 2011, , Ladybird's second poetry theater production, at White Nights in Chengdu and at the Chengdu Arthouse. In January 2012, Shenzhen Hua Gallery. In May 2012, Gu Ling Jie Theater as part of the " Taibei Women's Theater Festival"

December 2011, <BEHOLD, TUGLIZ!>, the original stage production, at the Shenzhen Concert Hall's Small Theater. It was a one-year project supported by Fantasia Holdings Group

April 2013, , written by the Chinese theater artist Tian Gebing, performed as a scenario reading at the Beijinger Architecture Center of Columbia University

May 2013, the book was publishend in Hongkong

June 2013, and Li Xinmo´s Performance Art , written by the Chinese theater artist Zhang Xian, in KUBRICK Beijing

October 2013, , LadyBird's poetry theater production, Chapell Joli Coeur Berlin