Choreographer | GUO Rui 郭 睿
Utopia in Here and Now 理想国 (2014)
创作总是想在先，行动在后。这次我们专注于“做”。
“不想，只做”已经是在想了，但绝不在过程中。
Dissolving making into Doing.
A series of failures of practices for dance performance.
Who Are You? 你是谁？(2014)
Collabaration with WANG HAO
When I stood in the downtown of Las Vegas, I felt lost. Different styles of buildings were filled in the city from east to west, from ancient to modern times, from the past to the future. The culture, identity and characteristics of their differences were blurred. The landmark buildings from other countries in Las Vegas have pulled out of its own cultural background and lost its significance. There is a clear disconnection between the building and its importance as an landmark. This has made me to think about the disconnection that surrounds us. To a large extent, most of what passes for communication and the objects we collect and consume are all copies of something we will never experience as an original, like the cultural background of the landmarks in Las Vegas. The disconnection between what we know as the image and what we experience established a large part of the world we know.
Who Are You is going to reflect the reality of the disconnection submerged us in materially and immediately. Who Are You is not just a question waiting for you to answer but an invitation that allows you to mix and fuse what the world you see and rebuild a new possibilities to experience the images around us, particularly in the city like Las Vegas.
当我站在拉斯维加斯的城市里，我感到迷失。不同风格造型的建筑充斥在这座城市里，从东方到西方，从古代到现代，从过去到未来，它们不同的文化、身份和特征都被模糊了。很多国家的地标性建筑矗立在拉斯维加斯却抽离了它本身的文化背景和意义。就像我看到一个打着“东方”特色的中国表演，运用了我熟悉的东方符号从清朝的服饰到传统的中国布景，却让我觉得倍感距离。在这个娱乐大都会里，有关中国的画面和我所体验过的中国是抽离的。这并不仅仅是种简单的东西方误解，也折射出某种更大的抽离。我们交流的很多话题和消费的物品都是某种制造和生产的复制品，它们并不是原物，或者说我们并没有真实地体验过它们。而更大的抽离正是存在于这种普遍存在的我们知道（复制品）和我们体验过（原物）的区别之中。
《你是谁》通过物质和即时的手段反思了这种抽离的现实。它既是某种等待探索的提问，也是一种清晰的陈述，我们知道得并多，去混合、熔化你所知道、确定和坚信的认识，创造新的可能性。
A Narritive Discription with Paper, Frame and My Body(2014)
纸、画框和身体的叙述性
Frame limits body.
Paper takes the expression.
The body is taking action to break the limitation of the frame and extend the communication through the paper.
A theatrical, musical and dynamic narration begins.
A Zone A 型地带 / Feel it Warm 今天你温暖吗？(2013)
Works with the students of the MFA Department in Beijing Dance Academy
北京舞蹈学院研究生部工作坊
Photo by Li Jian 摄影：李剑
A型地带
现代社会仍然压制个性，限制人们所为，进而限制了创造力的发挥。
当我们在追求创造力的时候，不得不面对这样一个现实，限制的形式是多种多样的，包括固化的标准，权威的设定，制度的建立等等，控制几乎无处不在。如何逃离不同形式的控制，创造一个真正属于创造力的领地？
《A型地带》借用哲学家Hakim Bey“临时自治区”的概念（Temporary Autonomous Zone），逃离控制的最有效的方法是专注于当下，解放被灌输的那种惯性控制的思维。“当下”的那种流动、变化和差异可以对那些不可避免地限制个人创造力的各种规则、制度或体系进行侵蚀。只有这样才有机会给创造力赋予真正的权力。
《A型地带》试图呈现一个没有等级的感知形式的集合体。思维的控制受到强烈的挑战，通过有意识地模糊思维的逻辑和惯性，造成一种混乱的发生，意义被不断地生产和消解，重来不曾停留；各种各样的力在身体里发生，它们被移动、转换、传递、投射，身体被当成力的形式化的载体而非画面的某种潜在意向的表达；语言转换为声学上的形式存在，打破了它对表达意义的唯一追求。这一切的元素被随意地组织起来，呈现在一个混乱的、多种可能的、不可认知的属于创造力的《A型地带》。
概念：郭睿
表演：卢小薇，秦熙，宋英楠，李聚权，郭睿
音乐：聂楠
视频：罗唯&莫力
12月5—6日 18：00 北京舞蹈学院新楼5A小剧场
北京市海淀区万寿寺路1号（紫竹院旁）
A Zone
Our society still suppresses difference and alienates people from what they can do.
In the pursuit of creativity, we must realize that the control of freedom is multifarious, such as a normalizing standard of judgment, a hierarchical system of a social relationship, or the homogeny of identities. The Control exists unconsciously and mechanically in reality. Can we break through the various forms of control to create a real region for individual creativity?
A Zone inspired by anarchist writer Hakim Bey’s theory, Temporary Autonomous Zone, in which he suggests the best way to elude the formal structures of control is to concentrate on the present and on releasing one’s own mind from the controlling mechanisms that have been imposed on it.
If an orderly extension of common sense is fixed and determinate, we must make a rupture of the established categories. The present is a flux of change and difference, we are willing to become all that we can become—though we cannot know what that is in advance. It is in this chance that an individual can be free and the creativity can be real empowerment.
A Zone is trying to create an ensemble of different forms of sensation and feelings. The control of one’s own mind is challenged and become the source of the creation. We creates a state of chaos by breaking the mechanism of one’s own mind, blurring the boundary between consciousness and unconsciousness, meaning of expression is constantly constructed and dissolved, it never stops on one thing; movement as different energies initiates inside the body, it travels in different body parts, converts into different gestures, projects into space and connects to the other; vocal sounds are presented as acoustic signals which be playfully explored as a different formation of making sense.
All the elements are mixed into one intense body of performance which is chaotic, variable, and unrecognizable. A new territory for creativity emerges from the challenge of controls in the very A Zone.
Conception: Guo Rui
Music: Nie Nan Video: Mo Li
With: Lu Xiaowei, Qin Xi, Song Yingnan, Li Juquan, Guo Rui
With the support of MFA Department of Beijing Dance Academy
5A Studio in the new building of Beijing Dance Academy
Thu-Fri 5>6.12 18:00
今天你温暖吗？
如果在一个密闭的公共空间中建立交流是否可以打破密闭的僵局？电梯，作为现代生活中普遍存在的公共空间，个体不期而遇地以一种“亲密关系”与他者相遇。你或者坦然接受，或者全然拒绝，或者毫不在乎，不可否认这种封闭的空间包含了有限或不可选择的限制，这使“不期而遇”和“亲密性”暗藏了某种他者（或集体）对个体的入侵。
“今天，你温暖吗？”试图充分利用电梯空间的密闭性、公共性、流动性以及亲密接触的短暂性，通过一系列不期而遇的、亲密的、微小的、似有若无的表演，改变或重建着个体与他者的关系。“去交流”和“去入侵”，有时只有一线之隔，我们审视着人们心中的规范和遵循的常态，在密闭的空间里建立起个体与他者的联系。
概念：郭睿
表演和创作：北京舞蹈学院研究生部
时间：周一到周五（12月2—6日），每天14:00-14:30；17:30-18：30
地点：北京舞蹈学院 主楼及新楼电梯
北京市海淀区民族大学南路19号
Feel It Warm
People increasingly find themselves in the elevators running through the skyscrapers of China, which also increase rapidly nowadays. An elevator is an enclosed public space where individuals come into temporary intimate relationships with the other, but there seems to be an invisible and embarrassing block of communication that exits in these situations. Can we break the block through the establishment of different relations between people?
Feel It Warm is a series of performances that happen in elevators. It challenges the closeness of the space, invades the independence of individuals, exchanges energy between different moods, and helps to reveal the personality of each person.
Elevator becomes an unfamiliar space for people to be in. Instead of waiting for arrival, you have unexpected experiences as you encounter the uncertainty of the performances.
Conception: Guo Rui
With the students of the MFA department
With the support of the MFA department of Beijing Dance Academy
Elevators in the main building and the new building of Beijing Dance Academy
(No 19, Min Zu Da Xue Nan Lu, Hai Dian District, Beijing)
Mon-Fri 2>6.12 Everyday at !4:00-14:30 and 17:30-18:30
Dance Poem 舞蹈诗 (2013)
舞蹈诗
我晒了会儿太阳，
向四周抛弃我的能量
有一棵小松树，孤独地长在沙滩之中
我和它跳了会儿舞
我在大世界里舞，在小世界里舞
上下颠倒，天地旋转，让我一下子回过神来
我用我的手演了个故事
被海风吹得到处走
我跟电灯柱子比高矮，看到一望无际的天空
我低下头一阵子
我站起来，在石阶上快乐地跳舞
我飞奔，我跳跃
又缓慢地体验着身体激昂而汹涌的能量
我环顾四周
又专注地冲着台阶起舞，同四周的环境建立新的关系
听着大海的声音，我慢慢回复平静
烈日烤得沙滩滚烫
我把脚藏到沙子下面
深深地吸了一口海边的空气
呼吸带着海边的味道舞蹈
我听见了鸟叫
看见椰树风中起舞
远处是大海
我向着海边走去
Dance Poem
There is a clear distinction between set movement and improvisation. In Dance Poem, I tried to blur the difference between them and make a new discovery of freeing dance .
I started with improvisation, and wrote down what I have danced and perceived during my dancing little by little. By doing so, I got the set materials. I treated the materials as a map or guidance information. Instead of repeating what I have done or set before, I tried to follow the guide and discover something new each time in the same materials/dance somehow.
I changed different environments to dance, invited people come to see me dancing, and shifted the duration of the dance...The dance is like a natural scene inviting me to discover its beauty.
The dance can be a relax journey or an exciting adventure.
Created and practiced in Xiang Shui Bay of Sanya, China
Different locations such as beach, mountain, pavilian next to the coast.
Falling Down / 坠 落 （2012）
The piece entitled Falling Down is a new creation made by Guo Rui in January 2012. This time, he turned back to his dancing background, Chinese folk dance, and work on the different types of being/performing through Chinese folk dance to contemporary dance.
The performer encounters different forces in the piece which make things falling down or push something new to happen. The performer reacts in it in different ways from theatrical acting to physical movement. The question behind all the actions is what makes body to dance/move. Is it a reason or a feeling?
Created and Performed by Guo Rui
Music: Sound recording and Songs
Song 1.Shan Bu Zhuan Shui Zhuan (When god close a door, he opens a window )
Written by Zhang li| Composed by Liu Qing| Performed by Na Ying
Song 2.Poison
Written by Shi Li| Composed by Liu Guoming| Performed by Na Ying
Prop: A chair with backrest.
Length: 30 mins
坠落是郭睿一次新的尝试。这一次，他回到自己的传统舞蹈，中国民间舞中，对不同的表演类型进行了混合。从中国民间舞到当代舞，他探索了演（再现）和做（经历）的区别，并呈现了它们不同的舞台张力。
表演者遭遇了不同的外力，它们不仅让坠落一次次发生，而且推动故事不断发展。通过戏剧性的表演和肢体的运动，表演者回应了虚幻而又真实的外力存在。
在所有行为背后，一个问题慢慢显现，是什么让身体运动或舞蹈？它是个原因，还是个意图？它们有什么不同呢？
创作及表演：郭 睿
音乐：声音录制、歌曲《山不转那水转》（词：张黎 曲：刘青 唱：那英 ）和《毒药》（词：施立 曲：刘国明 唱：那英）
道具：椅子（无手托）
时间：约30分钟
In-Between / 当中 （2012）
We are working on photograghs. Timing is compressed in photograph. To release the time, and let the photographs in motion, a new world appears in our imagination.
This is a piece question about the real.
Concept:Guo Rui Performance:Yu Linjun, Zhang Congbin, Li Pianpian, Liu Qingyu, Lai Kabo, Zeng Liang, Wu Hui, Yu Yanan, Xiao Zhiren, Zhao Jianrui, Ma Ke, Hu Tengteng Light designer: Liu Shihao Music: Yin Yi Technician: Chen Suizhong Production:Guangdong Modern Dance Company
Special thanks to: The Robert H.N Ho Family Foundation
这是一个有关摄影的作品。
从摄影作品里提取形式把它放到新的时空和关系里展现，是这次创作的基本概念。我们将专注于一系列有关中国的摄影作品，并把照片中的形式或抽取，或提炼，或连接。这些努力都将遵循临摹原创摄影作品然后放到特定的时空和关系来展示，我把这称为一种再造的过程。我并不想创造什么新的东西，通过这一种对原创摄影作品的再造，我要尝试不同的解读可能。
“原创是一种由欲望而发起的创造，任何对原创的再造都由必要性而发起。让人不可思议的是我们是唯一创造无必要性的形式的物种。”引自曼•雷（"An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated by necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms". Quotation by Man Ray）
在这个形式再造的过程中，我想再造的不仅是这些形式，还有我们的观念。