At times, we look for something but what we look for is not what we need. 

From time to time, something we lose is supposed to be lost.

Us...  

Ricardo Campos Freire

Choreography and Conception: Ricardo Campos Freire
Music: Ólafur Arnalds & Davidson Jaconello, edited by Ricardo Campos Freire

This ballet plays with the sense of time, leaping from the baroque Sonatas of Giuseppe Tartini to the contemporary works of the American composer Sky Macklay. Yen Han creates a duet which explores the  possible contrasts and  harmonies in the encounter of these two musical worlds. 

Idea and Conception: Yen Han
Choreography: Yen Han
Music: Giuseppe Tartini, Sky Macklay
Violinist: Ilya Gringolts
Dancers: Yen Han, Ricardo Campos Freire

Choreography and Conception: Filipe Portugal
Music: J.S.Bach

"Thoughts of a silent night” shows different states of human behavior. It is mostly during the silence of night that our thoughts scream out loud inside our heads! These thoughts can be struggles, fears, doubts but also can be simply thoughts of happiness and love. With the right music I was able to show a few of these emotions and to create the right atmosphere on stage. I was very inspired by the beautiful dancers of the Shanghai ballet. Together, we searched for the right movement while combining my own style with the dancers' own individuality. This combination is what makes choreography exciting and challenging for me. 

Choreography: Filipe Portugal
Music:  Lisa Batiashvili, Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim. 
Allegro moderato - Molto moderato e tranquillo - Allegro molto - Moderato assai - Allegro moderato 

Idea and Conception: Yen Han
Choreography: Yen Han
Solo Pianist: Alexei Botvinov

Source of Inspiration

I ask myself, how does my past echo into the present and the future. A past, that could be described as a shadow, which has recorded every experience, sensation and memory. A shadow, triggered at times by external events or persons, involuntarily revealing some of my recorded past, echoing into the present moment. We have carried this shadow in an imaginary suitcase since the day we were born.

Shadows and echoes are both fleeting phenomena. The one can distort reality and make it almost magically unreal. The other involuntarily bounces backwards and forwards into infinity.

How do emotions echo within? How is our own shadow provoked to reveal itself to us?

From reflecting on those two questions, it will inspire me to approach the body from a different angle and to stay open to the dancers' own input.

In essence, a search for a place and time where the body becomes the medium for Shadow and Echo.

Ken Ossola

Choreographer: Ken Ossola
Productions: Shanghai Art Festival
Music: various works from Ezio Bosso /Steve Reich excerpt “Drumming 1”
Light designer: Ken Ossola
Costume designer: Yen Han and Ken Ossola
Piece length: 30 min about
Music length: 30 min about

Created for Yen Han Ballet Company 

Choreography: Filipe Portugal 
Music: Philip Glass 
Dancers: Yen Han & Tigran Mkrtchyan 
Pianist: Alexey Botvinov 
Actress: tara Brodin 
Text: Rainer Maria Rilke 
Dramaturgy: Joanne Willmott & Tara Brodin 
Lighting: Sébastien Babel

An exploratory performance by Yen Han and Karolina Zgraja. A poetic dialogue in five acts, this event is meant to explore the performative dimensions and possibilities of the phenomenon of silence. In a series of short pieces, Yen Han and Karolina Zgraja will be mutually acting and reacting by means of movement, spoken word, and the sound of piano. 

Idea and Conception: Yen Han
Choreography: Yen Han

Each “Me Time “ video clip shares a moment of the artist in their element at work. 

In a time of crisis, our survival skills and courage are challenged. Everything apart from the arts becomes first priority. The arts are challenged with finding new expressions and growth, like wild weeds in a new environment. 

“Me Time” is inspired by the pandemic of COVID-19 to share the creative and spontaneous daily work of each artist in their own private space and time – an outlet for creatively sharing and reaching out to people. 

In a time where social contact is possibly deadly, people are left with complex emotions. "Me Time” means transmitting from one soul to the other and helps each of us to feel ourselves again. We survive not only on food and water, we also feed on feelings of contact. “Me Time” is a reach out to all in a new era, and lets the arts continue, keeping our spirits strong and connected. 

Idea and Conception: Yen Han
Choreography: Yen Han