Bank St
Ashford, Kent TN23 1BA
UK
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. THE NEXT FAR EASTERN FEAST TAKES PLACES ON JUNE 11TH.
The Sinman Dance Company aims to promote and develop Chinese dance and culture in the UK through performances and activity workshops. We are delighted to provide you this unique cultural experience with Chinese arts. Come and enjoy our colourful display of Chinese traditional dance and music from different regions of China.
Including in your ticket is free entry to three workshops:
5pm – 5.45pm
Chinese calligraphy workshop
Inc in ticket for evening performance
It’s the art of writing in traditional China using special brush and ink. You will have an opportunity to learn this writing technique as well as some simple Chinese characters.
5.45pm – 6.30pm
Chinese dance workshop
Inc in ticket for evening performance
Long Fan dance is a traditional folk and festive dance in mainland China. The colourful long fan gives the dance cheerful and graceful feel. The workshop participants will join our dance using this beautiful prop.
6.30pm – 7pm
Chinese opera face-painting
Inc in ticket for evening performance
Beijing Opera Mask is a pattern of putting on facial make up for opera actors and actresses, enabling the audience to get a glimpse of the inner world of the each role. Different color represents different roles in the play. For example: Red indicates devotion, courage bravery, uprightness and loyalty. Black symbolizes roughness and fierceness. Yellow signifies fierceness, ambition and cool-headedness. We will try to demonstrate few main role masks on participants
About the Sinman Dance Company
Sinman Dance Company was formed in June 2002. The Company aims to promote and develop Chinese dance and culture in the UK through public performances and activity workshops. Sinman Dance is an artist led company in which the work is planned, produced and delivered by our artists. The Company’s core members are professionally trained performing artists from China, Hong Kong & Taiwan who are all currently based in the UK. Together, we have built a healthy portfolio of work through past projects and events.
Artistically, we made our debut performance at The Place Theatre. The unique style of this debut project brought us more opportunities in the following years. Our choreographic commissions include The Third Sex, Talking Feather, Fire of Hope and many more; these pieces have been presented by some major events and venues such as French company Les Passagers at O2 arena, ROH2 New Currents at the Royal Opera House, East London Dance at Stratford Circus, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Dance City in Newcastle and Barking Broadway Theatre etc…
Education and community work are significant for us to fulfil our aim. We constantly provide high quality work for schools, libraries, universities and museums in order to reach a wider audience. Some of the projects were carried out through collaborations with other organisations like Museum of London, British Museum, Chinese Cultural Centre, Yellow Earth Theatre and Cultural Co-operation. We also initiate our own ideas and educational projects in the past by receiving project funding from Arts Council England as well as Awards For All from the Lottery Fund.
The most recent high profile projects are:
– 2012 Lord Mayor Show
– China Late educational programme at British Museum from 2007-2008
– Community project for Beijing Olympic Torch Relay at British Museum and O2 in London
– BBC Silk Screen 2008 in Birmingham, an outdoor event working with the local community.
– The annual school tours, to celebrate the Chinese New Year in schools with Chinese dance and other traditional
performances and workshops.