In the second act (with mother and daughter resurrected) the siblings are now teenagers practicing martial arts under different tutelage, eventually reuniting to do battle against their father and save the world - from what, we never really know. Presented in two acts, Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise follows a marriage gone awry when Doug attempts to murder Lone Peak’s daughter (PeiJu Chien-Pott) and one of their twin babies so he can become master of this mystical world (otherwise known as Flushing, Queens). That mainstream commercial sensibility undermines the core of Chen’s concept by turning the work into theme park fodder. Courtesy The Shed.)Ĭhen’s work features additional contributions by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, co-writers and producers of family-friendly films such as TROLLS and the Kung Fu Panda series. PeiJu Chien-Pott with members of the chorus in ‘Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise.’ (Photo: Stephanie Berger. The seemingly baffled audience at a recent performance of the martial arts-driven multidisciplinary piece dashed for the door while the hard-working ensemble was still taking its bows, a spattering of applause echoing through The McCourt, The Shed’s 17,000-square-foot flexible space suited for large-scale performances. Lesson learned.ĭragon Spring Phoenix Rise, presented in a vacuous space that craves (and currently lacks) identity, is one of The Shed’s first commissioned works. Flying dancers, a stage that pools with water and floor traps bursting open into flames can’t fix an artistically disparate approach to a newly penned American fable about an underground sect called the House of Dragon. “Maybe if you had wanted less, you would have gotten more,” says Lone Peak (David Patrick Kelly) to his estranged son-in-law Doug Prince (David Torok) in the final climactic moments of Chen Shi-Sheng’s Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise. “This is the time of the rise of technology, of it being really embedded in our lives, and if art is about reflecting society and our contemporary situation, of course, it’s going to use those mediums to think about it.(l to r) Jasmine Chiu and PeiJu Chien-Pott in ‘Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise.’ “Artists have always worked with and used the tools that are available to them to create art and whenever something new enters the world or new kinds of forms of making it always appears within artistic practice,” Enderby, 35, says. The Shed’s 200,000-square-foot arts center at West 30th street also touts high-tech indoor spaces to accommodate every form of digital, performance, installation or sculptural creation, including a museum, theater and coworking hall. “I think going to be a real highlight for us and New Yorkers because it’s going to be this open, free format for people to come sit experience the work or just kind of hang out on our plaza this summer,” Enderby, of the Lower East Side, says. A lotus flower sculpture made from material used to create suicide-prevention netting in China, by artist Tahir Carl Karmali, 32, of Greenpoint is on display at The Shed. Through the commissioning program, The Shed secures an exclusive array of art built specifically for New Yorkers’ eyes.įifteen artists involved in the program will have work featured in the new open-air Plaza, an outdoor space that’s open to the public even when there is no programming scheduled. “It’s a pretty big deal to work in this way, because as an emerging artist, you don’t necessarily have those opportunities to work with institutions to create these large sculptures." “This is the first project that I’ve done in a while that hinges on basically the need of money to be able to put it together,” Karmali says. One of these Open Call works is a lotus flower sculpture made from material used to create suicide-prevention netting in China, by artist Tahir Carl Karmali, 32, of Greenpoint.
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