Jazz / Cantonese Opera / Electronic music / Contemporary Dance 

Music Director：Chunyang Yao姚春旸

Composers：Florent Brique、Fanny Mennegoz、Zhuoyu Xie谢卓瑜

Effects and Sampler：Chunyang Yao

Cantonese Opera Singer：Feifan Wu吴非凡

Jazz Band：SLOTH featuring Fanny Menegoz & Yu Dian

Everyday, we keep going and encounter different people. Some stay in our life, while many are just passers-by. Their faces seem familiar to us, but somehow strange. When they are approaching, could you feel the heart beat with eager anticipation? Would you like to know those stories about love, hatred and conflict? The original cross-over drama “Foxy Eyes: Love Chasers between You and Me” will unfold the secret stories with different kinds of art elements and performance practices. And what will happen when the brisk tempo of Jazz encounter with the Cantonese Opera? In the series of music and dance shows “You & Me&…”, the perfect combination may refresh your memory of latent emotions.

Time flies, but to love, or not to love – that is the question. We yearn for abstinence, but it seems the canal and material desire will never let go of us. Are they evil or just indivisible part of our soul? The exhibition “Between” and the BAF Salon “The Charming of Photography” may show you some attractive interpretations from a whole new aspect.

Which still remain in this world? Hideous reality or bare nihility? And who’s there shuttling between you and me?

Here, music, poetry, dance and emotion will integrate together, arts will collide and crash in the limited space and unlimited imagination.

Stop and stay, let the arts shuttle between you and me, with our infinite thinking.

Opera / Pop music / Contemporary Dance / Shadown Puppets

Musicians:  Mauro Bonfanti , Marco Voleri , Nan Zheng郑楠, Hongling Guo郭虹伶, Mattia Romeo , Gioele Muglialdo[It], Wula Duoen乌拉多恩

Composed between 1850 and 1851, Verdi’s Rigoletto is a twisted tale of lust, desire, love and deceit. “As in all other operas” one may say. Yes, but yet there is something making Rigoletto distinctly modern for those times. In the vast majority of operas before this one, and in general, evil characters are repulsive and good characters are attractive. In Verdi’s opera, however, there are none who are either completely good or evil.Rigoletto, a hunchback with questionable virtues, loves his daughter and wants to protect her but takes every stab he can at the nobles. The Duke is physically attractive but goes from woman to woman enjoying his decadent lifestyle. Gilda, the daughter that Rigoletto so loved, killed herself to save the life of the Duke, even after she saw that he was not loyal to her. 

This sort of moral ambiguity is perhaps more realistic but was not ordinary in art of that time period, making Rigoletto one of the first truly modern works. More than 150 years have passed and we still face the same dilemmas. Our society requires of us to keep striving forward, ever moving in order to get something ultimately unattainable: the realization of our dreams. And in this pursuit we face moral issues as well. This is when a dream becomes a nightmare.

Follow the modern story of a dreaming dancer and a dream-maker as their actions are closely intertwined with the characters from the opera.

But remember.

Maybe everything is just what it is: a dream.

And maybe you are not reading this.