Live Performance between Yingmei Duan and Nikhil Chopra

Yingmei Duan and Nikhil Chopra share a great deal of similarities in relation to their interests despite coming from diverse areas of the world. Their performance can be interpreted as an encounter between two performers from two different approaches with several points of intersection. This is Yingmei Duan’s second experience working with the Lilith Performance Studio.

In this project they have decided to collaborate on a performance that lasts 48 hours. The performance centers on a special “dialogue” between the two artists and the viewer concerning their biography to learn more about each other. The conversation is open-ended and develops over the performance. The audience, are also welcome to stay in the gallery overnight if they wish. In the performance they discuss their lives, family, history and different relationships.Through a small doorway one-steps into Duan’s poetic fairytale wonderland, which is enacted in a forest glade. In the forest glade one hears different sounds like wind, water dripping and Yingmei herself is crouching down on a tree stump she is also sometimes making sounds…..

段英美和尼基尔·乔普拉的现场表演
段英美和 Nikhil Chopra 尽管来自世界各地，但在利益方面有很多相似之处。他们的表演可以被解释为来自两个不同方法的两个表演者之间的相遇，有几个交叉点。这是段英美第二次与莉莉丝表演工作室合作。
在这个项目中，他们决定合作进行一场持续 48 小时的表演。表演的中心是两位艺术家和观众之间关于他们的传记的特殊“对话”，以进一步了解彼此。对话是开放式的，并随着表演而发展。如果愿意，也欢迎观众在画廊过夜。在表演中，他们讨论了他们的生活、家庭、历史和不同的关系，通过一个小门，一步到了段在森林空地中创作的诗意童话仙境。林间空地里，风声、水声、映美自己蹲在树桩上，时不时发出声响……