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Frost and Flame Performaning Art and Stage Design

Lampo Leong Performaning Art and Stage Design Performing Arts

Frost and Flame

The color palette transitions from cool to warm tones, representing the tragic impacts of global warming. However, the re-freezing of the text credit at the conclusion of the performance provides a glimmer of hope, symbolizing the potential power of humanity's collective efforts. This unique fusion of traditional ink with environmental awareness elevates classical ink painting into the sphere of contemporary art, highlighting its vitality while integrating with the body language of modern dance in the digital era.

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Inspiring Formosa Generative Scenography

Hsiaoyi Yu Generative Scenography Performing Arts

Inspiring Formosa

Inspiring Formosa is a generative virtual scenography system for live pipe organ concerts. Instead of physical sets, the system uses an artificial intelligence engine and a 5G low latency network to translate live sound and the movements of the organist into moving visual scenery. The visuals are projection mapped onto the venue architecture and the organ pipes, and they are synchronized with the stage lighting. The method avoids any alteration of heritage concert halls and removes the need for built and transported sets.

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Immersive Stage Projection Mapping Graphics

Dynaya Bhutipunthu Projection Mapping Graphics Performing Arts

Immersive Stage

Immersive Stage is a series of motion graphics and projection mapping designs created for stage performances at a university orientation event. The event was held at Prince Mahidol Hall, Mahidol University, Thailand, on July 29, 2025, with about 6,500 participants across three rounds. The theme, Be Your Own Fireworks, is expressed through seven firework characters representing the core values of the university. The graphics appear on five LED screens and through five projectors placed on the balconies and ceiling of the hall.

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2021 HBS New Year's Eve Concert Stage

Bin Li Concert Stage Performing Arts

2021 HBS New Year's Eve

2021 HBS New Year's Eve is a concert stage designed for a televised and online New Year's Eve show. The stage is divided into seven zones, with a central stage and auxiliary stages on both sides. A large gyroscope structure forms the center. The structure is 30 meters wide and 25 meters high and rests on a single steel column. The upper half can be raised by a hydraulic cylinder, and the outer ring is moved by twelve computer-controlled hoists. A curved LED screen, water elements and lighting fixtures complete the setting.

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Heshengzhao Bo Yuege Wedding Space

Wei Zhang Wedding Space Performing Arts

Heshengzhao Bo Yuege

Heshengzhao Bo Yuege is a wedding space designed to present a traditional Chinese wedding as a staged opera. The design occupies a blank exhibition hall of nearly 2000 square meters, with a main stage 48 meters long and an ultra wide screen 7 meters high and 28 meters long. The setting depicts an imagined palace in the clouds, with a dragon shaped archway, red pillars and layered cornices. Three dimensional carved foam sculpture and traditional wooden mortise and tenon construction were used. Each part of the ceremony follows a poem written for the couple.

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Kasane no Irome - Piling up Colors Installation Design

Nakamura Kazunobu Installation Design Performing Arts

Kasane no Irome - Piling up Colors

An installation design of Japanese Dance. Japanese have been piling up colors from olden times to express sacred things. Also, piling up the paper with square silhouettes has been used as a thing representing sacred depth. Nakamura Kazunobu designed a space that changes the atmosphere by changing to various colors with such square "piling up" as a motif. Panels flying in the air centering on the dancers cover the sky above the stage space and depict the appearance of light passing through the space that can not be seen without the panels. A space that draws light strikingly, develops Japanese Dance.

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Deca Joins 2024 Heaven and Dirt Concert

B'IN LIVE CO., LTD. Concert Performing Arts

Deca Joins 2024 Heaven and Dirt

The band Deca Joins, in their first large scale ticketed concert, used water as the central theme, symbolizing the essence of the band's spirit. This concept was woven throughout the entire performance, with over 70% of their older songs being newly arranged. The concert resembled a grand art installation, seamlessly blending their poetic and aesthetically rich songs into a cohesive experience. The result was like bringing a poetic and picturesque painting to life on stage, creating an artistic feast that redefined the audience's visual and auditory senses.

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Gem of the World Costume Design

Reba Dilbert Costume Design Performing Arts

Gem of the World

Gem of the World is a carnival costume inspired by the Cayman Islands. The white color recalls the powder white sand and the clear water of the three islands. The wing shape refers to the millions of tourists who fly to the Caribbean each year. The costume is handmade from fabrics such as spandex and lace, with sequins and feathers as embellishments. The sculpted parts are framed with metal wire and bonded with a special technique. The costume was created on Seven Mile Beach, with a direct view of the ocean, to highlight the natural beauty and the marine environment of the islands.

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Woman in Power Costume Design

Reba Dilbert Costume Design Performing Arts

Woman in Power

Woman in Power is a carnival costume created to represent the strength of women. The costume forms a fan-like shape adorned with feathers, worn as a statement piece. The pink and purple colors refer to the global symbols of breast cancer and domestic abuse awareness. The sculpted structure is framed with metal wire and bonded using a special technique, then covered with fabrics such as spandex and lace and finished with sequins and other embellishments. Woman in Power was handmade from scratch as a tribute to survivors.

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Outsiders Lighting Performance

Nargiza Usmanova Lighting Performance Performing Arts

Outsiders

It is a lighting show that was staged at three different locations in Oakville (ON, Canada). The performance is fiction on the theme of Energy. In the story, the Outsiders came to Earth not as invaders but as highly intelligent creatures with a lot of knowledge to share with humans. The main point of the project: the energy is actually found inside of us. It is the foundation of human livelihood and maybe a key to solving the energy problem on Earth. To visualize the idea, the artist has designed lighting costumes using LED modules and zip-ties.

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The Magic Ship of the Orient Multimedia Videos

Wu Liang Multimedia Videos Performing Arts

The Magic Ship of the Orient

The work constructs a stage scene with Oriental cultural elements, combining Chinese folding fans, pipa and engines into a huge spacecraft. The video uses 3D animation, AIGC, and naked eye 3D technology to allow the audience to experience time travel, featuring landscapes, phoenixes, Chinese gardens, Shikumen and Shanghai. In the background of the fashion show, the designer used AI generated giant animations to echo more than 60 models, reflecting the design elements of the clothing. The work integrates virtual and real elements to complement the fashion show.

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Amore New Performing Art

Chia-Hui Lu New Performing Art Performing Arts

Amore

Amore is an avant-garde production created to elevate the artistry of performing, conceptual, kinetic, digital, video, and abstract art. Paintings by Paul Chiang are 3D animated and catalyzed to life. The metamorphic moving art intertwine and interact in a marriage with its soul mate, music. Though the focus is love, it also unites human emotions (Joy, Anger, Sorrow, Fear, Love, Hate, Affection) alongside eastern elements (Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth) to create a dramatically diverse western classical music performing art. All in to achieve a mutual interdependence Yin-Yang balance.

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