
When Mountains Cry
Shanghai Oriental Art Center · Shanghai
22 Oct 2026
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Contemporary & Modern Dance
WHEN MOUNTAINS CRY is co-created by choreographer Brigel Gjoka and XieXin Dance Theatre. Its physical language uses recurring images of arms and hands to explore loss, growth, protection and hope. Repeated, converging and expanding gestures connect individual destinies with collective emotions. The poetic and fluid performance space links human relationships with time, memory and emotion, while ritual-inflected movement frames personal experience within a collective human context. Brigel Gjoka is credited with choreography and the stage and lighting concept. Taulant Shehu is the director. Hu Yanjun and Li Haiyi provide stage design; Gong Zhiyu provides lighting design; Liu Yuqi provides costume design; Vanguard Body handles costume production; and Karthika Nair is credited for the text. XieXin Dance Theatre produces and performs the work.
Dancer
MA ShuyuanDancer
Tu YuchenDancer
Chen YalinDancer
Hu HaiqingDancer
Xu JunkaiDancer
Li YuDancer
Zhang GeyuDancer
Liu YuqiDancer
Huang YongjingDancer
Tang YingDancer
Kang ShuxuanChoreographer
Brigel GjokaSet designer
Brigel GjokaLighting designer
Brigel GjokaStage director
Taulant ShehuSet designer
Hu Yanjun