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Yao Qingmei
Blowing a Feather
2024
Performance
Moment Research New York 
20‘
Courtesy of artist 
©Adagp, Paris, 2024

The performers blow a feather until it lands. This

performance unfolds in a practice-like manner,

incorporating experiments with sound, text

fragments, breath rhythms, and body movements.

In the brief moments when the feather is blown up

and then descends, each performer showcases

their unique movement vocabulary and training

experience. Jumps, spins, twists, whistling,

murmurs, screams— the performers' movements

and sounds are continuously interrupted by the

falling feather. In an uncontrollable randomness

led by the feather, performers gradually gather

into a group. Ultimately, we collaborate to gently

blow the feather, moving slowly, achieving a

bodily resonance within the choral harmony.

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