“When BIG and FFV approached me to score this groundbreaking show it took me about 2 seconds to say yes. The studio also designed the spatial musical production Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise, which showed in The Shed New York City then China, and is currently designing Wagner’s The Ring Cycle for Opera Australia, to be premiered in 2023.įlora&faunavisions is an innovative creator of emotional moments, made up of an ecosystem of design professionals who specialise in the art of creating inspired content across industries and beyond expectations. Recently acclaimed works include stage and festival designs for the electronic artists Solomun and Paul Kalkbrenner, and curating and designing the interactive exhibition Olympus Perspective Playground, which travelled to more than 10 countries. For more than 20 years, this internationally award-winning design studio has been bringing immersive and interactive experiences to life – from exhibitions and live music shows to fashion events and stage productions. The Last Show on July 27.Flora&faunavisions is the concept and multimedia creator for the Genius Immersive Experience. While, by far, a unique, theater experience, you never shake the feeling that Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise could have been more.
Peiju Chien Pott (Little Lotus), Dickson Mbi (Lee),Jasmine Chiu (Little Phoenix), Ji Tuo (Little Dragon), and David Torok (Doug Pince) are all martial arts experts that thrive during action sequences and give their all to elevate as actors. Still, I was so happy to see its diverse casting adding people of color, from every ethnicity, to embody this phenomenal martial arts form. You cannot help but want it to be bigger, bolder, and flashier with the wealth of Chinese and Kung Fu history that backs it. Still, her music is not always plugged into a scene with smoothness, but when it works it works.ĭragon Spiring Phoenix Rise feels caught between moments of prosperity and its own potential for more of it. Her music matched the feeling of vibrancy and legendary the storyline, by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, wished to achieve. Every kick, fist, and chop pulses like a move that could be added to any club choreography, which might explain why Sia’s discography was an obvious choice. Choreographed by Chen She Zheng, the kung-fu flowed like a dance rather than a defense tactic. The set by Mikiko MacAdams, lighting by Tobias Rylander, and special effects by Jeremy Chernick are like lifelines throughout the musical breathing vivacity into scenes by amplifying their weight. The Kung Fu was exceptionally cool, and certain effects like fire, water, and stunning lighting made every move feel heightened. It is a lot that happens in slow instances broken by fighting, of which you could not help but want more Kung Fu and smoother transitioning. Within two hours, a couple fall in love, have twins, fight to death, reincarnate, have a 10 minute intermission, then have their twins grow up to fight to the death, and then fulfill a ancestral prophecy. Story-wise Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise feels mythic but not as urgent, in part, because of pacing. When in action, there were some gorgeously magical, but, at times, its story felt rushed and flattened. It was promised to be spectacularly different and it delivered in that sense. Music by Sia! King Fu Fighting! Aerial Acrobatics! Playing at The Shed, Dragon Spiring P hoenix Rise has it all, but yet it felt like something was missing.
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