Festival Croisements is back this year bringing French culture to mainland China in three months of artistic displays.Originally launched in 2006 the festival is a celebration of the relationship between the French Republic and the People’s Republic of China. It is the largest French cultural festival abroad and has attracted over 8 million visitors since it began.On throughout June until its closing events on the 10 July 2015, the Croisements Festival’s cultural partners have organized events in over 20 cities in China displaying visual art, architecture and design, music, dance, theater, cinema, and literature.The program includes a performance of poetry and post-industrial music by French duo “Machine Rouge” as well as “The 12th French Film Panorama” a presentation of ten feature-length French films and a selection of short films which will tour to six cities across China.One of the shows to look out for that is premiering as part of the festival is “Made in China.” The theatrical offering is the work of a collaboration between a team of both French and Chinese actors along with musician Wang Li.French theater group “Compagnie à” and theater-maker Dorothée Saysombat, of Laos and Chinese origins, have created the piece with support of the Embassy of France in China in order to explore the subject of ‘migrating objects’. The production experiments with elements of farcical theater as it takes a tragic look at contemporary mass production in Chinese factories. The creators have purposely focused the movement within the piece around the reactions of the actor’s bodies in relation to objects. The performers will manipulate objects made in China-based factories in place of using stage specific props, in an exploration of the multi-metaphorical theatrical figure of the ‘foreigner’.“These objects, migrants from their ‘birth’, travel and help those who produce and consume them do the same. The piece questions the notions of speed, excess and overspending, in the style of a work in progress.” States the production’s billing.“Made in China” will be performed as part of Festival Croisements in Beijing 19-21 June 2015 at 77 Theater and then will transfer to Shandong for a performance on Saturday 27 June at the Children’s Art Theater before closing at Quindao Experimental Theater on Sunday 28 June, 2015.
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