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How VORTEX Began: First Interviews & Early Rehearsals (2021–22)
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This multi-date archive places early VORTEX interviews, workshop discussion, and collective rehearsal side by side. Participants explain why they came to Beijing and entered performance, discuss coercion and the work's partner-rebirth premise, and demonstrate a process in which everyone proposes, tests, and sequences material together.
- Published (UTC)
- 2026-08-09 02:51:20 UTC
- Duration
- 56:13
- Format
- Long-form video
- Subtitles
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- Subtitle languages
- en, zh-Hans
- Interviews move from personal experience to why participants came to Beijing and joined the work.
- VORTEX is described through different choices people make under institutional pressure.
- Beifeng Theatre is presented as a collaborative setting without one fixed division of responsibility.
- Later rehearsal passages preserve movement tests, group feedback, and scene sequencing.
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