— The Role: Director/ Designer/ Performer —

Performers: Sha Lu/ July Zhiyan Yang

@The Street, Central Saint Martins, London

Inspired by the poem Prostitute Baby by Ishimwa Muhimanyi, Sha adapted the poetry work into a 20mins slow-speed performance. By using a color-dyed, stuffed and aged dress, a wooden spoon, a yellow kitchen glove, a red heart shaped candle and some unravelling thread, the performance was provocative, visually arresting.

Prostitute Baby as part of the Central Saint Martins work in progress show in Jan 2017 has been performed both on the private night and the public viewing day.

Photo by Baoyi Liang / Tom Hill

— The Role: Creator & Devising Performer —

Created by Sha Lu / Irineu Nogueira

Performers: Aleksandra Jawulska/ Sha Lu/ Irineu Nogueira/ Martin Pokorny/ Aisó Silva/ Alinta Sara/ Julia Testa/ Maite Codou Sow Villarino

@The Street, Central Saint Martins, London

Inspired by the day-to-day scene in the London underground carriage, this performance is talking about the idea of isolation and mechanisation in 21-century city life. 

The Tube / CCTV 2  as part of the Central Saint Martins work-in-progress show in Jan 2017 has been performed both on the private night and the public viewing day. It attracted a large amount of the audiences' attention and received lots of fondness from them.

— The Role: Devising Performer —

Directed by: Jac Ifan Moore / Simona Di Maio

Performers: Louis Bernard/Ryan Cloud/Paula James/Sha Lu/Teele Uustani

@ REPUBLIC'S GALLERY SPACE, LONDON

Based on Homer's epic poem, Odyssey is a new project from a recently formed international ensemble of theatre-makers. 

Currently, in its early stages, the company spent a week in Republic’s Gallery space, investigating a fresh take on the classic work; following a hero leaving the destruction of war behind him, to cross the Mediterranean in pursuit of a better life.

Photography by @aloverdrive

— The Role: Devising Performer —

Directors: Roberto Sanchez Pierola / Hao Wu

Performers: Sha Lu/ Hella Stichlmair/ Natasha Zierhofer

Cracken Theatre Production @ New River Studios, London

Inspired by Gordon Craig and Tadeusz Kantor’s work, Crakan explores alternative performing techniques in the search for powerful scenic action.

East Asia meets South America in Northern Europe to attempt an interculturally-minded approach to Western Theatre. Buddhist and Andean perspectives weave into subvert and question our logocentric neoliberal capitalist context by proposing other ways to perceive the world and our relationship with it.

A group of shadows take on the strings of destiny and the rotating machinery that moves it to engage us on a journey through the struggles of life, the silence of death and the depths of fading memories.

Hypnotic puppetry techniques, physical theatre and object animation blend together to bring us this unforgettable experience in which imaginative situations come alive
through fascinating transformations.

More info: www.crakantheatre.com

— The Role: Costume Designer and maker/ Devising Performer —

@ PALAIS DES FETE, STRASBOURG, FRANCE 2016

Devised by Sha Lu, Irineu Nogueira, Ishimwa Muhimanyi, Maryam Nazari.

Taking Gunter Grass’ poetry collection Novemberland (1956 – 1993) as a start point, this piece of performance is a work in progress vision of the concept, focusing on revealing those scientists who hidden 'underneath' the war. In the meanwhile, they also experiencing the conflicts in their own path...

— The Role: Devising Performer —

@Ancona, Italy

Self-devising, site-specific and immersive performances/installations led by Geraldine Pilgrim. 

We spent a week in Polverigi and Ancona devising a serious of site-specific performance/installation. Creating narratives by purely still images in the first stage, challenging the audience's imagination, following with Geraldine's instant feedbacks, we developed our works into a further level of complication. 

In the second stage, we increased the quantity of the performers, using wider scene and larger framework, considering using an extra prop as well as one simple change/movement. The look of the composed work became dreamlike, surreal and profound, located at the coastline of Ancona bay.

Pushing the degree of difficulty to the final level, the final piece of work was an entire active, repeatedly scenes switching, sounds and props involved performance in the Villa Nappi, Polverigi. The audiences were the local residents and the artists from Central Saint Martins.

Piece One: The Mistery Murder - Three still images

Piece Two: The Surreal Dream - One image with one changeover

Final Piece: The Dream