- Hua Hua Zhang donated her puppets “Nu Wa” “Eamon” “Three Concubines” and masks “Soul Voice” in CHINA CHENGDU SHADOW PUPPET MUSUM in 2013
“Best Creativity” Award 2012
Butterfly Dreams received an award for “Best Creativity” at The 21st UNIMA Congress & World Puppet Festival in Chengdu, China on June 3, 2012.
Hua Hua Solo Installation Exhibition
Open at Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia PA 2013
Installation performances photos by Photographer Johanna Austin
DANCE USA 2014 “Rocky Award”
Hua Hua Zhang received a “Rocky Award “ from DANCE USA, PHILADELPHIA at FringeArts Center in Philadelphia PA on Sep. 15, 2014. The Rocky Award celebrate outstanding achievement in a production, a performance, a set design, or other accomplishment in Greater Philadelphia's dance community.
Hua Hua’s new version of the “Shadow”
as a collaborate artist performed with Kun-Yang Lin /Dancers newest production: Be-Longing - Light & Shadow at Drexel University Mandell Theater on March 2014.
Visual Expressions newest multi-art production Dream of Land opened at Asian Arts Initiative on February 26 - March 6, 2016.
Dream of Land is innovative, interdisciplinary, and cross cultural show. It explores how balance might be found between the desire of worldly achievement and the desire for inner peace. Through live sculpture, hand puppetry, shadow puppetry, dance and theater, performers enact a series of dreams—about the quest for oneself.
Dream of Land was created by Visual expressions and presented in partnership with Asian Arts Initiative. Generous support has been provided by The Jim Henson Foundation. See more.
Photos by Richard Termine
Hua Hua Zhang solo exhibition
The Dragon Boat Dream is open at Philadelphia International Airport Exhibition from May 20, 2016 to January 31, 2017.
White Nights 白夜
White Nights World premiere at Lize International Puppet Art Festival in Taiwan November 17, 2017.
Hua Hua Zhang received a commission to create an installation & puppet art performance for Lize International Puppet Art Festival in Taiwan in 2017. Visual Expressions will give three performances and a week-long residency at the Lizé Puppet Art Colony. The theme for the Festival in 2017 is ‘When traditional puppetry encounters the contemporary’. This project will gives Hua Hua Zhang an opportunity to honor the tradition of puppetry as well as take a risk to push the limits of traditional puppetry into contemporary.
Interview artist Hua Hua Zhang by —Isabella Siegel, FringeArts Festival
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Tian Wen - Heavenly Questions for Modern Times World Premiere Nov. 3, 2018
Hua Hua Zhang / Visual Expressions is very honored to be invited to perform latest production Tian Wen at The Ellen Stewart Theater of
La MaMa in NY. Hua Hua will take this opportunity to continue pursuing her vision of puppetry performance.
La MaMa - Ellen Stewart Theatre
66 East 4th St. NY
Nov 3rd - 8:00pm
Nov 4th - 3pm
Nov 5th - 7pm
The Mythical Chinese Dragon
Solo Exhibition FringeArts Festival 2019 Philadelphia
Sep 4 - Oct 4, 2019
Exhibition is the latest work of Hua Hua Zhang as part of 2019 Fringe Festival of Philadelphia. The exhibition supported by Asian Arts Initiative’s Shared Spaces program.
Dream of Land 地之梦 World premiere at Asian Arts Initiative Mar. 2016
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Performance at Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia
Valentine’s Day Special Night - Artist Bash: To Die For
Feb. 14. 2020 at 8:00pm
Hua Hua Zhang and her team presented a series of individual evocative dreams in a blend of contemporary and traditional art form. The dreams explore the differences in feelings, concerns, and behaviors between East and West that Hua Hua Zhang has observed during her artistic journey in America.
Dreams:
Figure and Balloon - How might we learn to accept our essential loneliness?
Paper Woman’s Nightmare - These days, why do we become so filled with fear and anxiety?
Who Are You? - Why does the focus on ourselves get in the way of knowing others?
Water - How might we learn to value ourselves for who we are, not for who others wish we would be?
Pan Gu - Chinese mythology story. A unique traditional shadow puppet play with a contemporary feature.
World premiere at Courtyard of Barnes Foundation Philadelphia.
March 1, 2020 1:00pm & 3:00pm
Photos by Josh Hubert
Photos by Richard Termine
