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Butterfly Dreams 蝶 梦
![_ BUTTERFLY DREAMS 'Rice Dream' - Richard Term Photos of "Butterfly Dreams" a puppetry program by Hua Hua Zhang, and David Regan, both UConn puppetry graduates.](https://visualexpressions.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/BUTTERFLY-DREAMS-Rice-Dream-Richard-Term-1024x663.jpg)
In ancient Taoist Chinese philosophy, there was a sage, Zhuang Zi, who had a dream that he had become a butterfly and derived pleasure from flying. After he awakened he asked whether he was a man who had dreamed he was a butterfly, or if a butterfly was now dreaming that he was a man.
We are living in a dream of dreams. If you don’t dream, life has no interest and no meaning. Everybody has dreams at different levels - both waking and sleeping. Here, there is an undeniable connection.
In this show we are using dreams as a vehicle to explore humanity. Awake? Asleep? It does not matter. Do we dream that we dream?
The show presents the audience with a reflection of their own life. It is exploring the edge of the waking and sleeping worlds where humanity can examine itself.
• PROLOGUE: Butterfly or man? The question is asked.
• WATCHED POT: Xiao Lu Sheng gets hungry and prepares a pot of rice. As he awaits his meal he falls asleep and dreams that he attains great power. Do we dream out our lives?
• LESSONS: What are the lessons that we learn in life? Who teaches us and who affects us? Are we ourselves, or are we someone else?
• PASSING: In our lives we are surrounded by many people. But we are frequently alone. Our encounters are often brief and flow away as quickly as they arrived.
• SECRETS: There are dreams that we choose not to share. Thoughts that compel us to seek higher goals. But these thoughts and dreams are ours alone.
• SHADOW: Who are we? What is the dialogue we have with ourselves which draw us through our everyday existence?
• WELCOME: Are we oppressed? Who is our Master? When is the welcome inevitable? When is it not?
• EPILOGUE: Butterfly or man? The question remains unanswered.
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![BUTTERFLY DREAMS - Shan Shan & Shadow Hua Hua Zhang, a UConn puppetry graduate, performs in "Butterfly Dreams" a puppetry performance at von der Mehden recital hall.](https://visualexpressions.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/BUTTERFLY-DREAMS-Shan-Shan-Shadow--1800x2048.jpg)
![BUTTERFLY DREAMS Secrets2 Photo by Richard Te La MaMa ETC presents BUTTERFLY DREAMS by Hua Hua Zhang, directed by Bart P. Roccoberton Jr.
Photo/Scene: DAVID REGAN in "Secrets"
Photo Credit: ©RICHARD TERMINE 2002
Prformances: May 15-19, 2002 at First Floor Theater at La MaMa ETC](https://visualexpressions.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/BUTTERFLY-DREAMS-Secrets2-Photo-by-Richard-Te-300x220.jpg)
Director, Technical Designer and Lighting Designer - Bart Roccoberton Jr.
Composer and Musician - Bruce Gremo