White Nights 白夜
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. The theme for the Festival in 2017 is ‘When traditional puppetry encounters the contemporary’ . This project 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.
Hua Hua Zhang - Creator, Artistic Director, Puppet & Installation Sculptor, Performer.
Michael Cocchiarale - Co-writer
Collaborative Performance Artists: Bhob Rainey - Composer&Musician, Gamin Kang - Composer&Musician, Chad Williams - Performer, Elizabeth Weinstein - Performer, Travis Daniel Draper - Performer, Jeanne Lyons - Performer, Yuzheng Liu, (Performer/Taiwan) Siwei Huang (Performer/Taiwan)
Review article by Asian Arts Alliance Nov. 7, 2017
https://bonalysite.wordpress.com/2017/11/07/white-nights-asian-arts-alliance/
Interview artist Hua Hua Zhang by —Isabella Siegel, FringeArts Festival
http://fringearts.com/2017/08/16/east-meets-west-old-meets-new-dreamlike-beauty-hua-hua-zhangs-experimental-puppetry/