Wild Geese Productions Limited was founded in 2015 to facilitate a major co- production between creative director Duncan Macfarland with a team of European based artistic production collaborators and Taiyuan Dance Troupe, a government run and funded performing arts company in Taiyuan, Shanxi Provence, PRC. The final work, entitled “Wild Geese”, brought together original music and voice, theatre, dance, martial arts, set, costume, animated projection and story telling based on the writings of 13th century Chinese poet Yuan Haowen.
The production was premiered in Beijing in July of 2015 and is currently in negotiations for further international touring.
From its inception, Wild Geese Productions Limited was conceived as a vehicle to promote hybrid visions of performing arts, where several art forms are fused to create striking, engaging, unusual and moving experiences for audiences and opening the viewer to ‘see’ the work of the contributors in a different manner than they might otherwise have done. The company’s manifest is to rediscover the very notion of the concept of ‘opera’, seeking to be true to the sense of its meaning of being the coming together of many art forms. To this end, “Extraordinary: A Celebration Of The Life And Music Of George Butterworth” was previewed at The King’s Head Theatre, Upper Street, Islington, London on August 7-8, 2016, utilizing the music of Butterworth in a dramatization of his life with complete mis-en-scene, set, lighting, costume, wigs, make-up, projection, sound design and, of course, the live performance of his works for voice.
The production was premiered in Beijing in July of 2015 and is currently in negotiations for further international touring.
From its inception, Wild Geese Productions Limited was conceived as a vehicle to promote hybrid visions of performing arts, where several art forms are fused to create striking, engaging, unusual and moving experiences for audiences and opening the viewer to ‘see’ the work of the contributors in a different manner than they might otherwise have done. The company’s manifest is to rediscover the very notion of the concept of ‘opera’, seeking to be true to the sense of its meaning of being the coming together of many art forms. To this end, “Extraordinary: A Celebration Of The Life And Music Of George Butterworth” was previewed at The King’s Head Theatre, Upper Street, Islington, London on August 7-8, 2016, utilizing the music of Butterworth in a dramatization of his life with complete mis-en-scene, set, lighting, costume, wigs, make-up, projection, sound design and, of course, the live performance of his works for voice.
Photo. Chris Dudgeon