Feast of You Shen is a performative work in which Ang Gey Pin draws upon her Chinese cultural traditions. She writes and assembles stories and memories rooted in her upbringing in traditional Chinese theatre, family culture, as well as dreams and lived experiences from everyday life encounters.
Initiated in 2008 as a solo performance with live music by Nickolai D. Nickolov, Feast of You Shen further developed in 2009 through collaboration with performer Dario Valtancoli. This expanded the work’s dramaturgical and performative dimensions, enriching it with diverse layers of colour, tone, and intensity.
Different versions of the work have been presented at Esposi Festival (Italy, 2008), Grotowski Institute (Poland, 2008–2009), Casa Laboratorio Vallenera (Italy, 2009), Laboratorio de Arte en Vivo (Spain, 2009), and Teatro Varasanta (Colombia, 2009).
Ang Gey Pin, Dario Valtancoli and Nickolai D. Nickolov in Feast of You Shen 2009, Meetings With Remarkable Women Project, Wroclaw, Poland, photo Maciej Zakrzewski