An animation film produced by Original Force Animation & Tencent Videos
An immersive theater created & produced by White Horse Immersive
The inspiration of the Monsters in The Forbidden City comes from Classic of Mountains and Seas and Classic of Sea Creatures. All of these makes the Monsters in The Forbidden City combined modern city with monster culture to show us hundreds of fantastic stories between a fourth grade primary school girl “Li Xiaoyu” and hundreds of mythical animals in the Forbidden City.
Shanghai + Hangzhou + Beijing + Shenzhen, China
2021 +2022
An animation film produced by Alibaba Pictures
An immersive theater created & produced by White Horse Immersive
Shanghai + Hangzhou + Beijing + Shenzhen, China
2020 + 2021
DEVISED THEME PARK USING ANCIENT MAYAN DESIGN COMBINED WITH ALIEN SCI-FI THEMING
GAME AND NARRATIVE DESIGN
CHARACTER AND IMMERSIVE DESIGN
CREATIVE DIRECTOR DAVID BASSUK
HAINAN, CHINA
ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
The Devil, his talking cat, and other demons come to Stalin’s Moscow to wreak surreal havoc on the lives of writers, critics, and bureaucrats. This adaptation of one of the twentieth centuries greatest works captures all the wildness and wit
The Master and Margarita or the Devil Comes to Moscow by Jean Claude Van Itallie based on the novel by Misha Bulgakov
Directed by David Bassuk
Performing Arts Center, Purchase, New York
UCCA was pleased to invite emerging theatre director Wan Zhao to present her latest production The New Relationship, a dance theatre performance exclusively tailored for the Center’s current exhibition “The New Normal: China, Art, and 2017.” The performance is co-presented by Lantouzi and Towering Capital, with special support from Tony Fashion Studio. Echoing the English title of the exhibition, The New Relationship takes emotions, instinctive states of mind private to each individual and yet universal to all humans, as points of departure. Through physical movement, sound, and other media, 23 actors respond to the 23 works in the exhibition respectively, transforming the exhibition and the temporal progression of historicized forms, present conditions, and speculative futures in its spatial layout into a spectacular play of private feelings. The performance is a passionate reflection on intimacy, entanglement, pain and reconciliation—the hallmarks of modern relationships. In this hour-long performance, the audience will follow the actors through the Center’s 2000m² exhibition space, interacting with the actors and artworks simultaneously.
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Contemporary Art From Opening Ceremony
Directed by Wan Zhao
China — CEEC Cultural Season
Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Immersive Theater
Written & Directed by Wan Zhao
The Ear Inn is NYC’s oldest bar continuously serving alcohol since 1817 and
is on the national registrar of historic buildings.
EAR INN, New York City
Immersive Theater
Written & Directed by Wan Zhao
798 Art Zone, Beijing, China