Chinese, English & Japanese | Work-in-progress

An adolescence revolution in the ever-changing 90s-00s China.
A study of Yaoi (Boys' Love / Slash fanfiction) climate.

Conceived, created and performed by Lydia Jialu Li
Sound magician: Kai-Luen Liang
Leotard costume design: Xiyü Lin
Seamstress: Sam Paul Salman

Special thanks:
Directorial and lighting support by ZHANG Xiaoyue; creative producing support by Tom Rhode; dramaturgical support by Monalisa Tianding He, and Thomas Lemuel (composer)

Magdalena Project at Double Edge Theatre, MA | April 2022
LAPP | October 2022
JACK | November 2022 (postponed)

Chinese and English | CalArts Main Gallery | February - March 2020

In urgent response to the Wuhan Lockdown, Lydia Li and Changting Lu started a series of public performance to express their concerns and prayers for the lives and the city endangered by SARS-nCoV-2.

This calling was answered by many Chinese students across disciplines in CalArts, and eventually grew to a collective and a community theatrical event.

Participants:
Lydia Li, Changting Lu, Jiayu Zhang, Xiaoyue Zhang, Yue Wang, Yao Chen, Yanbin Zhao, Mu Yang, and many more.

Photos by Yitong He, Jiayu Zhang and Jackie

Chinese | Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, P.R. China | June 2018

The Iliad of a sexual assault survivor.

Conceived, choreographed, and directed by Lydia Li

Who Wants To Be In Jeopardy!

Zoom Performance | English
A piece for CalArts Solo Lab, instructed by Lars Jan.

A nightmare quiz show, a doesn't-give-a-shit host, and a fatigued classmate trying to reach over the screen before this class inevitably ends and people fall apart.

Created and Performed by Lydia Li
Participants: Juan Ayala, David Blindauer, Antonia Cruz-Kent, Lars Jan, Likun Jing, Will White

Los Angeles, CA | December 2020

山海经 Book Of Mountains and Seas

Video & Zoom Performance | Chinese and English

Archeology reimagined: tracing trans-continental history in the body landscape.

A piece for CalArts Solo Lab, instructed by Lars Jan.

Los Angeles, CA | November 2020

玉门关 Fortress Jade

Video | Movement Essay

"How long can a normal person endures?"

A piece for CalArts Movement, instructed by Anthony Nikolchev.

Los Angeles, CA | November 2020

Upon Frontier 出塞

Movement in VR and New Media | Work-in-progress | MOS

A traveller in a foreign land contemplates the night prior her wedding day.

Conceived and produced by XU Rui
VR Choreography by MAO Chenhui
Performed by Lydia Li & Juan Ayala

Los Angeles, CA | October 2020