Dulong as Metaphor (ongoing)
This is the teaser for the feature-length film Lu Shirley Dai is working on.
Director & Cinematographer: Lu Shirley Dai
Composer & Sound Design: Zilu Chen
The Portrait of Her Gestures (long-term) | 《她的姿态肖像》
Director & Choreographer: Lu Shirley Dai
Art Director; Muxi Gao, Company Per Form
Composer: Zilu Chen
Animation: Can Yang
Participants & Collaborators: CiCi Xiang, Ziling Ying, Xuan Qin
Collaboration with Vogue & VOGUEfilm; Video available soon
Whose Romantic Nature? |《谁的浪漫自然?》
Artist: Lu Shirley Dai
Composition and Sound Design: Zilu Chen & Lu Shirley Dai
Photography: Karen Lin
Text from excerpts of "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau
Music: L.van Beethoven, “Symphony No.6”, “Symphony No.3”, “Symphony No.5”; Clara Rockmore, “3 Old Viennese Dances: No,2, Liebesleid”; Carolina Eyck, “Les Berceaux, Op.23 No.1”; Franz Schubert, “Erlkönig, D.328”
stream of life (2023) video
I am looking at you as well, my dear (2024) performance & video
to grow (2023) performance, video & installation
Performance work in collaboration with students at Design School, Central Academy of Fine Arts
edgy cut (2022) video
From us, to marriage (2021)
The video documents the book created by Lu and snapshots of her and Will's wedding.
untitled (2021)
To the Lighthouse (2021)
World Park Fantasia 2020
Film in collaboration with Sijia Yang
journey of a flying jellyfish (2020) | my window speaks series
the dancing cloud (2020) | my window speaks series
dancing through virus (2020) | my window speaks series
Self-Portrait
An excerpt of a documentary about choreographer and artist Lu Shirley Dai.
Director & Camera: Shiyu Li
Sound: Yunlong Pei
UN | SEEN & Shirley
A biographical piece about Shirley focusing on her choreography process of the work.
Director: Yunton Man
Action/Reset/Replace (2016)
This short film is created as part of a series of photographic media materials for an evening-length, digital dance project, UN | SEEN (2016). This short film, as well as the full-length performance, explores the idea of human bodies in physical, architectural space as well as imaginary space. As dancers, we are sensitive to visual signals not only from surrounding environments, but also from the experience of corporeal bodies occupying common space. We respond to these visual signs individually through personal experiences and sensations, and collectively, through shared activities and memories. What we see through vision is transformed and enriched by both consciousness and unconsciousness. In a digital world, the idea of space is further complexed by mediatization, through which our sense of time and space is collapsed. In a way that though we are dancing in a studio, what we see and what we sense is beyond that linear dimension. It is the liminal space in-between that's both familiar and uncharted.