We’re excited to introduce our first artist in residence – Noah Zhao Wang. Noah is a director and actor long active in physical theatre area in China and has toured domestically and internationally with his group before. His most recent work 神鱼 won the Best Drama Award in the Competition in Beijing International Youth Theatre Festival 2017 and this work is still touring in China now.
Noah is committed to innovation and experimental drama, on the way to explore the training methods of physical theatre, theatre drama form with training methods of French Jacques Lecoq and Chinese opera culture and martial arts, to explore a set of suitable for the young actor China long training performance training methods physical theatre, launched the “left”, “head”. He has participated in a range of prestige festivals including Festival d’Avignon, Edinburgh International Festival and the Wuzhen Theatre Festival. He moved Melbourne and settled down here a year ago.
In the common pursuit of artistic excellence and innovation, Noah joined Cross Encounters’ family. He will present us with the first ever professional physical theatre with Chinese background.