"Lingering Games" is a group devised physical theatre project. Working with 8 creative artists including choreographers, theatre physical actors, contemporary dancers, visual artist, improvised musician and theatre practitioners, director/scenographer Cao Cong directed and designed the performance to reveal our wonderings in the impermanent life and create a complex game of recurring life routines woven by internal desire. In the first phase, Cao experimented the concept with MA Design for Stage, Puppetry and Performance Art students of Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in a collaborative project "(dis) placed", a creative team was then formed to start devising with space, objects and other beings. Live composed music was introduced in the third stage while we gradually found the performing language and lifted it to a more precise structure. This is where "Lingering Games" comes into shape.

A Verse Unbound production in collaboration with Clart Project.

七位表演者半即興半結構的集體肢體作品，探討有限的生命裡，內在慾望會累積出什麼樣的重複循環？棉布、椅子、繩子、身體，表演者在空間中進行動力測試，各種錯位和重組之下，整體仍呈現一個無塵的無常氛圍，或許象徵了導演自述的「漂泊生活」。

Production 演出與製作團隊

Director/Scenographer Cao Cong was born in China, and currently is studying in Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She is a visual artist and performance director who investigates the connection between human body and social phenomenon and the permanent immanent philosophy behind their relationship, she manipulates the interconnected relationship of body, associated martial and space to visualize complex relational narratives. Her work includes performance art, theatre design, mobile installation, performing photography and video art. Cao Cong’s work has been performed in Hockney Gallery of RCA London, Siobhan Davies Studio, LCC & RCSSD.
www.congcongcao.com

Director/Scenographer/Concept/Performer: Cao Cong
Choreographer/Performer: Rob McNeill, Robin Khor Yong Kuan, Ewa Limanówka, Holly Rush, Paulína Šmatláková
Visual Director: Weiman
Live Musician/Composer: Cos Chapman
Producer/Performer: Xinyi Shen
General Manager: Zhe Cui