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Tangram Artist Collective at LSO St Luke's

Tangram, Our Associate Artists at LSO St Luke's

Over the last two years, the trailblazing collective Tangram have combined music, theatre and visual projections in their spectacular performances. Look back at their incredible work and find out more about what is coming next.

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Tangram is a London-based music collective creating and curating ambitious, multi-disciplinary and culturally-curious productions. Since their conception in 2019, they have been pushing the boundaries with their events, and new music is a huge focus of their mission.

Made up of researchers, composers and performers of Chinese and western instruments, the group wants to break down the idea that China and the West are mutually exclusive entities and connect both ancient traditions in multiple ways. Read on to find out more about their past productions and what to expect in their next endeavour. 

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Bound/Unbound

9 and 10 August

This August, Tangram present their brand new music theatre work Bound/Unbound at LSO St Luke’s. Featuring musicians from the LSO alongside percussion, soprano and traditional Chinese sword-dancing, the performance will interweave the stories of two of China’s 19th-century heroines: Afong Moy and Qiu Jin.

Bound/Unbound showcases some of the UK’s most dynamic Chinese cross-cultural performers. The event incorporates opera, dance and visual arts to intertwine the stories of Afong Moy and Qiu Jin through eight performers. This includes choreographer and dancer Yining Chen, a specialist in modern Chinese sword dance and percussionist Beibei Wang and Korean soprano soloist Haegee Lee, alongside a ‘string bonaza’ of musicians from the LSO.

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Three members of Tangram stand with eyes shut, heads resting on each other's shoulders

Tangram x LSO: Bound/Unbound

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Nature Echo

January 2024

Tangram collaborated with performance artist Echo Morgan to musically illustrate the fragile and destructive relationship between humans and our environment.

The performances featured nine musical compositions from four continents categorised into two distinct atmospheres: woodland and ocean. Evocative sounds of ice and plastic were paired with the haunting echoes of vanishing whale songs, culminating in a striking performance art piece from Echo.

Echo Morgan, a performance artist, is crouched down on the floor with bowls of paint in front of her. Blue paint is scattered around and glowing balls of light are in the foreground.
Bathed in a red light, Beibei Wang is holding up a plastic bag.
Daniel Shao is wearing white and bathed in a green spotlight, playing the flute.
Cellist wearing white in the a blue spotlight.
Spotlights on Beibei Wang, leaning over a table with a white tablecloth.
A blue circle spotlight shines upon a cellist wearing white and a pianist playing a grand piano. A drum kit is in the background.
A zoomed out image of a cellist, in a spotlight. The stage has other instruments on it and in the background there is a large artwork with swirls and tree branches.
Echo Morgan, a performance artist, is crouched down on the floor with bowls of paint in front of her. Blue and green paint is scattered around a white background.
Beibei Wang is surrounded by percussion instruments, holding her sticks in the air.

Yang Queen

August 2023

Mantawoman, alter ego of yangqin extraordinaire Reylon Yount, premiered her musical extravaganza about the heartbreaking beauty of change. The production of YANG QUEEN was a kaleidoscopic experience of music, movement, animation and video art, centred upon the iridescent sound of the yangqin (a Chinese percussive string instrument) and Mantawoman’s charismatic performance style.

Manta wearing a glittery mask playing the yangqin. There is a disco bowl underneath the instrument.
A person playing a drumkit is in the foreground with Daniel Shao playing the flute in the centre. Manta is in the background playing the yangqin.
Daniel Shao is under a spotlight playing the flute with Manta slightly out of focus, wearing a mask and playing the yangqin.
Manta wearing a floral dress smiling and holding their hands out wide. There is a glitter ball at the bottom of the image.
Manta wearing a glittery mask playing the yangqin. There is a disco bowl underneath the instrument.

Wu Xing – 5 Elements

January 2023

Percussionist and composer Beibei Wang premiered her new music theatre piece transforming fire, water, wood, metal and earth into an arresting spectrum of sound combining Chinese folksong, Peking Opera and Western Classical music.

Beibei Wang lifting her hands above a lit water bowl.
A bald Chinese man with a surprised expression, holding a fan, bathed in green light.
Two percussionists facing each other.
Beibei Wang holding water in her hands with drips of water falling into a lit bowl of water underneath.
Manta playing a yangqin.
Beibei Wang, surrounded by percussion instruments, lifting her sticks up to the ceiling.

Our Silence is Your Silence

August 2022

Our Silence Is Your Silence explored the boundaries between silence and sound, and its deep roots in East Asian philosophies, in an immersive concert experience. Drawing on Daoist practices, the evening centered on a new performance piece for Chinese string instrument the yangqin by Reylon Yount and a new commission from Sun Keting.

A person in a white linen dress is sat underneath a yangqin. The front of the instrument has a floral print on it.
The Ligeti String Quartet are in the centre of the image, with a spotlight on them. The audience are in a darkened blue haze.
Beibei Wang holding two percussion sticks, in front of a marimba.
Above the audience shot showing the Tangram collective bowing in the centre, surrounded by audience members on the outside. At the back, there are mesh screens with the performance credits projecting on them.
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