当我需要柔情时

I begin with the imagining of waiting and encounter in “The Mountain Spirit” from Nine Songs, approaching it through a contemporary person’s emotional experience. In a solo performance, Ningning moves between recollection, dreams and reality, speaking to someone who is absent. I am drawn to moments when words and the body fall out of step: a promise is still remembered, but the relationship has already changed; the body remains in the present while feeling lingers in a past encounter. Objects, projections and gestures on stage allow these different times to coexist for a while. As she continues to speak, waiting gradually becomes a way of being with herself. I want to see whether someone who can no longer receive a response from another person can still find, amid memory and hurt, the freedom to keep feeling and begin living anew.