#bridge it

Flash Mob - Tianjin Fashion Week - 街头秀 - 天津首届意大利时装周 2012 (di bridgeitcultura)

opening day of the Tianjin Fashion Week on the 19th May 2012 in the italian district of Tianjin...

Maureen: I had the best experience ever..it was such a blast..the play was hilarious and amazingly creative…so engaging and jaw dropping..it had the audience laughing themselves silly....the crew was  funny really cool guyz..:)…. and the director was great he’s such an extraordinary guy, funny and smart… Just for moneyJ can’t wait for a next time…….

                    Nusha: The play was great and loads of fun. I loved it! it was a great experience especially it being my first time acting and also because I got to meet really cool people and work together with them…the director was amazing he’s such a funny friendly guy. Good happy timesJ……

Roxy

Theatre in China Living in a foreign country has its good points but also some negative aspects. Then when you live in Tianjin, where everything is far away and new, you want to discover it, but when you find that the only point of contact you have with the locals is at the market or restaurant, or in the disco, everything becomes empty. The city has few leisure activities, culturally speaking at least. The discos and pubs seem to be the only way to escape the routine. And well, you're a creative person! You have to create something, something crazy, new, funny, capable of involving Chinese and foreign students. But what to create exactly? Then a brilliant idea. With your experience of the theater you decide to offer an evening of comedy. You organize a group of aspiring actors, young students coming from countries as far away from each other as: Somalia, Italy, Denmark, Mozambique, Kenya, China, India, Germany, Yemen and Iran. Teaching Italian comedy to foreigners, from different parts and cultures of the world, seems a risky challenge. But it is fascinating to see how the humor and drama can generate integration. They manage in a short time to create a show, by rehearsing funny sketches, which the group hardly even understood. The future actors would only understand only once they performed for an audience. It's a little part of the game, you understand only when you perform comedy. The group learns the rhythm and the comic arts, which were already in them. 

They learn above all how to work together towards a common objective: have fun and entertain people. The group publicize the event in person: a smile, a ticket and a date in a cafe, a meeting place for many students in the city. The day of the show, everyone was excited. And when you discover that even though the venue only holds 100 people, double that have turned up, while others are watching from outside, the adrenaline starts pumping. You are happy. The actors become animated by the atmosphere and want to entertain people. The  lighthearted game that has united Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas has just begun. You enjoy it because you have created the will to work together and play together.

And the actor laughs because the audience is laughing.

  Projects:

Just for Fun, December 2009, Tianjin, China

Just for MonY, April 2010, Tianjin, China

Group: 15 students