Dear Grand View Garden members,

We've collaborated on two performances. Videos on view at:
Paradise of the Assassins
http://lilyhonglei.com/paradiseOfAssasins/
Hundred Schools of Thought
http://lilyhonglei.com/landofillusion_movie/
More shorts will be added soon.

Theme that I'm interested in for the next project, which is always important in my mind and spirit, may be Hermits. Here I'm adding images along with poem… Continue

from rikokoさんの放浪日記



at Land of Illusion_005 from… Continue

Story House Nightingale Presents an
-Original Dance and Music Performance

Winter Blossom

The artists of Story House Nightingale in collaboration with Land of Illusion
performed during lily and honglei's art installation, Monument 08 during the Lunar New Year.


- A neo-cl… Continue

I have started a little experiment in teaching beginner Chinese language in Secondlife. I posted the first 2 lessons on my blog. The power point slides are loaded on the whiteboard in Aslan (Bury Patch Also). There are some cubes with stackable scripts to play with to build simple vocabularies and phrases. Have fun and let me know how it goes.

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Interactive study looking at several traditions... Chinese Courtesans and Japanese Geisha in comparison.


update:
We are also now looking into the records and practices of Chinese Storytelling; Quyi, shuochang, shuoshu.
etc. and amateur Chinese Opera observations.


We concider ourselves more as Storytellers and performers more than anything.
But we are also finding commendable details/original customs found in Chinese courtesan culture and representing them artistically in Story House Nighting… Continue