Young Meadows (2021)
Young Meadows (2021)
Choreography by Stephanie Miracle
Cinematorgraphy by Hao Zhou
Sound design Omar Zubair
Performance Maggie Steimel and Sabrina Duke, UI Dance Company
Young Meadows might be the story of longing for springtime in the midst of a deep winter. It might be the story of fantastical escape through secret portals after feeling closed in for way too long. It might be the story of overlapping imaginary worlds shared in tandem between two friends. It might be the story of our bodies moving through digital time and space and still emerging on the other side as more human. It might be all of those. What do you see?
Cinematography and Editing: Hao Zhou is an independent filmmaker and photographer from Chongqing, China. Tending toward experimental narrative fiction, he has made two feature films (The Night, 2014; Jìnbì, 2021) and written for Douban.com. With support from the Iowa Arts Fellowship, Hao started the University of Iowa's MFA in Film and Video Production in 2019.
Sound design and Composition: After writing his first book Disorientation Therapy in 2007, Omar Zubair found that the closer to the core of being he looked, the more blurry it became; so, he began to listen to it, instead. And ever since, listening has become his primary compositional technique: whether creating a theatrical score for The Wooster Group or building a permanent sound installation for a national historic landmark, whether sound designing for a blind choreographer so that she can continually orient toward the audience or improvising with a dance class at Julliard to coax authentic movement out of each student, whether making music to help people grieve at a funeral or celebrate at a wedding. He lets the ear hear twice before acting once.
Young Meadows was commissioned by the University of Iowa Dance Company for their 2021 Season
Choreography by Stephanie Miracle
Cinematorgraphy by Hao Zhou
Sound design Omar Zubair
Performance Maggie Steimel and Sabrina Duke, UI Dance Company
Young Meadows might be the story of longing for springtime in the midst of a deep winter. It might be the story of fantastical escape through secret portals after feeling closed in for way too long. It might be the story of overlapping imaginary worlds shared in tandem between two friends. It might be the story of our bodies moving through digital time and space and still emerging on the other side as more human. It might be all of those. What do you see?
Cinematography and Editing: Hao Zhou is an independent filmmaker and photographer from Chongqing, China. Tending toward experimental narrative fiction, he has made two feature films (The Night, 2014; Jìnbì, 2021) and written for Douban.com. With support from the Iowa Arts Fellowship, Hao started the University of Iowa's MFA in Film and Video Production in 2019.
Sound design and Composition: After writing his first book Disorientation Therapy in 2007, Omar Zubair found that the closer to the core of being he looked, the more blurry it became; so, he began to listen to it, instead. And ever since, listening has become his primary compositional technique: whether creating a theatrical score for The Wooster Group or building a permanent sound installation for a national historic landmark, whether sound designing for a blind choreographer so that she can continually orient toward the audience or improvising with a dance class at Julliard to coax authentic movement out of each student, whether making music to help people grieve at a funeral or celebrate at a wedding. He lets the ear hear twice before acting once.
Young Meadows was commissioned by the University of Iowa Dance Company for their 2021 Season