CO-CREATED WITH PETER FLAHERTY

Set in Hong Kong and based on a 13th century Chinese story about a young woman who rips her soul from her body, this densely choreographed film unfolds live onstage through dance, theater, video, and sound. Soul Leaves Her Body is a folk dance for modern life, love, and family.
For more on this project please visit the official show website.

"Liu's choreography and Flaherty's orchestration of deep, rich color combine to rapturous effect- I cannot remember another video-as-backdrop design so elegantly stitched into a work's fabric." - Helen Shaw, Time Out New York

"Highbrow/Brilliant" - On the Approval Matrix, New York Magazine

"... a gentle, beautiful, and touching multilayered hybrid dance/theater piece about love, loss and identity." - Andy Horwitz, Culturebot

Performed by: Leslie Cuyjet, Sean Donovan, Jennie MaryTai Liu and Wai Ching Ho
Designed by: Scott Hirsch, Peter Ksander, Lucky Dragons, Austin Switser, Brandon Wolcott, Wendy Yang Bailey, Pablo Colapinto, and Jeanette Yew

Soul Leaves Her Body played from November 5 - 23, 2010 at HERE Arts Center's Mainstage Theater.

Soul Leaves Her Body was developed through the HERE Artist Residency Program. Additional support was provided by The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation; a lead residency from the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI); the Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant Program; a NYSCA Individual Artists grant; a development residency at the Corporation of Yaddo; a grant from The Experimental Television Center; and by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space program.