Yi-Chien Lee
Scenic Designer — MOON DRUNK
YI-CHIEN LEE is a freelance set and projection designer. Her set design credits include Mission Incomplete (Young Stars, New Vision Festival), Code: Cytus (Divertimento. Media), In Search of Beckett (Double Theatre), You tube (The Deadend Flower Troupe), Representation of the Cherry Orchard (Minister of Culture, Taiwan ). Recent UC San Diego design credits include WinterWORKS 2017, New Direction 2017, The Green Cockatoo, Mothers, How to Defend Yourself, Mother Courage and her Children, MIKO: a space between and Everybody Black.
Yi-Chien Lee is originally from Taipei, Taiwan, and just completed her MFA in Scenic Design from University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she is currently based.
MOON DRUNK was choreographed by Yolanda Snaith for UCSD, in March 2017.
MOON DRUNK is a dance piece set to music by Arnold Schoenberg. Choreographer Yolande Snaith aimed to create a space where the performers oscillate between intimacy and exposure, connection and isolation, freedom and constraint. We especially talked about the connection between space and time. Yolande is passionate about having assemblage sculptures on stage since every object has several layers of meaning as well as showed the history of human beings, it prominently represented the spirit that responds with responsible freedom in this intimately vast world that we dance together. By constructing several movable sculptures on stage, the dancers could interact with each of the found objects to create sound and shadows. Each objects not only retains something of its original identity but also creates new unpredictable meaning that cuts through the period boundary.
