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https://literatur.ist/aktuelles/text-forum-1-scratch-night-und-werkstattaufenthalt/ - Danke Frauke Kühn für diesen schönen Artikel über die Arbeit des FORUM Text im Literaturhaus Vorarlberg by @dorachenggg

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MEET THE SAARI FELLOW: Dora Yuemin Cheng
Playwright and theatre maker

Dora Yuemin Cheng is a playwright and theatre maker working across languages, cultures, and political contexts. Her work explores feminism, disappearance, migration, and intimacy under social, technological, and ideological pressure. She is particularly interested in how women’s bodies, emotions, and vocabularies are shaped—and erased—by power structures, and how love can function as a form of resistance.

At Saari Residence, she is developing a new multilingual play titled Barbaric Female Poets. The project brings together voices of women from different times, places, and cultural traditions, weaving correspondence between historical, mythical, and contemporary figures. Drawing on epic literature such as ancient Chinese mythology, Middle Eastern storytelling, Germanic and Nordic epics, the play asks how female figures have been represented, distorted, or silenced—and how new languages might emerge from these gaps. The work combines documentary theatre, speculative fiction, and multilingual writing, incorporating Chinese, Persian, English, German, and elements of Finnish.

During the residency, Cheng plans to research Finnish epic literature, study the Finnish language, and engage in conversations with local women around the themes of love and disappearance. She will also continue long-term online writing workshops with young female theatre practitioners in Iran and China. Saari’s quiet, reflective environment offers her an essential space to write the first full draft of the play and to test its performative potential through readings and exchanges with fellow residents.

Dora Yuemin Cheng, playwright and theatre worker, lives and works in Berlin and Nanjing. Born and raised in China, she completed her Bachelor in Dramatic Writing at Shanghai Theatre Academy and gained her Master degree in the visual Language of Performance at Wimbledon College of Art in University of Arts London. Now she writes in German, English and Chinese, and her plays have been read or performed in China, UK, Germany, Austria and Denmark.

#saarifellows #saariresidence #artistresidency #dorayuemincheng taken in Saaren kartano - Saari residence by @dorachenggg

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The project of Chinese female Diaspora playwrights - Part I: Video Shooting taken in Studio2 & Media Library for Dance and Theatre by @dorachenggg

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Dear colleagues,

My name is Dora Cheng. I am a playwright and theater worker from China and currently based in Berlin. At the end of last year, I started a project, which aims at promoting the Chinese female diaspora Playwrights. I invited four colleagues from different regions of the world to take part in the first edition of the promotion program. They are Zhu Yi based in New York, U.S, Yan Xiaoping and Hu Xuanyi based in Beijing, China and Liu Tianya based in Taipei, Taiwan together with me, Dora Cheng, based in Berlin. Each of us presents one of our plays. The video project is based on the selected parts of the texts from the plays, and for each play there will be a 3–5 minute Video presentation, focused on one solo performance of an actor or actress.

I have bulit up a small team: Sinologist Anna Stecher takes charge of the translation, and I work as dramaturg and producer. Video artist Silvan Hagenbrock, who has abundant experience with Asia culture, will take the responsibility of directing and the post-production of the video project.

Now I am looking for three actresses and one actor

-who has Asia background

-who could speak influent German

-who has professional experience in Theater or with films

-who are interested in developing the performance together with Silvan

-Most importantly, who are available on Saturday, 08.04, Sunday 09.04 und Friday 14.04 for video-shooting in Berlin, Kreuzberg

As an extremely small video project, we could offer

-150 Euro working Fee

-a day travel ticket within Berlin AB Zone on the working days

-a respect and creative working atmosphere and an awareness and open space for transcultural discussion

Please send your CV and write briefly about your personal interest in the project to info@dora-cheng.com before 31st of March.

The basic information from the team members as below:

Dora Cheng: http://www.dora-cheng.com/home/about/

Silvan Hagenbrock: https://www.goethe.de/prj/yim/de/aut/sh1.html

Looking forward to meeting and co-creating with you! by @dorachenggg

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