{"id":2570,"date":"2024-06-06T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corneliarainer.com\/inszenierung\/i-wanna-be-made\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T22:05:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T20:05:38","slug":"i-wanna-be-made","status":"publish","type":"inszenierung","link":"https:\/\/corneliarainer.com\/en\/production\/i-wanna-be-made\/","title":{"rendered":"I WANNA BE (MADE)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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In 2005, Cornelia Rainer was a guest student at the National Junior College of Performing Arts in Taipei, where she gained insight into the various disciplines – acting, martial arts, singing, dancing, and acrobatics – of Peking Opera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, she encounters the Chinese dancer Yang Ji (Yutong) in Vienna, who was trained as a Chinese dancer at a dance academy in Shanyeng. Yang Ji learned how to train her body like a machine, how to hide pain, and how to combat homesickness. Much of what she experienced fits into the image often depicted in the West of China: a land of economic miracle, with turbo capitalism and emerging markets, where ambition and drill determine life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite all the foreignness, the story of Yang Ji and the students from Taipei overlaps with our reality to a certain extent. Therefore, on stage, Yang Ji meets children and teenagers from Vienna. Many of the questions that accompanied Yang Ji as a teenager arise here as well: What do I want to become? What images do I have of myself? How do I deal with envy and feelings of competition? Am I ambitious? Does my body conform to the ideal of beauty? Where are my limits? How do I react to failures and successes? How do I find my path? What do I dream of?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A piece about courage, self-confidence, fear, discipline, beauty ideals, and the uncertainty of one’s own future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n