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TEXTILES AND OPERA

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One of China’s top opera stars has teamed up with a Leeds museum to create a unique digital performance telling the story of two cultures coming together.

Using the latest motion capture technology, Wang Rousang, a star performer with the famed Shanghai Yue Opera House, has helped create a virtual reality character who will perform at Leeds Industrial Museum this month.

Through their mobile phones, visitors will be able to engage with the character throughout the mill spaces and galleries, watch the performance in the museum’s Palace Picture House and find out more about the UK and China textile industries through the latest, cutting edge digital technology.

The project, entitled Song: The Future is a follow-on project of Song of the Female Textile Worker, a further collaboration between Leeds Industrial Museum, Shanghai Textile Museum, Shanghai Yue Opera House, HUMAN and Megaverse, funded by UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by Professor Haili Ma at the University of Leeds.

Six specially created documentary films hosted on the museum’s website back in 2020 looked at a different facet of the China textile industry as well as telling the stories of industrial and cultural development in Shanghai.

The latest mixed reality performance which was created entirely online during the COVID lockdown, in collaboration of UK-China partners, further elaborates China textile industry transformation through the story of three generations of Chinese women and their intertwined love and passion.

The UK established its first mill in Shanghai in the late 19th century, prompting the rise of China’s textile Industry. By the end of the 1940s, there were 4,550 textile factories and half a million workers in Shanghai, the majority were staffed with female migrant workers from neighbouring Zhejiang province.

More than 5,000 miles away, Armley Mills, now home to Leeds Industrial Museum, once operated as the biggest woollen mill in the world.

Song: The Future takes place at Leeds Industrial Museum from October 11 until October 30 and is best enjoyed using headphones.

For more information, please visit: http://www.museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/leeds-industrial-museum

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