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			Saturday, 5 May 6pm Lectures Admission free Kristofer Schipper: The Taoist Body Kristofer Schipper was Professor of Chinese Religion at the Sorbonne in Paris and head of the Taoist Documentation Center there. In addition, he headed the Tao-tsang Project of the European Science Foundation, and the Peking Temple Project of the Dutch Academy of Sciences. Since 1992 he has been Professor of Chinese History at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Kristofer Schipper is a Taoist priest. Deborah Klens-Bigman: "Reflections on a Theory of the Martial Arts as Performance Art" Deborah Klens-Bigman obtained her a doctorate in Performance Studies at New York University with a dissertation on Japanese traditional dance as contemporary artistic practice. Today she teaches the Japanese dance and martial art "ryu iaido" and studies "kyudo" and "tai chi". She has published numerous articles on the martial arts, Japanese dance, theatre and performance, in periodicals such as "The Journal of Asian Martial Arts" and "Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism". Language of both lectures: English with simultaneous translation 8pm Film Tickets: 8 DM, concessionary tickets 5 DM A Chinese Ghost Story Hong Kong 1987 Directed by: Ching Siu-Tung 97 min., colour, 35 mm, original with subtitles This film, which has won a number of prizes, tells a love story, driven forward by a hurricane of fight sequences. A successful fusion of the martial arts genre with a fantasy film.
	4 and 5 May Lectures and films Body, Taoism and the Martial Arts To conclude "Translated Acts", East Asian concepts of corporeality will be presented in two lectures. The exhibition itself shows the way in which East Asian performance art - in contrast to its Western counterpart - is influenced by Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism. Kristofer Schipper examines this influence using the Taoist body. Deborah Klens-Bigmann investigates the connection between East Asian martial arts practices and performance art. Two unusual films complement the lectures. Friday, 4 May 8pm Film Tickets: 8 DM, concessionary tickets 5 DM The Valiant Ones Hong Kong 1974 Directed by: King Hu 103 min., colour, Betacam, Cantonese w. Engl. subtitles King Hu, the great stylist of the new Hong Kong cinema, is seen here at the high point of his art: ballet-like, precisely choreographed fighting movements, changes in perspective and rapid montages structure the story of an imperial officer's fight against the pirates of the Japanese Hakatatsu, who are harrying the coast of the Ming empire.