su dance110 will present “Shang Can” [solo version], a subsequent musical work following their opera performance “Gentle Brutality” (2021), which addresses the homelessness of the marginalized. It is named after the Chinese words “殇残,” meaning the remnants of the injured.

“Shang Can” expresses su dance110’s personal voice. As home becomes undefinable amid questions of belonging, speaking a language that feels like home becomes a remedy for healing. It’s their fantasy language, a foreign tongue infused with poetry in music. The singing arises from memories of voices that haunted them, reminiscent of the ethnic cultures in Yunnan. The complex layering of rhythms and vocals is combined with the cross-genre motifs of IDM, hip-hop, drones, noise, industrial, and folk, woven from original samples of su dance110’s experimental metal performances.

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