Dance with Third Grandma

“Since I finished the documentary film Listening to Third Grandmother’s Stories in 2011, I wanted to transform it onto the stage. In 2012, I went back to the village where my third grandma lived and rehearsed with her. This short video work analyzes the rational of ‘forgetting’ and ‘being forgotten,’ ‘why do we forget?,’ and ‘why is it forgotten?’ These are all the reasons that I went to search for the existence of my third grandmother. Why do we dance? I want to use her story and her destiny to reflect upon our own dilemmas nowadays, as painful as it is peeling off the skins.” – Wen Hui (Ann Arbor Film Festival)