The virtual reality prevails nowadays, where people can override the past record and reset 

the process by one simple push of a button. What if the life is real? Could the accumulation 

of living experience be started all over again? The motion and emotion, while repeated, could

 be the same as those before the reboot?

In "Layer Code", the choreographer imaginatively manipulates the stage's time and space to 

allow the dancers and the audience to experience the movements in many layers of setting. 

It is an experiment itself to explore physically the relationship between the body and the 

dimensional elements, and to examine philosophically the possibility of human living through 

a same life again.

Choreography

SANG Ji-jia

Music

Dickson DEE

Visual

Adrian YEUNG

Lighting

Godzilla TAN

Costume

WANG Yan

Dancers

LI Yue, TANG Ting-Ting, LIU Yin-Tao, XIE Xin, XIE Yong-Chao, 

GONG Xing-Xing, Zl Wei, XU Yi-Ming, ZhaXiWang Jia, Qian Kun, 

ADiYa, GUO Wei, GAO Yang, HU Shen-Yuan

Program duration

70 mins

Premiere

2013.01

Choreographer Introduction

An ethnic Tibetan born in Gansu, Sang Jijia graduated from the Minzu University of China 

and was a dancer of Guangdong Modern Dance Company (GMDC) from 1993 to 1998. He 

won the Gold Medal in the Modern Dance section of the Paris International Dance Competition 

(Le Concours international de danse de Paris) in 1996 and was hailed as “The Star of the Century” 

by the Guangdong Provincial Government in 1997. He was awarded the Asian Cultural Council 

Fellowship and American Dance Festival Scholarship in 1998 and 1999 respectively. From 1999 

to 2002, he was a dancer of Hong Kong City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC). In 2002, 

Sang was chosen by the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative to study choreography under 

William Forsythe in Germany. He stayed with Ballet Frankfurt and the Forsythe Company as 

Choreographer Assistant. As a dancer, he has collaborated with leading choreographers around 

the globe. Having returned to China since 2006, Sang has created Sticks for GMDC, As If To 

Nothing for CCDC, and Unspeakable and Standing Before Darkness for BeijingDance/LDTX. 

Sang Jijia is currently the Artist-in-Residence of BeijingDance / LDTX.