Chinese Arts Space

Project New Earth celebrates the spirit and legacy of the 140,000 Chinese Labour Corps who helped the Allies win World War I through four parts consisting of two digital films and two live performances. A young Chinese woman discovers her ancestral contribution to Allied success in music-dance-spoken word film Heroes Within and the stories and bodies of the CLC are brought into life in dance-music film Lunar Corps.

Contemporary dancers explore distant journeys, monotony and nostalgia in homage to the CLC in the performance Missing Parts and Singer-actors supported by the UK Chinese Choir and Southbank Centre’s Voicelab who weave together Chinese folk and English World War I songs in Song Unsung, a moving dramatic performance focused on two men separated from their family, lovers and friends due to the war.