Crowman

2017

What does it mean to live between two worlds — as human and as crow?

Completed in 2017, Crowman is a contemporary dance work inspired by classical Chinese literature by the seventeenth-century writer Pu Songling. Drawing on stories of healing, calamity and transformation, the work approaches cure not as conquest, but as a gradual shift toward lightness and change.

When Yu puts on his black coat, wings emerge. He drifts across rooftops and rolling hills, suspended between earth and horizon. Through dancers from China and the Netherlands, and a dreamlike visual world of humans, birds and immortals, Crowman explores freedom, desire and the fragile ego of love.

A cross-cultural collaboration that transcends East and West, Crowman reflects on transformation as a universal human condition.