I found a blog post about my bicycle performance at the Great Wall Mountain bike competition last year.
2007年10月27日，“2007长城国际自行车嘉年华”（2007’Great Wall Bicycle Festival）在国内一流滑雪度假村——位于八达岭长城脚下的八达岭滑雪场举办。来自中国、美国、丹麦、瑞士、日本和中国香港的近300名自行车越野运动爱好者，参加了男子精英组、女子精英组、大学生接力组、俱乐部接力组、青少年组和VOLVO公司接力组的比赛。比赛之后进行了颁奖仪式。
下图是进行完下午的赛程后进行颁奖之前，特意从德国请来的自行车表演艺术家伊泉（音译）的现场表演。以下为表演现场图片。
Here are some pictures of my trick bike show.
The last day before the show and a dress rehearsal with a full „real time“ run through of the „Death Prom“ show. This is how worried our director Kris and producer Anna look like:
I did some warm up on my bike before the run through the show. I also look tense and worried – but more because of my new trick bike show.
The Prom Queen candidates are called up to the stage:
All participants in the show had to dress up and interact with others according to 1 of 4 categories, either as queens, geeks, stoners or jocks. As we had no audience in this dress rehearsal we had to interact amongst ourselves like here a queen and a geek while others were dancing.
The show included some performances, mostly dancing. Thanks again to Michael Rahn alias Coach Riggens for all these pictures.
The the zombies started to come in the room:
The zombies were attacking the prom queen and the prom king and others:
Anna has set up her office here a few days ago for all the last minute preparation. Here is a picture of her office with all the Halloween goody bags:
The Chinese International Performing Arts organization (CIPA) is organizing this interactive theater event on Halloween. We had a rehearsal in the venue to see how the flow of the „Death Prom“ show would be. Here a picture of our producer Anna Grace and the director/writer Kris Chung:
We are all listening attentively – some of us already in costume:
Then we all received a make-up lesson on how to make us all look deadly or like a zombie:
Then we did the rehearsal of various parts of the show, especially the big deadly ending and the grand finale. Thanks to Coach Riggens for all these great pictures 🙂
It is creeping closer: The Halloween night Death Prom at Block 8. It will be a night of theater and performers like dancers, jugglers, magicians and trick bike riders on October 31st 2008 in Beijing. We had another rehearsal for this excitingly different event.
A show that you don’t just watch, you experience. Come and join the Glendale High School’s Class of 1958 in a night to remember, with a live band, swing dancers, and flesh-eating zombies! Death Prom features the collaborative efforts of different international performing groups in Beijing. This Halloween, come party with us… and bring your friends!
Dress Code – Three options:
1. Formal dress (like a prom/school dance)
2. 1950s style clothes
3. Scary Halloween costumes (zombies, witches, vampires, etc)
A friend of mine took some pictures while I was doing a private trick cycling performance. Here are the best pictures:
We are in the process of forming an international organization. It is the „China International Performing Arts“ (CIPA) Association. We want to get the different forms of performing arts, like theater, comedy, magic, circus, acrobatics, juggling, dance, jazz and orchestra to be able to synergize and help each other. For the beginning we are planning an event together. For that some of us met tonight to prepare some space related objects like stars, moons, flowers, space ships and a robot.
And after that I met some colleagues in a bar in Sanlitun. It was quite nice to find out that all drinks for the ladies were free 🙂
Today I again did a performance in the Ditan Park. It was still for the Beijing Book Festival. I think it is great to inspire people to read books by doing tricks on a bike. As I do not have a camera right now these pictures were taken by two of my colleagues.
Some more really nice pictures from a friend are here on flickr. That is the difference of a nice SLR compared to small pocket size cameras.
Here are some more impressions of the book festival:
My friend brought his beautiful old track bike. But he installed a free wheel single speed on it. Old bikes are just very beautiful. Too bad I currently do not have a nice camera.
Then went to the Ole soccer venue opening party. They have 2 indoor fields and 2 outdoor fields. Plus a soon to be opened climbing wall and bouldering room. The indoor climbing wall is 10 meters high. Today it was already painted yellow and had an easy climbing route and an overhang route screwed in. I climbed the overhang route which was not difficult but fun. They have nice La Sportiva rock climbing shoes for rental. I cannot wait for the opening.
After that we went for a nice North Korean barbeque dinner.
Today we had a meeting to discuss some of the final details of the association of International Performing Arts in China that will be soon formed. The association will be called CIPA. All different kinds of performing arts groups of Beijing are invited to join, for example the Bentationeijing Actors Workshop, the Beijing Improv group, the Beijing Jugglers, Dance groups, Jazz groups… After the meeting we had a short theatrical presentation with actors, dancers and jugglers in Club Obiwan. As I have no nice camera anymore I took these pictures with my mobile phone.
Someone wrote a comment about the book festival in Diatn park on douban.com website. they also made a comment about my trick bike performance.
在方泽坛的前面，来自德国的工程师，自行车表演艺术家伊泉女士正在做精彩的自行车表演：
怎么样，精彩吧，不过千万不要随便模仿哦。
Some time ago 3 of the Beijing Fixed Gear Crew were interviewed and some pictures were taken. Today an article was posted on YNET in Chinese. It has this nice picture that they took.
