A fading 600-year-old opera meets a millennial having an existential crisis — together, they're chaos.
MY NEXT STEP follows a young Kunqu Opera artist YANG Yang(28 year-old) over the course of several years. It offers its audience a glimpse into the world of Kunqu, and a magnifying look into the ambivalence of a young man struggling to find a way out for a fading art.
Direction
Cheuk Cheung's patient, unflinching observation of quiet desperation.
Production
Rare intimate access to a notoriously closed traditional art world.
Director
Cheuk Cheung
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kunqu is the 600-year-old 'ancestor' of Peking opera, with only ~200 professional performers left globally.
Yang's story mirrors countless young Chinese artists caught between filial duty to tradition and capitalist reality.
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