Performing Arts

Discover 29 award-winning designs tagged Performing Arts on DZGN.

Designer: Peng Guo Work: Stage Classification: Performing Arts

2023 Hua Chenyu Mars Concert

The 2023 Hua Chenyu Mars Concert is a concert stage design based on the theme of the Martian Coordinate System. The four-sided stage forms a rectangular prism measuring 47.5 meters long, 27.5 meters wide and 22 meters high, with a total hanging weight of over 200 tons. Sequentially arranged luminous panels and strip-shaped mirror devices at the top and bottom resemble scales on a coordinate system. Ten custom lighting fixtures span 30 meters, and 12 adjustable lighting columns represent the months of a year. The structure balances transparency with load-bearing capacity.

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Designer: Dynaya Bhutipunthu Work: Projection Mapping Graphics Classification: Performing Arts

Immersive Stage

Immersive Stage is a series of motion graphics and projection mapping designs created for stage performances at a university orientation event. The event was held at Prince Mahidol Hall, Mahidol University, Thailand, on July 29, 2025, with about 6,500 participants across three rounds. The theme, Be Your Own Fireworks, is expressed through seven firework characters representing the core values of the university. The graphics appear on five LED screens and through five projectors placed on the balconies and ceiling of the hall.

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Designer: Hsiaoyi Yu Work: Generative Scenography Classification: Performing Arts

Inspiring Formosa

Inspiring Formosa is a generative virtual scenography system for live pipe organ concerts. Instead of physical sets, the system uses an artificial intelligence engine and a 5G low latency network to translate live sound and the movements of the organist into moving visual scenery. The visuals are projection mapped onto the venue architecture and the organ pipes, and they are synchronized with the stage lighting. The method avoids any alteration of heritage concert halls and removes the need for built and transported sets.

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Designer: Bin Li Work: Concert Stage Classification: Performing Arts

2021 HBS New Year's Eve

2021 HBS New Year's Eve is a concert stage designed for a televised and online New Year's Eve show. The stage is divided into seven zones, with a central stage and auxiliary stages on both sides. A large gyroscope structure forms the center. The structure is 30 meters wide and 25 meters high and rests on a single steel column. The upper half can be raised by a hydraulic cylinder, and the outer ring is moved by twelve computer-controlled hoists. A curved LED screen, water elements and lighting fixtures complete the setting.

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Designer: Wei Zhang Work: Wedding Space Classification: Performing Arts

Heshengzhao Bo Yuege

Heshengzhao Bo Yuege is a wedding space designed to present a traditional Chinese wedding as a staged opera. The design occupies a blank exhibition hall of nearly 2000 square meters, with a main stage 48 meters long and an ultra wide screen 7 meters high and 28 meters long. The setting depicts an imagined palace in the clouds, with a dragon shaped archway, red pillars and layered cornices. Three dimensional carved foam sculpture and traditional wooden mortise and tenon construction were used. Each part of the ceremony follows a poem written for the couple.

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Designer: Nakamura Kazunobu Work: Installation Design Classification: Performing Arts

Kasane no Irome - Piling up Colors

An installation design of Japanese Dance. Japanese have been piling up colors from olden times to express sacred things. Also, piling up the paper with square silhouettes has been used as a thing representing sacred depth. Nakamura Kazunobu designed a space that changes the atmosphere by changing to various colors with such square "piling up" as a motif. Panels flying in the air centering on the dancers cover the sky above the stage space and depict the appearance of light passing through the space that can not be seen without the panels. A space that draws light strikingly, develops Japanese Dance.

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Designer: B'IN LIVE CO., LTD. Work: Concert Classification: Performing Arts

Deca Joins 2024 Heaven and Dirt

The band Deca Joins, in their first large scale ticketed concert, used water as the central theme, symbolizing the essence of the band's spirit. This concept was woven throughout the entire performance, with over 70% of their older songs being newly arranged. The concert resembled a grand art installation, seamlessly blending their poetic and aesthetically rich songs into a cohesive experience. The result was like bringing a poetic and picturesque painting to life on stage, creating an artistic feast that redefined the audience's visual and auditory senses.

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Designer: Wu Liang Work: Multimedia Videos Classification: Performing Arts

The Magic Ship of the Orient

The work constructs a stage scene with Oriental cultural elements, combining Chinese folding fans, pipa and engines into a huge spacecraft. The video uses 3D animation, AIGC, and naked eye 3D technology to allow the audience to experience time travel, featuring landscapes, phoenixes, Chinese gardens, Shikumen and Shanghai. In the background of the fashion show, the designer used AI generated giant animations to echo more than 60 models, reflecting the design elements of the clothing. The work integrates virtual and real elements to complement the fashion show.

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Designer: Nargiza Usmanova Work: Lighting Performance Classification: Performing Arts

Outsiders

It is a lighting show that was staged at three different locations in Oakville (ON, Canada). The performance is fiction on the theme of Energy. In the story, the Outsiders came to Earth not as invaders but as highly intelligent creatures with a lot of knowledge to share with humans. The main point of the project: the energy is actually found inside of us. It is the foundation of human livelihood and maybe a key to solving the energy problem on Earth. To visualize the idea, the artist has designed lighting costumes using LED modules and zip-ties.

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Designer: Reba Dilbert Work: Costume Design Classification: Performing Arts

Gem of the World

Gem of the World is a carnival costume inspired by the Cayman Islands. The white color recalls the powder white sand and the clear water of the three islands. The wing shape refers to the millions of tourists who fly to the Caribbean each year. The costume is handmade from fabrics such as spandex and lace, with sequins and feathers as embellishments. The sculpted parts are framed with metal wire and bonded with a special technique. The costume was created on Seven Mile Beach, with a direct view of the ocean, to highlight the natural beauty and the marine environment of the islands.

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Designer: Reba Dilbert Work: Costume Design Classification: Performing Arts

Woman in Power

Woman in Power is a carnival costume created to represent the strength of women. The costume forms a fan-like shape adorned with feathers, worn as a statement piece. The pink and purple colors refer to the global symbols of breast cancer and domestic abuse awareness. The sculpted structure is framed with metal wire and bonded using a special technique, then covered with fabrics such as spandex and lace and finished with sequins and other embellishments. Woman in Power was handmade from scratch as a tribute to survivors.

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Designer: Joe Wang Work: Interactive Performance Classification: Performing Arts

AI Track of Go 2.0

AI Track of Go 2.0 is an interactive stage performance based on the traditional Chinese board game of Go. The performance combines dance with artificial intelligence and holographic projection. The stage is formed as an L-shaped holographic box built with a projection net curtain, projectors and a fusion system. The complete experience lasts three minutes and includes a dance sequence of two and a half minutes. The projected background moves from Chinese landscape painting to stars and algorithmic worlds. Visitors can also enter the holographic box to take photographs.

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