# Project Description Collaborative project The Wrinkled Child Summary Final work 2 Contributors College Central Saint Martins Course MA Performance: Design and Practice Graduation year 2025 The Wrinkled Child is a contemporary dance theatre piece that began with a simple question: how do we carry pain, and how do we begin to let it go? We kept returning to two contrasting images—ice and fire—as symbols of pain and healing. In between, we imagined people rushing past one another in the city—wearing the same clothes, following the same rhythms. Who stops to notice the scars beneath the surface? With six adult dancers and two children, it reflects on the emotional weight we carry as we grow up, and the small moments of softness that somehow stay with us. It's about exhaustion, tenderness, collapse—and starting again. This is a piece for all the unspoken things. For the past we never found the words to share, but which shaped the kind of adults we became. It doesn’t try to offer answers. It simply tries to stay honest—to sit with what hurts, and maybe—through what we can do now as the wrinkled children—make a little space for healing. Final work Pain is a rite of passage Pain is a rite of passage, There are no adults in this world, Only -- The wrinkled child. Like the fragile resilience of grass. Like a mermaid taking each painful, beautiful step on land. Sprint, tired, clench your teeth, And then take a deep breath, Sweat drops, ice melting, Blooming Like Tears in Rain View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery Full Credits This is the graduation production Zidi Wu and Yixuan Qiu created together. Huge thanks to everyone for your dedication and hard work — it’s because of all of you that the stage truly shines bright like diamonds. Dancer: Nell Weatherby, Kaiscott Harvey, Jasmine Springall, Carys Belle, Jiwon Oh, Alex Comben, Natalie Min, Jinyou Yuan Creative Team: Producer: Zidi Wu & Jiayi Fan Choreographer: Jiayi Fan & Fifi Chen Creative Director: Zidi Wu & Yixuan Qiu Lightning Designer: Zidi Wu Costume Designer: Yixuan Qiu Sound Track: Fifi Chen & Jiayi Li Costume Assistant: Jiaqi Huang Makeup: Yixuan Qiu & Momo Mao Hair: Kathy Jung Poster Photographer: Fifi Chen Rehearsal & Production Photographer: Musca Ni Videographer: Brian Toh Poster Designer: Stella Yan Q Research and process View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery Share this project The Wrinkled Child is a contemporary dance theatre piece that began with a simple question: how do we carry pain, and how do we begin to let it go?We kept returning to two contrasting images—ice and fire—as symbols of pain and healing. In between, we imagined people rus... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Body Privacy Childhood Dance Memory Theatre