PRODUCTION The Tempest [Baofengyu]
Data Type：bio
Title：About Tim Yip
Source：The Tempest Special Edition Program (2006)
Place：Taipei
Publisher：Contemporary Legend Theatre [Dangdai chuanqi juchang]
Date：2006
Language：English
Abstract：bio of set and costume designer
Tim YIP / Stage and Costume Designer
Yip pursues his studies first at Hong Kong Ling Hai Academy of Art, and then graduates from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His first theatrical work Lo Lan Nu (Medea) of Contemporary Legend Theatre, starts his connection with theatre, having great impacts on this field and arousing mass discussion.
Yip’s costume design works in theatre include Medea, Oresteia, King Lear, and The Tempest, of the CLT, The Life of Mandala and Monologues of Poems and Flowers of Tai-Gu Tales Dance Theatre, Burning the Juniper Branches and When the Sun Stops of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Mirror of Life and Anthem to the Fading Flowers of Legend-Lin Dance Theatre, Transplantation of Taipei Dance Circle, Yangexing (Sumptuous Feasting Song), Lirenxing (Beauties at Stroll), Romance of Lychee Mirror, and Le Jardin des Délices of The Han-Tang Yuefu Music Ensemble, River Journey of U-Theatre, and the opera Rashomon, directed by Lin Huai Min at the Graz Opera, Austria.
Yip receives many awards by Art Direction and Costume Design for Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, including Oscar, the Los Angeles Critics Awards, British Academy Award and the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM). He works as art executive in cinema, containing John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow, Ringo Lam’s City on Fire, and Stanley Kwan’s Rouge. Later he works as art director in Clara Law’s Autumn Moon and Temptation of Monk, Peggy Chiu’s Ming Ghost, Chen Kuo-Fu’s Peony Pavillion and Double Vision. His recent works include Feng Xiaogang’s The Banquet, Kaige Chen’s The Promise, and Yimou Zhang’s House of Flying Daggers.
Yip pursues his studies first at Hong Kong Ling Hai Academy of Art, and then graduates from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His first theatrical work Lo Lan Nu (Medea) of Contemporary Legend Theatre, starts his connection with theatre, having great impacts on this field and arousing mass discussion.
Yip’s costume design works in theatre include Medea, Oresteia, King Lear, and The Tempest, of the CLT, The Life of Mandala and Monologues of Poems and Flowers of Tai-Gu Tales Dance Theatre, Burning the Juniper Branches and When the Sun Stops of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Mirror of Life and Anthem to the Fading Flowers of Legend-Lin Dance Theatre, Transplantation of Taipei Dance Circle, Yangexing (Sumptuous Feasting Song), Lirenxing (Beauties at Stroll), Romance of Lychee Mirror, and Le Jardin des Délices of The Han-Tang Yuefu Music Ensemble, River Journey of U-Theatre, and the opera Rashomon, directed by Lin Huai Min at the Graz Opera, Austria.
Yip receives many awards by Art Direction and Costume Design for Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, including Oscar, the Los Angeles Critics Awards, British Academy Award and the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM). He works as art executive in cinema, containing John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow, Ringo Lam’s City on Fire, and Stanley Kwan’s Rouge. Later he works as art director in Clara Law’s Autumn Moon and Temptation of Monk, Peggy Chiu’s Ming Ghost, Chen Kuo-Fu’s Peony Pavillion and Double Vision. His recent works include Feng Xiaogang’s The Banquet, Kaige Chen’s The Promise, and Yimou Zhang’s House of Flying Daggers.
