Crouching tigers, dancing ghosts: Tim Yip's stunning designs | Stage

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Crouching tigers, dancing ghosts: Tim Yip's stunning designs

This article is more than 7 years old

‘I’m surprised when people recognise my work,’ says Tim Yip. ‘I change my style all the time.’ His notion of ‘new orientalism’ in films, dance, theatre and opera is about communicating eastern ideas and aesthetics to an international audience

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