Swede acts on passion for Peking Opera

During that time, the first performance they rehearsed was Sanchakou (The Crossroads Inn), a classic Peking Opera piece where a general and an innkeeper fight each other in a pitch-black room. With meticulous choreography, the performers mimic feeling each other's positions as if it's dark and perform many humorous, thrilling movements.

The general is a wusheng (martial arts male role) and the innkeeper is a wuchou (martial arts clown).Because of Pilotti's interest in playing a comedic role and his somersault skills, he played the innkeeper and began training to perform the wuchou character.

In 2010 and 2014, he returned to the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts to continue studying Peking Opera, which he later merged into his original productions in Sweden.

Traditional Chinese stories inspire him. He has created two theater pieces in recent years — a story about the Monkey King, the omnipotent character from the novel Journey to the West; and Jingwei, a mythological character who drowns and turns into a bird, determined to fill the sea.