Additionally, a series of seminar son "Chinese body, thought, and culture" was arranged in collaboration with the China Times newspaper. When the fruit of their efforts eventually came to the stage at the Experimental Theater, audiences were treated to a strong whiff of sacred ritualism, with the actors in temple garb and masks, amid giant figures and funerary wailing.
為了第一階段「鍾馗之死」的演出，他們還拜師吹打北管後場、舉行戲神田都元帥的安奉儀式、並遠赴貴州考察與鍾馗掌故息息相關的儺戲儀式，又與中時晚報合辦了十場探討中國人的「身體、思想與文化」系列講座。