Contingency Plan
In recent years, the local dance community has also tried, through various collaborative models, to transform and rethink the process of how works are produced under the traditional choreographic framework. Through the Contingency Plan, the curatorial team links up with local creators to present their works in a focused manner. These works are cross-regional and cross-medium in nature, with performers heavily involved in their conceptions, and experimenting with a co-collaboration model in an attempt to reposition the role where power is concentrated in traditional choreography. Creating is done under a mechanism of relative equality, and through the continuous dialogue and collisions of different media, cultures, aesthetics and experiences in the process, an alternative way of creating dance is potentially found.
Show Synopsis
Borderline
The reality compressed into two-dimensional images changing our everyday perceptions
The two works explore the physical body’s crossing of borders, stepping into the unknown
Drifting
Wandering off from the daily rituals, we drift together.
The work explores the use of video games and dance moves as means of projecting the modern consciousness, so as to reach a physical state different from everyday life during the process. Strong musical beats and rhythms connect video game characters and instinctive movements to repetitive rhythms, allowing the dancers to transcend the shackles imposed by the physical body.
Residency: Choi X Kang Project x Joseph Lee x KT Yau
Work-in-progress Showing
The four choreographers began their cross-border dialogue last year, exchanging views, proposing ideas, discussing, listening, and creating works virtually. Ideas and questions on the mode of collaboration, the possibility of having dialogues on an equal footing, and the limitations of language as a medium for communication were accumulated during the process. Yet, none of these limited their imaginations to the square horizon and showcase the results of their cross-border dialogues to the audience.
Creative Team
Drifting
Choreography & Concept: Joseph Lee
Devising Dancer: Paula Wong, Jimmy Suen
DJ and Live Game Player: Lawrence Lau
Premiere Devising Dancer: Holmes Cheung
Premiere Rehearsal Assistant: Sharon Tam Suet Wa
Costume Design: Toby Crispy
*The premiere of this production was presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
Residency: Choi X Kang Project x Joseph Lee x KT Yau
Work-in-progress Showing
Concept and Performance: Joseph Lee, KT Yau, Choi Min Sun, Kang Ji Nan
Ticketing
Date and Time: 19 – 20 Nov (Fri – Sat) 20:00
Venue: Multi-media Theatre, HKSC Art and Culture Centre
Price: $180
Show Synopsis
Drink and Dance
Come and join us for a silent party!
Let’s get loose and cast reason, excessive speculation, and hollow meanings aside!
Come and feel the booze, relax, let go and drink till you drop!
Drink and Dance literally means to drink and to dance – imagine yourself at a party, immersed in the throbbing and excessively loud music – what is left on your mind? Perhaps it is simply a blank state, what is left is the pure joy of overindulgence.
If you’re on fire, fall.
If you’re confused, go straight.
If you drink, dance.
Creative Team
Concept, Creation and Performance: Chan Wai Lok
Creation and Performance: Woo Yat Hei
Props and Costume Design: Yan Cheng
Ticketing
Date: 16 Sep (Thu) – 19 Sep (Sun)
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Prison Yard, Tai Kwun
Outdoor Performance, Free of charge
Show Synopsis
Relatively LIVE
The performance questions how relationships are formed, overturned and subverted.
Gazing at the various ways and forms of understanding how the audience-actor relationship is perceived in contemporary society.
In the air between our ___ is a performance that expands on the relationship between two people, showcasing the various confrontations and collaborations between people in a delicate and intimate search for the power to define oneself. LIVE contemplates how one should perceive, apprehend and understand the state of “the present” and “co-existence” in the moment, and exposes how the intervention of various media in the channels of information reception shape our reality and the disparities that arise from within.
In the air between our ___
To whom it may concern,
How long do you call it long?
How have we changed in these years?
LIVE
“Live” is a space that is repeatedly but also continuously jumped. The media interacting in the same space constitutes “Live”. Three artists, Holmes Cheung, Lawrence Lau and Sabrina Wong construct a “Live” to stimulate visual and auditory experiences, allowing interaction between performers and audience. This is an exploration of intuition and perception of time.
Creative Team
In the air between our ___
Concept, Creation and Performance: Emily Ng, Li Ka Man
LIVE
Concept, Creation and Performance: Lawrence Lau, Holmes Cheung, Sabrina Wong
Ticketing
Date and Time: 1 – 2 Oct (Fri – Sat) 20:00, 3 Oct (Sun) 15:00
Venue: Kwai Tsing Theatre, Black Box Theatre
Price: $180
Show Synopsis
I’m Only My Body?
“I’m only my body?” is the starting point of the questioning, which extends to the two creators’ concern about understanding the various aspects of self-recognition. Through theatre, they seek to identify the body as a metaphor for the political arena and explore how gender, upbringing, experience, culture, tradition, and nomenclature interfere with the audience’s expectations of the performer’s body and creative proposition at present (both works are named after the choreographer or performer), and the context in which the performance is constructed. An ongoing dialectic on self-talk, and two performances on the body, identity and cognition, reveal the ways in which different understandings shape our imagination of the reality.
Cheung Lee Hung
Each individual is a patchwork of multiple and interlaced acts of impression.
Cheung Lee Hung is a performance that explores how individuals understand one another. The creation was inspired by Cheung Lee Hung’s own experience of being labelled an actor in the dance world, while at the same time being labelled a dancer in the theatre world. As a result, he began to ponder how was he being perceived and defined; what kind of body is considered as that of an actor; and what type of performance qualifies as dance. The performance begins with Cheung Lee Hung’s self-introduction, which proceeds into recounting his past performances and experience – the performance is focused on how the audience appreciate the authentic Cheung Lee Hung on stage, and the bridging of understandings achieved by performing arts.
Kerry & Frieda
The female body
How it is viewed
What is expected of it
How it is defined
Creative Team
Cheung Lee Hung
Choreography & Concept: Holmes Cheung
Creation & Performance: Woo Yat Hei, Li Ka Man, Skinny Ng
Kerry & Frieda
Choreography & Concept: Paula Wong
Creation & Performance: Frieda Luk, Kerry Cheung
Ticketing
Date & time: 8pm, 13 – 14 Aug (Fri – Sat) & 3pm, 14 – 15 Aug (Sat – Sun)
Venue: Kwai Tsing Theatre Black Box Theatre
Price: $180
Show Synopsis
Body Works
The body reveals the present, yet the present is a mélange of history and experience.
One can only know where the future leads by asking questions that trace back to its roots.
Joined by Ong Yong Lock, Chen Wu Kang, Yuri Ng, Ray Tseng and Lawrence Lau, the quintetto attempts something new in “Body Works” by transforming memories and experience into a source material and placing them in the present. Through repeatedly questioning and pondering about the process of how ideas are being received, compromised, inherited or transmitted, it reveals how objects have been bestowed with meaning. As they ruminate and vacillate, sorting out the works cached in their bodies, the contemporary and the history concealed within is revealed in layers.
“Body Works” becomes a complete and meticulous choreographic framework that draws on the performers’ different histories as the source material, which gradually unfolds throughout the composition of the entire performance, whilst simultaneously giving them the autonomy to improvise. Ong Yong Lock and Gigi Yang will perform each show separately with different materials. The open framework of the work also invites the audience’s live participation, where the dialogue, consciousness and questions come together to construct a space for discourse. There is no fixed outcome, and a direction is found through everyone unravelling their own experiences.
Creative Team
Concept: Ong Yon Lock, Chen Wu-kang
Collaboration: HORSE
Co-creation: Ong Yong Lock, Chen Wu Kang, Yuri Ng*, Ray Tseng, Lawrence Lau, Gigi Yang
Performance: Ong Yong Lock (30/7 8pm & 31/7 3pm), Gigi Yang (31/7 8pm & 1/8 3pm)
*With the kind permission of City Contemporary Dance Company
Ticketing
Date & time: 8pm, 30-31 July (Fri – Sat) & 3pm, 31 July – 1 Aug (Sat – Sun)
Venue: Hong Kong Cultural Centre Studio Theatre
Price: $240
This programme contains nudity scenes.