Space and Perspective: The Multiple Representations of Theatre Performance
Performance art is “live”, and every repetition of the same movement is unique and new. Even in the same time and space, different perspectives bring different interpretations to the viewer. As such, how can the present meaning of the work be documented? How is meaning twisted and distorted through being reproduced and represented in various media such as photography and video? Are new meanings being created through the representations?
South Korean choreographers Choi Min-sun and Kang Jin-an specialize in deconstructing space and perspective of “movement”. Multiple portrayals of reality and representations are constructed through the medium of videography. The deconstruction of the process where meaning is produced during the performance is presented in a humorous and witty manner, which is further extended to the nature and blind spots of “viewing”, “perspective”, “space” and time”, thereby giving the work a veneer of contemporary meaning and interpretation.
Show Synopsis
Complement
“Can objects out of our sight be controlled?” Creation of Complement started with this question, trying to unravel it with the eyes of the viewer as to how we are reacting to what is unpredictable
Repetition plays the key role in the performance, with the co-existence of performers, camera and moving images, different points of view and multiple meanings of the same event are constructed as the performance unfolds itself, time and space become the vehicle to generate meanings and expectation, while the performers’ presence and actions alter them, together Complement takes the audience to a journey with unknowns, surprises and moments of contemplation.
Creative Team
Choreography and Direction: Choi Min Sun, Kang Jin An
Performance: Choi Min Sun, Kang Jin An, Kim Tae Gyeong
International Relations: Jang Soo Hye
Ticketing
Online Screening [ended]
Screening Date：11 Nov (Thurs) – 24 Nov (Wed)
Enrollment: Online enrollment is needed. The enrollment details will announce later.
Fee: Free of charge, donations are welcome for supporting Unlock Dancing Plaza
#DANCLESS complex – Space and Perspective
Complement Studio Screening [ended]
An exclusive studio screening will be held in the studio of Unlock Dancing Plaza for audiences who would like to watch the recording of Complement, hoping to share the work to the public in a more discursive context.
Date：11 Nov (Thur)
Time: 8pm
Venue: Unlock Dancing Plaza
Fee: Free of charge, donations are welcome for supporting Unlock Dancing Plaza
Residency: Joseph Lee x KT Yau & Choi x Kang Project
[ended]
This is a collaborative research project by four choreographers: Joseph Lee, KT Yau (HK), Minsun Choi, Jinan Kang (KR) as part of #DANCELESS complex by Unlock Dancing Plaza, co-produced by Choi x Kang Project, and sponsored by Arts Council Korea. This project consists of two phases of residency in both Seoul and Hong Kong, yet, the first stage in Seoul was hindered by the situation of pandemic and turned into an online virtual residency of four weeks instead as a preliminary preparation for their collaboration in Hong Kong in 2021. The process, outcomes and reflections are organised and archived on the following website for the public to access, aiming to shed light on cross-cultural collaboration and the significance of artist residency.
https://www.dancelesscolab.com/
In 2021, these four choreographers will gather (face-to-face or virtually) again to review the process and propose possible ways to create a work together, and lastly share with the public.
Biography
Choi X Kang Project
“Choi X Kang Project” is a project group based in Seoul, South Korea founded by two members; Choi Min-sun and Kang Jin-an in 2015. The group is looking for an intuitive way to create motions and focus on the process of connecting external devices to the body through diverse experiments.
Choi x Kang Project Website:
http://choixkangproject.creatorlink.net
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Biography
Joseph Lee
Joseph Lee began his dance training at seventeen. Graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and The Place, London Contemporary Dance School in the United Kingdom.
Lee is currently the Associate Artistic Director of Unlock Dancing Plaza, curating a series of contemporary dance programs and platforms to foster artistic discourse in the performing arts field locally and internationally. Through the reading, transfer, and re-enactment of bodily experience, Lee questions the performative nature of everyday life in contemporary society. His work is focused on expanding the audience’s imaginary horizons of choreography by creating and performing with the body and other alternatives. He is also keen on transdisciplinary collaboration as a way to enrich and reflect on his own practices.
Recent choreography includes Folding Echoes (2016), Drifting (2019) and We Are Spectacles (2021).
Artist Website：https://www.josephwnlee.com/
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Biography
KT Yau
Yau was born in Hong Kong. She is now the resident artist of Unlock Dancing Plaza.
Yau received the Award for Young Artist at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2018, she also received the Emerging Choreographer Award at the Hong Kong Dance Awards 2018.
As a dancer, she has collaborated with a variety of renowned companies and artists. Recently she has devoted herself into creation and her works were invited to perform in Sweden, Japan, Singapore, Shanghai, Guangzhou etc.
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