Fringe Events

What does it mean to flirt politely? How do our bodies navigate between restraint and desire?

The FAP (Flirtatiousness and Politeness) Workshop invites participants to explore the delicate interplay between attraction and decorum. This movement-based session opens a playful and reflective space to embody emotions that range from subtle charm to bold, libidinal expression.

Guided by basic Malay dance vocabulary, participants will investigate how cultural codes shape the ways we perform intimacy, courtship, and social grace.

Public Workshop

06.06.2026 (Sat) 1 – 3pm
Unlock Dancing Plaza
Price: HKD50

No prior dance experience is needed, only curiosity and a willingness to move.

Professional Workshop

06.06.2026 (Sat) 4 – 6pm
Unlock Dancing Plaza
Price: HKD50

Learning from Fireflies: Small Signals, Shared Environments – Public Workshop

This workshop begins with the artist’s ongoing field research on fireflies and a curiosity about our observations to the surrounding: how do we actually notice what is there?

Starting from the common image of “nature” as distant, beautiful, and separate from us, the workshop seeks to move beyond that frame through listening, walking, and paying attention to the movement of light and the atmosphere of the environment. From what we encounter along the way, we will discover things and let them grow into creative impulses. No prior knowledge is required.

A Field of Brief Appearances: Learning from Fireflies as a Creative Methodology - Professional Workshop 

Rather than simply “representing” nature, how might we work with it?

Beginning with how visual culture frames nature as distant, unchanging, and imageable, this workshop draws on the artist’s ongoing ecological perception and non-human-centred thinking to develop a few simple creative tools. Moving between outdoor fieldwork and collective experimentation, we will explore ways of letting nature enter the creative process, rather than treating it as a flat source of material. No prior knowledge is required.

Public Workshop

07.06.2026 (Sun) 1 – 3pm
Unlock Dancing Plaza
Price: HKD50

Professional Workshop

07.06.2026 (Sun) 4 – 6pm
Unlock Dancing Plaza
Price: HKD50

Summoned Body - Public Workshop | Professional Workshop

This experiment invites participants to create short movement pieces with a renowned choreographer they wish to collaborate with, realised through AI and using their own mobile phones as a tool.

Participants engage in dialogue with an AI choreographer, approaching AI not only as technology but as a new collaborative partner. It becomes crucial to negotiate between AI suggestions and one’s own artistic sensibilities, allowing participants to witness how choices are made and where the work originates. By observing how identical starting conditions unfold through different choreographic languages, the process offers a practical exploration of how creative agency is redistributed in contemporary art.

Public Workshop

13.06.2026 (Sat) 2 – 4pm
Unlock Dancing Plaza
Price: HKD50

Professional Workshop

12.06.2026 (Fri) 2 – 4pm
Unlock Dancing Plaza
Price: HKD50

In this Live Writing Workshop, scholar and researcher Choi Sin-yi Emilie invites three observers to participate in an experiment that takes writing as a point of departure for dialoguing with dance. After watching four choreographic works, the observers will engage participants in real time through varied methodologies and question prompts, eliciting written responses that register their affective, critical, and imaginative encounters with performance. The texts generated in situ will be included in the second section of the festival publication Choreographing Across Cities, constituting an alternative layer of documentation and discursive extension of the works. Framing spectators as active co-authors rather than passive receivers, the workshop seeks to reactivate the performance environment as a site of exchange, reflection, and intervention, where writing operates as a live practice that is co-present with exhibition and stage presentations.

三位舞蹈祭觀察員潘思明，徐皓霖和黃嘉瀛亦會在現場與工作坊的參與者作小組對話，從閱讀彼此的文字中尋找新的觀看角度。觀眾不再只是被動的接收者，而是能以書寫介入、回應與共同建構討論的人，重新打開表演場域內交流與想像的可能，讓文字生成成為與展覽和演出並置的一種可被看見、可被感知的現場表演。

Live Writing Workshop

15.06.2026 (Mon) 1 – 2:30pm
1a space, Cattle Depot Artist Village
Free Registration

Bringing together festival curators, producers and venue programmers from neighbouring regions, these sessions foster in-depth conversation and exchange around the future development and touring potential of the works, as well as practical experiences of international collaboration, festival curation and venue programming. Each meeting will centre on a distinct thematic focus and invite a different group of producers, positioning the festival as a key node in a wider network while opening multiple perspectives on how the works may continue to circulate and grow across regional and international contexts.

Producers’ Forum 1: Festival as Platform Making

Festivals unfold within bounded timeframes; platforms sustain ongoing infrastructure. Yet contemporary festivals increasingly blur this distinction, embedding residencies, research, documentation, and networks into their temporal frames. This talk invites festival directors and curators to perform the distinction—structuring the conversation itself as platform-making, not mere festival-programming. Join us to explore how festivals evolve toward sustained ecosystems.

Speakers:
Joseph Lee | #DANCELESS complex Curator & Artistic Director, Unlock Dancing Plaza
Angie Cheng｜Artistic Lead, CanAsian Dance
Linda Mayasari ｜Curator, Indonesian Dance Festival Liu
劉忠磊｜正在國際舞蹈節節目總監

Moderator:
Michael Li, Independent Producer and Dramaturge

Producers’ Forum 2: Process-based Support for Artistic Creation

Contemporary performance increasingly values process over product, yet "process-based support" remains under-defined in practice. What makes genuine research support? How do residencies enable transformation rather than merely provide studio access? This panel examines concrete models: dramaturgy embedded in creation, showing incomplete work for the benefits of the creative processes, documenting research, and justifying investment in capacity-building over deliverables. Join festival directors and curators to explore operational frameworks for supporting choreographic inquiry.

Speakers:
June Tan | Artistic Director, KL Festival
Daniel Kok｜Artistic Director, Dance Nucleus
Josh Wright｜Artistic Director, Dancehouse
Joey Jepps｜Associate Artistic Director/ General Manager, Kakilang

Moderator:
Michael Li, Independent Producer and Dramaturge

Producers’ Forum

15.06.2026 (Mon) 3 – 4:30pm ; 4:30 – 6pm
1a space, Cattle Depot Artist Village
Free Registration