“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