Compiled from the Performing Arts programmes* and Visual Arts exhibition records from HKADC’s Arts Yearbooks and Annual Arts Survey projects dating from 2010.

Z Innovation Lab – Monkey Business

Dance/Xiqu

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Art Genres / Sub-categories

Peking Opera, Other Folk Dance, Multi-arts

Location

Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Studio Theatre

Start Date

2018/10/19

End Date

2018/10/20

Art Genres / Sub-categories

Peking Opera, Other Folk Dance, Multi-arts

Location

Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Studio Theatre

Start Date

2018/10/19

End Date

2018/10/20

Z Innovation Lab – Monkey Business

New Vision Arts Festival 2018

Description

Description

Event at the Zoo
Heavenly Palace of Monkey Business

During the Angkor Empire, classical Cambodian dancers performed religious rituals in royal temples and shrines and enjoyed respectable status.

Considered as a Chinese national treasure, Peking Opera was proclaimed as a representative on the List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Cambodian dance artist, Nget Rady specialises in the monkey role of Lakhaon Kaol, the Cambodian classical male masked dance form. Nget’s every move is reminiscent of Hanuman, the monkey god of the epic poem Ramayana, who warred against the evil king Ravana to rescue the consort of his Lord. From Taipei, Chang Yu-chau specialises in the monkey play of clown of Peking opera and masters martial arts skills. Chang portrays Sun Wukong from the classic Chinese tale, Journey to the West, who after rebelling against heaven and being imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha, accompanied the monk Tang Sanzang on a journey to retrieve Buddhist sutras from “the West”.

From Zurich to Taipei, from classical Khmer dance to traditional Peking opera, these two monkey leads tour across the Eurasian continent to compare two cultures and the propagation and innovation of two traditional arts.

Organiser / Presenter Zuni Icosahedron
Performers:Nget Rady [Cambodia]; Chang Yu-chau [Taipei]
Curator, Artistic Director, Director & Designer:Danny Yung
Sound Creation:Nerve (Steve Hui); Gordon Lee

Info

Admission

$200

Indoor / Outdoor

Indoor

Local / Non-local Production

Local, Non-local

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