Choreographers’ Showcase 2015
Dance
Description
Description
Choreographers’ Showcase serves as a platform for Hong Kong Ballet dancers to present their creativity, ideas and accumulated dance experience. This tradition dates back to the early 1980s. This year, this platform extends to other emerging choreographers, providing a fresh experience, intended to celebrate and embrace their views about our home – Hong Kong.
This year’s choreographers include Kenneth Hui Ka Chun, Li Jia-bo, Nguyen Ngoc Anh, Jonathan Spigner, Yui Sugawara, John Utans and Yang Hao.
Panta Rhei by Hui Ka Chun Kenneth
With the idea that people are working hard for later enjoyment, this piece explores life and values in this crowded city – Hong Kong. It is about vast amounts of people who work for what matters most to them – money, fame, family, home. They have little time for rest or enjoyment. However, it is not about what you see, instead it’s about how you feel about yourself.
Keep Watch by Li Jia-bo
I stay because this is a place of memories. When the wind blows, I can feel your white dress caressing my face. I can feel your breath in the air. Light passes through the cloud projecting out of your stature. I am guarding this place, fearing the memory will be lost. I expect you to show up, although it could only be in my mind. I know I can’t leave because I can feel you here, knowing you are also protecting me.
EVOL by Nguyen Ngoc Anh
Love has no boundaries – religious, cultural, ethnic and gender.
Love gives lives, form, shape, emotion, energy, purity, beauty and passion.
Love is sensitive, fragile, tender and…
Days Gone By by Jonathan Spigner
This piece takes a view of an outsider’s perspective of Hong Kong and its people.
Enlightening by Yui Sugawara
This piece explores the importance of accepting, respecting and appreciating oneself and others in a city of diversity. It is about life in Hong Kong. When you are open-minded and accepting, you may feel something new, important and precious, or something you actually want. You will try hard to get it. Even if this cannot direct you toward what you want, you will improve and bring yourself closer to what you want to be.
Nine. Dog. Nine by John Utans
Using, as its foundation, the many facets of the Cantonese language – an ancient language and symbol of Hong Kong identity – Nine. Dog. Nine personifies the constant evolution and unique expressiveness of the language. It explores, through the movement language of dance, a world of nine rising and falling tones, conversations and stories. Like the language itself, the dance is a play on verbs.
A Work with Hong Kong Ballet by Yang Hao
(formerly Re-mark The Territory)
Every body movement is singular, and so is the derived inspiration. Dance, as an art form, inspires intricate qualities through body movements. Starting from the otherness of different dancers, different movements are created for each of them. These are combined into a whole entity, elaborating a partial representation of The Hong Kong Ballet. This mapping can also be thought of as a mapping of Hong Kong through individuals who personify this area of the world.
Choreographers：Kenneth Hui Ka Chun; Li Jia-bo; Nguyen Ngoc Anh; Jonathan Spigner; Yui Sugawara; John Utans; Yang Hao
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Theatre Yearbook 2015 – Dance, Drama and Xiqu" published by International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong).
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