DANCE
EXCHANGE
UP FOR THE STAGE
17.01 – 19.01 /2020
Studio Theatre
Hong Kong Cultural Centre
HONG KONG
DANCE
EXCHANGE
UP FOR THE STAGE
17.01 – 19.01 /2020
Studio Theatre
Hong Kong Cultural Centre
DANCE
EXCHANGE
UP FOR THE STAGE
17.01 – 19.01 /2020
Studio Theatre
Hong Kong Cultural Centre
Highly Defined
HongKong Dance
eXchange, eXperiment, eXperience, eXpand,
a crossover from local to international stage
Joining hands and syncing steps. Eyes on Hong Kong, all-in for eXcellence. The second edition of Hong Kong Dance Exchange International Festival (HDX) gathers 8 Hong Kong up-and-coming dance talents, as well as 8 aspiring choreographers and dancers from Canada, Japan, S.Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. Together these movers and shakers will wow the audience with the most unbeatable contemporary dance productions created in 2018 & 2019.
Keep your eyes on emerging talents across borders! Hong Kong Dance Exchange takes the stage to move the city – in collaboration with NDA International Festival S.Korea, Japan Contemporary Dance Network, SAI Festival Japan, ODORU-AKITA International Dance Festival Japan, Kuandu Arts Festival Taiwan, WANT TO DANCE FESTIVAL Taiwan, M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival Singapore and Macau Contemporary Dance Exchange Springboard, HDX presents extraordinary programmes in Hong Kong and taking local works to international stage in the network.
Highly Defined
HongKong Dance
eXchange, eXperiment, eXperience, eXpand,
a crossover from local to international stage
Joining hands and syncing steps. Eyes on Hong Kong, all-in for eXcellence. The second edition of Hong Kong Dance Exchange International Festival (HDX) gathers 8 Hong Kong up-and-coming dance talents, as well as 8 aspiring choreographers and dancers from Canada, Japan, S.Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. Together these movers and shakers will wow the audience with the most unbeatable contemporary dance productions created in 2018 & 2019.
Keep your eyes on emerging talents across borders! Hong Kong Dance Exchange takes the stage to move the city – in collaboration with NDA International Festival S.Korea, Japan Contemporary Dance Network, SAI Festival Japan, ODORU-AKITA International Dance Festival Japan, Kuandu Arts Festival Taiwan, WANT TO DANCE FESTIVAL Taiwan, M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival Singapore and Macau Contemporary Dance Exchange Springboard, HDX presents extraordinary programmes in Hong Kong and taking local works to international stage in the network.
Panel
(Local)
Festival Advisor
(OVERSEAS)
Panel
(Local)
Festival Advisors
(OVERSEAS)
Programme IV:
“stand Up”
Programme I:
“Cheer Up”
Programme III:
“PUSH Up”
Programme II:
“Open Up”
Programme I:
“CHEER UP”
17.1.2020
(FRI) 8PM
Programme IV:
“STAND UP”
19.1.2020
(SUN) 3PM
Programme II:
“OPEN UP”
18.1.2020
(SAT) 3PM
Programme III:
“PUSH UP”
18.1.2020
(SAT) 8PM
17.1.2020 (FRI) 8PM
Studio Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
The Opening features a selection of choreography works from all over the globe: the bold lead-in from Japan, followed by an honest self-reflection of Hong Kong,
DEFECTION FOR BEGINNERS:THE COUNTRY OF DREAMS
Japan
Programme from JCDN
Created by artists from Jpan, Taiwan, and Togo, the piece explores the connection between audience and performer, and in extension, the current state of society.
Choreographer and Performer:
Yu Shimomura
Performers:
Kento Date
Masayuki Nii
Alain Sinandja
Lighting Designer:
Asako Miura
Sound Designer:
Takashi Aikawa
Most Things Haven’t Worked Out
Hong Kong
“Most Things haven’t worked out, in the last episode of youth. Just like a force squeezes you out of teenage party.”
Acknowledgment:
This work premiered at 2018 the Hong Kong Jockey Club Contemporary Dance Series (CDS) commissioned and produced by the Hong Kong Arts Festival.
Music Credits:
1 “Night Clubbing” by IGGY POP
2 “Alone” OST from movie Kids Return (1996), music by Joe Hisaishi
3 “Born Slippy” by Under World
Choreographer and performer:
Zhang Xi-long
Premiere Lighting Designer:
Ho Fu Lung
Premiere Sound Designer:
Fung Chin Lung
Landing error
S.Korea
Programme from New Dance for Asia International Festival
We are not from the earth, would like to observe and try you even while we are here for a while. And then we’ll leave here. Why don’t you observe yourselves through our bodies?
Acknowledgment:
Premiere : 2015 Seoul Choreography festival @ Arko arts center.
Choreographers and performers:
Jin-ho Lim & Kyung-min Ji
@Goblin Party
Bird-Watching
Hong Kong
Objectifying herself as an installation sculpture, to be observed, gazed at, and imagined… the shifting perspectives on the body form an abstract narrative on body and desire.
Acknowledgement:
This work premiered at 2018 the “Dance Series, Tai Kwun”, commissioned and produced by Hong Kong Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts
Choreographer and performer:
Wong Pik Kei
Composer:
Fiona Lee
Premiere Lighting Designer:
Lau Ming Hang (Sunfool)
Props and Costume:
Luise Yau
*This programme contains scenes of nudity.
18.1.2020 (SAT) 3PM
Studio Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
To break through is perhaps the only way to sustain life and creativity. But imagine what we’ve been practising isn’t just synchronised footwork, but synchronised understanding? What if the dancer on stage becomes a conductor? Apart from breaking through the physical boundaries on stage, can contemporary dance also break off from its conventional framework of thinking?
When You See
Hong Kong
The concept and ideas of the work were conceived and developed from the “Creation for Freespace: Choreographer & Composer Lab” by Hong Kong Ballet and West Kowloon Cultural District Authority. The composer and musicians are commissioned by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority.
Acknowledgement:
The concept and ideas of the work were conceived and developed from the “Creation for Freespace: Choreographer & Composer Lab” by Hong Kong Ballet and West Kowloon Cultural District Authority. The composer and musicians are commissioned by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority.
Choreographer and Performer:
Ricky Hu
Composer and Live Music:
Olivier Cong
Naturally
S. Korea
Visualizing the observation of various forms of the transforming nature in the four season’s space and time, we focus on the formative views on the lines and shapes of trees in specific.
This piece interprets the body in formative principle and face the change in time and space. Spotting the various forms of trees with our transformed bodies through its interpreting process, we seek the relationship through intimate interaction
Acknowledgement:
Premier: 2019 New Dance foe Asia International Festival, at the Seong-Su Art hall, Seoul, S.Korea
Choreographer and Performer:
SONG Song-hee
Performer:
JEON Bo-ram
Essential Emotion
S.Korea
Etymologically, emotion is “movement or impulse” or “to move something to something” and it is a subjective experience to induce to act. Emotions can be a fundamental building block of survival, and they receive assistance by emotion, but they sometimes see failure. Emotions written to maintain relationships with survival have a direct impact on the present life This work will proceed in omnibus format. This work is intended to constitute this work inspired by the incident that caused a change of emotion decisively to me in the experience of life until now
Choreographer and performer:
Yoon Nara
Performer:
Daegyo Han
Action (developed from “Confine”)
Hong Kong
“There’s a reason why we’re here today
To make the world a better place
Things are not the same as we used to know
But I am still grateful to see beautiful souls
Replace our fear with faith, we fight for better days
WE ARE UNITED AS ONE”
Extracted from the song “We’re not afraid, written by Eva Chan”
Acknowledgement:
Confine premiered at 2018 the “Dance Series, Tai Kwun”, commissioned and produced by Hong Kong Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts.
Akama Chin, Cindy Ho, Li Hon Ting, Lawmanray, Jennifer Mok, Jonathan Hung, Emily Ng
Choreographer:
KT Yau
Performers:
Chan Wai Lok
Ko Hoi Lam
Li Ka Man
Lo King San
Vivian Luk
Composer & Premiere Sound Designer:
Victor Shum
Premiere Lighting Designer
:
Lau Ming Hang (Sunfool)
Over-master
Hong Kong
What society calls normal behaviour, psychotherapist Everett Shostrom says, all falls within the scope of manipulation. You who are always in control of yourself and others; are you unwittingly controlled by something else?
Acknowledgement:
This work premiered at 2019 the Hong Kong Jockey Club Contemporary Dance Series (CDS) commissioned and produced by the Hong Kong Arts Festival
Choreographer and performer:
Alice Ma
Composer and sound designer:
Leung Po Wing
Premiere Lighting Designer:
Lai Tze Yu
18.1.2020 (SAT) 8PM
Studio Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
The end of hysteria brings the hope of rebirth. Taiwanese choreographer Wu Chien Wei will bring blessings to this city with the robust energy in The Rite of Spring, before Reisa Shimojima’s very powerful poignant political and eerily hysterical dance-of-eleven Sky brings this festival to a majestic conclusion.
The Shift
Hong Kong
“The human being surrenders to the breath and pulse of Gaia, the mother earth, embracing the inevitable changes in the torrent of time. The Shift echoes to social events, which could be absurd, or sad, or beautiful… during this time of transformation of the city…” Daisy Chu
Acknowledgement:
This work premiered at 2019, commissioned and produced by the Hong Kong International Choreography Festival.
CCDC Dance Centre – Wong Tan Ki
Choreographer and Performer:
Justyne Li
Lighting design:
Bie Lai
Sound design:
Li Man Chun
Leftovers
Canada
Programme from M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival
Performed by Company 605 Co-Artistic Director Josh Martin, this solitary dance began as an investigation surrounding an idea that the body holds a separate memory bank. Muscle tissue, bones, tendons and organs all storing their own accounts of past events, actions and trauma, with this collected information not readily shared or easily accessed by the mind. The process has been an exploration of how to consistently find, enter, and move through different states and sensations. In a constant effort to disconnect movement from thought, the dance is an attempt to externalize the inner moments of body recall, and an expansion of what gets churned up in the retrieval.
Acknowledgement:
Leftovers is a piece developed through support from The Canada Council for the Arts, The Dance Centre and mentorship from Kokoro Dance’s Barbara Bourget. The work premiered at the Dancing On The Edge Festival 2013 (Vancouver).
Barbara Bourget
Lee Su Feh
Choreographer and Performer:
Josh Martin
Lighting Designer:
Won Kyoon Han
Music:
Lighting Bolt / Polmo Polpo
Rehearsal Direction:
Lisa Gelley
Sous Vide
Hong Kong
“We have been taught to immerse ourselves in the trance of tranquility, as if we are having a hot bath. Not long after, a smile appeared on my face; I let myself be boiled to death without fighting back.”
Acknowledgement:
This work premiered at 2018 the Hong Kong Jockey Club Contemporary Dance Series (CDS) commissioned and produced by the Hong Kong Arts Festival.
Choreographer and performer:
Tracy Wong
Soprano:
Joanne Shao
Premiere Lighting Designer:
Ho Fu Lung
Premiere Sound Designer:
Fung Chin Lung
Mo Ngaan Tai*
Hong Kong
Naked, uncovered and undisguised – perhaps this is all that can be seen on the stage. When bodies are the only medium, what is the connection between the audience and the dancers, exposing their naked sculptural bodies to the air? Speechless communication? A long-searched-for echo? Or apathetic examination?
The selected generation of the times, something we cannot deny. Some scream and shout; some run away; some enjoy themselves; while others seek stability.
When each individual entity stands alone, what does harmony in diversity mean? Thousands of millions of people thinking like each other or seeking harmony while embracing their different ways of thinking? Perhaps, when topics like sex, freedom and human rights are no longer considered taboo by society, harmony in diversity will truly arrive.
Acknowledgement:
The premiere of this production was presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, HKSAR.
Choreographer:
Terry Tsang
Devising Dancers:
Jessica Ho
Hui Zen
Poon Chun-ho
Pansy Lo
Music:
Leung Po Wing
Premiere Lighting Designer:
Bert Wong
Props:
Aya Mok @ Moonster Creation:
*This programme contains scenes of nudity.
19.1.2020 (SUN) 3PM
Studio Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
The end of hysteria brings the hope of rebirth. Taiwanese choreographer Wu Chien Wei will bring blessings to this city with the robust energy in The Rite of Spring, before Reisa Shimojima’s very powerful poignant political and eerily hysterical dance-of-eleven Sky brings this festival to a majestic conclusion.
Stand Up for Hong Kong I – The Rite of Spring
Taiwan
A newly developed work paying tribute to the HongKongese.
Choreographer and Performer:
Wu Chien-wei
Stand Up for Hong Kong II – Sky*
Japan
Under the banner of SOKATSU, many members of the United Red Army were killed by their comrades. It must be so hard for us to make sense of what happened in the incident. I just wanted to devote myself to a romantic act of “dancing”. I wanted to be a hero, a revolutionary warrior.
Choreographer and Performer:
Reisa Shimojima
Performers:
Ito Yuta
Koizumi Saori
Nakazawa Aki
Suetsugu Kyoko
Akita Mai
Mizuguchi Yui
Mizusawa Akane
Muyamoto Hasumi
Yamamoto Yae
Kigoro Akane
*This programme contains scenes of nudity.
Meet-The-Artist Lounge session will be held at the Podium Workshop of HKCC
after each programme, in which you could mingle with all dance artists
for insightful dialogue or chit chat.
Fee per session: HK$200 (Full-time student HK$150)
Ticket holder of the two programmes could participate any one session of the workshops free. (Please email for registration in advance)
Suitable for participants with at least one year of modern dance training
Enrollment Enquiries: info@hdx.com.hk
5 Steps to Creative Dance
2020.01.13 (MON) | 18:00-19:30
Tutor: Reisa Shimojima (Japan)
Venue: Dance Studio, HKAPA
1.Don’t be shy
2.Trust your instincts
3.Challenge yourself
4.But Just enjoy yourself
5.Till you break your limits
“The possibilities of expressions are endless. The workshop will explore “how to go beyond your limits” through various challenging and fun themes and movements experiment. Let’s play hard to study hard!”
Essential fluidity and beyond
2020.01.14 (TUE) | 18:00-19:30
Tutor: Nara Yoon (Korea)
Venue: Dance Studio, HKAPA
“A movement and physical oriented workshop, introducing the dancer-choreographer’s strong techniques in movement research and essential tools in movement exercises and explorations. We will start from nice warm-up, to introducing different step by step exercise, on How to integrate fluidity and strong accents in movement phrasing, and how to train the body with essential understanding of It’s alignments with different time and space. It’s open for all different levels of dance students to try and explore.”
Bound Flow
2020.01.15 (WED) | 18:00-19:30
Tutor: Josh Martin (Canada)
Venue: Dance Studio, HKAPA
“This class involves examples of Company 605’s movement vocabulary and improvisational prompts from current repertoire. Combining techniques and styles found inside of 605’s working language, exercises are aimed toward building strength and speed, developing bound flow patterning, and finding groove. Tasks are given to acknowledge the weight of the body, both resting and moving through space, to discover instinctual movement pathways, and utilize the natural momentum that this weight can create. The class will offer multiple techniques and approaches around warping interpretation of time and space within the body to find unexpected patterning, and new physicality. Participants will be exploring the body’s relationship with the floor, articulation and isolation of body parts at various levels, and how to safely carry out large, athletic movement while maintaining a raw and powerful execution.”
Communion Movement
2020.01.17 (FRI) | 18:00-19:30
Tutor: Song Song-hee (Korea)
Venue: Podium Workshop, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
Dance is not only movement forms,
It is the nonstop communications, relationships and creations through the interactions of various body parts and bodies. we will be finding new techniques and new senses through different interesting tasks and exercises in this workshop, from the body inside to outside, and from the micro to macro interactive-movements.
Questions – Composition workshop for everyone
2020.01.18 (SAT) | 11:00-12:30
Tutor: Yu Shimomura (Japan)
Venue: Podium Workshop, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
Anything can be contemporary dance?
What is your own standard for creative choreographies?
To know your interests, and to know your perspective, this is the workshop to dig into “Questions” which is the basis of creation.
Partnering Workshop
2020.01.18 (SAT) | 13:00-14:30
Tutor: Chua Chiok Woon & Hong Guofeng (Singapore)
Venue: Podium Workshop, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
Learn some partnering basics on weight sharing, contact work, lifts, and coordination in movements between two bodies. You will learn a simple partnering dance routine at the end of the session. Come with a friend or make a new friend at the workshop!
Free admission in a first-come-first-served basis.
Contemporary Asian Dance Practice on International Stage
2020.01.16 (THU) | 18:00-19:30
Venue: Dance Studio, HKAPA
Speakers:
Byung-joo Choi | SAI Festival Japan
Ritsuko Mizuno | Japan Contemporary Dance Network
Santa Yamakawa | ODORU-AKITA International Dance Festival Japan
Respondents:
Yu Ho-sik | NDA International Festival Korea
Zhang Xiao-xiong | Kuandu Arts Festival Taiwan
Chung Po-yuan | WANT TO DANCE FESTIVAL Taiwan
Kuik Swee-boon | M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival Singapore
Moderator:
Daniel Yeung
Community Recovery – A Dance Revolution: From Decentralization to Participation
2020.01.19 (SUN) | 13:00-14:30
Venue: Podium Workshop, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
Speakers:
Norikazu Sato | Japan Contemporary Dance Network
Moderator:
Daniel Yeung
Free admission in a first-come-first-served basis.
H.D.X COMMUNITY
14/12/2019 15:00-16:30
Venue: Main Entrance, Hong Kong Arts Centre
H.D.X BATTLE
18/12/2019# 13:00-15:00
Venue: Main Entrance, Hong Kong Arts Centre
#Event Partner: Chan Wing Yip, Street Dance Battle curator and coordinator
Hong Kong Dance Mini Exchange 1
14/01/2020* 13:00-15:00
Venue: Piazza A & B, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
Honey Bee and the Dandelion*
Singapore
Programme from M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival
In this work, they explore the interdependence in any given relationship. How much does one give or take in an intrinsically unequal relationship. Desire, familiarity, companionship, utility, survival – as they question the need to stay together.
Acknowledgment:
This work is premiered at M1 Open Stage | M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2019 (10th edition)
Choreographer and Performer:
Chua ChiokWoon
Hong Guofeng
Premiere Lighting Designer:
Liu Yong Huay
*This programme contains scenes of nudity.
Hong Kong Dance Mini Exchange 2
15/01/2020* 13:00-15:00
Venue: Piazza A & B, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
Honey Bee and the Dandelion*
Singapore
Programme from M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival
In this work, they explore the interdependence in any given relationship. How much does one give or take in an intrinsically unequal relationship. Desire, familiarity, companionship, utility, survival – as they question the need to stay together.
Acknowledgment:
This work is premiered at M1 Open Stage | M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2019 (10th edition)
Choreographer and Performer:
Chua ChiokWoon
Hong Guofeng
Premiere Lighting Designer:
Liu Yong Huay
*This programme contains scenes of nudity.
Ticketing
Tickets available from 6 December onwards at all URBTIX outlets, on Internet, by Mobile Ticketing App & Credit Card Telephone Booking.
Internet Booking: www.urbtix.hk
Credit Card Telephone Booking: 2111 5999
Mobile Apps: My URBTIX (iPhone/iPad)
Ticketing Enquiries: 3761 6661 (10am-8pm)
Programme Enquiries: 9049 6877
Tickets available from 6 December onwards at all URBTIX outlets, on Internet, by Mobile Ticketing App & Credit Card Telephone Booking.
Internet Booking: www.urbtix.hk
Credit Card Telephone Booking: 2111 5999
Mobile Apps: My URBTIX (iPhone/iPad)
Ticketing Enquiries: 3761 6661 (10am-8pm)
Programme Enquiries: 9049 6877
Notes:
- Free Seating.
- Audiences aged 6 and above are welcome.
- Concessionary ticket holders must produce evidence of their identity or age upon admission.
- Limited concessionary tickets available on a first-come-first-served basis.
- Patrons can enjoy only one of the above discount offers for each purchase. Please inform the box office staff at the time of purchase.
- The running time of each performance is approximately 1 hour 15 minutes including one 15-minute intermission.
- Audience are strongly advised to arrive punctually. Latecomers and audiences who leave their seats during the performance will only be admitted to their own seats at a suitable break.
- The presenter reserves the right to change the programme and substitute artists.
- The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region & the presenter.
Notes:
- Free Seating.
- Audiences aged 6 and above are welcome.
- Concessionary ticket holders must produce evidence of their identity or age upon admission.
- Limited concessionary tickets available on a first-come-first-served basis.
- Patrons can enjoy only one of the above discount offers for each purchase. Please inform the box office staff at the time of purchase.
- The running time of each performance is approximately 1 hour 15 minutes including one 15-minute intermission.
- Audience are strongly advised to arrive punctually. Latecomers and audiences who leave their seats during the performance will only be admitted to their own seats at a suitable break.
- The presenter reserves the right to change the programme and substitute artists.
- The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region & the presenter.
Notes:
- Free Seating.
- Audiences aged 6 and above are welcome.
- Concessionary ticket holders must produce evidence of their identity or age upon admission.
- Limited concessionary tickets available on a first-come-first-served basis.
- Patrons can enjoy only one of the above discount offers for each purchase. Please inform the box office staff at the time of purchase.
- The running time of each performance is approximately 1 hour 15 minutes including one 15-minute intermission.
- Audience are strongly advised to arrive punctually. Latecomers and audiences who leave their seats during the performance will only be admitted to their own seats at a suitable break.
- The presenter reserves the right to change the programme and substitute artists.
- The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region & the presenter.