First Tale - Folding Echoes
Choreographer & Performer: Joseph Lee

 

Introduction: How do we deem the world? How does the world define our perception of it? What does it mean by norm/regularity/understanding? Can I still create anything in a known world?

 

 

How do we deem the world? How does the world define our perception of it?What does it mean by norm/regularity/understanding? Can I still create anything in a known world?

 

If you feel like you didn’t understand some aspects of contemporary dance, Joseph Lee explains it to you. As in a lecture-performance he connects his ironic treatise about communication in contemporary dance with extravagant solo dance inserts. The whole performance tries to build up the logic between symbols in the theatre, language used, sound and lighting design, and then to rearrange the links among them from time to time to distort the logic that we conceived earlier, pointing everything to the theme of ambiguity of our cognitive experience.

 

“Echoes” as in the title refers to the experience that the audience would experience once they enter the theatre, and when they started to question about the unexpected choreography choices, they initiate the inner conversation with their past experience, almost like echoes within themselves.

 

 

Artist: Joseph Lee
Joseph Lee was born in Hong Kong and he began his dance training at the age of seventeen. Graduated from Chinese University of Hong Kong with a bachelor in Professional Accountancy and The Place, London Contemporary Dance School for his Master of Arts (Contemporary Dance) in 2015. Lee is interested in expanding the imagination in choreography by redefining the territory of performance and examining the very nature of dance.

 

His recent interests lie on the reading, transfer and reenactment of bodily experience, as well as reflection and questioning of the performative nature rooted in daily life of contemporary society.

 

 

Second Tale - #danceless03-bolero
Choreographer & Performer：Ong Yong Lock

Performers: Andy Lee，James Yau，Kerry Cheung，Community Participants

 

Introduction：#danceless03 – bolero is a participatory structural improvisation piece, which has been well received around the world. Set on the music of Ravel’s Bolero, it reveals the hint of reflection of blo VS old from bolero. We grow old because we were young. Regardless of what constrains that getting old brings us, we are all longing for the joyfulness of life. Based on the rhythmic and repetitive orchestral piece, this dance piece derives from structural improvisation of body movement with dancers and join-in participants.

 

 

Third Tale - A Short，Thick Rainbow
Choreography: Unlock Dancing Plaza and Namstrops
Sound Designer: Genki.Ohno
Installation Designer: Yuko Kabashima
Performers: Andy Lee, James Yau, Kerry Cheung, Akifumi Toyofuku, Souhei Minowa

 

Introduction: A Short, Thick Rainbow* is co-created by Unlock Dancing Plaza from Hong Kong and Namstrops from Japan. This performance of dance and physical education bridges the cultural differences with bodies influenced by different cultures and training backgrounds.

 

 

Artist (Second & Third Tale)
With Ong Yong Lock as Artistic Director, Unlock Dancing Plaza is a promising modern dance company with a unique style founded in 2002. Bold to innovate, Unlock is keen to collaborate and interact with artists from different disciplines in search of the intricacies of life and beyond. By liberating the constraints of the stage, the Company strives to display new ways to appreciate and experience dance.

 

The Company’s “Unlock Body Lab” is devoted to exploring dance through the lens of the body, it delves into the study of organic combination of body movement and self-consciousness. The company also promotes creative dance education towards schools and communities to share its exploration. “Unlock Body Lab” also serves as an international cultural exchange platform.

Its productions received numerous Hong Kong Dance Awards (2009, 2015 & 2016). Unlock Dancing Plaza is financially supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council since 2009.

Their name, a reverse spelling of sportsman, reveals not only their members’ athlete background but also their methodology. Namstrops explores the boundary between sport, art and education; develop their body and create works with a combination of these disciplines.