4 Oct 2021 - 21 Feb 2022
HONG KONG SERENITY MEETS CHENGDU CONTRASTS
Encounters Across Cultures 2021
This year’s programme is an interactive engagement between dance and architecture. It allows the audience to activate their own journey through the unique spaces of the Houses with movements and time. In this, the programme’s second chapter, we are delighted to present an experience through two parallel universes – featuring elegant ballet at The Upper House, Hong Kong, and bold hip hop at The Temple House, Chengdu.
In today’s new normal of extended separations from our closest ones, the question of how to be together while apart is one that we increasingly face. Inspired by this idea, our creators imagined a tale of two friends in two cities, sharing one dance encounter through two difference spaces.
“Dance in its very essence, is movement in Space and Time. We leave to the audience the power of playing with Time.”
- acno, Choreography & Direction
To encounter is not just to experience. It is also to participate.
That's why it was important for the team to create an interactive experience, inviting the audience to move together. To show how our action or inaction could impact our experiences.
Our Creators
Curator & Producer
Patsy Lo, Paris and Shanghai
Originally from Hong Kong, Patsy is a curator and a movement director. After more than 20 years working in marketing, she left a high-powered global exceutive job at age 48, to become a full time dance student in Paris, France. She had never danced before.
Since then, Patsy founded sml Dance to share dance as a vehicle for discovery, courage and joy; an opportunity to connect with the intelligence within our bodies.
Her personal artistic project, REBIRTH, began its development with a residency at Orsolina28 in Sept. 2020. Extensions of the project have been featured in Numéro China and Nowness Asia on numerous occasions.
Curator & Producer
Patsy Lo, Paris and Shanghai
Originally from Hong Kong, Patsy is a curator and a movement director. After more than 20 years working in marketing, she left a high-powered global exceutive job at age 48, to become a full time dance student in Paris, France. She had never danced before.
Since then, Patsy founded sml Dance to share dance as a vehicle for discovery, courage and joy; an opportunity to connect with the intelligence within our bodies.
Her personal artistic project, REBIRTH, began its development with a residency at Orsolina28 in Sept. 2020. Extensions of the project have been featured in Numéro China and Nowness Asia on numerous occasions.
Choreography & Direction
acno, Paris
acno is a Paris-based creative studio formed by childhood friends, Mourad Bouayad and Paul Lamy. They seek to combine movement and visual arts to design a honest speech. Their first piece, ‘For The Hungry Boy’, brings Pop into contemporary dance theatre aesthetics.
Choreography & Direction
acno, Paris
acno is a Paris-based creative studio formed by childhood friends, Mourad Bouayad and Paul Lamy. They seek to combine movement and visual arts to design a honest speech. Their first piece, ‘For The Hungry Boy’, brings Pop into contemporary dance theatre aesthetics.
Dance artist
Li Xinmeng, Shanghai
Formerly a member of respected Shanghai Jin Xing Dance - founded by the legendary dance artist Jin Xing - between 2016-2019, Xinmeng left to perform independently and in 2020 founded his own dance company NoSpace.
Dance artist
Li Xinmeng, Shanghai
Formerly a member of respected Shanghai Jin Xing Dance - founded by the legendary dance artist Jin Xing - between 2016-2019, Xinmeng left to perform independently and in 2020 founded his own dance company NoSpace.
Dance artist
Yu Jinying, Beijing
Described by Le Monde as a "dance genius on high-wire", Ying followed up his international touring career with founding YING Dance Theatre in 2018. He has choreographed performances DIVINE, THE SUN, O and M, and created crossover collaborations with renowned artists and institutions such as designer Ma Ke, Meng Theatre Studio, SPURS Gallery, OUDE WAAG and director Wen Shipei.
Dance artist
Yu Jinying, Beijing
Described by Le Monde as a "dance genius on high-wire", Ying followed up his international touring career with founding YING Dance Theatre in 2018. He has choreographed performances DIVINE, THE SUN, O and M, and created crossover collaborations with renowned artists and institutions such as designer Ma Ke, Meng Theatre Studio, SPURS Gallery, OUDE WAAG and director Wen Shipei.
Interactive Design
The Collective, Hong Kong
The Collective is an integrated production team of artists, technologists and makers for all media, working at the intersection of visual art and technology. Their approach puts human experience at the centre of technological development. Their work has been exhibited in festivals from Porlwi light festival in Sri Lanka to Appolonia Art Exchange in France.
Interactive Design
The Collective, Hong Kong
The Collective is an integrated production team of artists, technologists and makers for all media, working at the intersection of visual art and technology. Their approach puts human experience at the centre of technological development. Their work has been exhibited in festivals from Porlwi light festival in Sri Lanka to Appolonia Art Exchange in France.
SPECIAL THANKS TO Sharon Chiu, Sky Meng, Gilles Sabrié, SEAN SUEN