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Review-Nordic Waves-Hong Kong Arts Festival19-3-14
It’s been 12 hours since I left the Cultural Center and I still have no idea what I watched last night. Nordic Waves was billed as two modern dance pieces from Scandinavian choreographers. It was described in the program as “two highly provocative yet markedly contrasted productions by female choreographers Elina Pirinen and Gunilla Heilborn. While both choreographers’ works exhibit the sleek, minimalist characteristics of Nordic arts and designs, each projects an entirely different tone and temperature onto the stage.”
Review-FILTH- Hong Kong Arts Festival18-3-14
There are good stories about bad people, but in order to make it so, the bad people need to be real. Instead, FILTH presents four predictable clichés of Hong Kong expats, each of them one-dimensional, unengaging characters.
Audience Reaction-The Gilded Fan-Hong Kong Arts Festival17-3-14
Did you have a chance to see The Gilded Fan? It's a lyrics opera commisioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival by Tong Tik-sang.
Review-Asia Pacific Dance Platform-Hong Kong Arts Festival15-3-14
The ‘Asia Pacific Dance Platform IV,’ showcased the talents of five young dancers from China, India and Korea. Although the contemporary dance pieces weren't based around one theme, the show was able to display a variety of different kinds of performances.
Audience Reaction-108 Heroes III-Hong Kong Arts Festival14-3-14
Did you have a chance to see 108 Heroes III? It's the sequel of the sell out success "Tales of the Water Margin" from HKAF 2011.
Review-Iphigenia in Tauris-Hong Kong Arts Festival13-3-14
Pina Bausch’s Iphigenia in Tauris is a dance/opera. What is a dance/opera? It is a blending of the two styles together that uses the storytelling and musical elements of classical opera and blends them with the movement and physicality of modern dance.
Review-Literary Death Match-Hong Kong Stories13-3-14
Literary Death Match is quoted by the LA Times to be “…the most entertaining reading series ever.” With a title like “Literary Death Match”, what kind of person wouldn’t enter the room without at least some preconceived notions? I must admit with some embarrassment, I was hoping for more dramatic eliminations. However, what it actually offers is a solid evening’s worth of entertainment, but not much more.
Audience Reaction-Roots-Hong Kong Rep10-3-14
Did you have a chance to see Roots? It's playing as part of the Hong Kong Rep Black Box festival in Sheung Wan.
Review-Girl Talk-Hong Kong Arts Festival9-3-14
Commissioned and produced by the Hong Kong Arts Festival and directed by Lee Chun-chow, Girl Talk is a double line-up of two new works: Big Girl, written and performed by Rosa Maria Velasco, and Paper Duck on the Run, written and performed by Santayana Li.
Review-iTMOi-Hong Kong Arts Festival8-3-14
A commissioned work for the centenary of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring, iTMOi (which stands for In the Mind of Igor) premiered in Grenoble, France in May 2013. Instead of retaining Stravinsky's music or Vaslav Nijinsky's choreographic language from the iconoclastic ballet, choreographer and dancer Akram Khan explored the psyche of how the work came about.
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