3 programs by the ever smashing Asia Pacific Dance platform.

Unfolding  through  dance  and  wordless  drama,  Last  Touch  First  is  a  highly atmospheric, intimate and sepia-toned mystery.

I Infinite is a new solo designed for galleries and white box spaces.  Part abstract dance, part video installation, it explores the boundaries between the artificial and the real, the digital and the organic.  Free to roam around the immersive digitally animated environment as they please, audiences remain in close proximity to the dancer and able to see refined movements – veering between robotic isolation and liquid fluidity – that are often missed in more traditional theatre spaces.  In one section audiences become participants, their bodies interacting with the projected image through a haze of fog.

Based on the classic novel The Dream of the Red Chamber, In Search of the Grand View Garden tells the story of 14 young travellers fond of classic literature who arrive in an extraordinary garden. Enchanted by the beautiful landscape, they drink and recite poetry, sing and dance and assume the roles of the imaginary characters in the novel.

One of Chekhov’s most famous works, this classic play distils the eternal themes of joy and sorrow through bitter-sweet moments in ordinary life. Exploring the glowering landscape of frustrated hopes, a meaningless job and a wasted life, the play echoes the sentiments of many people today. Vanya’s outburst, “I have never lived!”, has proved revelatory across a century.

In Persona. Marilyn, Lupa delves into the 20th-century sex goddess’s psyche, reaching across time and space through innovative set design and projected images. Sandra Korzeniak explores the boundaries of her double existence, as an actress and as Monroe. Unravelling the icon’s complex personality by Rembrandt-like photo dissection, Korzeniak gradually peels back the layers that made up Monroe, starting with media myths and images, through to the mask she wore in front of others, and finally her naked self…

A production about a river nymph's odyssey across the rivers and mountains of the world.

When all their student's pocket money goes missing a school goes to extreme lengths to get it back.

Inspired by real story of the owner of the Youth Literary Bookstore who died under boxes of books in 2008, playwright Janice Poon tells the story of a self-incarcerating author who is buried under a heap of abandoned books. In Cantonese with some English in parts. With English surtitles

Firefly is a production that creates visions of beauty and humour through a dreamlike series of fantasy vignettes with truly unique technical effects, and performed by a cast of dancers/acrobats. A plethora of strange creatures unfettered by the laws of physics flash through space, melting into and breaking away from each other. A new black light technique developed by Heinl enhances the excitement as figures mysteriously float, fly, bounce, and disappear. The performance fuses the illusionary and the magical in a refreshing, engaging and memorable performance that continually excites the audience, appealing to young and old.