6.7/11 8pm
Performers:
B-BOYs: SKIM (Director), STONY, FLETA, OCTOPUS, MOLD, SOMA, MEADOW, LILKY, KAZINO
BEATBOXER: 2TAK
“There is no team that can stand on its own against the talents of Jinjo Crew!”
– Storm (World-class B-boy from Germany)
“Human origami orchestrated into a grand symphony of illusion-like footwork”
– Mario Roth, Battle of the Year
First B-boy group to win FIVE major international competitions
Red Bull BC One Final (Paris, France), 2008
Battle of the Year (Montpelier, France), 2010
R-16 Korea World Final (Seoul, Korea), 2010-12
Freestyle Session (LA, USA), 2011
UK B-boy Championship (London, UK), 2012
Hottest name on B-boy scene fires up Hong Kong
It is Seoul not New York that today boasts the B-boys (aka breakdancers) taking the world by storm. In little more than a decade, the South Korean capital has developed into a hip-hop powerhouse, with super-sharp Jinjo Crew surging to the top. Along with numerous national and international awards, the group has broken fresh ground by becoming the first in B-boying’s 40-year history to triumph in five of the most prestigious championships of street dance.
Established in 2001 by brothers Skim and Wing, Jinjo Crew, or “Rising Fire”, quickly captivated the breakdance scene with stunning displays of agility, original Korean moves and breathtakingly intricate teamwork. In Hong Kong, nine dancers and a beatbox master will transpose award-winning battle routines into a scorching stage show that demonstrates perfectly why these performers are the premier B-boys. Combining ingenuity, humour and blistering skill, Jinjo Crew will entertain and astound in a searing paean to street dance.
June 19-21, 8pm
On the Way to the Front brings together artists from Asian People's Theatre Festival Society (Hong Kong) and Théâtre de l'Ordinaire (France), presenting an innovative Mask Theatre performance, fusing live music, movement, juggling and stories between the East and West, to re-create the life and times of the Chinese Labour Corps, the 140,000 workers recruited by the French and British Armies to the Western Front of First World War who worked under extreme conditions. At the embarrassing situation of meeting of cultures, what happened to the Chinese workers, who had never travelled, when they arrived at the countryside of France, with radical cultural differences between them and the locals?