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Cecilia's Rhapsody
March 18, 8:15pm
March 19, 3pm Three local choreographers (Blue Ka-wing, Ata Wong and Rebecca Wong Pik-Kei) offer duets interpreting local writer Dung Kai-cheung's celebrated short story 'Cecilia'. |
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Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
March 11, 8:15pm
March 12, 3pm Italian choreographer Alessandro Sciarroni collaborates with local choreographer Mao Wei to explore the counterpoint in Eastern and Western dance and folk traditions in a high energy dance off. |
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Asia Pacific Dance Platform IX
March 7, 8:15pm This showcase for cutting edge contemporary dance in the Asia Pacific region features two choreographers redefining the meaning of 'duet': from Australia, Stephanie Lake's Dual develops out of two solo dance forms; while from Turkey, Taldans' Dolap has two dancers working their way round an increasingly interventionist refrigerator.
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The Last Supper
March 4, 8:30pm
March 5, 3pm A satirical portrait of post-Arab-Spring Egypt with a cast of 11 actors and a supper that never arrives...
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Shadows
March 1 & 2, 8:15pm Fosse (Norway's new Ibsen) has been translated into 40 languages and hailed as one of the world's 'Top 100 Living Geniuses'. Here his drama unfolds via video projection of child narrators as four elderly performers move around the stage in silence.
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The Gabriels
February 22-24, 8:15pm
February 25 & 26, 1:30pm, 4:15pm & 8:15pm
(for precise programming, see HK Arts Festival website) A trilogy of plays from New York's celebrated Public Theater, depicting a typical New York family during the current presidential election year. Play One: Hungry - the family gathers to mourn the death of patriarch Thomas Gabriel. Play Two: What Did You Expect? - set in September 2016, with the same family's reunion. Play Three: Women of a Certain Age - the same family await the election results on November 8, 2016 The trilogy can be seen on successive nights (22-24 February) or in a single day (25 & 26 February).
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17 Border Crossings
February 16-18, 8:15pm
February 19, 3pm 17 different ways of corssing borders in the company of solo performer Thaddeus Phillips (creator of one man versions of Shakespeare's King Lear, Henry V and the Tempest).
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Lord Guan Yu On Stag
November 24-26, 8pm and 3pm matinee on Nov 27 (Sun) Experimental Peking Opera account of key episodes from Lord Guan Yu's life. In Mandarin with English surtitles
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Wittgenstein
November 17-19, 8pm Describing itself as 'Electronic Music Image Theatre', Mathias Woo sets out to recreate Wittgenstein's world of the logic of language using Nerve's electronic synth music and the dysjunctive imagery of Tobias Gremmler and Hong Kong's own comic master Li Chi-Tak.
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Reveries of the Red Chamber
August 5-7, 7:45pm and (August 6/7 only) 3pm The dance drama Reveries of the Red Chamber comprises three different reinterpretations of this epic book, helmed by dancer Helen Lai, theatre artist Ho Ying-fung and Hong Kong Dance Company's artistic director Yang Yuntao. |