Dear 2021 – CAL
“Be your best self and live in every moment” – CAL (Tap Dancer)
“Be your best self and live in every moment” – CAL (Tap Dancer)
Dear 2021
In anticipation of the new year, Xiqu Centre and Freespace invited some of our long-time partners to share their artistry and their hopes for 2021. We are releasing one new video each day for eleven days, starting on New Year’s Eve.
These are portraits of strength, creativity, and hope. These artists have graced our stages, our studios, and in 2020, our online platforms. These are our messages for you, for a better year ahead.
Concept and Design: West Kowloon Performing Arts Division
Video Direction and Editing: Kenneth@Gain Production
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Dear 2021 – Chloe Wong
“I wish to help each other stay strong” – Chloe Wong (Dance Artist)
Dear 2021
In anticipation of the new year, Xiqu Centre and Freespace invited some of our long-time partners to share their artistry and their hopes for 2021. We are releasing one new video each day for eleven days, starting on New Year’s Eve.
These are portraits of strength, creativity, and hope. These artists have graced our stages, our studios, and in 2020, our online platforms. These are our messages for you, for a better year ahead.
Concept and Design: West Kowloon Performing Arts Division
Video Direction and Editing: Kenneth@Gain Production
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Dear 2021 – Kenny Leung
“No matter how horrible the situation is, you must fight until the very end” – Kenny Leung (Dance Artist)
Dear 2021
In anticipation of the new year, Xiqu Centre and Freespace invited some of our long-time partners to share their artistry and their hopes for 2021. We are releasing one new video each day for eleven days, starting on New Year’s Eve.
These are portraits of strength, creativity, and hope. These artists have graced our stages, our studios, and in 2020, our online platforms. These are our messages for you, for a better year ahead.
Concept and Design: West Kowloon Performing Arts Division
Video Direction and Editing: Kenneth@Gain Production
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Dear 2021 – SukiRabbit
“Remember these experiences, they will make us stronger” – SukiRabbit (Dance Artist)
Dear 2021
In anticipation of the new year, Xiqu Centre and Freespace invited some of our long-time partners to share their artistry and their hopes for 2021. We are releasing one new video each day for eleven days, starting on New Year’s Eve.
These are portraits of strength, creativity, and hope. These artists have graced our stages, our studios, and in 2020, our online platforms. These are our messages for you, for a better year ahead.
Concept and Design: West Kowloon Performing Arts Division
Video Direction and Editing: Kenneth@Gain Production
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Freespace Mural
The Time Lapse Video
As an extension of the Cypher dance and movement series in 2020, Freespace commissioned artist and graphic designer Calvin Ho @AtomicAttack to create the first mural on our exterior wall as West Kowloon’s latest check-in spot. The mural is a celebration of movement, music, and creatures of all kinds coming together.
From 9 to 29 November 2020, Ho and his team performed the painting daily. Visitors were welcome to drop by to see the artist at work. Time-lapse videos of the process were uploaded weekly to record and reveal the exciting transformation of the wall.
West Kowloon Cultural District Website
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ON VIEW: HONG KONG (Live Performance) Highlight
Commissioned and produced by West Kowloon,ON VIEW: HONG KONG is a new dance project exploring notions of portraiture,identity and the moving body through the media of screendance.
ON VIEW: HONG KONG was conceived in 2015 during New Works Forum: Screendance,a collaborative programme organised by West Kowloon and City Contemporary Dance Company that brought together Australian choreographer and dance filmmaker Sue Healey,Hong Kong dance film cinematographer Maurice Lai and other screendance artists for workshops and exchange with directors,filmmakers and dance artists from Hong Kong,Macau and Taiwan. The following year,inspired by Healey’s award-winning work ON VIEW: Live Portraits,West Kowloon engaged Sue Healey to collaborate with Maurice Lai and ten prominent Hong Kong dance artists for the production of ON VIEW: HONG KONG.
Exploring what it means “to see” and “to be seen” – elements that are central to Healey’s work – ON VIEW: HONG KONG challenges the way performers and spectators view a dancer’s presence,gaze,gestures,movement,force and rhythm,and looks at how a dancer presents both tangible and intangible qualities,and at what happens when the complexities of real world movement and observations are compressed by the camera. The resulting works redefine the context and cultural interpretation of the concepts ‘Portrait’,‘Identity’ and ‘The Moving Body’
ON VIEW: HONG KONG provokes creators and audiences with fresh perspectives of ‘dance’ and ‘moving image’,promotes the development of screendance,and offers the public a unique opportunity to discover Hong Kong dancers of different ages,backgrounds and levels of expertise.
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ON VIEW: HONG KONG (Live Performance) The Making-of
Commissioned and produced by West Kowloon,ON VIEW: HONG KONG is a new dance project exploring notions of portraiture,identity and the moving body through the media of screendance.
ON VIEW: HONG KONG was conceived in 2015 during New Works Forum: Screendance,a collaborative programme organised by West Kowloon and City Contemporary Dance Company that brought together Australian choreographer and dance filmmaker Sue Healey,Hong Kong dance film cinematographer Maurice Lai and other screendance artists for workshops and exchange with directors,filmmakers and dance artists from Hong Kong,Macau and Taiwan. The following year,inspired by Healey’s award-winning work ON VIEW: Live Portraits,West Kowloon engaged Sue Healey to collaborate with Maurice Lai and ten prominent Hong Kong dance artists for the production of ON VIEW: HONG KONG.
Exploring what it means “to see” and “to be seen” – elements that are central to Healey’s work – ON VIEW: HONG KONG challenges the way performers and spectators view a dancer’s presence,gaze,gestures,movement,force and rhythm,and looks at how a dancer presents both tangible and intangible qualities,and at what happens when the complexities of real world movement and observations are compressed by the camera. The resulting works redefine the context and cultural interpretation of the concepts ‘Portrait’,‘Identity’ and ‘The Moving Body’
ON VIEW: HONG KONG provokes creators and audiences with fresh perspectives of ‘dance’ and ‘moving image’,promotes the development of screendance,and offers the public a unique opportunity to discover Hong Kong dancers of different ages,backgrounds and levels of expertise.
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ON VIEW: HONG KONG | Qiao Yang
“The quality of Qiao Yang’s movement is extremely majestic and very theatrical.” ── Sue Healey
Born in Shaanxi,Qiao Yang started learning Chinese dance at the age of 12 and has been a dancer with City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) since 1996. She received the Gold Award in the Modern Dance Duet Class at the Paris International Dance Competition in 1990,and in 1992 became a founding member of Guangdong Modern Dance Company,performing extensively at major international arts festivals. In 2003,she received a Hong Kong Dance Award and was listed in the “Hong Kong Dance Hall of Fame”. Qiao received the 2011 Hong Kong Dance Award “Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer” for her performance in Tales of Two Cities,and was nominated for the same prize for her performance in Soledad at the 2016 Hong Kong Dance Awards.
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ON VIEW: HONG KONG | Jennifer Mok
“Jennifer Mok is full of curiosity,and is very humorous and playful.” ── Sue Healey
Born in Hong Kong,Jennifer Mok graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2005 with a major in Ballet and studied modern dance the following year. In 2007,she undertook an internship with Expressions Dance Company in Australia for its US tour,before joining City Contemporary Dance Company the same year. In 2014,she left the company to work as a freelance artist. Recent performances include,the Black Bird Theatre production Freedom of Expression,the Rite of City Dance Video Project,New Works Forum: Screendance workshop co-presented by West Kowloon Cultural District and City Contemporary Dance Company. Mok’s debut choreography,A Major Clown in G Flat,presented by E-Side Dance Company in Femininity in 2015,was nominated for “Outstanding Choreography” and “Outstanding Female Dancer” at the Hong Kong Dance Awards. In February 2017 she presented her solo work You are Beautiful at the Hong Kong Jockey Club Contemporary Dance Series as part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival.
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ON VIEW: HONG KONG | Mui Cheuk-yin
“Mui Cheuk-yin is very elegant in both technique and bearing,with a profound sense of mystery.” ── Sue Healey
A student of Chinese classical and ethnic dance in Hong Kong during the 1970’s,Mui Cheuk-yin emerged as one of Hong Kong’s first generation of professional dancers,and in the 1980’s was the lead dancer in numerous dance drama productions of the Hong Kong Dance Company. In the 1990’s,Mui became an independent artist,choreographing,teaching,performing,and producing dance works in Hong Kong. Her works have been featured during the 25th and 35th Anniversaries of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch,at the Lyon Biennale de la Danse,the International Festival of Contemporary Dance in Venice,the Dance Biennale Tokyo, and on major stages around the world including,New York,Copenhagen,London,Paris and Beijing. Her style traverses between traditional and contemporary with effortless fluidity. Mui has won two Asian Cultural Council fellowships to study modern dance in the US,four Hong Kong Dance Awards,and in 2012 received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Hong Kong Dance Alliance. She was also recognized with an Outstanding Women Award by the Wai Yin Association in 2001.
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