i-Dance Festival (HK) 2019
i-Dance Festival (HK) was first organised by a group of independent contemporary dance artists in 2004. Taiwan, South Korea and Japan have also founded their own i-Dance Festivals in 2011, 2012 and 2013 respectively, forming an i-Dance Festival network in Asia. This year’s i-Dance Festival (HK) 2019 is small in scale due to lack of resources but still we hope to create a dance festival with Hong Kong identity. We hope to dance out the voice of Hong Kong ……!
A Dance Festival of Hong Kong
LIVE
1-31/10
Free Access To Festival Programme Through Internet.
Audience can view i-dance programme online, including free programme and part of the paid programme.
Free Access To Festival Programme Through Internet.
Audience can view i-dance programme online, including free programme and part of the paid programme.
Calendar
Dancing All Around @i-Dance 2019
1-31/10
Anytime, Any date, Anywhere
Anytime, Any date, Anywhere
Dancing in, Dancing out, Dance around the world in i-Dance.
Let’s Dance Anywhere and make everywhere Dance…
Dance slogan is “You Dance i-Dance” aiming to dance with everybody and at anywhere…! We created a series of dance at public space in HK and at different parts of the world. Some of the works are live on site and some of them are created at different part of the world in the past. …
Works in the past:
Dance Collage Carnival created to celebrate the 10th Anniversaries of the establishment of Hong Kong Cultural Centre in 1999. 2005 and 2006 Y-Space create a series of dance works Dancing Beans I & II, guided audiences to tour around different factory spaces at Kwai Chung area. 2010 and 2011 a series of site-specific works Dancing In Dancing Out Dance Around Yuen Long Theatre were created for Yuen Long Theatre, led the audiences to discover the hidden sides of the Theatre.
In i-Dance (HK) Festival 2014, 2015 and 2016 Y-Space created four series of dance works for the communities at Wan Chai, Kam Tin, the Central and West Coast Hong Kong Island with the works Discovering Wan Chai Stories, Kam Tin As…, Dancing In Dancing Out Dance Around Hollywood Road and Retracing Hong Kong’s vanished Coastline—Hong Kong West Side Story. These four series of works invited the audiences sauntered Wan Chai, Kam Tin, Central, Sai Wan and Kennedy Town in search of hidden cultural and historical traces of Hong Kong.
Please keep your eyes on our latest news update at our website and Facebook for the venue, date and time.
Let’s Dance Anywhere and make everywhere Dance…
Dance slogan is “You Dance i-Dance” aiming to dance with everybody and at anywhere…! We created a series of dance at public space in HK and at different parts of the world. Some of the works are live on site and some of them are created at different part of the world in the past. …
Works in the past:
Dance Collage Carnival created to celebrate the 10th Anniversaries of the establishment of Hong Kong Cultural Centre in 1999. 2005 and 2006 Y-Space create a series of dance works Dancing Beans I & II, guided audiences to tour around different factory spaces at Kwai Chung area. 2010 and 2011 a series of site-specific works Dancing In Dancing Out Dance Around Yuen Long Theatre were created for Yuen Long Theatre, led the audiences to discover the hidden sides of the Theatre.
In i-Dance (HK) Festival 2014, 2015 and 2016 Y-Space created four series of dance works for the communities at Wan Chai, Kam Tin, the Central and West Coast Hong Kong Island with the works Discovering Wan Chai Stories, Kam Tin As…, Dancing In Dancing Out Dance Around Hollywood Road and Retracing Hong Kong’s vanished Coastline—Hong Kong West Side Story. These four series of works invited the audiences sauntered Wan Chai, Kam Tin, Central, Sai Wan and Kennedy Town in search of hidden cultural and historical traces of Hong Kong.
Please keep your eyes on our latest news update at our website and Facebook for the venue, date and time.
Please keep your eyes on our latest news update at our website and Facebook for the venue, date and time.
Dance “IN” Possible VI - TransDance II
2-4, 7-11,14-18/10 @14:00-18:00
MY D Lab
MY D Lab
Transdance Fee：$280/ $140* and $200 (Early Bird Discount)
Transdance Artists: Victor Choi-wo Ma , Mandy Ming-yin Yim and you…
Your dance, My Dance, Our Dance…Let’s make “Dance” together in TransDance II…! Victor & Mandy will dance with you and create an original dance with you individually. There will be a private performance and dance creation with Mandy and Victor. The creation will base on the training system “Organic Movement and Transformation Training System” that they developed. Please come and dance with Victor & Mandy to explore the possibilities and impossibilities of Dance !
Dance “In” Possible!? Series
2019 is the 20th anniversary of the Dance “In” Possible!? Series, Y-Space created a new work Dance “IN” Possible VI – TransDance. The work divides into two parts. The first part Victor and Mandy invited artists from different media to explore how life could be transformed into dance. The second part audience could sign up to participate in an one-on-one private performance. Y-Space encourages the public to turn their life experiences into dances with the concept of "everyone can dance". Audiences will be invited to work with Victor and Mandy to create Dance “IN” Possible VI – II.
* 50% Discount
Full-time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and CSSA recipients receive 50% discounts. (ALL with quota)
Transdance Artists: Victor Choi-wo Ma , Mandy Ming-yin Yim and you…
Your dance, My Dance, Our Dance…Let’s make “Dance” together in TransDance II…! Victor & Mandy will dance with you and create an original dance with you individually. There will be a private performance and dance creation with Mandy and Victor. The creation will base on the training system “Organic Movement and Transformation Training System” that they developed. Please come and dance with Victor & Mandy to explore the possibilities and impossibilities of Dance !
Dance “In” Possible!? Series
2019 is the 20th anniversary of the Dance “In” Possible!? Series, Y-Space created a new work Dance “IN” Possible VI – TransDance. The work divides into two parts. The first part Victor and Mandy invited artists from different media to explore how life could be transformed into dance. The second part audience could sign up to participate in an one-on-one private performance. Y-Space encourages the public to turn their life experiences into dances with the concept of "everyone can dance". Audiences will be invited to work with Victor and Mandy to create Dance “IN” Possible VI – II.
* 50% Discount
Full-time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and CSSA recipients receive 50% discounts. (ALL with quota)
i- Dance Battle
13/10 (SUN) @14:00 - 18:00
MY D Lab
MY D Lab
Battle
Let’s make Anything dance and Dance with Anything…
This will be a dance battle full of passion, creativity and fun. Don’t you dare to come?
i-Dance Battle team will prepare a series of themes and topics in advance. On the day of the battle the contestants, audiences or judges will pick one topics, it might include but not limited to: different types of music, visual, text and/or other topics. The contestants need to create or improvise base on the topics chosen. The judge and the audience will decide who could win the battle.
Schedule of Battle:
14:00-14:30 Register and Warm up Workshop
14:30-15:15 First Round (Open Audition) - Select 16 for the i-Dance Battle
15:15-16:00 Second Round: 1 to 1 battle in 8 groups - select 8 battlers from the 16
16:00-16:15 Short Break
16:15-16:45 Third Round: (Select 4 from the top 8 battlers)
16:45-17:15 Fourth Round: (Seminal Final) - Select 2 from the top 4 bat tlers
17:15-17:30 Fifth Round (Final)
17:45-18:00 Award presentation
Prize:
1st Prize:
Cash HK$1,000, free to join any Exploring Dance and Movement Workshops , free to watch all programmes at KTT Black Box Dance and Improv, free to join the Dance and Improv research workshop and have the chance to participate in Improvisation Land 75 performance, free to join the Closing event Dance Under the Sky, including dinner at To Yau. invited to join the i-Dance Festival (HK) 2019 Opening Activity: Open Dance and Improv Party, free to join the Open Improv & Contact Jam on 20 OCT, receive an exclusive gift. (All activities require registration in advance)
2nd Prize:
Cash HK$500, free to join any Exploring Dance and Movement Workshops , free to watch all programmes of the KTT Black Box performance series: Dance and Improv, free to join the Dance and Improv research workshops. invited to join the i-Dance Festival (HK) 2019 Opening Activity: Open Dance and Improv Party, free to join the Open Improv & Contact Jam on 20 OCT, receive an exclusive gift. (All activities require registration in advance)
3rd Prize (Two):
Free to join any 6 sessions of Exploring Dance and Movement Workshops , one ticket of the programmes at KTT Black Box Dance & Improv series, invited to join the i-Dance Festival (HK) 2019 Opening Activity: Open Dance and Improv Party, free to join the Open Improv & Contact Jam on 20 OCT, receive an exclusive gift. (All activities require registration in advance)
Top Eight Battlers:
The top eight battlers will receive an exclusive gift and invited to join the i-Dance Festival (HK) 2019 Opening Activity: Open Dance and Improv Party, free to join one of the Exploring Dance and Movement Workshops and free to join the Open Improv & Contact Jam on 20 OCT. (All activities require registration in advance)
Top 16 Battlers:
The top 16 battlers will receive an exclusive gift and invited to join the i-Dance Festival (HK) 2019 Opening Activity: Open Dance and Improv Party. (All activities require registration in advance)
Open Improve & Contact Jam
20/10 (SUN) @14:00-17:00
MY D Lab
MY D Lab
Jam Fee: $150
Host: Chris Aiken & Agnes Hauser
i-Dance invites you to our Open Improve & Contact Jam ! Do come and move your body until you cannot breathe and stand!
Jam Target:
Open to all people that interested in improvisation and contact improve.
with LIVE music
Host: Chris Aiken & Agnes Hauser
i-Dance invites you to our Open Improve & Contact Jam ! Do come and move your body until you cannot breathe and stand!
Jam Target:
Open to all people that interested in improvisation and contact improve.
with LIVE music
Artist Face to Face
20/10 (SUN) @19:00 - 20:00
MY D Lab
MY D Lab
Host: Victor Choi- wo MA
Facing Artists: XIAO Zhiren (Guang Zhou, China), Chris AIKEN & Angie HAUSER (USA)
Artists from different countries and generations share and discuss their individual creations and insights about use of body, body aesthetics and how to embody the present with body.
Facing Artists: XIAO Zhiren (Guang Zhou, China), Chris AIKEN & Angie HAUSER (USA)
Artists from different countries and generations share and discuss their individual creations and insights about use of body, body aesthetics and how to embody the present with body.
Exploring Dance and Movement Workshops
14-19, 21-23/10 @19:00-22:00 and 20/10 @10:00-13:00
MY-D LAB /Theatre Y
MY-D LAB /Theatre Y
Except W13, fee as follow:
$380 /$300* for 3 Hours Single Session
$2070 /$1620* for 18 Hours any 6 Sessions
W13 #10:00-12:00 Fee including one adult + one kid
Early Bird (Effective Until 5/10)
Artists from different part of the world are joining i-Dance Festival (HK) 2019. They have been learning the philosophy of life through body and will share their experience and insights about dance, movement, theatre, performance and choreography. Participants can explore independent and unique movements of your own styles with the artists! The workshops are open to the public on a first come, first served basis.
$380 /$300* for 3 Hours Single Session
$2070 /$1620* for 18 Hours any 6 Sessions
W13 #10:00-12:00 Fee including one adult + one kid
Early Bird (Effective Until 5/10)
Artists from different part of the world are joining i-Dance Festival (HK) 2019. They have been learning the philosophy of life through body and will share their experience and insights about dance, movement, theatre, performance and choreography. Participants can explore independent and unique movements of your own styles with the artists! The workshops are open to the public on a first come, first served basis.
Workshops Details
W1 - OMTT 1: In Contact with Breath
14/10 (MON) @19:00-22:00
Venue A: MY D Lab
Instructors: Victor Choi-wo Ma
Organic Movement and Transformation Training (OMTT) is developed by Victor Choi-wo MA with the assistance by Mandy Ming-yin YIM. The system emphasises on listening, observing, development of physical strength and skills on creating body language. It also involve close contact and relationship between body, movement, dance and other medias. By combine and transform different medias and life experience into new body language and movement expression. Participants discover potential within themselves, redevelop and express themselves in the creative process. Victor and Mandy also encourage participants to stretch their range of expression and creativity then gradually perform or improvise around….!
Suitable for those who are interested in creativity, movement expression and performance
W2 - Somatics & Contact Improvisation
14/10 (MON) @19:00-22:00
Venue B: Theatre Y
Instructors:Mimi LO
How do we prepare our bodies for dance? Through Somatics practice, we perceive ourselves from within through sensation. By getting to know how different body parts work together and exploring our relationship with gravity, not only will our sensitivity be enhanced, a relaxed body with newfound coordination will also be found. When we understand our own habits or limitations, we can dance more consciously in a relaxed state, opening new potentials and using our bodies more efficiently for weight transfer, support and balance in our dance.
Suitable for those who are interested in Somatic practice and Contact Improvisation
W3 - OMTT 2: Dance with Smell, Taste and Touch
15/10 (TUE) @19:00-22:00
Venue A: MY D Lab
Instructors:Victor Choi-wo Ma
In this workshop,Victor will guide you to rediscover your smelling, tasting and touching sense. By rediscover these senses Victor will then guide you to develop body language, then move around and go into dance and improvise.
Suitable for those who are interested in creativity, movement expression and performance.
Venue A: MY D Lab
Instructors:Victor Choi-wo Ma
In this workshop,Victor will guide you to rediscover your smelling, tasting and touching sense. By rediscover these senses Victor will then guide you to develop body language, then move around and go into dance and improvise.
Suitable for those who are interested in creativity, movement expression and performance.
W4 - Have Fun in Improv
1510 (TUE) @19:00-22:00
Venue B: Theatre Y
Instructors: Jasper LAI
We could enter an improvisation through different ways and also to make things really different. Through this workshop Jasper will lead you how to enter an improvisation and he will also share with you how to make things interesting. Come and enjoy the fun and joy of improvisation.
Suitable for those who are interested in creativity, improvisation and performance.
W5 - OMTT 3: Watching Music Listening Dance
16/10 (WED) @19:00-22:00
Venue A: MY D Lab
Instructors: Victor Choi-wo Ma
To dance with music is very common but how could we dance with noise , silent or different kind of sound? In this workshop Victor will guide you to rediscover sound and music, then develop your own body language. Worksop will also leads us to visualise music and listen to dance and then improvise around.
Suitable for those who are interested in creativity, movement expression and performance.
Venue A: MY D Lab
Instructors: Victor Choi-wo Ma
To dance with music is very common but how could we dance with noise , silent or different kind of sound? In this workshop Victor will guide you to rediscover sound and music, then develop your own body language. Worksop will also leads us to visualise music and listen to dance and then improvise around.
Suitable for those who are interested in creativity, movement expression and performance.
W6 - Conteporary Dance
16/10 (WED) @19:00-22:00
Venue B: Theatre Y
Instructors: Mandy Ming-yin YIM
Mandy will guide the participants to raise their flexibility through stretching all parts of the body and also with systematic warm up exercise to strengthen our body control, coordination and rhythms senses. She then will introduce movement combination and dance excerpts in the workshop in order to train and improve the performance range of students with the sensitivity to time, space and energy.
Suitable for those who are interested in dance and performance.
W7 - OMTT 4: Dance with Visual and Space
17/10 (THU) @19:00-22:00
Venue A: MY D Lab
Instructors: Victor Choi-wo Ma
How could we transform visual and spatial sense into dance and movement? This is the theme of this worksop is to transfer drawing, painting、visual or special material into body language and then dance and improvise around.
Suitable for those who are interested in creativity, movement expression and performance.
Venue A: MY D Lab
Instructors: Victor Choi-wo Ma
How could we transform visual and spatial sense into dance and movement? This is the theme of this worksop is to transfer drawing, painting、visual or special material into body language and then dance and improvise around.
Suitable for those who are interested in creativity, movement expression and performance.
W8 - Anonymous Creatures
17/10 (THU) @19:00-22:00
Venue B: Theatre Y
Instructors: Christine He
The first part of this 3 hours workshop will be a thorough warm-up borrowing movements from Tai Chi, Yoga and Pilates. The second part of the workshop will be an improvisational exploration on "masks" and creating still as well as moving pictures with this and building different creatures together as a group.*
*For better visual effect, instructor request the participants to wear all black for this workshop
Suitable for those who are interested in creativity, movement expression and performance
Workshop will be conducted in English .
Venue B: Theatre Y
Instructors: Christine He
The first part of this 3 hours workshop will be a thorough warm-up borrowing movements from Tai Chi, Yoga and Pilates. The second part of the workshop will be an improvisational exploration on "masks" and creating still as well as moving pictures with this and building different creatures together as a group.*
*For better visual effect, instructor request the participants to wear all black for this workshop
Suitable for those who are interested in creativity, movement expression and performance
Workshop will be conducted in English .
W9 - OMTT 5: Dance with Writing and Text
18/10 (FRI) @19:00-22:00
Venue A: MY D Lab
Instructors: Victor Choi-wo Ma
Text is a very intellectual and high level training in human history development. We were taught to write and use text to express ourselves in the very early age. This workshop will guild us go back to a primitive body movement training and then gradually through the process of making sound, speaking, reading or writing of text and then transform the materials into dance and movement expression.
Suitable for those who are interested in creativity, movement expression and performance.
W10 - Contemporary Ballet
18/10 (FRI) @19:00-22:00
Venue B: Theatre Y
Instructors: Mandy Ming-yin YIM
Through combining classical ballet and contemporary dance training, the workshop will focuses on the use of the upper body and the training of the spine. It also brings in balance and off balance method from Ballet. The traditional five positions are abandoned with the emphasise on creativity of movement and developing new body languages instead of the shape of traditional Ballet. By merging vocabularies from contemporary dance and ballet to extend the students’ performance range.
Suitable for those who have completed at least one year of ballet training.
Venue B: Theatre Y
Instructors: Mandy Ming-yin YIM
Through combining classical ballet and contemporary dance training, the workshop will focuses on the use of the upper body and the training of the spine. It also brings in balance and off balance method from Ballet. The traditional five positions are abandoned with the emphasise on creativity of movement and developing new body languages instead of the shape of traditional Ballet. By merging vocabularies from contemporary dance and ballet to extend the students’ performance range.
Suitable for those who have completed at least one year of ballet training.
W11 - Individual or Non Individual
19/10 (SAT) @19:00-22:00
Venue A: MY D Lab
Instructors: Force FONG
Organic Movement and Transformation Training (OMTT) is developed by Victor Choi-wo MA with the assistance by Mandy Ming-yin YIM. The system emphasises on listening, observing, development of physical strength and skills on creating body language. It also involve close contact and relationship between body, movement, dance and other medias. By combine and transform different medias and life experience into new body language and movement expression. Participants discover potential within themselves, redevelop and express themselves in the creative process. Victor and Mandy also encourage participants to stretch their range of expression and creativity then gradually perform or improvise around….!
Suitable for those who are interested in thinking and imagination.
W12 - Zhiren Diversified Body Technique (I)
19/10 (SAT) @19:00-22:00
Venue B: Theatre Y
Instructors: XIAO Zhiren
How do we prepare our bodies for dance? Through Somatics practice, we perceive ourselves from within through sensation. By getting to know how different body parts work together and exploring our relationship with gravity, not only will our sensitivity be enhanced, a relaxed body with newfound coordination will also be found. When we understand our own habits or limitations, we can dance more consciously in a relaxed state, opening new potentials and using our bodies more efficiently for weight transfer, support and balance in our dance.
Suitable for those who are interested in creativity, movement expression and performance
Workshop will be conducted in Mandarin
Venue B: Theatre Y
Instructors: XIAO Zhiren
How do we prepare our bodies for dance? Through Somatics practice, we perceive ourselves from within through sensation. By getting to know how different body parts work together and exploring our relationship with gravity, not only will our sensitivity be enhanced, a relaxed body with newfound coordination will also be found. When we understand our own habits or limitations, we can dance more consciously in a relaxed state, opening new potentials and using our bodies more efficiently for weight transfer, support and balance in our dance.
Suitable for those who are interested in creativity, movement expression and performance
Workshop will be conducted in Mandarin
W13 - ContaKids into Contact Improvisation
20/10 (SUN) @10:00-12:00
Venue A: MY D Lab
Instructors: Mimi LO
In this workshop,Victor will guide you to rediscover your smelling, tasting and touching sense. By rediscover these senses Victor will then guide you to develop body language, then move around and go into dance and improvise.
What is ContaKids
Itay Yatuv, the founder of ContaKids, shared about ContaKids and Contact Improvisation
ContaKids Hong Kong
Suitable for: 2-6 years old kids and their parent.
Venue A: MY D Lab
Instructors: Mimi LO
In this workshop,Victor will guide you to rediscover your smelling, tasting and touching sense. By rediscover these senses Victor will then guide you to develop body language, then move around and go into dance and improvise.
What is ContaKids
Itay Yatuv, the founder of ContaKids, shared about ContaKids and Contact Improvisation
ContaKids Hong Kong
Suitable for: 2-6 years old kids and their parent.
W14 - Zhiren Diversified Body Technique (II)
20/10 (SUN) @10:00-12:00
Venue B: Theatre Y
Instructors: XIAO Zhiren
We could enter an improvisation through different ways and also to make things really different. Through this workshop Jasper will lead you how to enter an improvisation and he will also share with you how to make things interesting. Come and enjoy the fun and joy of improvisation.
Suitable for those who are interested in creativity, movement expression and performance.
Workshop will be conducted in Mandarin.
Venue B: Theatre Y
Instructors: XIAO Zhiren
We could enter an improvisation through different ways and also to make things really different. Through this workshop Jasper will lead you how to enter an improvisation and he will also share with you how to make things interesting. Come and enjoy the fun and joy of improvisation.
Suitable for those who are interested in creativity, movement expression and performance.
Workshop will be conducted in Mandarin.
W15 - The Unrepeatable Moment (I)
21/10 (MON) @19:00-22:00
Venue A: MY D Lab
Instructors: Chris AIKEN & Angie HAUSER
To dance with music is very common but how could we dance with noise , silent or different kind of sound? In this workshop Victor will guide you to rediscover sound and music, then develop your own body language. Worksop will also leads us to visualise music and listen to dance and then improvise around.
Suitable for those who ave some experience in dance and performance and are interested in movement, performance and improvisation.
W15, W17 and W19 all 3 worksop are in relevant to the others and the teaching materials will be accumulated. Participant are suggest to take all three workshops.
Workshop will be conducted in English.
Venue A: MY D Lab
Instructors: Chris AIKEN & Angie HAUSER
To dance with music is very common but how could we dance with noise , silent or different kind of sound? In this workshop Victor will guide you to rediscover sound and music, then develop your own body language. Worksop will also leads us to visualise music and listen to dance and then improvise around.
Suitable for those who ave some experience in dance and performance and are interested in movement, performance and improvisation.
W15, W17 and W19 all 3 worksop are in relevant to the others and the teaching materials will be accumulated. Participant are suggest to take all three workshops.
Workshop will be conducted in English.
W16 - Zhiren-Dance movement and improvisation (I)
21/10 (MON) @19:00-22:00
Venue B: Theatre Y
Instructors: XIAO Zhiren
Mandy will guide the participants to raise their flexibility through stretching all parts of the body and also with systematic warm up exercise to strengthen our body control, coordination and rhythms senses. She then will introduce movement combination and dance excerpts in the workshop in order to train and improve the performance range of students with the sensitivity to time, space and energy.
Suitable for those who are interested in movement, creativity and performance.
Workshop will be conducted in Mandarin.
Venue B: Theatre Y
Instructors: XIAO Zhiren
Mandy will guide the participants to raise their flexibility through stretching all parts of the body and also with systematic warm up exercise to strengthen our body control, coordination and rhythms senses. She then will introduce movement combination and dance excerpts in the workshop in order to train and improve the performance range of students with the sensitivity to time, space and energy.
Suitable for those who are interested in movement, creativity and performance.
Workshop will be conducted in Mandarin.
W17 - The Unrepeatable Moment (II)
22/10 (MON) @19:00-22:00
Venue A: MY D Lab
Instructors: Chris AIKEN & Angie HAUSER
How could we transform visual and spatial sense into dance and movement? This is the theme of this worksop is to transfer drawing, painting、visual or special material into body language and then dance and improvise around.
Suitable for those who ave some experience in dance and performance and are interested in movement, performance and improvisation.
W15, W17 and W19 all 3 worksop are in relevant to the others and the teaching materials will be accumulated. Participant are suggest to take all three workshops.
Workshop will be conducted in English.
Venue A: MY D Lab
Instructors: Chris AIKEN & Angie HAUSER
How could we transform visual and spatial sense into dance and movement? This is the theme of this worksop is to transfer drawing, painting、visual or special material into body language and then dance and improvise around.
Suitable for those who ave some experience in dance and performance and are interested in movement, performance and improvisation.
W15, W17 and W19 all 3 worksop are in relevant to the others and the teaching materials will be accumulated. Participant are suggest to take all three workshops.
Workshop will be conducted in English.
W18 - Zhiren-Dance movement and improvisation (II)
22/10 (MON) @19:00-22:00
Venue B: Theatre Y
Instructors: XIAO Zhiren
The first part of this 3 hours workshop will be a thorough warm-up borrowing movements from Tai Chi, Yoga and Pilates. The second part of the workshop will be an improvisational exploration on "masks" and creating still as well as moving pictures with this and building different creatures together as a group.*
*For better visual effect, instructor request the participants to wear all black for this workshop.
Suitable for those who are interested in movement, creativity and performance.
Workshop will be conducted in Mandarin.
Venue B: Theatre Y
Instructors: XIAO Zhiren
The first part of this 3 hours workshop will be a thorough warm-up borrowing movements from Tai Chi, Yoga and Pilates. The second part of the workshop will be an improvisational exploration on "masks" and creating still as well as moving pictures with this and building different creatures together as a group.*
*For better visual effect, instructor request the participants to wear all black for this workshop.
Suitable for those who are interested in movement, creativity and performance.
Workshop will be conducted in Mandarin.
W19 - The Unrepeatable Moment (III)
23/10 (MON) @19:00-22:00
Venue A: MY D Lab
Instructors: Chris AIKEN & Angie HAUSER
Text is a very intellectual and high level training in human history development. We were taught to write and use text to express ourselves in the very early age. This workshop will guild us go back to a primitive body movement training and then gradually through the process of making sound, speaking, reading or writing of text and then transform the materials into dance and movement expression.
Suitable for those who ave some experience in dance and performance and are interested in movement, performance and improvisation.
W15, W17 and W19 all 3 worksop are in relevant to the others and the teaching materials will be accumulated. Participant are suggest to take all three workshops.
Workshop will be conducted in English.
Venue A: MY D Lab
Instructors: Chris AIKEN & Angie HAUSER
Text is a very intellectual and high level training in human history development. We were taught to write and use text to express ourselves in the very early age. This workshop will guild us go back to a primitive body movement training and then gradually through the process of making sound, speaking, reading or writing of text and then transform the materials into dance and movement expression.
Suitable for those who ave some experience in dance and performance and are interested in movement, performance and improvisation.
W15, W17 and W19 all 3 worksop are in relevant to the others and the teaching materials will be accumulated. Participant are suggest to take all three workshops.
Workshop will be conducted in English.
W20 - In Between IN and Out
23/10 (MON) @19:00-22:00
Venue B: Theatre Y
Instructors: Alex CHEUNG
Through combining classical ballet and contemporary dance training, the workshop will focuses on the use of the upper body and the training of the spine. It also brings in balance and off balance method from Ballet. The traditional five positions are abandoned with the emphasise on creativity of movement and developing new body languages instead of the shape of traditional Ballet. By merging vocabularies from contemporary dance and ballet to extend the students’ performance range.
Suitable for those who are interested in movement, performance and theatre.
Venue B: Theatre Y
Instructors: Alex CHEUNG
Through combining classical ballet and contemporary dance training, the workshop will focuses on the use of the upper body and the training of the spine. It also brings in balance and off balance method from Ballet. The traditional five positions are abandoned with the emphasise on creativity of movement and developing new body languages instead of the shape of traditional Ballet. By merging vocabularies from contemporary dance and ballet to extend the students’ performance range.
Suitable for those who are interested in movement, performance and theatre.
Unless specified all workshops will be conducted in Cantonese, All workshops welcome aged 14 or above to apply (except W13)
Dance and Improv Research
21-23/10 (MON-WED) @13:00 - 17:00
MY D Lab
MY D Lab
3-Days Research Workshops Fee: $500
Local and overseas artists spend days on artistic exchange and exploring dance improvisation, senses, body, movement and the relationship between individuals and groups. Engaging in different art forms, participants will be able to broaden their horizons and inspire each other in discussions and interactions. The Research will conclude with an improvisatory theatre performance Improvisation Land 75 - i-Dance Improv Gala 2019 . The whole research proess will be documented in text, photos and videos for further reference in the future.
The Research Week welcomes dancers who have received relevant professional training or are recommended by dance professionals. Please contact Y-Space for registration.
Local and overseas artists spend days on artistic exchange and exploring dance improvisation, senses, body, movement and the relationship between individuals and groups. Engaging in different art forms, participants will be able to broaden their horizons and inspire each other in discussions and interactions. The Research will conclude with an improvisatory theatre performance Improvisation Land 75 - i-Dance Improv Gala 2019 . The whole research proess will be documented in text, photos and videos for further reference in the future.
The Research Week welcomes dancers who have received relevant professional training or are recommended by dance professionals. Please contact Y-Space for registration.
Black Box Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theatre Performance Series: Dance and Improv
Programme 1
Dance & Improv-Improvisation Land 73 ( Dance 1 & 2)
24/10 (THU) @ 20:00
Black Box Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theatre
Black Box Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theatre
Ticket Price: HK$220
(Please see URBTIX for discount)
A stage performance featuring two choreographed dance by artists from different regions. One of the dance works Human created by Mainland choreographer XIAO Zhiren, he travelled and preformed for more than 20 countries. His recent work awarded 2nd prize in the International Choreographic Competition Hannover 2018. This time he will bring us a new work Human. Another dance work is Transdance (excerpt) which will be perform by two experienced dance artists Victor Choi-wo Ma and Mandy Ming-yin Yim with live music by Edmund Leung. In this same evening together with other artists they will create Improvisation Land 73. All works will only perform once in i-Dance (HK) 2019, you simply can’t miss it!
Dance 1: Transdance (excerpt)
Choreographer and Performer: Victor Choi-wo MA, Mandy Ming-yin YIM
Live Music: Edmund LEUNG
Dance 2:《Human》
The work aims to explore communication between people, through remodelling the physical behaviours and different kind of expression of human to investigate into the meaning behind.
Choreographer and Performer: XIAO Zhiren
Improvisation Land 73
Since 1998, Y-Space created a platform named “Improvisation Land” for artists of different media to meet and have an improvisational jamming from time to time. Improvisation Land gathers artists around the world, and across the areas of dance, installation art, music, lighting design and visual art. Breaking away from the structured, rehearsed performance mode, these artists interact spontaneously; responding to new situations from moment to moment, digging deep to manifest their freshest creative impulse, choreograph instantly at the moment of the moment. Being unpredictable could be risky, but could also bring surprise and delight. Improvisation Land had already created more then 70 series with more then 90 performances since 1988.
Dance: Victor Choi-wo MA, Mandy Ming-yin YIM, XIAO Zhiren, Tracy WONG, Force FONG, Christine He
Live Music: Edmund LEUNG, Paul YIP, Hakgwai
Video Artists: Terry WU, KOO siu hang
(Please see URBTIX for discount)
A stage performance featuring two choreographed dance by artists from different regions. One of the dance works Human created by Mainland choreographer XIAO Zhiren, he travelled and preformed for more than 20 countries. His recent work awarded 2nd prize in the International Choreographic Competition Hannover 2018. This time he will bring us a new work Human. Another dance work is Transdance (excerpt) which will be perform by two experienced dance artists Victor Choi-wo Ma and Mandy Ming-yin Yim with live music by Edmund Leung. In this same evening together with other artists they will create Improvisation Land 73. All works will only perform once in i-Dance (HK) 2019, you simply can’t miss it!
Dance 1: Transdance (excerpt)
Choreographer and Performer: Victor Choi-wo MA, Mandy Ming-yin YIM
Live Music: Edmund LEUNG
Dance 2:《Human》
The work aims to explore communication between people, through remodelling the physical behaviours and different kind of expression of human to investigate into the meaning behind.
Choreographer and Performer: XIAO Zhiren
Improvisation Land 73
Since 1998, Y-Space created a platform named “Improvisation Land” for artists of different media to meet and have an improvisational jamming from time to time. Improvisation Land gathers artists around the world, and across the areas of dance, installation art, music, lighting design and visual art. Breaking away from the structured, rehearsed performance mode, these artists interact spontaneously; responding to new situations from moment to moment, digging deep to manifest their freshest creative impulse, choreograph instantly at the moment of the moment. Being unpredictable could be risky, but could also bring surprise and delight. Improvisation Land had already created more then 70 series with more then 90 performances since 1988.
Dance: Victor Choi-wo MA, Mandy Ming-yin YIM, XIAO Zhiren, Tracy WONG, Force FONG, Christine He
Live Music: Edmund LEUNG, Paul YIP, Hakgwai
Video Artists: Terry WU, KOO siu hang