Maestro choreographer Helen LAI looks back on her works from the 90’s onwards at i-Dance Festival 2016. Excerpts from her now-classic works, includingHerStory, Plaza X, Invisible Cities and In the Beginning…etc, will be performed by renowned dance artists. The works of Helen Lai in the post-90’s are must-watch for those born post-90’s, and are simply irresistible for anyone born pre-90’s.

A number of local and overseas dance and new media artists will come together in “i-Dance Lab”, a new i-Dance Festival initiative, to explore the performance potential when dance and new media collide. On two evenings, in four newly created works, dance and new media artists of diversified training background tell their stories of existence in a new dance language.

PROGRAMME 3
MORPHING OF PHI
Phi Φ is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet, a special number approximately equal to 1.618. It is also known as the Golden Section which is always applied in art, math and science.
Morphing of Phi is a combination of dance and technology, an addiction to and struggle about aesthetics from the choreography of Phi.

PROGRAMME 4
DANCE CLINIC MOBILE
Introducing the first prototype of Artificial Intelligent Machine for choreographic processes designed by dance doctor Choy Ka Fai. This Lecture Demonstration proposed the concept of a dance clinic to explore the choreographic symptoms of contemporary dance.

GIVE YOU 10:
To showcase your recent dance creation.
*i-Dance(HK)2016 is recruiting newbies to knock socks off at Kwai Tsing Theatre!
Dancers and choreographers will be allowed 10 minutes to show us the cream of their works. They will also learn more through exchanging views with their fellow artists. Producers and artistic directors will be among the audience. Do come and blow them away with your dance! You may become the next star on the stage!

A number of local and overseas dance and new media artists will come together in “i-Dance Lab”, a new i-Dance Festival initiative, to explore the performance potential when dance and new media collide. On two evenings, in four newly created works, dance and new media artists of diversified training background tell their stories of existence in a new dance language.

PROGRAMME 1
IN.VISIBLE (CITIES)
City, memory, desire, symbols, names, death, sky…..departing from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, between the visible and invisible walls and gaps, the body saunters the virtual cities and writes Marco Polo’s travel journal with programming language.

PROGRAMME 2
ENLIGHTEN
Light and shadows have been regarded the natural partners of dance. Technological advancement triggers more possibilities than ever. Yet, in this new work of ours, we are looking to retrieve the beauty and joy we had before.

Through days of exchange and research in Dance, Multi-media & Improvisation Research Week of i-Dance(HK)2016, artists from all over the world explore the relationships between movements, own senses, and individuals while participating in exploration, improvisation, workshops and discussions. Participants engaged in different art forms will broaden their horizons of arts and inspire each other. The Research Week will be documented in text, photos and videos as well as archived as research materials.

The Research Week is open to professional artists for participation. Interested parties please contact Y-Space to register. The public can be part of the Research Week through real-time online broadcast on i-Dance(HK)2016 and Y-Space Facebook pages. Instant comments are most welcome! There will be a daily research presentation during the final half hour of the day and it will also be viewable live online.

Improvisation Land 66 – RE … closes the Research Week with a performance, the last chance for all participants to interact and communicate.

Local, Mainland and overseas dance artists present to you an evening of traditional and contemporary dance of China, France, Laos and Hong Kong. Three soloists of distinct training background share the stage with three unique pieces of dance. Also showing on this evening is Improvisation Land 65. The powerful collaboration of the performing international artists is going to be beyond description, and is strictly one evening only!

Dance Internship
An electric current is injected into the dancer’s nerves, initiating a new and unfamiliar perspective on harmony, logic, patterns, rhythm, time and space. After this unusual catalyst, the day-to-day routine soon confuses the dancer. Worse, the dancer now has to face inner demons, who eagerly wait for a chance to integrate within the dancer.

CIRCLE
CIRCLE is an experimental work of the Lao-French dancer and choreographer Olé Khamchanla.
Drawing on its journey woven by the hip-hop, capoeira, contemporary, Butho and traditional Laos and Thailand classical dances, Olé questioned the essence of his dance, creating a singular vocabulary fed by urban dance and the ever changing and frozen postures of ancestral dances.

didi & gogo
While waiting for didigogo, Didi said “didi” to Gogo and Gogo said “gogo” to Didi. And then, Didi and Gogo continued their wait for didigogo.

Improvisation Land 65
The powerful collaboration of the performing international artists is going to be beyond description, and is strictly one evening only!

Don’t miss that one-and-only gay evening!

Love transcends gender and national delineation. Shakespeare passed away 400 years ago. If Romeo is born today, would he look at love differently The he and he who come together for his love for dance is looking forward to light love up in your presence. An one-and-only gay evening that is not to be missed!

PLANET ROMEO
Through the online portal, planetromeo.com, I went on 40 dates in 60 days. During the encounters, I ask each one for a gift in response to our relationship. In exchange, I invite my gay romeos back to the performance where I return my gift in the form of a dance.
“You are going to be my bitch.”
Looking me in the eyes, he smiled lightly and said in a thick accent,
“You understand You are going to be my bitch.”

The performance is conceived and organised by the internationally-acclaimed dance artist Pichet Klunchun. Pichet has won many awards and has performed in dance festivals around the world. The evening’s programme will include his solo piece “ ”, followed by Tam Kai (Hunting the Chicken), an structured-improvisation directed by Pichet. There will only be one concert with limited seating for “ ” and Tam Kai. Make sure you don’t miss it!

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Pichet Klunchun’s latest work “ ” as he said “It is the solo piece that I do not know how to name it. It doesn’t mean that it has no name. I just cannot find proper name for it.” So do come and watch “ ” if you want to find out more about “ ”……

TAM KAI (HUNTING THE CHICKEN)
Tam Kai (Hunting the Chicken) is a new dance performance that asks dancers to respond to the virtuoso Kraw Nai Tang Tawada piece played by the renowned ranad ek (alto xylophone) master, Boonyoung Katkong.
Kraw Nai Tang Tawada is typically done as a solo ranad ek performance, allowing a master to show his skill, experience, intelligence, and creativity. Here, the music serves to challenge participants, demanding their creative responses to the music’s powerful and fast-paced rhythms. The movements spontaneously reflect both an ephemeral and an eternal “present” that arises from each of use as each of participant directly respond to the mighty musical energy in a unique way.

16:30
I-DANCE(HK)2016 OPENING CEREMONY
Special guest performance:
“The thug”
A dialogue between two selves.
Choreographer: Una HE (HK)

17:00 – 18:00
COCKTAIL PARTY
Special performance:
“PopUp Tearoom”
Yumi Umiumare (Japan/Australia)
Would you like a bowl of tea一服いかがですか？
The PopUp Tearoom Series is a durational performance and site-specific installation. Audiences are invited to sit and have a bowl of green tea and the pop-up performances will be happening in the various time.
Traditionally, tea-ceremony rooms had a small door which visitors bowed to enter, dropping the hierarchies of the world outside. In times of war, Medieval Samurai had to leave their swords outside as the tearoom provided relief from the emotional stress and social disorder of the battlefield. Curious about what sort of ‘Tea’ we can make today, Umiumare invokes the Japanese notion of ‘ma’ or ‘active pause’ to explore deep presence in spaces that can be simultaneously reflective and provocative.
One of the central moral values of tea is: 一期一会 (ichi-go ichi-e), which means, “Treasure every encounter, for it will never recur” “Live every day as though it were last”
The Pop-Up Tearoom series that has been experimented in Japan, Germany, Czech Republic, Malaysia, Philippines, Festival of Live Arts in Melbourne and most recently in Los Palos in Timor-Leste. You can enter, encounter, enjoy, and embrace something unknown at the tearoom where you can get lost in the TEA space!

The one-and-only gala gathering of the stars of dance!

Tens of local and overseas dance artists come together for the opening of i-Dance(HK)2016. Please come to join an evening glittering with the dancing and celebrating stars!