Sheung Wan Civic Center Lecture Hall 1st of June 2018 8:15 pm
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aN eV am ProGR OPENING SCENE Evelin Keller An invitation to stage your choreographic idea, dance performance Learn The Nelken-Line. platform. The platform here is not a place of arrival or a place to stand still. Ein Projekt Von Pina Bausch Foundation It’s the arena where we share the work we have been composing and the ideas that will keep us continuously moving. It’s an invitation to share WAYSON POON an itinerary more than the destination. Get Changed 7 Artists are invited to join An Evening of Motion Works 2018. Choreographer & Performer: Wayson Poon The curating process aims to nurture creativity, curiosity, and identity, * This piece contain little nudity inviting artists who are currently through their practice of exploring the subjects matter. There is a natural frame that takes place when we look into their practice, which can be a rehearsal video posted online or JOHN UTANS attending their class. This person and their artistic character will add to Simple Inquiry the project more than the piece that they will present on that evening. Music excerpt: Aguas de Marco, Tom Jobim The artists work independently and at their own peace. We set up some sharing sessions to discuss the ongoing process and the format for WILLIAM YANG WEI ZHU presenting it, focusing on the technical necessities more than the concept itself. The artists have total autonomy on their work. Choreography: Touch Music: Alan Morse Davies This almost natural curating selection is also possible by a small circle of artists who would step into a self-funding, low budget, non-profit event… SARAH XIAO & SYLVIE COX with enthusiasm. And this is vital to make it possible for the platform They don’t care about us to happen and I believe is one way for many artists involved to nurture Choreographer: Sarah Xiao creativity and curiosity and to keep our dance work and practice alive. Assisted by Sylvie Cox For the artists, thank you for your courage and talent. Dancer: Sarah Xiao/Sylvie Cox
Lest keep spinning the wheel of art making in crucial times we live in. EVELIN KELLER And for you the audience, thanks for coming, for your support and curiosity. IBachianas Music: Heitor Villa Lobos; Be our guest! As Bachianas Brasileiras.
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Hong Kong contemporary choreographer and dance artist Wayson Poon has worked Senior Lecture (Contemporary Dance) at Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in Europe and Asia as a choreographer, performer, researcher and educator. Due to A simple inquiry. the impacts of various cultures, his works have combined oriental spirit and western methodology, deciphered the essence of body from different aspects, studied the Making art is about asking questions & making decisions. My pieces, in the language of dance from several levels and brought out the harmonious chord in the nurturing time before one single step is taken or an arm lifted, always begin with vibration of many elements. He has dedicated himself to exploration of the meaning a question. What would happen if…? Is it possible to…? If…? The questions lead to in his works and a variety of solo dance pieces in the context of contemporary making decisions about the questions & the questions lead to making decisions. dance. Notable works include Behind 3.0, Untitled and Fleeing by Night. His works Is this the direction or a distraction? When does it…? Why does it…? What do I have appeared in a number of different areas and HKAF publications and tours. keep? What do I lose? Here we have the question; & another decision needs to be Recent works include Embody/body and in.visible (cities), which received premieres answered & questioned. at the Chongqing YINZI YYDR young director arts residency programme and at the John has created work for & performed in independent projects (throughout i-Dance Festival (Hong Kong) respectively. Australia & Hong Kong), for ballet companies (in Perth, Brisbane, Milwaukee & Poon has led workshops in his body of research across the world, including at Hong Kong), for contemporary dance companies (in Melbourne, Salt Lake City ILDance Dance Company (Sweden), Bath Spa University (UK), Asia Dance Project (Korea), & Adelaide), for Tertiary dance institutions (in Queensland, Victoria, Adelaide, Melbourne Festival (Australia), Chengdu Yuan-shu Contemporary Dance Space Singapore & Hong Kong) & has created & presented video-installations (in (China) and with Jiangsu provincial song and dance ensemble (China). Recently, he Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne & Bundaberg). received the 2016 Hong Kong Arts Development Award for a Young Artist. Ao Sy VIE COx RAH XI Sa
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Sylvie began dancing as young as 3 years old. Sarah started her dance training at the age of six at an art primary school in She received extensive training in classical ballet during her time in Hong Kong at Hunan, China. In 2010 she moved to Hong Kong to study contemporary dance HKAPA before she finished her professional dance training in the UK at Tring Park at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In 2014 Sarah was awarded the School for the Performing Arts, where she specialized in contemporary dance. Her best female performer from the school and was on a full scholarship to attend pursuit in contemporary dance brought her to Israel where she danced works by the dance excellence training program in Vienna. In 2015 she attended a summer reknown choreographers such as Rami Be’er and Ohad Naharin. Since then she study at Spellbound Contemporary Ballet Company. After graduation, Sarah has attended workshops and intensives held by many other prominent contemporary been actively involved in a number of collaborations with artists, both visual and dance choreographers and companies such as, Hofesh Shechter, Batsheva Dance musical. As a dancer/choreographer, She stands out as an open-minded, sensitive, Company, Roberto Olivian, Ultima Vez, Chunky Move, Netherlands Dance theater to improvising and unconventional person, her open approach to the production of name a few. Aside from working as a freelance professional dancer in both artistic performance changes through time. Recently She has worked with artists Manuel and commercial projects here in Hong Kong, she is also a contemporary and ballet Pelmus(Romania), Alvin Tran(America), Scarlet Yu(Hong Kong). dance instructor for both adults and young children. Her solo works include She, ?, Free Now. ler lin KEL eVE
Evelin’s dance path started at Ballet Rosana Abubakir (Cuban Method) later graduating from University Federal da Bahia in Brazil, with a major in Dance Education. Evelin completed a Masters Degree in Fine Arts at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2011. wi Evelin’s solo piece called SONAR, a choreographic work in collaboration with LLIam musicians and video artists for stage and screen has been presented: Danca YA Brasil, Rio de Janeiro. Brazil, 2000 - Almada Dance Festival, Portugal, 200 1 - ng Wei Dance on Screen The Place. London, 2003 - Hong Kong Dance Festival. Hong ZH Kong, 2006 - Sommerwerft 2016, Frankfurt 2016. u In HK Evelin founded MotiveforMotion. The company focusses on process- oriented performance-based projects and promotes dance classes, workshops, and performances for children youth and adults. Tonight’s piece is an allusive tribute to one of the most inspiring artists that have influenced my dance journey over time. The Nekel Line is a classic masterpiece by Pina Bausch. It’s a piece that I practice in my class routine with the children, a piece that I taught and dance I was born in Wuzhen, Zhejiang, located in the Mainland China. with family and friends. Because it is beautiful, it is a common language, it is I graduated from Shenyang Conservatory of Music. My major was simple yet precious. It reminds me of what Dance is about (for me). Contemporary Dance. I used to be a basketball player. Now I’m a Rosana Abubakir choreograph As Bachianas, a ballet piece for Bachianas MFA student at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Brasileiras from Heitor Villa Lobos, a Brazilian composer, described as the single I major in choreography. most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music. Last semester for choreographic research I investigated contact We perform the Bachianas carrying fake candles on our hands. improvisation and participated in many workshops. The work Looking at this idea I created I Bachianas exploring the effects of a smartphone I presented was in the form of a solo dance. During the process light to show and shade movements. Dancing to a classic music, memories of I worked with a yoga ball, made contact with the mirror and the a time that will stay forever in my body and mind, holding a smartphone that walls of the studio. I used the ground as my partner to contact him, I hope will not stay in my hands more than necessary. making use of some elements of contact improvisation. Tea M thanks TO
EVELIN KELLER Irene Kam Curator & Producer Babi Minamoto [email protected] Renato Lins ZOOEY LEE Sati Matharu Lighting Designer [email protected] Tom Brown
RENATO LINS Cathy Lau Graphic Designer Wendy Chu [email protected] Paulette Cote FERNANDA MAROCCO Aline Ruzzon Image Adviser [email protected] Fernanda Marocco Joyce Taufer JOYCE TAUFER Image & Visual Consultant Ana Paula Simione [email protected] Monica Hall WKCD CCDC Hong Kong Dance Alliance Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
And John Utans for his talent and energy, who brought light to the process and make it happen!