| Academy Dance: of night and other things ... |
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Presenter:
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts |
Artistic Director: Zhang Xiaomei, Wu Kam- ming, John Utans, Lin Wen-chung, Joseph Mazilier |
Production / Performing Unit:
Academy Dance Ensemble |
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| Date |
2009/11/20-21 |
| Venue |
Academy Lyric Theatre |
| Ticket Price |
110,75 (Adults) ; 95,65 (Society Life and Executive members); 50(Full-time students, senior citizens over 65 or people with disabilities) |
| Synopsis |
Performed by the Academy Dance Ensemble In Harmony Zhang Xiaomei Nirvana Wu Kam-ming Night Falls Fast John Utans Evil Boy Lin Wen-chung Excerpts from Paquita Joseph Mazilier This November season will see another exciting mix of work from the School of Dance, a mix which demonstrates the importance we place on repertory that challenges and extends the performance capabilities of our young dance artists. And while the programme is eclectic, the five works are linked by a common - if perhaps rather subtle - thread, crystallized in the yin/yang harmonic opposites: the balance between the contemporary and the traditional; the east and west; the past and present. From the Beijing Dance Academy, guest artist Zhang Xiaomei has recreated In Harmony, a work which gives contemporary voice to traditional Korean Dance. It also gives voice to other kinds of 'harmonic opposites' in its play between the group and the individual, the line and the circle, the ebb and flow of the omnipresent qi. In somewhat similar vein, Academy graduate Wu Kam-ming's point of departure for Nirvana is the age-old story of the firebird phoenix: the eternal cycle of life and death and the striving of the human spirit. A new creation, the work is a beautiful combination of the strength and grace that characterises male Chinese Classical Dance. Faculty member John Utans will set his dynamic Night Falls Fast on the students from the Ballet stream. Created on the Milwaukee Ballet in 2005, the work will be one of three that the School will take to the Monaco Dance Forum in April next year. Performed to the first movement of Tchaikovsky's virtuosic Violin Concerto Opus 35, Evil Boy is the first part of a trilogy of the same name by award-winning Taiwanese choreographer Lin Wen-chung (and set on the Contemporary Dance students by newly appointed Contemporary Dance Artist-in-Residence Wang Ruping). And while the focus of the programme is on contemporary choreography, there is also a glimpse of the past with the performance of excerpts from the gorgeously showy Paquita, choreographed by Joseph Mazilier in 1846, reworked by Marius Petipa in 1881 - and given fresh life for this season by Head of Ballet, Graeme Collins. |
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