Hong Kong Dance Company Presents VIPASSANA
By: BWW News Desk Jul. 12, 2017
Forget the banality of everyday life and allow any feelings to arise within you, with mindful acceptance. Immerse your senses in the realm of nothingness, elevated by the sounds of the singing bowls and live improvised music. Vipassana is presented by HKDC Artistic Director Yang Yuntao, renowned scenographer Tsang Man-tung and award-winning composer Law Wing-fai. Join us in a soul-cleansing ritual.
Striking an intricate balance between movement and stillness - liberate your mind, welcome to your spiritual awakening.
The Hong Kong Dance Company is presenting Vipassana at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Studio Theatre from 8 to 10 September 2017.
Vipassana: Take a journey with your five senses
The Hong Kong Dance Company is collaborating with four local artists to craft a holistic experience for its audiences. Partnering with local aromachologist, wenxiangji, a unique fragrance featuring sandalwood is made to evoke inner calmness and mindfulness. The Company will present three weekend workshops with artist Tsang Man-tung, also a Himalayan Singing Bowl musician, who combines art, music and meditation to achieve conscious awareness. The series will feature a meditative ceramics workshop, a coffee tasting event and a unique sound journey.
Programme Information
Mindful Theatre Vipassana
Date & Time
8-10 September 2017 (Fri - Sun) 7:45pm
9-10 September 2017 (Sat - Sun) 3:00pm
Venue
Hong Kong Cultural Centre Studio Theatre
Tickets
$260, $200
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Creative Team
Directors
Yang Yuntao Tsang Man-tung Law Wing-fai
Live Music
Wuji Ensemble
Set and Costume Designer
Tsang Man-tung
Actor
Alex Cheung
Digital Image Designer
Dan Fong
Lighting Designer
Zoe Cheung
Yang Yuntao
Winner of two Hong Kong Dance Awards in 2003 and 2006 for his outstanding dance performance, and awarded Best Artist (Dance) at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2009, Yang Yuntao is an accomplished dancer and choreographer. He joined the Hong Kong Dance Company (HKDC) in 2002 as Principal Dancer. He was the company's Assistant Artistic Director from 2007 and has been its Artistic Director since November 2013. He has choreographed for various dance companies. His award-winning choreography for Hong Kong Dance Company includes: Spring Ritual·Eulogy, winner of Outstanding Achievement in Production at the Hong Kong Dance Awards 2013 and presented in Beijing and Taipei in 2013; The Legend of Mulan, winner of Outstanding Production and Outstanding Ensemble Performance at the 2014 Hong Kong Dance Awards and presented in New York and Sydney in 2015, and in London in 2017; Storm Clouds, winner of three awards including Outstanding Achievement in Production at the 2015 Hong Kong Dance Awards; and L'Amour Immortel, winner of three awards at the 2016 Hong Kong Dance Awards (presented in Beijing and Guangzhou in July 2017). His other works for the Hong Kong Dance Company include The Butterfly Lovers (presented in Seoul in 2016), Border Town, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Voices and Dances of the Distant Land, Blanc in Reveries of the Red Chamber and Chinese Hero: A Lone Exile.
Tsang Man-tung
A graduate of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a Bachelor's (Honours) Degree, Tsang Man-tung was a special research fellow at the Yale School of Drama in 2010/11. Renowned for his conceptual and minimalist style, his ritual theatre works include The Heart Sutra and Luz de Silencio.
Tsang has received numerous awards, including Best Set Design, Best Costume Design and Best Make-up and Image Design at the Hong Kong Drama Awards; and Award for Young Artist (2003) and Award for Best Artist (Theatre) (2007/08) at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards. In 2009, he received an honourable mention for Set Design at the World Stage Design and a Huang He Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council. Tsang was a three-time winner at the Hong Kong Dance Award for Outstanding Set Design for Dance (2012, 2016 & 2017). In addition, he was among the awardees in the "Secretary for Home Affairs' Commendation Scheme" in 2015 for his contribution to the development of arts and culture.
In 2011 and 2015, Tsang was invited to hold his unique workshops-White Paper Workshop and ScenoZen-at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. He presented the Disjunctive-coding exhibition in 2002 and published his first book on Hong Kong Contemporary Stage design entitled Scenography: Transcend to the Beyond in 2007. He is also the author of Let's grow up, a book on theatre education. Tsang is presently an examiner (Drama) of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and a panel member of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department Performing Arts Committee.
An accomplished musician, Tsang is an expert on meditation through Himalayan singing bowls, having performed many times around the world.
Law Wing-fai
A leading composer in Hong Kong and one of the few to have crossed over the boundary between commercial music and the arts. Law is currently a Composer-in-Residence at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and Artistic Director of Wuji Ensemble. He graduated from the University of California with a Master's degree in Music (Composition and Electronic Music). He worked closely with Hong Kong's New Wave directors in films during the 1980's, having scored for more than 20 films including the award-winning Boat People, Dream Lovers and A Simple Life. He was the founding Head of Composition of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, a position which he subsequently held for many years. During the 1990's, he was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University where he gave lectures and wrote music. On returning to Hong Kong, he found a new angle in music composition, which resulted in many important works using Chinese-Western mixed instrumentation, the most representative of which are When Mountains Roar and Linli. He also founded Wuji Ensemble, a group that is known for its unique character. In May 2008, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra presented a critically acclaimed concert featuring Law's works.
With a diverse oeuvre spanning serious and commercial music, Law has written for pop music, commercials, drama, opera and in particular, for over a dozen dance dramas such as Song of the Good Earth and Rouge. His long list of accolades include the Irino Memorial Award presented at the Asian Composers' League, the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Original Score, "Composer of the Year" by the Hong Kong Artists' Guild, and being selected as one of the "Twentieth Century Masterpieces by Chinese Composers" by the Chinese Culture Promotion Society in Beijing. Law's score for the drama production The Peach Blossom Fan was awarded "Best Original Music" by the Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies. Law was also a five-time winner of the CASH Golden Sail Music Award between 2001 and 2008, with his opera Dreaming Plum Blossoms Away, Flowing Fancies for pipa and Western orchestra, Feng Liu for Chinese plucked strings, A Thousand Sweeps for pipa and Chinese orchestra, and Flowing Phantasm for Chinese Orchestra.
Vipassana: Take a journey with your five senses
Meditative ceramics workshop
Presented by TOKI NASHIKI
Date: 6 August 2017 (Sunday) 12pm and 2:30pm
Capacity: 15 pax
Singing Bowl sound journey
Presented by Tsang Man-tung
Date: 11 August 2017 (Friday) 8pm-10pm
Capacity: 80 pax
Mindful coffee tasting workshop
Presented by Brew Note Coffee Roaster & Tsang Man-tung
Date: 25 August 2017 (Friday) 8pm-9:30pm
Capacity: 25 pax
*Please refer to our website for more details
Hong Kong Dance Company
"Dancing across East and West, Moving to the Tempo of Hong Kong"
Mission Statement
We are nurtured in the cultural tradition of China, combining with the creativity of contemporary art, to impress the world with Chinese dance of Hong Kong character.
History
Established in 1981 with the aim of promoting Chinese dance, the Hong Kong Dance Company was incorporated in 2001 as a charitable and non-profit-making institution, and is financially supported by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Since its inception, the Hong Kong Dance Company has staged over 100 productions, many of which were highly popular with critical acclaim. Recent productions include Qingming Riverside, Snow Fox, Two Swallows - Ode to Wu Guanzhong, Spring Ritual×Eulogy, Pop Classics: Joseph Koo's Dance Melodies 2013, The Legend of Mulan, The Butterfly Lovers, Storm Clouds, L'Amour Immortel, Reveries of the Red Chamber, Chinese Hero: A Lone Exile and Kaleidoscope of Dance from Yunnan.
The Company has toured internationally as well as around Mainland China as a way to encourage cultural exchange. The Company was invited to perform at the "Meet in Beijing 2008" Arts Festival to celebrate the Beijing Olympics, and took part in the opening ceremony of the East Asian Games in 2009. In 2010, the Company participated in "The Ninth China Art Festival" in Guangzhou and the World Expo in Shanghai. In January 2013, the Hong Kong Dance Company presented Qingming Riverside at The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Spring Ritual×Eulogy was presented at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing in September 2013, and the Novel Hall for Performing Arts in Taipei in December 2013 as part of Hong Kong Week 2013. The Butterfly Lovers was showcased at the Korea Dance Festival in April 2016. The Legend of Mulan was presented at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York in March 2015 and in Sydney in September 2015. The show made its premiere at the Southbank Centre in London in April 2017, and at Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center and Guangzhou Opera House in July.
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