‘Dance On’ Series: Water Lilies by Ivy Tsui

20.10.2017 (Fri) With post-performance meet-the-artist session

If you can see the whole world in a flower, can you pass a whole life within one dream?

‘Life has always seemed to me like a plant lives on its rhizome.  Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome.  The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer.  Then it withers away – an ephemeral apparition.  When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity.  Yet, I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux.  What we see is the blossom, which passes.  The rhizome remains.’ – C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections 

Following the enquiry into the relationship between life and time in Dehydrated Flower, Ivy Tsui is using day-time flowering water lilies as the introduction, the human body as the media and voices as the navigator.  She repeatedly enters dreams that may be yours, mine or his.  As we experience the moments of blooming water lily welcoming sunlight, are we in fact wandering between a ‘dream’ and ‘reality’?

Audience will be seated on the floor and is requested to take off their shoes before entering the performance area. Please dress casually and wear socks. Wearing pajamas are also welcome. 

Audience will need to wear a headphone during the performance. Programme conducted in Cantonese. 

Audience is strongly advised to arrive punctually.  No latecomers will be admitted.  
 

Programme Length

Running time of each performance is about 50 minutes without intermission.

Ivy Tsui is an independent choreographer and dancer born in the 1980s. She started her training in dance at the age of six. She graduated from the School of Dance of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2009 and is the winner of the Award for Young Artist (Dance), the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2015 presented by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

She is skillful in choreographing and creating site-specific dance. She seeks inspiration from the environment. She breaks the limitations of the distance with the audience, walks close to them and shares the moment. Tsui is also highly sensitive towards the nature and enjoys using flowers as her themes. Some of her works include: Dehydrated Flowers, Morning Glory, and Frangipani. Her style is reputed as poetic, simple and strong. She concisely applies layered metaphors to inquire about the existence of the human body.

Apart from solo creations, Tsui also welcomes different forms of sharing, collaboration and studies.

Choreographer and dancer: Ivy Tsui

Dancers: Blue Ka Wing, Emily Ng

Rehearsal Assistant: Carman Li

Lighting Designer: Kwok Pui Yan

Composer and Sound Designer: Lego Shum

Producer: Raymond Wan

Deputy Producer: Carrol Ho@KALOS Productions HK

Production Manager: Eva Chau

Stage and Deputy Stage Manager: Ng Lap Pun

‘Dance On’ Series: Water Lilies by Ivy Tsui

DATE

VENUE

PRICE

20.10.2017 (Fri) - 21.10.2017 (Sat)
20:00

21.10.2017 (Sat) - 22.10.2017 (Sun)
15:00

Black Box Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theatre

$160

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DATE

20.10.2017 (Fri) - 21.10.2017 (Sat)
20:00

21.10.2017 (Sat) - 22.10.2017 (Sun)
15:00

VENUE

Black Box Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theatre

PRICE

$160

BUY NOW

Tickets available from 8 September onwards at all URBTIX outlets, on Internet, by Mobile Ticketing App and Credit Card Telephone Booking.

Discount Schemes

Half-price tickets available for senior citizens aged 60 and above, people with disabilities and the minder, full-time students and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients.  (Limited tickets for CSSA recipients available on a first-come-first-served basis).

Group Booking Discount

10% off for each purchase of 4-9 standard tickets; 15% off for 10-19 standard tickets; 20% off for 20 or more standard tickets.

Patrons can enjoy only one of the above discount offers for each purchase.  Please inform the box office staff at the time of purchase.

Ticketing Enquiries: 3761 6661

Credit Card Telephone Booking: 2111 5999

Internet Booking: www.urbtix.hk

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Programme Enquiries: 2268 7323

Ticketing Enquiries: 3761 6661

Mobile Ticketing App: URBTIX, App Store, Google play

Credit Card Telephone Booking: 2111 5999

Internet Booking: www.urbtix.hk

Audience is strongly advised to arrive punctually.  No latecomers will be admitted.  

The presenter reserves the right to change the programme and substitute artists.

The programme does not represent the views of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. 

The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) has presented ‘New Force in Motion Series’ since 2009, in order to provide an opportunity to local emerging choreographers to introduce their works to the public.  In 2015, LCSD launched the ‘Dance On Series’ to provide the choreographers a continual platform from the ‘New Force in Motion Series’ to present their dance works.