[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]This was an attempt to create a work with the simplest means. With minimal crew and resources, the work pushed the limits of the theatre space, and so stretched the limits of creativity, to find what is “in” the possible from the impossible. Abandoning the theatre’s technical support led...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Y-Space was one of the first organizations chosen by the Provisional Regional Council as a Cultural Ambassador, and the Dance & Drum project brought site-specific dance to the public. Against the perception of modern dance being obscure and remote, Y-Space aimed to broaden participation in dance and to cultivate more...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Starting in 1998, Y-Space has initiated a series of jamming sessions named Improvisation Land. It provides a platform for diverse artists to meet in an improvisatory, cross-disciplinary manner, allowing chance encounters to stir up imagination and inspiration. So far, 27 series of Improvisation Land with 39 performances have been created,...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Dream City was a multimedia work created collaboratively by Mandy Yim, Victor Ma, and well known Hong Kong artists Lam Man-Yee (composer) and Tang Shu Wing (theatre director), all finding themselves in New York. It conveyed the impact made on the four artists by experiences of New York and Hong...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Victor Ma and Mandy Yim received the Lee Hysan Foundation Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council to conduct research on dance and theatre in New York, USA. The Manipulation of D.N.A. – Metamorphosis under the skin arose from meeting and collaborating with Chinese-Japanese artist Wang Xin Ping. It was performed...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Evolving from the primal life of the soil in Unconscious I to the city, humans stepped into the material world of fame, money, power and conflict. But they all returned to the soil. In that one last moment, it was as if they had gained nothing in this...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Spirits rose from the dust of the fields and entered the concrete jungle of the fast encroaching city. Here, they searched for remnants of love for the land, some sense of belonging. Amidst the crowds of rushing, colliding city dwellers, they discovered that everyone is searching, and everyone is...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]A primal force in the soil had been asleep, suddenly awakened before 1997. With tremendous effort it climbed to its feet, surveyed its surroundings, and found the place unfamiliar. Fighting and hatred pervaded, it was no longer peaceful. This land, which had been home for billions of years, must...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]In 1995, while in Florence, Italy, Victor and Mandy overheard a couple next door embroiled in an altercation – all in Cantonese. What could induce this honeymooning couple to fight like this? Will the conflict in an enclosed space accentuate the contradictions in...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]None of Your Business was Y-Space’s inaugural production in 1995, and was revived in 2005 and 2013. It was a dance theatre production that also featured installation and video art. It explored the sense of unease in Hong Kong city life, specifically the mood of loneliness and feeling lost as...