Archive

[vc_row 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" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="22px"][vc_column_text]Solo & Improv: HK x KR Dance Junctions Jockey Club Black Box Theatre, Jockey Club Creative Arts CentreDance, Multi-media & Improvisation Research Week 20 & 22 / 9  2-6pm 21 / 9 9am-1pm, 2-6pmDance starts within body. Art originates from...

[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]Y-Space: 20 years of perpetual motion Life is a marathon – you can only continue forward and learn to smile in between breaths…On & On & Turn Turn TurnOn & On & Turn Turn Turn is a dance theatre...

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Through this series, Y-Space aims to explore alternative spaces for performance. Most performances had been created site-specifically, and Y-Space oversaw the organizational needs to realize the visions imagined by the choreographers.Site-Specific DanceThe body’s movements can reveal the relationships between humans and their environment, architecture and other installations in their spaces....

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]For Y-Space’s 15th anniversary, Artistic Director Victor Ma invited Jacek Luminski to collaborate on RE/evolution. Luminski is the Artistic Director of Silesian Dance Theatre (SDT), Poland’s first contemporary dance company. The roots of this collaboration was formed during Y-Space’s performances and exchange in Poland in 2008. RE/evolution had its world...

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]In November 2009, Mandy Yim choreographed and performed a new solo, Cycle, for the i-Dance Festival of Solo and Improv. In December it was invited to the Crossing: OCAT Contemporary Dance Festival at Shenzhen’s OCT Contemporary Art Terminal.Life is of diverse journeys, Nature is of continuous cycles, a journey...

[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]This work followed on from Dance “In” Possible IV – Victor Ma’s Dance Exhibition I, during which Victor Ma enclosed himself in the Y-Space dance studio, and his daily living was streamed live on the internet as a month-long performance. Victor Ma’s Dance...

[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]Body I.D. Space I, II & IIIFrom Y-Space’s base in a factory in Kwai Fong, to the Art Zone in the Dashanzi industrial area in Beijing, and then to the OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT) in Shenzhen. Bodies, Spaces and Identities …...

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]At the invitation from Interface 2004 Arts Festival, Y-Space created a new work, Four Corners, using collaboration and devising as method. The “four” in the title refers to the four collaborating artists and performers: Victor Ma, Mandy Yim and two dancers from India, Priyadarshini Ghosh Shome and Raka Maitra.The work...

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Because of studies in the UK, Victor Ma and Mandy Yim lived continents apart in 2002-3. This work was created when Victor returned to Hong Kong after his studies. The work was invited to Interface 2004 in Kolkata, India, and Beyond Butoh 04, at the Fringe Festival in Melbourne, Australia....

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Y-Space was invited to perform Air and Breath I for the “Wishful Thinking Project” at the 10th Tanzwoche festival. Two other works were created in Dresden: Fragile, presented in a public space, and Meeting at the Wunshdenken Night Club.Fragile Site-Specific PerformanceIn Public Space Dresden was heavily bombed during World War...