[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Through this series, Y-Space aims to explore alternative spaces for performance: in and outdoors, theatre foyer, backstage, staircases, street corners ...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Through this series, Y-Space aims to explore alternative spaces for performance: in and outdoors, theatre foyer, backstage, staircases, street corners ...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]The makeshift stage is a familiar Hong Kong tradition: during festivals, Cantonese opera is performed alongside rituals and celebrations. These bamboo scaffoldings were transformed through this project into a site for the meeting of tradition and modern art. Through a series of site-specific theatre and dance performances, happenings, workshops, parades and...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]In its 13th year, Y-Space received its first invitation by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department’s Cultural Presentations Section to create a stage work. Air and Breath II was created on this occasion.Martial arts like Tai Chi Chuan and Qigong connect breath to spirit and to life …...
[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]The Story of Island and Boat – Hong Kong was conceived in 2003, when SARS and the economic downturn weighed on people’s minds. This dance theatre piece recalled the history of Hong Kong, evoking the collective memories of different generations. The narrated stories and danced images revealed the Hong Kong...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]This work explored the concept of “landscape” in contemporary Hong Kong. The Pound Lane area around Tai Ping Shan Street in Sheung Wan is a typical Hong Kong landscape of steep streets and stairways. This was the site for a gathering of independent artists in Hong Kong, working in...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]In 2000, while others celebrated the millennium, Victor and Mandy’s homestead in Kam Tin, New Territories was torn down, the land reclaimed by the government. The next day, without a home, they performed Dance “In” Possible II – Dark Corner, followed by performances in Norway. While there, the Oktoberdans festival...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Breaking boundaries, crossing currents, mixing cultures. An invitation from Zimbabwe led to a work specifically created for the Charter House in Harare. Local actors, dancers and musicians worked together with Y-Space for a two-week rehearsal period and six performances.Chop Suey is a Chinese stir fry mixing different ingredients in one...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]To help celebrate the Cultural Centre’s 10th anniversary, Y-Space created a site-specific performance based on the Centre’s unique architectural characteristics, its historical background and the city life so distinctive to the site. Three groups of performers, in costumes both modern and historically inspired, traversed the Cultural Centre and its piazza, water...