[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]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]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][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]New Dance Platform is a free, independent and autonomous platform for dance creations. Its long-term aim is the discovering and nurturing of more upcoming innovative choreographers, and providing a space for creating and presenting work. From vision to presentation, New Dance Platform allows aspiring choreographers to share their works with the...
[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][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]A multimedia modern dance performance created at the invitation from the LCSD (International Arts Carnival 2007), combined with live music, songs, text and video. It toured for 30 performances at 26 schools, with a message of environmental awareness.Angel Emily was fascinated by a series of beautiful photos of Earth...
[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...