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Duration : 13 mins
Choreography : Chien-Chih Chang
Performance : Yu-Hung Wang、Siang-Fu Zeng
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Family Honour examines the eponymous concept through the eyes of a young girl trapped
in moral codes mandated by her immediate environment, confronting her past ‘sin’
against tradition. Abandoned by her father, she seeks solace from memories resembling
her father. Inspired by an intense discussion held in Kwame’s own family, the performance
draws the audience into a world where hip hop isn’t just rubbing shoulders with theatre,
but is theatre. How far would you have to go to maintain the family’s honor, and is it truly
honorable or just another traditional taboo.
Duration : 15 mins
Choreography : Kwame Asafo-Adjei
Performance : Catrina Nisbett、Stefano A. Addae
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Subdued is about a man, or rather his body, who has the biggest struggles with the smallest of tasks. The surrounding objects subdue him and play with his mind which forces his body to express these excess feelings.
He has troubles understanding what his body is doing and the more he tries to control it, the less he has an impact on it. This also translates towards the audience, who witnesses a transformative body which takes on unnatural shapes.
Something as trivial as opening a bottle of water can be taunting when your body doesn't do what your mind commands it.
Some may talk in silence. Others move in stillness.
My body moves and uses words my mouth has never learned,
to say things that my mind can't comprehend.
I might be subdued, but not my body.
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Have you investigated that human's personality were programmed, by nature or nurture or programmed by AI system?
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‘Bitter, like old gas, skittered guidance transmits, material documentation, defiance, refusal to admit, compliance, no answer.’
Duration : 10 mins
Choreography : Phoebe Jewitt
Performance : Jorge Garcia Perez、Mathew Stephen Prichard
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Intrigued by the word ‘hunch’, which in english defines both an idea that is based on feeling for which there is no proof, and a large lump on a person's back, the choreographer imagines and composes this poem following his own hunches.
The script is the starting point and the main source of inspiration from which the movement, dynamics and aesthetics of the duet arise.
The two performers Mathilde Gilhet and Olivia Blanch are called to represent their own hunches and those of the other, creating meeting and at times clashing points.
What is left, besides the joyful metaphor about life, is the viewer’s hunch.