HerStory•Beijing Tour

Date: 4-5 March 2010 7:30pm

Venue: Multi-functional Theatre, National Centre for Performing Arts

Ticket price: RMB380, 280, 180

 
Nüshu, literally "female writing", is one of the most interesting and least known writing system in the world. While traditional Chinese culture is male-centred and forbids girls from any kind of formal education, peasant women in Jiangyong county of Hunan province invented and developed this written language over hundred of years. Inspired by the alluringly embroidered Nüshu missives, as well as the shimmering prose of two contemporary Hong Kong female writers, Xi Xi and Wong Bik-wan, Helen Lai, renowned choreographer of Hong Kong, tells HerStory in another, altogether different, vocabulary. Three languages are at play here: ancient Nüshu, modern womanhood, both infused and interpreted by Lai in an excursion between the secret and overt, between text and non-text, all through the perceptive artistry of CCDC dancers.

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Tales of Two Cities•2010 Shanghai World Expo Programme

Date: 25 June 2010 7:30pm

Venue: Shanghai Grand Theatre Drama Theatre

Ticket price: RMB480, 220, 150, 80, 40

Hailed as "a choreographer's choreographer" by Lin Hwai-min, Helen Lai is critically acclaimed for her emotionally charged dance theatre. Her new work Tales of Two Cities tells the stories of the two most dynamic cities in China - Shanghai and Hong Kong - through the life and works of Eileen Chang, the most gifted Chinese writer to emerge in the 1940s.


Through the eyes of Eileen Chang in her twilight years, Lai re-constructs Chang's life and times with intriguing flashbacks of her golden days and the characters she created in her masterpieces. Presented and performed by CCDC, Tales of Two Cities is specially commissioned for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.

A HKSAR Programme for Expo 2010 Shanghai

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