REW ⏪ Jumping Frames ⏩ FF
Dance is like a kaleidoscope to show audience various possibilitites and different faces of arts, it could be anywhere and about any topics. Thanks to technology, arts is now more accessible and always nearby.
At the time we are all waiting for the return of live performances, CCDC’s brand new online programme REW ◀◀ Jumping Frames ▶▶ FF is bringing a series of commissioned works from previous “Jumping Frames” to audiences to enjoy at home. A weekly “Dialogue” will line up artists of the screening works online to share about their past creative works in Jumping Frames, don’t miss it and action to join now.
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01.04.2022（Fri） |
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08.04.2022 （Fri） |
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15.04.2022 （Fri） |
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22.04.2022 （Fri） |
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There Is A Place
Director: Katrina MCPHERSON | Choreographer: Sang Jijia
UK / CN | 2010 | 7’
Sang Jijia, a Tibetan dancer-choreographer based in China, travelled to the Highlands of Scotland to make this 7-minute dance film with screendance artists Katrina McPherson and Simon Files. Combining exquisite movement and stunning landscape with skillful camerawork and editing, the film takes the viewer into Sang’s world of pure dance. There is a Place is the exciting outcome of the first collaboration between CCDC and Dance House and Goat Media in Scotland. It won the 2011 Jury Prize for Best Screendance Short in the San Francisco Dance Film Festival.
Jumping Frames Commissioned Work 2010
Supported by: Dance House National Dance Agency, Creative Scotland, Goat, BRITISH COUNCIL, China-UK Connections through culture
Lucy
Director/Choreographer: Er Gao
China | 2014 | 15′
The first dance film by avant-garde independent Chinese dance artist and choreographer, He Ergao, focuses on the exploration of gender, identity and sexuality through images, history and literature. Started out as a 15-minute stage piece which was later developed into a full-length dance performance, He now presents the same concept through the visual language of film. The homo erectus fossil Lucy was discovered in 1974 in Northern Ethiopia, believed to be around 3.2 million years old. It was named as “Lucy” after the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”. Shot in Suhe and Lashihai in the scenic Lijiang, the harmony of nature and ancient civilisation dominates the work.
Betwixt and Between
Director / Choreographer: TSAI Yun-ting
TW | 2012 | 8’
In choreographing a dialogue between dance and architecture, lawanese choreographer, dancer and director Tsal Yun-ting captures a moment in life where things are undecided, neither here nor there, which is close to the anarchic essence of lite. Moving within a concrete structure while not directly confronting physical or psychological limitations, the resulting uncertainty gives rise to an experience lying somewhere between the virtual and reality. Isai, selected as one of the Arising Artist Awards of New Taipei City in 2011, was commissioned by Jumping Frames to create this work after having won the One-minute Jumping Frames Dance Video Competition 2011.
Jumping Frames Commissioned Work 2012
Less Similar
Director: Alan WONG | Choreographers: Alan WONG / Ivy TSUI
HK | 2012 | 15’
Beijing’s Kubrick bookshop is brand new, contemporary and spacious – standing in stark contrast to the intricately complicated Chinese texts of eras gone by. Up-and-coming director / choreographer Alan Wong joins with Ivy I sui to guide their dancers through the sea of books, in search of a new identity.
Supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Jumping Frames Commissioned Work 2012
The Smiling Tiger
Director: Aaron Khek Ah Hock/ Gavin Yap |Choreographer: Wong Thien Pau Ix
SG | 2016 | 7’
The old neighbourhood stranger, the eccentric local hairdresser, the hard-nosed career woman…different walks of life converging at a cross road where the old guard from a forgotten world meets the polite nods and politically correct smiles of a newly constructed sanitised world.
Welcome to the grand dance of ‘The Smiling Tiger’ – An ancient tribe of shape-shifting and time-bending guardians, tasked with maintaining the natural order of our world in these strange and uncertain times.
Jumping Frames Commissioned Work 2016
The Final Frontier
Director / Choreographer: Bruce WONG
HK | 2010 | 2’
The idea is simple and joyous. Led by Bach’s rhythmic Prelude in D Minor, the dancer plays with the single and multiple images of a hand and a leg’s dance movement. Coupled with the creative use of digital editing, the audience is naturally drawn into a mood of swing and dance.
Jumping Frames Commissioned Work 2010
Body Watch
Directors: ZiV Chun, Frankie Ho | Choreographer: Frankie Ho
HK | 2015 | 16’
Choreographer Frankie Ho and Director Ziv Chun play on the misunderstanding between men and women with dance images. Are you looking at me? Am I looking at you? Are we looking at each other with temptation? Is there any difference between the images that I want you to see and those in your eyes? We are like a coin, which always has two sides – I think you’re so great, and you think I’m great – hoping to get the answer in misunderstanding when looking at each other. One table and two chairs are placed in infinite darkness where illusions of sex and emotions are turned upside down. Nevertheless, the world is there, it can’t not be there.
Oh! Million Fist!
Director / Choreographer: Hugh CHO
HK | 2017 | 7′
Dance and martial arts share the same origin. Having practised martial arts for years, a long term practitioner of martial arts, dancer Hugh Cho collaborates with fight director Master Yuen Fai to develop a choreography based on fight scenarios. Playing with camera angles and speed of movement, Cho and Yuen merge dance with action movie and its shooting technique to create a new kind of screendance.
Jumping Frames Commissioned Work 2017, Screening Short Film Market of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Market 2018, Screening Sea World Culture & Arts Centre Shenzhen 2018, 26 IFF Art Film Festival (2018) Košice, Slovakia, 46th Dance On Camera Festival (Film Society of Lincoln Center), San Francisco Dance Film Festival 2018
Turn Off_Turn On
Director: Shing Lee | Choreographer : Joseph Lee
HK | 2018 | 13′
Korean & Esperanto | Chinese & English subtitles
This is a game Shing Lee played with the dancer who is his brother, Joseph Lee: “Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.” A quote from East Coker, Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot who inspired the creation of this film.
Jumping Frames Commissioned Work 2018
Selection in Seyr Festival 2019 (Tehran)
Wanderer
Co-directors: CHEN Yan-hong /PENG Hsiao-yin@Dancecology
Choreographer : PENG Hsiao-yin@Dancecology
TW | 2018 | 13′
She roams the market. She expands with the city’s desire to consume. She wants more. She searches and searches but finds not what she wants. Until she meets a mysterious creature. They find a connection, a tension, a relationship. They create a magical realist space full of symbolisms. They make an urban fable that belongs to Taiwan.
Jumping Frames Commissioned Work 2018
How to Identify Indecent Dance?
Director: ZHANG Xiao-zhou| Choreographer: Er Gao
CN | 2018 | 7′
This video work is developed from Disco-Teca, a disco theatre work by Ergao Dance Production. In those historical images of de-sexualization and de-sexification, head-shaking with chests, hip-twisting, hug and touch in disco is a dance of desire no doubt, without capability to control and restrain such temptation in the bottom of human nature. Wherever shining with flash or dimly dark, disco is the most down-to-earth music, dance, social life and living style, as well as love and hate between political economy, social relations and sexual passions among those worldly shackles.
Hence Indecent Dance is about politics, epoch, society and individuals. Also it is human, romantic, sexy and queer.
Jumping Frames Commissioned Work 2018
Two Lonely Paths
Director: CHIU Chih-hua | Choreographers: HUANG Yu-fen / WANG Hsiu-hsan
TW | 2018 | 15′
Mandarin | Chinese & English subtitles
A competition to find the next star. Which contestant would outshine all others? For two whose youth is slipping away, they clash, sparks fly, and their pasts emerge. As a great future approaches, is the strength of luck enough to take one through, or is perseverance the only way to attract the smile of talent? As a dance in development, are the two dancers like a lone star by the moon, understanding through each other’s glow, or must one dim when the other shines? Through the body’s intuition, through thoughts that are born from movement after stillness, coexistence comes to be.
Jumping Frames Commissioned Work 2018, Short Film Corner, Festival de Cannes 2019
Over here?
Director/Scriptwriter/Choreographers：Zelia Tan
Hong Kong | 2020 | 10′
In a city, people are flowing ceaselessly, like a river. She wants to speak… but she can’t find the right words. Mask, no, it can be touched. It can be worn on everyone’s face. Crossing the flyovers, drifting around the corners of the world, she and he step into a rapidly changing dream. They wait at the airport, watching the surge of time and space. Can a spoon catch all the tears? It stays on the spine and reflects light. The harmonica is played again and again. Waves reach the coast in slow motion.
What is ‘Flow’? What is ‘Moving’?
A Cup of Tea
Director: Maurice LAl | Choreographer: Yuri NG
HK | 2004 | 9’
One night, “Brothers four” suddenly find themselves working in a local tea house. Entering the scene is a pretty blonde girl who quickly become their object of attraction…
Jumping Frames Commissioned Work 2004
Colour Trilogy
Director: Maurice LAl | Choreographer: ONG Yong Lock
HK | 2006 | 16’
Playing with the three popular colors in Hong kong – red, white, blue, the work is a mersmerizing journey that reflects different stages of life.
Jumping Frames Commissioned Work 2006
Rite of City - Reminisce
Director: Maurice LAl | Choreographers: Scarlett YU, LINI-Pin
HK / Tainan, TW | 2012 | 14′
If paper umbrellas can be elevated from everyday usage items to works of art, so can heritage buildings. With a paper umbrella, a song and the streets of the City of Tainan, director Maurice Lai makes us reflect on urban development. In the course of four centuries, Tainan was subjected to multicultural influences. For the past 20 years, it has been at the crossroad of the transition from old to new in its urban development. How much of the ancient capital should be preserved? How much should be demolished for the sake of development? The film looks back and examines past values. By choosing the filming locations from an architectural and humanistic point of view, Tainan architect Tsai Chiang Kuo Chi enriches the work with greater depth and affection. This film is selected in Short Film Corner of Cannes Film Festival 2013.
Jumping Frames Commissioned Work 2012, Screenings Rennes and Paris Ciné-Corps 2018, Screening Sea World Culture & Arts Centre Shenzhen 2018
Rite of City Il - Present
Director: Maurice LAl | Choreographer: Noel PONG
HK | 2016 | 15′
Winner of the 2015 Hong Kong Dance Awards, director Maurice La returns with the second episode of his dance film trilogy. The Rite of City Il –
Present chose its urban locations from an architectural and humanistic perspective and features CCDC choreographer Noel Pong, dancer Jennifer Mok as well as members of Florence’s Opus Ballet, against a musical backdrop performed by cellist David Wong. The Rite of City – Reminisce was warmly received at its premiere in 2012 and was selected to screen at Udine Far East Film Festival, Rome Asiatica Modiale, Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner, and Taipei Hong Kong Week screen dance section.
Jumping Frames Commissioned Work 2016
In the Wild
Director: Rita HUI | Choreographers: Frankie HO / Abby CHAN
HK | 2017 | 73′ Cantonese | Chinese & English subtitles
Frolicking on the streets in Central. Finding the lips that are longing for kisses. Seeing the glimmer of rebellion in an never-ending tunnel. Shouting hoarse for passion that never returns at the top of Pitt Street. We can’t help but dance. We have to tread on the edge. Be wild. Move our bodies. Revive our senses to life. Push against the absurdity of everyday. Independent film director Rita Hui creates In the Wild with dancer Frankie Ho, Abby Chan and songwriter Hin-yan Wong. Walking down street after street, performer Siuyea Lo uses his body to respond to Hong Kong’s rapid changes and to raise question the now through dance and music.
Jumping Frames Commissioned Work 2017, Selection in Out on Film Festival 2018 at the Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance
Selection in South Taiwan Film Festival 2018
About Jumping Frames
Jumping Frames – Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival, presented by the City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) since 2004 is the only festival of its kind in Asia, committed to promoting the intersections between performance making and moving image, cine-choreographic interventions and the body.
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