New Artistic Director Sang Jijia Choreographs Season Opener Mr Blank 2.0 An Interdisciplinary Variation on Fragmentation, Identity, and Truth
[vc_row enable_arrows_animation="no"][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row enable_arrows_animation="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]（Hong Kong，14 April 2025） City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) has unveiled its programme for the 2025/26 season, with newly appointed Artistic Director Sang Jijia leading the creative vision both on stage and behind the scenes. Building on CCDC’s rich legacy, Sang ushers in a new era of expansive and diverse dance landscapes. Under the season theme Impetus, CCDC launches the Exquisite Brilliance series, connecting with international choreographers, and introduces a new rhythm of “local × global” through revamped editions of the City Contemporary Dance Festival and Jumping Frames – Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival. The season begins with Sang’s new creation Mr Blank 2.0, which reinvents the iconic figure through a new visual language and cast, prompting reflection on our hyper-digitalised world. Mr Blank 2.0 will premiere at the Auditorium, Kwai Tsing Theatre, from 2 to 4 May 2025. Tickets are now available at URBTIX. From Character to Choreography: Piecing Together a Personal Truth Back in 2018, Sang Jijia was inspired by novelist Paul Auster’s character Mr. Blank, creating the original Mr. Blank, a work that invited audiences to observe dancers from above as they grappled with fragmented memories in a quest to protect a vanishing self. The work was restaged in 2020 amidst pandemic-induced uncertainties, and in 2021, it was reimagined as a dance-on-film project. Now, with Mr Blank 2.0, Sang repositions the character in a sealed chamber—an environment shaped by the omnipresence of big data and surveillance. Within this enclosed space, Mr. Blank is both an observer and the observed. Combining choreography with performative texts, music and video, the piece meditates once again on the act of piecing together and reclaiming a personal reality in a hyper-connected world. A Sealed Stage with Hidden Cameras Mr Blank 2.0 is set inside an enclosed chamber-like stage. Three sides of the stage are solid walls,