Season Programme

Programme of the 54th Hong Kong Arts Festival: INterstices

Discover the pulsating INterstices—an odyssey of contemporary dance full of tension and release

Premiering at the East Kowloon Cultural Centre—The Hall, City Contemporary Dance Company 2025–2026 Season’s culminating production INterstices, created by Artistic Director Sang Jijia, explores the hidden spaces of our hyper-dense metropolis. Combining high-voltage physicality with multimedia stagecraft, the work distils the restless pulse of urban life into a compelling exploration of body, space and psyche.

In a world where towers close in and rhythms accelerate without pause, INterstices deconstructs spatial density to discover fleeting moments of stillness. Physical expansion and release combine with rhythms that hasten and relent, creating a buffer zone where contemporary minds can find room for reflection and repose.

Choreography: Sang Jijia
Dramaturgy: Melissa LEUNG
Music: Dickson Dee
Set and Lighting Design: Lawmanray
Video Design: Oliver SHING
Costume Design: Silvio CHAN
Sound Design: LEUNG Po-wing*
Rehearsal Mistress: Shirley LOK

Performance:
AN Tzu-huan
CHEN Dai-wen
CHEN Jia-wen
Jon Henri FERRER
GAO Sheng-ting
Suyi HON
HUANG Teng-seng
JIANG Xu-ling
Stephanie LI
SHUM Pui-yung
Alliah Xandra TORTE
YANG Yu
Skye YAO

*With support and kind permission of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

Graphic Design: Pengguin
Sang Jijia’s Portrait: Tung

A programme of the 54th Hong Kong Arts Festival (2026)

 

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Stage Photo

Photos by Ray CHEUNG, MAK Cheong Wai, Carmen SO

Stage Highlight Video

Video by La Vene Studio

Audience Feedback

“I love how the dancers perform through all these narrow slits and moving backdrops. On top of the fluidity which I adore, I also love the high energy and power by the performers. I felt there is an element of combat and battle as if I am watching street dance”

“Spaces between, moments swell.
Breath, Wander, Dwell”

“Sang Jijia’s creation demonstrates a rare audacity, venturing beyond the conventions of mainstream linear narrative. Here, the body does not “argue” or “tell stories”; there are no associative dramatic plots, no familiar arcs, no music that shifts endlessly to guide emotion. Instead, the work returns to the body itself — a pure investigation of physical form. Sang reveals a particular gift for unlocking the dancer’s energy and tensile strength. Through sheer corporeal presence, he propels force upward, filling even the two-story expanse of the East Kowloon Cultural Centre.”

(English translation of the original Chinese text)

“The group dance passages are particularly striking. One dancer initiates a movement, and the others follow in sequence; suddenly another shifts the gesture, spreading again like an epidemic. This replication and transfer reveal the wave-like beauty of bodily rhythm, while simultaneously reflecting the technological age of data duplication and algorithmic iteration. The collective imitation of more than ten dancers gradually engulfs individual creativity, forming a social metaphor in which group norms absorb personal free will.”

(English translation of the original Chinese text)

Media Coverage
28.2.2026 (Sat)
8pm
1.3.2026 (Sun)
3pm
6.3.2026 (Fri)
8pm
7.3.2026 (Sat)
3pm
The Hall, East Kowloon Cultural Centre