Two distinct matters, shaped by lives across cultures. This double bill turns to the essentials that define us — the body and the mind — as Chen Wukang from Taiwan and Bruce Wong, now journeying in the UK, each reveal their subtle tension in overlap and shift. As we hurry from place to place, what remains when we finally stop is often the most difficult to ignore: the body’s stored memories and weight, and the mind’s ceaseless drift between clarity and unrest.
Two Matters
Restory
Choreography: CHEN Wu-kang
Dramaturgy: TANG Fu Kuen
Nowhere to Land
Choreography: Bruce WONG
Set and Lighting Design: Lawmanray
Costume Design: Cheryl CHING
Sound Design: LEUNG Po-wing#
Rehearsal Mistress: Shirley LOK
#With support and kind permission of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
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
Restory
Taking “rest” as its pivot, Restory re‑maps the coordinates between body and history.
Bypassing sentimental embellishment, it looks directly at the body in its raw state:
the wrestling of limbs, the drift of movement, the layering and shifting of weight.
Drawing on classic Cantopop songs as its starting point, familiar tones seep into the body and awaken deeply buried collective memories.
Between each breath, traces of movement and stillness come into view.
Choreography: CHEN Wu-kang
Nowhere to Land
A lucid struggle unfolds between order and imbalance.
There is no point of landing – only a continual cycle of collapse and re‑formation.
Thoughts, ceaselessly arising and vanishing, drift and heave in mid‑air.
Formless, imageless, colourless – and yet, always in flux.
In the midst of extreme chaos, how do we find proof that clarity still exists?
Choreography: Bruce Wong
Rehearsal Photo
Photos by MAK Cheong Wai and Carmen SO