Production Details / Press Releases
It is a piece about Hong Kong that uses dance, poetry, language, and projection to portray the vibrant and dynamic spirit of the metropolis from Asia.
Through a dancing body of a Hong Konger, the piece explores the intersection of tradition and modernity, revealing the personal and collective dreams and triumphs that define Hong Kong. It is an investigation of how movement can reveal the embodiment of the spectacularity of a cultural landscape.
It starts from Score A. It ends in Score O.
It starts from Score O. It ends in 26092024.
It starts actually before 2024.
It starts from 1966.
It starts from 2019.
It starts from an intention. It ends in a coincidence.
It starts from a description. It ends with a fantasy.
It starts from a folk dance. It ends with an improvisation.
It starts from a memory. It ends with a smile.
Come watch & welcome to Hong Kong~
Suet Wa Tam is a Hong Kong artist currently based in Berlin. She uses performance, dance, poetry, and video to work on her artistic interests in memory, archives, scores and the relationship between language and dance. Meanwhile, the immigration situation provokes her to find different strategies to address and narrate the politics of the body.
[Source: uferstudios.com]
TFB Nr. 1926
Cast & Credits
Concept, choreographer and performer: Suet Wa Tam
Media artist: Jiawen Wang
Sound artist: Eagle Wu
Thank you my mentors in accompanying the journey in different stages: Scarlet Yu, Jee-Ae Lim, Jule Flierl, Wen Hui
Thank you Frauke Havemann, Phillip Gehmacher and MAP12 peers
Thank you my friends for keep in dialogue with me in this artistic life journey : Cary Shiu, Frieda Luk, Jiawen Wang, Sophia Obermeyer
Special thanks to the following artists for inspirations in particular in relationship of language, performance and score: Alice Chauchat, Antonia Beahr, Chloe Chignell, Ingrid Berger Myhre, Mette Edvardsen, Yoko Ono
Uferstudios
Video Documentation
The video documentation is produced on behalf of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. The purpose of this contract is to document productions in the field of contemporary dance in Berlin. The master recordings are archived by the University Library of the Berlin University of Arts. Copies of the recordings on DVD are available for viewing exclusively in the reference collections of the following archives (at media desks in these institutions):
University Library of the Berlin University of Arts
Mediathek für Tanz und Theater des Internationalen Theaterinstituts / Mime Centrum Berlin
Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT)