Complexities of humanity to be explored through dance, film and lasers at Hong Kong’s New Vision Arts Festival 2023
- Choreographer and composer Hofesh Shechter’s two-part contemporary dance show, Double Murder, delves into the violent and vulnerable sides of the human psyche
- The multimedia production The Once and Future, featuring work by filmmaker Yeo Siew Hua, reflects on the impacts of climate change and what it means to be human
In the lens of the media, it looks as if humanity is undergoing an existential crisis. Reports of violence take up headlines every day, while TV shows and movies often depict cruelty in disturbing detail.
Meanwhile, the issue of climate change is raising alarm worldwide, bringing on doomsday predictions about our planet becoming uninhabitable.
The upcoming New Vision Arts Festival – an annual performing arts event in Hong Kong organised by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department – will showcase two cutting-edge productions that reflect on humanity as well as the complex issues of violence as entertainment and the current climate crisis.
Double bill of emotional dance
Double Murder, a contemporary dance production by London’s Hofesh Shechter Company, examines the intricacies of the human psyche. The show, which will be the festival’s opening programme on October 20 and 21 at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, is staged in two contrasting parts that delve into humanity’s painful truths and deepest emotions.
The first part of the double bill, titled Clowns, questions society’s seeming indifference to violence, with dancers depicting a killing spree in a display of choreographed anarchy. The second part, The Fix, provides a tender antidote to that murderous energy by presenting a gentle exploration of human interactions.
