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Unlock Dancing Plaza

A promising contemporary dance company founded in 2002 with Ong Yong-lock as Artistic Director and Joseph Lee as Associate Artistic Director.

Committed to pursuing innovative breakthroughs and theatrical liberation, embodied in and practised through its productions. Unlock is a three-time Hong Kong Dance Awards recipient and highly recognised by peers in the dance industry.

Curating cross-media, cross-regional, and experimental projects, Unlock Body Lab is developed in recent years to discover and show the possibilities of dance in various forms. #DANCELESS includes a series of public participatory creative works, performances and workshops as its primary artistic practice. It promotes and deepens the diversified imagination of dance while facilitating mutual exchange between artists and the public through experiencing dance together.

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#danceless –Bodyon Stage

#danceless–Body on Stage breaks the barrierfor the public todance. After just two workshops, public participants can perform with professional dancers together on stage, enjoying the purest joy of moving their bodies, releasing their internal stress and emotions.

This programme contains three short works: bolero, Footprint and Sound. The first two are public participation works, and the third is a performance by Unlock artists and thelive audience. #danceless series has toured more than 26 times since 2015.

Work

A France x Hong Kong production -Simon Says

The simple premise combines two childhood games: Simon says and the electronic parlour game Simon with its four coloured buttons where players have to recreate sequences associating sounds and colours. Both games involve risk-taking, self-control, concentration, adrenaline rush, and both happen in a space of obedience and alienation.

With this basic idea of two games involving four players,choreographer Emmanuelle Vo-Dinhimprovises withthe four dancers, make and break rules as they went along, reflecting on the results, then letting go. A new challenge for dancers more used to learning and assimilating choreographed steps, “Simon says”grew out of the artistic interface between these two approaches, blending efficiency, mastery, a love of games, and ever-reformulating situations. Between submission and rebellion, let the game begi

Co-presentation｜Le French May Arts Festival, Unlock Dancing Plaza
Co-production｜Unlock Dancing Plaza; Le Phare, National Choreographic Centre of Le Havre Normandy
Support｜Consulate General of France in Hong Kong & Macau, Institut français (Paris)
Creation and Touring Support｜West Kowloon Cultural District
Acknowledgement｜Leisure and Cultural Services Department

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