Now in its fifth year, Tai Kwun’s Spotlight: A Season of Performing Arts presents a new line-up of vibrant interdisciplinary collaborations, exploring not just the far edges of various art forms, but also the cracks that fall in-between. With works from previous seasons commissioned especially for Tai Kwun’s distinctive venues, and outdoor spaces having now advanced well beyond Hong Kong onto the international stage, Spotlight returns to provide a new stage for performing arts for both local and international creators to contemplate subjects that are deeply personal yet universally significant.
This year’s eclectic offerings – a mix of returning guests and artists new to Tai Kwun – opens with Fragile! Human Inside, a synthesis of sound, moving images, installation, and performance art by multimedia artist GayBird, contrasting the historic durability of an architectural exterior with the resilient potential of its human inhabitants.
An unlikely pairing of rap and contemporary dance sparks a pioneering performance style in Arika, where the physical vocabulary of dancer Shimaji Yasutake confronts and converses with the improvisatory verbal contortions of rapper Tamaki Boy in their first Asian appearance outside Japan.
Three young choreographers from Hong Kong and Guangzhou (Keung Hoi-ling, Paula Wong, and Fu Binjing) showcase their innermost thoughts through their distinctive grasp of personal and public space in the triple-bill Infinite Extension, while the artists of Vividly explore the centuries-old connection and intertwined destinies of Hong Kong and Macau in Fugue of Two Shores, the final instalment of an immersive theatrical trilogy that first took root at Tai Kwun in 2021.
Spanning six weeks, Spotlight: A Season of Performing Arts invites lovers of music, dance, theatre, and visual art from across Hong Kong and beyond to sample the diverse range of local talents and international artists gathered here to find creative inspiration and sustenance in Tai Kwun’s incomparable heritage spaces.
